Other TG people can be as guilty of transphobia as anyone else.
Androgynous and genderqueer people are in every way as valid as CDs and TSs.
Heck, most male goths could easilly be classed as such, I know my 'male' appearance dances those lines most days.
Gender is not binary and no-one can criticise a person with a beard in stockings without invalidating their own claims to any expression outside the most extreme gender stereotypes.
Just because bigotry is common does not make it valid. It is interesting to study certainly but it is also neccessary to educate the ignorant and stand up against injustice.
A person with a beard in a dress is not mocking. They are standing up for what is right! Personal individual expression!
LOL while writing this I stumbled on this bit of related news
http://intersexnews.blogspot.com/200...manifesto.html
And as part of my point I raise these pictures of myself as a 'boy' I posted a while back in the gallery
http://www.crossdressers.com/forums/...ad.php?t=89282
I look like this in public frequently. Often with heavy eye-makeup along with my lips I might add!
The judgements against non-conforming TG people are unjust, unethical and hypocritical.
It's been centuries since the enlightenment. Why are we still waiting then for genuine equality or for most people to understand the simple basic principles?
I have never ever seen any TG person display themselves or comport themselves in any way that I have not also seen GGs do so!
Wearing clothing that is feminine is not impersonating women. It is expressing femininity which is a trait held to some degree by just about every human.
Being female is a medical state. It is nebulous. Many people are neurologically, genetically and/or anatomically both male and female with many different degrees of each of these traits.
There is no impersonation in pretty much all of transgender expression. It is only those rare few that imperasonate a particular person or stereotype for satirical purposes that can be considered such. And in that case it is art and not gender expression and is only judgeable as art.
Unless of course we consider those who dress more like women to blend in when they'd be happier with the beard and the dress together. That would arguably be impersonation.
At some point society is going to have to consider the scientific and medical facts about Intersex and when they do the binary model of gender will be shown for the lie it has always been.