Keeva ([personal profile] keeva) wrote in [community profile] politics 2011-06-13 06:28 am (UTC)

So while Amina could be real in a transgender sense, the need to play out a different nationality, ethnicity and the racial politics identity that comes along with that seems PURE PRIVILEGE.

Yeah, that's part of why I say he's doing it wrong.

Co-opting someone else's identity for your own benefit, that's wrong.

I'm sorry I angered you. My comment -- as a trans person -- was to put some context on the reported statements he made in email to Liz Henry about gender identity.

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