Third Sex - transfeminism?
• Gender Outsiders: Transgendered & Others
The average straight or queer person hasn't a clue how complicated gender can be for a small group of exceptional folks.
Has all of this effort been pushed into transforming myself not into a woman, but into a third-sex? What is the third-sex? What is its purpose? Does it have a biological imperative? What am I? What am I becoming? Will anyone ever find a deep and resonant relationship with me if I am neither male nor female? What have I done? What am I doing? ...
I get the feeling that my friends and family treat me like a girl not because I've asked them to, or because it's the right thing to do, but simply because they're being nice. I get the feeling that in their heads they still see me as a boy trying desperately and tragically to be a girl, and failing miserably at it. I get the feeling that that's actually what's happening to me; that I am reaching out for even synthetic girlhood and grasping nothing but a comical caricature. I try to become a girl, but I fail; all I reach is the third-sex.
Cora Birk, BME: The Third Sex

Comments
Posted by: the name is "fiver" | March 3, 2005 07:50 AM
Posted by: David | March 22, 2005 06:15 PM
Posted by: uime | February 18, 2006 11:36 AM