tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1785248711810287089.post7411619252778923058..comments2023-10-26T14:24:47.978+01:00Comments on (Old) Musings of a Quaker Witch: June 2009 is International Pagan Values Blogging Month!Morganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05201286586062722169noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1785248711810287089.post-43494408669719981902009-06-03T04:43:43.064+01:002009-06-03T04:43:43.064+01:00Oooh! Does this mean you are coming to Summer Gat...Oooh! Does this mean you <i>are</i> coming to Summer Gathering?<br /><br />I've been thinking about how to articulate what I mean... Part of it is that gender and sex aren't the same thing: biology, presentation, legality... They're all very messy, and not nice and clear-cut the way society and the law would like them to be. <br /><br />I have a transwoman friend who's a lawyer, who wrote an interesting paper in law school, which she's shared with friends, analyzing whether, and in what states, she'd be considered legally married to her ex-wife and/or legally able to marry her ciswoman partner. It's AMAZING how completely f'd up the patchwork of laws in different jurisdictions really is. <br /><br />But I agree with you about the marriage equality issue. At Mid-Winter, someone stood up and said that marriage equality is not a transgender issue. Which rather blew my mind, for the reasons you state, and for the reasons my friend Denise states, and for plenty more that I can think of just off the top of my head. I think most of my transgender friends disagree with the Friend who said that, but it's not like I've taken a poll.<br /><br />I hope to get to spend some time talking with you soon!<br /><br />Hugs,<br />StasaMorganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05201286586062722169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1785248711810287089.post-40854730188234983752009-05-29T19:54:34.306+01:002009-05-29T19:54:34.306+01:00Hi Stasa,
I think I know what you're trying to s...Hi Stasa, <br /><br />I think I know what you're trying to say by stressing it's "same-gender marriage" instead of "same-sex marriage" but really, legally, what's not allowed is same-sex marriage. I think most states would allow a transwoman and a ciswoman to get married if the transwoman's birth certificate had not been changed (since that's such a expensive and onerous task, and not even permissible in some states), and on the same grounds would not allow a transman and a ciswoman to get married if the transman had not had his birth certificate changed.<br /><br />This is why marriage equality, IMHO, should be just as much an issue of trans liberation as it is an issue of equality for queer cis folks. Marriage equality won't truly be marriage equality until the state stops caring what two consenting adults' sex and gender are when applying for civil marriage licenses.<br /><br />See you next month!<br /><br />Johannajlrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03139177470083290147noreply@blogger.com