So no one should be surprised about these by now

[la_vie_noire]

Both at Questioning Transphobia:

sin_nombre writes: Story Time

A cis guy and a trans guy who is misgendered more often than not (i.e., he doesn’t pass as a cissexual, cisgender guy) go into a women’s restroom in a mall because the men’s room is closed, the women’s is empty, the mall is minutes from closing and they don’t know their way around. Security comes and starts yelling at them. The cis guy leaves, but the security guard starts banging on the stall where the trans guy is using the restroom, threatening to take the door off the hinges. After multiple requests to do so, the guard allows the cis guy to go use the men’s room, which had been closed before, and the cis guy does his business and leaves. The security guard starts asking the cis guy what gender his friend is.

During the commotion, a group of cis guys hanging outside the restrooms start to harass the trans guy, and offer to physically assault him for the guard. The guard keeps asking the trans guy ‘what gender are you?’ even after seeing his ID, which hasn’t been changed because he can’t afford to do so due to long-term unemployment and no family support. The trans guy doesn’t answer because he isn’t legally obliged to do so and it’s none of the guard’s damn business. The cis guy is never asked what his gender is, in fact he’s seen as more credible than the trans guy himself is. In the course of all of this, the cis guy is yelling and swearing angrily at the security guard, refuses to provide ID, and is extremely uncooperative.

[...] Another guard in the security office asks the trans guy about his genitalia, saying ‘do you have a penis or a vagina between your legs?’.

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Indonesia: woman mutilated. Again.

"Although the body has breasts, our forensic investigation found that the proportional size from the waist down was close to that of a male body,” Comr. Arif Setiawan, the city police’s detective, who is leading the mutilation case investigation, told reporters. [Via]

Thus are we indelibly marked as our assigned gender by cis people, even after we’ve been violently murdered because, as everybody knows, biology is destiny.

Comments

[parlance]

Thank you for posting these. I need to subscribe to the RSS feed for Questioning Transphobia.

[la_vie_noire]

You are welcome! And yeah, QT is a must read.