Aloha,
A few additional comments:
1.) For U.S. members, Facebook has added a large number of
possible gender identifiers (58) that may be self-selected. An
article at Slate suggests that these offer at least 18 broad gender
categories.
This is a far more elaborated categorization than I have seen before.
2.) In regard to protocols of terminology, I have a sense that there's
a lot of changes going on here. I'd say that descriptive clarity is the
ideal for academic usage, but that, often, we just do the best we can
with our terms.
3.) Modern Paganism is certainly responsive to its socio-cultural
environment
and influenced by it. Transgender as an outlook and as folks has, in my
experience, stirred up plenty of controversy and conflict. Even among
Pagan Trads and Pagan folks who advocate diversity and tolerance. It's
a highly charged concern.
Transgender in Modern Paganism, it seems to me, provides a good
example of how we frame things in terms of purity and danger. As well
as how, when circumstances of gender or gender identity alter, what
was pure becomes dangerous. Or vice versa.
4.) In regard to the categorization offered in the Slate article, I'd say
that I more or less behave as a cisgender male of middle years and
experience. But that, intellectually, I push myself a little to think in
terms of pangender. My appreciation of today's Paganism and magical
endeavors suggests that this is the most fruitful outlook for making
sense of things and getting some practice done.
From Slate:
Confused by All the New Facebook Genders? Here's What They Mean.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/lexicon_valley/2014/02/21/gender_facebook_now_has_56_categories_to_choose_from_including_cisgender.html
Musing Gender Can Be A Comfort, A Challenge, A Confusion, A Terror, A
Theogen--Magic! Rose,
Pitch
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