Palenville, NY, USA. Apparently there actually is a transgender prime directive. It basically is "thou shall never ever ever mis-gender a transgender identified person. Let's examine exactly how this is applied in the real world. By mis-gender, they mean if someone claims to be a woman, you shall never refer to them as male or a man even if their life is one as a male. This is the greatest crime against a transgender you can apparently commit.

Even if you know they live as a man, never ever plan to have surgery to acquire an actual female body or put up you-tube videos teaching lesbians how to stand and pee like a real transvestite.

You-Must-Use-Female-Pronouns: They even got the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) to say so. [N1] But a look at the logic involved is quite revealing. In just a couple of years trans-speak now includes the concept of "cis" women and men who exist to exercise "cis-privilege" over all trans people. In other words, plain old garden variety women are oppressors naturally. This raises the obvious question, if regular women are something different than trans people why are those trans people not insisting on being referred to as something other than women?

Clearly they are setting themselves apart from regular women. Perhaps we need a new word like "Noman" for these folks.

Let's also look at what is and isn't mis-gendering. In the real world, someone who has male wedding tackle and intends to keep it intact is considered a man. This would seem to be self-evident. If he dresses up on the weekends as a gopher or a gerbil, he is still a man dressed in a gopher or a gerbil suit. Again: fairly self evident.

But for some unknown reason, if he dresses up as a woman on the weekend he magically becomes an actual woman according to the tranny prime directive. If he is sitting at his computer in a Cheeto stained wife beater tee shirt with curly chest hairs springing out from all sides and swilling beer but uses the name "Cindy" online, he magically is female. Interestingly enough, this tranny prime directive apparently does not apply to women who were born transsexed and corrected their bodies to reflect their neurology. How can I say this?

Easy, these women are told they are "transgender" whether they like it or not. That they will never be "real" women or "cis" women because of genetics or whatever other reason, such as socialization as boys in childhood or "God's will" and so on. But wait a minute, isn't this mis-gendering women who have women's bodies, live womenly lives and left their transsexed birth conditon behind on the operating table? Transgender is an identity that has carefully been separated from "real" women by setting up an entirely different class, "cis" for the "real".

People born transsexed (a neurological birth condition) do not trans their gender (internal hardwired sense of being female or male) because if they could do this, there would not be the biological dsyphoric imperative to seek congruence between mind and body that actually defines being born transsexed.

So lets see here, women with female bodies who live female lives and seamlessly fit in the "real" world as such are not "real" if they were born transsexed and never will be. Isn't that mis-gendering? You see, it isn't just the pronouns, it's the life in a world where you encounter actual flesh and blood people face to face. If you tell someone they are not "real", you have just mis-gendered them. Perhaps it's time for the transgender to ditch "cis" and use "female-bodied women" instead.

Shoot, I have it on good authority I oppress the hell out of trannys with my "passing privilege" and my female body simply by being alive. I'm an "elitist" and "more woman than thou" — I know this because I've been told this literally hundreds of times. I went along with this tranny prime directive for a long long time even though one of the very first lessons I learned with contact with trans people was my own womanhood was not respected, not really, not among the transgendered speakouts. The rest of the world had no problem with my womanhood.

Frankly, I've been polite long enough given this. Here's reality folks. Someone with a female body who lives a woman's life is a woman — period. Someone born transsexed in process of dealing with that is a woman. Someone with a male body who intends to keep that most male of markers, a penis, is not a woman. There are no shades of grey here because if you opt to be a third sex, a gender outlaw, you gave up any claim to a place in the binary. The binary is man or woman.

Transgender is what exists outside the binary. When you tell someone inside the binary they are outside the binary (even though they object to such treatment) is rude, offensive, and downright abusive when they are female bodied and live a female life and the world accepts them as women.

Screw the tranny prime directive. It is expected (demanded) without mutual respect when it comes to women of history and so is optional in my own mind. I reserve the right to call someone a man who shows me no respect and vibes totally male to me. [N2]

Rev. Cathryn Platine is a founder of the Maetreum of Cybele and the author of The Cybeline Revival, a revival of the ancient Cybeline faith. Cathryn also hosts her blogs, Riding the Second Wave and Telling My Stories: A life lived outside, and her personal Facebook page.

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