tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5573426.post6273419526558479497..comments2024-02-20T15:17:48.594+11:00Comments on A.E.Brain: Death and TexasZoe Brainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13712045376060102538noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5573426.post-13993862880877924262010-07-28T22:47:40.307+10:002010-07-28T22:47:40.307+10:00How did the state (judge) gain the right to impoun...<i>How did the state (judge) gain the right to impound her assets?</i><br /><br />Because a cis person always trumps a trans person.<br /><br />Trans people have no rights. Trans people have no protections. Trans people have no access to equal treatment under the law.<br /><br />jessie_c.livejournal.comAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5573426.post-23834615128906675992010-07-28T10:37:08.020+10:002010-07-28T10:37:08.020+10:00I must have missed something here. How did the st...I must have missed something here. How did the state (judge) gain the right to impound her assets? in her name?<br />Geekydee<br />sorry for the anon, having blogger issueAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5573426.post-28206352579582723402010-07-28T04:53:53.473+10:002010-07-28T04:53:53.473+10:00Lux: One of the reasons why governments don't...Lux: One of the reasons why governments don't want to go through the "hassle" of allowing people to change their names and genders is that not allowing those things gives the governments more power. It's easier for them to control people when each one can be reduced to a number and one check or another on a box. <br /><br />To be fair, those who control other kinds of bureaucracies feel the same way. It's easier to track someone's credit history, for example, if he or she retains the same name and gender. And it's easier for employers to track people, too.Justine Valinottihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10852069587181432102noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5573426.post-91978730559332650142010-07-27T17:18:08.340+10:002010-07-27T17:18:08.340+10:00Our governments are bureaucratically limited in me...Our governments are bureaucratically limited in mental scope. When you are assigned one name, much like one social insurance number, and given one birth certificate, then you are an entity the state knows. <br /><br />They don't really want to deal with the 'hassle' of changing it, because eventually that identity-from-birth will be involved in your credit ratings, your criminal records, and all of your interactions with the state.<br /><br />Aboriginal cultures often assign a birth name, but award a name more representative as the young adult matures into an adult. That is their adult name. But for us, that would mean paperwork, it would mean that searches would have to reference two names (or potentially more) and it would just generally be a bother for the state. <br /><br />So they want to make such things as onerous as possible. They want to be able to surely and uniquely identify you. If your gender doesn't fall squarely within one of two checkboxes, that confuses the issue as well. <br /><br />The state is all about simplicity and constraining the common case of humanity into a box that suits their needs. Those who don't fit so comfortably (or at all) are given short shrift. <br /><br />It doesn't even have to be vindictive (though I'm sure at times it is, humans being the cretinous creatures they can be), it can just be monolithic, immovable and non-negotiable. <br /><br />There are some people get dealt their share of challenges in this life. Every time I think mine are too great, I think of Zoe and I realize what she went through to get to where she is would defy my comprehension and probably be more than I could endure. The world does not deal everyone an equal lot.Lux Mentishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16188286486649909678noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5573426.post-67177714457904071242010-07-27T14:08:31.583+10:002010-07-27T14:08:31.583+10:00...and that she was born Justin Graham Purdue
I&#...<i>...and that she was born Justin Graham Purdue</i><br /><br />I've read one too many articles where the author privileges a trans person's birth name, feeding and perpetuating the trope that the names we were given at birth are somehow more authentic, more "real" than the names we choose for ourselves, and that it is permissible to feed cis curiosity by a total stranger dredging up a former name that has been cast aside. All too often they'll use the phrasing "...was born as '$_old_name'."<br /><br />The more I think about it, the more I realise that sentence is utterly misleading and meaningless. Nobody is ever born as 'name'. Each and every one of us is born completely nameless. Yes, even when our parents may have chosen our names ahead of time, it's not until after we're born that they're given to us, and written down in the birth register (making them set in stone "forever after"). Even if they're not written down, they're still shared out with our relatives almost immediately, the answer to the second question invariably asked of new parents. Names have power, and our society gives them that power by fetishising the rituals surrounding naming.<br /><br />Not one person in this entire world was born knowing their name. We do not spring fully-formed from our mother's loins shouting out our names. If this were true, we'd all be named "Waaaaaaah!".<br /><br />Trans people need to start challenging the naming conventions. We need to challenge the trope that the names given to us at birth are our "real" names. The first thing we can do about it is to adopt the language I just used; to replace "birth name" by "name assigned at birth", just as we do with "sex assigned at birth". This acknowledges that the name was given to us without our consent, that it doesn't fit who we really are, and that it is no longer applicable to us in our changed circumstances.<br /><br />http://jessie_c.livejournal.comAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com