When Girls Graduate as Guys
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| Thu, 05-24-2007 - 1:46pm |
What else can you do while gulping down 2 bottles of 4 fl oz of cough & cold medicine from Friday to Tuesday’s night? Who catches a cold in May? What else can I do since I’m sick of sleeping? I caught up on reading newspapers I’ve been neglecting. The Boston Globe magazine has a title “When Girls graduate as Guys” caught my attention.
Written by Adrian Brune, oh, this is from 4.8.2007 edition.
The article covers a dilemma women’s colleges are facing. The debate?
-Is it still a women’s college when some students who were females as freshmen are males by graduation day?
-If transmen are graduating from women’s colleges, is it fair/right/legal to forbid males born from attending women’s colleges?
-If women’s colleges are there to encourage/provide knowledge and skills on empowerment/to be the best you can be as a woman and some of their students don’t want to be women, does that defeats the purpose of being at a women’s college?
Comments by some of the transgenders are interesting too. I understand transgenders are people who feel they are not born with a body they feel uncomfortable with (to put it mildly). They were biological women but they wanted more to be men. One of the transmen said “I cried the day after I woke up and found my breasts gone.”…”with each stage, I feel like I’ve been losing my lesbian identity and that’s hard to give up.” What he said got me wondering. If transgenders have been struggling to realize their desires to be men, do they really have a lesbian identity? Is the lesbian identity automatically granted just because they were born as female, like their applications to women’s colleges goes through the pipelines because they’re of the female sex? Will we ship a toaster without questions when a transgender who was biological male complete the sex change and attracted to women? (wouldn’t offering a new car instead of a toaster be a better recruiting kit?)
FYI: Transgender can legally change the sex on their license in Massachusetts.
Unfortunately, no website was provided in the article so I can’t link it with my post for anyone interested in reading the article. The author is a freelance writer for The Hartford Courant and addy is magazine@globe.com if you want to request a copy.
One more question, since I am asking do you view me as having transphobia? The debate is on some of the schools websites and the article quoted a reply to a question "let the transphobia debate begin again." That reply got me wondering if I will be view that way too. *smile*

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Good! So we can put you on a list of get-together to do list. *smile*
Oh, Blue...add T to the list please.
So come. *Smile*
Should I tell Blue to add you to the list too??? *grin*
I know I will be away the last weekend of Aug. Aug 30th is a 50th B-day for one of my friend/co-worker. We're giving her a surprise B-day party and 5 of us might be going away that weekend from Friday-Monday. I might be able to do it for Sat & Sun to P-town. I usually don't like to go away two weekends in a row. Opps, 14th wouldn't be two weekends in a row. Let me check my calender and let see if anyone up to this Aug get together.
Oh, we would LOVE this but not this year, unfortunately. We have so much going on in August! P-town is definitely on our list, though. We would love to meet you one day!
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Yo!! I was only joking. There's no worries here. Just keeping the conversation going and having a great time!!!
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Blue
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No problems. *grin*
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