Aidan Dunn

This is an excerpt from a reading by Aidan Dunn in "For Lack of a Better Word' --a series of performances reflecting Intersex experiences. National Queer Arts Festival 2007 produced by The Queer Cultural Center.
Aidan Dunn has been a queer, trans and intersex activist for ten years. He served on the Intersex Task Force of the San Francisco Human Rights Commission's LGBT Advisory Committee, and he has developed and presented workshops on intersex issues around the world. He is a current board member and former Executive Director of Youth TIES, a transgender and intersex youth education organization. Currently Aidan is a student, a figure skater, and the General Manager of GLAM (Gay, Lesbian & Allied Musicians) Youth Choir in San Francisco.

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[beastpkingre]

my name is Aidan Dunn lol

[Marja376]

I think he's confusing the appropriation of IS experiences by TS and TG people, which does happen, with the appropriation of IS and TS experiences by TG people, which also happens. Of course, these are not three non-overlapping groups.

Most transsexual people and most transgender people, like most intersex people, do identify as either male or female. The genderqueer minority have good reason to question the binary, but it's mostly cissexual and cisgender people who third-gender us all.