Greenie, I would like to say that the facebook posts that you linked to were great.
One thing stuck in my mind though while reading your posts. And I couldn't shake the thought that I had. Namely, this comment:
"Fyi, who is Caitlyn Jenner NOT Bruce. By saying please call me Caitlyn it's now no longer acceptable to call her Bruce or He, unless she changes her mind, which she is the only one who is entitled to change that."
What stuck in my mind was just how much we (that's a collective "we") attempt to speak for other people. You are telling people that it is "now no longer acceptable call her Bruce or He", and that Caitlyn is the one who determines how she is now to be known.
My problem with that is that that is an ideal. Not a reality. We, as individuals, do not get to determine how we, as individuals are to be recognised as, referred to as. That is something that trans people know all too well. From making applications to have legal documents changed (such as a driving licence for example - we apply to have that changed, never ever can we DEMAND that such a change is made - if it is made, it is done so by an authority figure, not by ourselves.
All of us are part of a system, and it's that system, whether we like it or not, that determines, not who we are, but how we are identified.
