hey, I was the person who asked that question, and my intent wasn't to ask, "why should there be trans characters?" what I asked was "is the intent to include the trans characters (including the full experience of the problem) in order to change our present society?" I could have asked the question differently, but what I was getting at was, does fiction have the power to change society, and if so how can we use or fiction to do so?
I asked this partly because I myself did feel like some of the participants were belittling the importance of the trans experience. Not everyone can go home, take off the dress or wash off the mustache, and the that's the end of the tg game for the day, and I did get a bit of that feel from some of the responses. And also because I have seen how the transsexuals I work with/live around have been negatively impacted by standard policies and treatment towards transsexual people.
Maybe the tone of the whole event led you to feel like you couldn't say to my face (as the audience participant) that you were annoyed by the whole question. And then we could have taken the conversation to another point. But I did greatly appreciate your perspective and I think that a lot of others did as well.
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regna
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Date: 2007-05-29 12:28 am (UTC)I asked this partly because I myself did feel like some of the participants were belittling the importance of the trans experience. Not everyone can go home, take off the dress or wash off the mustache, and the that's the end of the tg game for the day, and I did get a bit of that feel from some of the responses. And also because I have seen how the transsexuals I work with/live around have been negatively impacted by standard policies and treatment towards transsexual people.
Maybe the tone of the whole event led you to feel like you couldn't say to my face (as the audience participant) that you were annoyed by the whole question. And then we could have taken the conversation to another point. But I did greatly appreciate your perspective and I think that a lot of others did as well.