Transcript: Feminist Silenced asking a question in Workshop of Feminist Party

Submitted by admin on Fri, 07/10/2020 - 14:30

Thistle Pettersen: I have a question. Can I ask it now?

AJ Reed: Sure.

Thistle Pettersen: So, I'm part of an organization called Get the L Out. Obviously, in the beginning of the Gay Liberation Movement, it was gay and lesbian liberation and then the "B" was put in there and then the "T" came along and now there's the "Q" and there's the "Plus" and all these other identities that you're talking about today but "L" is in the "LGBTQ" and yet there is a strong movement to get the "L" out and that's because there's tension between the males who identify as transgender and the lesbians because males who identify as transgender sometimes identify as lesbians as well and their ...

Unknown Participant: I'm sorry but transgender women are women...

Thistle Pettersen: Excuse me. I'm not done with my question...

Unknown Participant: I'm sorry but transgender women are women. I'm not going to permit you to like bash trans women and call them men. I'm sorry but I'm gonna interrupt you. If you call trans women men I'm gonna interrupt you.

AJ Reed: thank you.

Other Unknown Participant: I am also a transgender woman as well intersex and as I said. Intersex is sex, transgender is gender. Some people are both and the word for intersex persons identified on the trans spectrum or umbrella is "intergender."