Studies In Comparative Endocrinology

[whirlwitch]

It has come to the oft-wandering attention of the Witch that somewhere in fair Britain a women-only BDSM event called Tipping the Velvet is promoting a testosterone-free environment. With an asterisk. And the asterisk leads to the sweet little notation that Tipping the Velvet is for genetic girls only. In the name of testosterone reduction,

Comments

[auntysarah]

The lower T thing is sometimes irritating - I sometimes use Provera, which metabolises into testosterone, to add a bit back. Gives me a bit more energy and perks up my sex drive (as in, I actually have one when I take it).

[whirlwitch]

I very much enjoy the use of your icon there in a comment about topping up "T" levels.

[reyl]

When people are being exclusionist jerks, do they really need to use science to try and back up their discrimination? Especially BAD science? Sheesh. If you're going to have a party for a specific group of people, just say so. Their bad excuses just make them more jerky.

[ivorygrace7]

Yuck! I really hate it when people use false or illogical arguments to support their decisions.

[popelaksmi]

Wow, that's really incredible. Have you thought of sending the vent committe an email with these fatcs? Sounds like they need to know this informaiton.

[whirlwitch]

The bottom line is, they want to exclude transwomen. An email exchange between the organizers and someone on my Flist confirmed this. They're being bigoted, and I'm just calling them on their poor excuse for an excuse.

[teal_cuttlefish]

The Michigan (I think?) Women's Festival has a restriction to only "women born women." I have a problem with that logic, too. A transwoman was born a woman, just in the wrong body, so she should be allowed in under that restriction as well.

And women who have spent their entire lives struggling for the right to live as women should certainly be allowed into female or feminist space -- most of us cisgendered women have not gone through nearly as much agony. (Though my recent hysterectomy was pretty darned rough, [my incision ruptured 10 days out] it still doesn't compare to what a transwoman has gone through.)

Edited to close the parentheses. Yep, I'm that uptight about writing. :^)

I find any restriction like that foolish and based on fear anyway.