http://www.myhusbandbetty.com/2006/11/20/transgender-day-of-remembrance-2/ helen boyd's journal of gender & trans issues Wed, 08 Feb 2012 01:17:33 -0500 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 http://www.myhusbandbetty.com/2006/11/20/transgender-day-of-remembrance-2/comment-page-1/#comment-4417 Trans Blog » Blog Archive » Whose Dead? Whose Day? Sun, 26 Nov 2006 03:53:37 +0000 http://www.myhusbandbetty.com/?p=1130#comment-4417 [...] The subject of unity and the Transgender Day of Remembrance leads me to an unpleasant issue.  Helen Boyd had a relatively innocuous post about the Day, and then a transwoman named Arlene Starr attacked her for presuming to use the phrase “our dead.”  You see, Helen is not trans herself (although she has described having transgender feelings), she’s “only” married to a transwoman.  Kind of the way I’m “just a cross-dresser.” [...] [...] The subject of unity and the Transgender Day of Remembrance leads me to an unpleasant issue.  Helen Boyd had a relatively innocuous post about the Day, and then a transwoman named Arlene Starr attacked her for presuming to use the phrase “our dead.”  You see, Helen is not trans herself (although she has described having transgender feelings), she’s “only” married to a transwoman.  Kind of the way I’m “just a cross-dresser.” [...]

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