Transgendered Women & Sex Work

Video about Georgina Beyer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdC5F1EFLQo

Transgender Activism: A Lesbian Feminist Perspective by Sheila Jeffreys: http://www.rapereliefshelter.bc.ca/issues/knixon_jeffreys2.pdf

Janice Raymond quote source: http://birdofparadox.wordpress.com/2009/02/15/the-transsexual-empire/

Gyn/ecology: the metaethics of radical feminism
By Mary Daly: http://tiny.cc/d7w3n

Michigan/Trans Controversy Archive: http://eminism.org/michigan/faq-intro.html

Source for "An Open Letter To Mary Daly" by Audre Lorde= The Columbia documentary history of religion in America since 1945 By Paul Harvey, Philip Goff: http://tiny.cc/4s0iq

Extra material on Trans-misogyny: http://wiki.susans.org/index.php/Trans-misogyny

For anyone curious about how Female to Male transgendered citizens are viewed by abolitionists here: http://www.feminist-reprise.org/docs/jeffreysftm.htm

Category:

Nonprofits & Activism

Tags:

• transgendered
• transsexual
• FTM
• MTF
• sex work
• radical feminism
• abolitionists
• discrimination
• prostitution
• stereotypes
• Sheila Jeffreys
• Janis Raymond
• Mary Daly
• Trans-misogyny

[DevilWomanCake]

Thank you for making a video about transpeople's rights.

[Divinity33372]

@DevilWomanCake I'm glad you like it hun. 

[ShellySummers]

Thank you divinity. This was a really beautiful vid. It really brings joy to my heart and a tear to my eye knowing someone out there understands us. I often say i am one of the lucky ones. I have an understanding family and a job. Thank you again for such a beautiful video.

[Divinity33372]

@ShellySummers Thank you Shelly. And thank you for posting your video as a video response.

[kelliko70]

I wish I could thumbs up higher. Excellent video! Great work Divinity.

[BritannyaGrace1]

wow wow wow, I am in such way moved that i dont know to hide under a rock or come out screaming with pride. I am a TS woman & in constant disagrement with my world & the ones in it, But i have to live. I have to excsist i have that right. But most think i am a freak of the world that all i want to do is hurt society by just being ME, by me working, me paying my taxes, me going to the grocery store. all i can feel is why? what have i done to deserve this. But i do continue to live.

[mooremichael95]

At 4:25 she speaks about a lesbian,dyke carpet muncher named Sheila Jeffreys and says transsexualism opposes feminism. First, her becoming a lesbian opposes femininity by taking on the roll what a man is usually expected to do by becoming a lover to women. Secondly, a lot of feminists say transwomen are a danger & I'll tell you why. Because they're AFRAID to be replaced by a new generation of women & they are going to take most of the men away from them. I myself now date only transsexual women.

[MotherNatureisBiased]

@MotherNatureisBiased The best way to cut down against violence against Transgender men and women would be to introduce legislation that binds that person to either be up front with potential intimate relations or don't get involved in intimate relations. It may sound harsh but in the end it will better protect both parties in any given intimate relationship.

Once again, they do get a bad rap but that is because a lot of people don't understand them but the way the laws are now don't help.

[MotherNatureisBiased]

@MotherNatureisBiased If you think this is not a problem then I think you are in the minority.

Sex workers should not be stigmatized but I'm pretty sure that women stigmatize them most and of the women, most publicly, feminists.

If you live in America, people have the right to associate with whom they wish. However, if someone keeps that knowledge from others then, well...people don't have the right to make the decision anymore.

[MotherNatureisBiased]

I have watched a few of your videos and find them pretty decent but I do disagree with you on this topic. Yes, Transgenders should not be socially persecuted or shunned. But, this is where the complexity comes in. Sex worker relations. Personal relations. By law, transgenders don't have to state they are transgender. So therefore a man (or woman) might seek a personal relationship with or seek out the services of a transgender unknowingly.

[Pseudonym10]

Hard to hear, but so worth listening to!

I stumbled upon this because I was researching Sheila Jeffreys; thank you so much for composing this well-articulated and thought-provoking response to the bigoted so-called "feminist" dismissal of trans rights.

[Ozma3000]

Thank you for making this.

[Eopyk]

@FlankerVT The world is connected and this is a fight for the entire world.

[FlankerVT]

legalize prositution and most of its problems will either go away or be minimized. Better to regulate it and make tax revenue over it, you can also control the sex workers and the johns and make the whole process safer.

This will also cause a reduction of organized crime involvement in sex work.

And fuck the other countries. Who cares about what the rest of the world does?

worry about your own country.

[arachnophile01]

"How likely is it that you'll find a transgender teller at a bank." I don't know, because even pre-treatment, it's hard to tell someone is physically cross-dressed if you're not looking. Even facial stubble can pretty easily be covered up with makeup. other than that, the video is spot-on.