Comments on: A transgender perspective on gender roles… and pants. http://connection-revolution.com/a-transgender-perspective-on-gender-roles-and-pants/ connect with spirit. connect with others. connect with yourself. change the world. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 21:51:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Julia http://connection-revolution.com/a-transgender-perspective-on-gender-roles-and-pants/comment-page-1/#comment-1224 Julia Fri, 06 Mar 2009 15:21:36 +0000 http://freakrevolution.com/?p=1541#comment-1224 I wear men's utility kilts. Announcing I'm a cross-dresser when I'm apparently wearing a skirt messes with some folks' minds. I wear them because they fit, and because they have huge pockets and I hate carrying purses. I dress more for what fits me than for what anyone else thinks is appropriate for me as a [insert role here]. Biology has made some roles easily possible (lactator, for example), while it's caused some other roles I enjoy to not be taken as seriously. The most annoying example is my mother-in-law dismissing some things as "guy things" when they're actually "geek things" and I'm a geek. "Geek" is a core role. "Purse-bearer" is something I put on and take off, and do so as rarely as I reasonably can. (Exceptions made for things like weddings and costume parties, to name the last three times I went out carrying a purse.) I wear men’s utility kilts. Announcing I’m a cross-dresser when I’m apparently wearing a skirt messes with some folks’ minds. I wear them because they fit, and because they have huge pockets and I hate carrying purses. I dress more for what fits me than for what anyone else thinks is appropriate for me as a [insert role here].

Biology has made some roles easily possible (lactator, for example), while it’s caused some other roles I enjoy to not be taken as seriously. The most annoying example is my mother-in-law dismissing some things as “guy things” when they’re actually “geek things” and I’m a geek.

“Geek” is a core role.

“Purse-bearer” is something I put on and take off, and do so as rarely as I reasonably can. (Exceptions made for things like weddings and costume parties, to name the last three times I went out carrying a purse.)

]]> By: china http://connection-revolution.com/a-transgender-perspective-on-gender-roles-and-pants/comment-page-1/#comment-1206 china Tue, 03 Mar 2009 17:06:18 +0000 http://freakrevolution.com/?p=1541#comment-1206 wow that's so wierd, i changed from a boy into a girl and i started life as female. i woke up one day and thought "wow! i could wear a skirt! cool!" i'm just incredibly lucky i didn't have to do the physical transformation because the psychological one hurt plenty. also i almost always speak in gender neutral if i can. wow that’s so wierd, i changed from a boy into a girl and i started life as female. i woke up one day and thought “wow! i could wear a skirt! cool!” i’m just incredibly lucky i didn’t have to do the physical transformation because the psychological one hurt plenty.

also i almost always speak in gender neutral if i can.

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