This week on YouTube you will find some new videos on transgender issues including my new one looking at a Christian response to transgender rights.
Here is a GREAT video by slvrwlf about etiquette around transgender people.
Rico’s video coming to the realization of being transgender about three or four months ago.
I love what you have to say and the way you say it. I am from the UK but I really love your accent. I will be coming back daily to check your blog. I hope you are well
Loved your video Peterson. The water-pitcher story is very interesting. Never knew that.
Like the music, too, works very well with the words. But, erm, would you like a tripod for your birthday?
dorellostreet, I would love you to come to one of my UK shows this month or next! You then get to hear all my accents :-p
williehewes, so you don’t like that jiggly camera style it took me years to perfect? Hmm. Will I see you? I will be in Southampton and near Cardiff in May.
Thank you for posting these! I’ve already spread your video all over creation, of course. I appreciated that 2nd one…I usually don’t like those kinds of things, because often they are just one person’s personal preferences for how they want to be interacted with, which they then try to assert as the Preferred Standards of Behavior. This person definitely does some of that, but not as much as others I’ve seen. The one big thing I will call a “mistake” on that person’s part is where they say “if someone is presenting as male, call him ‘he’; if she’s presenting as female, call her ’she’” because what YOU think equals a “male” or “female” presentation is not always correct, and that enforces the idea that it’s okay to make your own decision about what gender someone else is. If a man decides to wear a dress, for instance, that person MAY be “presenting as female” and wish to be called “she”, or they may be “presenting as a man in a dress” and wish to be called “he”, or they may prefer gender-neutral pronouns or none at all! I know plenty of women (both trans and not) who wear “male” clothing, have short haircuts, and varying amounts of facial hair…and generally they prefer to be called “she” regardless of whether someone thinks they’re “presenting as male” or not. Also, the part where he addresses how to figure out what sexual orientation someone is…I wish he had started with “if you’re trying to figure out what someone’s sexual orientation is, the first thing you should do is figure out why you care so much” instead of “the first thing you should do is figure out what gender the person identifies as”. He addresses that later when he talks about how you don’t need to know someone’s sexual preferences unless you’re planning to have sex with them, but I think that applies to sexual orientation too. You really don’t need to know whether a transgender person has sex with men or women or frickin’ eggplant fritatta, unless you’re hoping to have sex with them and you ARE a man/woman/fritatta.
Peterson, unfortunately I’m very much booked up for May myself. Lots of comics events going on, and a weekend drawing course.
Grr, it’s frustrating to know you’re doing cool stuff near me, and being unable to be there.
bother! Willie, I was hoping to see you and possibly buy some more Free Z from you. Well we will have to wait and see.
Marvin wants to see you too!
Your blog is very interresting for me, i will come back here..