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Comic Book News of the Day: DC Comics Introduces First Transgender Character

DC Comics broke new grounds today by introducing its first transgender character Alysia Yeoh in issue #19 ofBatgirl. Although Yeoh is technically not the first trans* character in comics, she is the first to appear in a mainstream comic and author Gail Simone says Yeoh won’t be the last one:

“It’s time for a trans hero in a mainstream comic. … I’m sure it’s controversial on some level to some people, but honest to God, I just could not care less about that. If someone gets upset, so be it; there are a thousand other comics out there for those people.”

This is being handled fairly well so far, so for the love of god, don’t fuck this up, DC.

“Taking care to distinguish Yeoh’s sexual orientation from her gender identity, Batgirl writer Gail Simone noted that the character is also bisexual.”

she’s also bisexual

she’s also bisexual

AND IT’S WRITTEN BY GAIL SIMONE

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redheadscientist:

absquesetentia:

Hi there thedailytennant, I have some issues with this post. Can’t reblog asks any so I’m gonna do it this way and send you a link. Basically what you’re saying is incorrect and also cissexist.

basically the difference is that bisexual people follow the gender binary in that there are men, and there are women, and they like those two genders. pansexuality is more open to gender as a spectrum. the way i see it is that bisexual people like men and women, whereas pansexual like people.

This sounds like you’re saying not just that our attraction only falls within the gender binary, but that we only see the gender binary. FYI most of us these days define our bisexuality as attraction to more than one gender. Most of us are cool with non-binary peeps, many of us are non-binary peeps. Stuff like this erases my non-binary siblings and that’s not cool.

it does get a bit confusing because as far as transgender/genderqueer people go, there’s always the question of what gender actually is (because whether you refer to someone as a girl or a guy or agender, their mind and body are still the same mind and body) and whether there’s actually such thing or if we’re just reacting to stereotypes — i could say i’m actually a guy because i’m more comfortable in guy clothes and doing guy things, but girls can stereotypically guy things too and still be girls. how does someone know they’re the opposite gender form their sex? sometimes i feel more like the opposite sex than my own, but i’m just not typical to my gender.

Whoa this sounds like you’re doubting the legitimacy of non-cis gender identities, which is really uncool. Anon didn’t even ask for your thoughts on gender so why are you philosophizing?

so i have a lot of thoughts about this but you didn’t ask for me to puke them out here haha so just know that bisexual people like boys with boy bits and girls with girl bits and pansexual people like anyone regardless of bits.

Whoooooa hold it there. Even if you cling to your narrow definition of bisexual as ”likes men and women” you gotta admit that trans men and trans women are men and women. Saying anything else is cissexist.

Also the rest of us don’t like people because of their genitalia so wtf.

In conclusion, read this, please.

ahhh, another day, another accusation of bisexuals somehow being ~~lesser~~ than pansexuals.

thanks for the excellent rebuttal, absquesetentia!

Think I’m gonna have to disagree on several points here. I think my biggest complaint though is that the “read this” we’re directed to basically wants to ignore the definition of the word bisexual and pretend like it can be whatever they choose to define it as. The term, bisexual was coined at a point where gender was still viewed as a very binary thing - at least, far more so than it is today. The definition of bisexual, when you look it up in the dictionary is attracted to both men and women. Saying that the etymology is inaccurate (and comparing the bi in bisexual to the pig in guinea pig) is disingenuous. All the arguments presented by the various links come down to ignoring both the etymology and dictionary definition of bisexual. 

The term pansexual was coined because some people felt the term bisexual excluded people they were attracted to. Their issue was with the term, not bisexuals. Most people I know that have adopted the term pansexual actually have a sexual orientation that is no different from most bisexuals I know. In most cases, the only difference is semantics and the interest in having to explain your sexuality when identifying as pansexual. When trying to explain what pansexuality is to bisexuals who hadn’t heard the term before, the most common response I get is “Well that’s no different from me.”

As someone who’s identified as pansexual for many years, I still use the term bisexual in most cases because I don’t want to have to explain why pansexual is a more accurate term to people who don’t get that gender exists outside of a binary. I don’t want to have to get into a long winded explanation of the gender spectrum with people when I can say bisexual and they understand what I mean.

When it really comes down to it, the two groups of people are, all too often, talking about the same thing, so bickering over the term, giving off so much hate from one side to the other (and from what I see, it’s apparently on both sides) is ridiculous. It’s just as bad as the Gay and Lesbian community giving off hate toward bisexuals and really pushes people like me to not being involved with any of these communities.

Actually, it can be whatever we choose to define it as. Here’s the etymology: The word ”bisexual” comes from a time when they thought gay men must have minds like women and lesbians must have minds like men. They invented the term ”psychosexual hermaphrodite” to explain us. Meaning we must be ”both” sexes. Bisexual was an easier way of saying that, but eventually the meaning changed. (source, and another)

Now here’s the thing. We bisexuals have claimed this word, and we have defined it however we damn well pleased since at least the birth of the bisexual movement in the 80s. We have been defining it in ways that went beyond the binary since at least 1990. All of this, we’ve been doing for decades, but of course the men writing the dictionary couldn’t give two shits about it. Because who writes the dictionary? Cishet white upper-class white male academics. I think we all know how likely they are to listen to oppressed groups.

I do agree, though, that we have far more in common than we have differences. That’s why it hurts so much to see people scrambling to get away from the bisexual label, to see people mischaracterize us and our sexuality in order to validate their own.

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noon:

17 mag actually managed to impress me this month in their little blip for straight girls about what to do when your friend comes out to you

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