Monalisa's New Writeups

stone butch (idea)

2005-07-10T17:39:50Z

A butch* who is stone is one who prefers not to be touched sexually in a feminising way.

As with butches in general, stone butches may also be transgendered female-to-male or genderqueer and use male, female, or gender-neutral pronouns. In fact, anecdotal evidence suggests stone butches are much more likely to be transgendered than identify as women.

If not celibate, stone butches might take as lovers anyone, including men, but more usually women (often femmes) and other butches. Women who are attracted to stone butches and who are femme, may sometimes call themselves stone femmes.

To be stone is not foremost a lifestyle choice, but often a stone butch will find hymself involved in specific sexual and political dynamics, including butch/femme, dominant/submissive, daddy/girl and daddy/boi, queer politics and transgender politics.

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Sex Affirmation Treatment (idea)

2005-06-19T08:51:26Z

Sex Affirmation Treatment is a term used for the body modifications transgendered persons undertake to bring their physical appearance more into line with their gender. It is both more accurate (because it does not refer solely to surgery) and politically correct (because it does not imply that the person is changing their sex or gender) than other terms such as Sex or Gender Reassignment Surgery.

This treatment can consist of hormone therapy, Sex Reassignment Surgery and other cosmetic surgeries (for trans* women in particular) such as breast augmentation, brow reduction and cheek implants, etc.

Use of such a term as Sex Affirmation Treatment as opposed to terms including the word 'surgery' also removes the implication that a person must have had surgery in order to have transitioned, or in fact that having a penis instead of a vagina necessary to be a man, and…

Re Kevin (idea)

2005-06-15T11:49:04Z

Re Kevin refers to the case of 'Kevin', a transsexual man, and 'Jennifer', his wife, who sought to have their marriage legally recognised in Australia and in doing so made marriage to members of the 'opposite' sex legal for all post-transition transsexuals in Australia.

The ruling: http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/cases/cth/family_ct/2001/1074.html
For more information and the main source of this article: http://www.ftma.net/basics/legals/marriage.html

'Kevin' and 'Jennifer' are a married couple, with two children. In 1999, they made enquires as to the status of their marriage, primarily for the sake of their children, who were not biologically related to Kevin. The Commonwealth Attorney General's Department advised them that they had no right to marry as 'Kevin', being a female-to-male transsexual, was still legally recognised only as a woman for the purposes of marriage. This was in spite of the fact he used a…

transsexual (idea)

2005-06-15T09:00:03Z

A lot of people whom Zoeb refers to as transsexual above, are now also referred to as transgendered.

That is, in general, 'transsexual' may be used to describe a person who has transitioned, whereas 'transgendered' refers to all persons who have have gender issues, Gender Identity Disorder and/or are other gendered, as well as transsexuals as defined above.

However, a movement has arisen for some post-transition people to call themselves 'persons of transsexual history' or 'persons who have experienced transsexualism'. The idea is that 'transsexualism' is a condition you have, not the person you are, and should be treated linguistically and clinically in the same way as schizophrenia or diabetes or epilepsy: You are a 'person who has schizophrenia', you're not 'a schizophrenic', etc. Likewise this medical model of transsexualism recognises it as a medically treatable condition, and some groups will even go so far as to say that a…

FTM (idea)

2005-06-14T02:50:56Z

As with most concepts in the transgendered/transsexual world, a definition of FTM must be dynamic to match the persons whom it describes. However:

The abbreviation FTM is more commonly heard than the term for which it stands, female-to-male, in a non-clinical environment. Specifically, and thus being somewhat of a misleading term, it refers to a transsexual person who has transitioned; that is, or moved from (a) Female (identity and form) To Male. More generally, it means a person who, identified female at birth or identified intersexed at birth, and raised as female, now identifies as, or identifies with aspects of, male, masculine and/or man. Generally, this person is transgendered, and in some narratives of transgenderism and transsexuality, a person who self-defines hirself as FTM (likewise by MTF) is, by definition, a transgendered person.
(See MTM/male-to-male for an alternative view.…

word order (idea)

2002-11-20T16:03:25Z

A feature of syntax - the order in which words go in a sentence (phrase) in order to create meaning.

For example, English has a fairly strict Subject-Verb-Object word order. This means that phrases are generally structured in this way:

subject / verb / object

who / does what / to whom

Mary / hit / Julia

If we changed the word order so that the object were in front and the subject were at the back, the original meaning would be lost:

Julia / hit / Mary.

In English, the subject must always precede the object (passive sentences are the way of getting around this rule), because there is no other way of telling who did what to whom.