Burn the Binary by Riki Wilchins

Author:Riki Wilchins
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Riverdale Avenue Books
Published: 2017-10-01T04:00:00+00:00

Sex! Is a Verb

The Transexual [sic] Menace demonstrates at a reading Janice Raymond does at Judith’s Room, the last of New York City’s women’s bookstores (and now defunct). She is what is called a TERF (Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminist) and the author of a book which is easily the most hostile and transphobic ever. Raymond draws about two dozen people who are obviously bewildered to be in the midst of an equal number of genderqueers in black Menace T-shirts. By prior agreement with the owners, Raymond and I engage in a debate following her reading. I am taken aback as she immediately exclaims, “But why would you want to do that to your body?”

“Do what?” I ask.

“Well, have it cut into, change your sex.”

“How do you know I’ve had surgery?”

“Well, I mean I assume...,” she trails off, gesturing vaguely at my Menace T-shirt and looking baffled.

“But why would you care? At the risk of sounding heartless, Dr. Raymond, I don’t give a damn what you do with your body.”

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