What if

[firecat]

Apropos to a discussion going on now (Gender Controversy at PantheaCon 2012 Linkspam), what if the description for a gender-nonconformist-excluding ritual, instead of reading "genetic women only" or "female-born women only," read "people who can't tolerate complexity only"?

Comments

[redbird]

If it said "genetic women only," I would ask them who was paying for the DNA testing for all the women who wanted to attend that ritual. I might also ask them for their definition of "genetic woman," but the larger point is that a lot of cisgendered people are sure that their genotypes match their phenotypes, without having direct evidence of that. Part of cisgender privilege is not being asked that question.

[firecat]

Yes to all that.

[pipisafoat]

+1

[dingsi]

^This.