Thank you James.
I was rebuked for my less eloquant much more brutal
rejection of the same.
Thank you for a more reasoned more articulate response.
Suzan Cooke
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> In a message dated 08/16/2000 6:01:27 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
> [log in to unmask] writes:
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> << Access to such technology is most certainly dependent on race
> and class. >>
>
> Au contraire, (in the US, anyway) access is dependent on money. Certainly
> race and class can affect any given individual's access to money, but one's
> race and one's class does not--across the board--preclude one's access to
> surgical sex reassignment.
>
> It may be intellectually stimulating for some people to think of us as
> cyborgs, but for others--particularly those whose access to money (regardless
> of race and/or class) precludes them from obtaining necessary medical
> treatments and for whom transsexual status places them at risk on a daily
> basis of physical and emotional violence and abuse and
> dehumanization--playing intellectual games like this seems like so much
> mental masturbation. It is a luxury that few of us can afford, and I believe
> those who can afford it have an obligation to understand the realities of
> life for those who can't, and to work for concrete social change to rectify
> that discrepancy. I hope that if anyone on this list responds positively to
> the above referenced CFP, their manuscript will speak to real issues that
> transsexual people face and not just exhibit the mental gymnastics of
> post-postmodern theory--queer or cyborg or not!
>
> James Green
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