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Michelle Anne (steiner@netcom.com) wrote:
: I've been lurking on ba.motss, reading the threads about whether a bisxexual
: women is a lesbian.  A closely related issue is the attitude toward
: transgendered womem by some "womyn-born-wimmen."


	A book which does a lot to promote this attitude re TS's is 
Janice Raymond's "The Transsexual Empire: the Making of a She-Male."  The 
book (I haven't read it in some years, so I may not be recalling it 
perfectly) does a good job of presenting much of the down side of M->F 
SRS...the medical risks and so on...and blames the sexist society that we 
belong to for the whole issue (with which I agree, mostly).  She takes 
particular issue with the notion of Real-Life Tests and ways in which 
those who provide SRS "test" and "train" the recipients on how to be a 
"proper" femminine woman, and I can understand both sides of that issue.  

	However, she then goes into a lot of conspiracy-theory stuff 
about how she believes that the (male-dominated) medical community is 
providing SRS (a) as a way to create nice, old-fashioned, subservient 
women, since born-women are now rejecting that role; and (b) to 
inflitrate the lesbian-feminist movement (many TS's being, or becoming, 
lesbians) and provide the moral equivalent of "harem guards."  

	All I have to say is: sure.  Right.  Uh-huh.....