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May. 8th, 2006 04:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eiriasThe artist behind the first webcomic I ever enjoyed came out today as transgender. I had one of those celebrity crushes on him for quite some time, and now, presto... he's a woman! I wonder if that makes me a retroactive lesbian? :)
Seriously, though, it seems to me that as long as gender identity and sexual identity are viewed categorically, you'll wind up with relationships that you can't explain very easily. Like "I'm a gay man in a relationship with someone who's now a woman," or "I'm a straight woman in a relationship with someone who plans to transition to life as a man next year." Not that moving from category to continuum makes anything easier to describe in words, really, but at least you wouldn't come across these ... pseudocontradictions, where the relationship makes total sense, actually, and it's only that you don't have the right words to make other people see how it all fits.
Seriously, though, it seems to me that as long as gender identity and sexual identity are viewed categorically, you'll wind up with relationships that you can't explain very easily. Like "I'm a gay man in a relationship with someone who's now a woman," or "I'm a straight woman in a relationship with someone who plans to transition to life as a man next year." Not that moving from category to continuum makes anything easier to describe in words, really, but at least you wouldn't come across these ... pseudocontradictions, where the relationship makes total sense, actually, and it's only that you don't have the right words to make other people see how it all fits.
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Date: 2006-05-10 10:47 am (UTC)