#jamison green

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Happy pride I finally finished Becoming a Visible Man by Jamison Green here are some favorite excerpts

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"When facing those who object to transsexual treatments or oppose our efforts to achieve equal access to the benefits of society, this salient question remains: how do we argue with a feeling? (Kaminer, 2000)." - Becoming a Visible Man, Jamison Green

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I’m 100 pages into becoming a visible man it’s full of so many interesting insights , how are you finding it ?

I'm 167 pages in, and so far I've found it very thought-provoking.

I love learning about the history of trans men, and the book has taught me even more about transition than I've learnt from my own research (namely that there's an alternative to t cypionate – t enanthate – that causes less acne. Definitely going to ask my dr. about it.).

It also made me reflect more on transandrophobia and trans men's relationship to the rest of the queer community. I don't agree with Jamison all the time and there was a moment that made me raise my brows (unrelated to his discussions about transphobia), but those instances made me think more deeply about my own identity and beliefs. Which I count as a good thing in my books.

Plus, another very positive aspect of this book is that it gave me a MUCH better idea of what to expect from my transition. Mainly that there are very difficult social aspects to it, but there's also *so* much hope. It isn't just doom and gloom all the time.

I'm getting what I want (a point of reference for my own identity) and more out of this book, so I'm really enjoying it. I'd seriously recommend it to any masculine-aligned trans/nonbinary folks out there.

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"My already-broken heart was ripe for an infection of compassion." - Jamison Green

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"I think in many cases of official disregard, the perpetrators are well aware of their passive-aggressive behavior, and they enjoy thwarting and chipping away at trans peoples self-esteem.

Almost every trans person has a story about having to reveal their trans status to a clerk or administrator or employer who apologizes for not being able to accommodate some minor request while smiling and implying the requestor was naive to expect anything different, as if trans people deserve only rejection."

- Jamison Green, Becoming A Visible Man (Second Edition)

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"Some people have characterized transsexual individuals as highly conservative conformists who "buy into" the binary gender system and gravitate to the extremes of stereotypical, culturally defined gender behavior, and the fact that some of us want surgery is used as evidence for this theory...

Body modification is a complex phenomenon. People have done it since the beginning of time, for various reasons and with various results. Changing ones sex is just one way of changing one's body, and a sex change is not necessarily part of a search for perfection or a reification of stereotypes.

The reality of gender is that anyone who has not opted for androgyny has usually accepted the binary gender system by age three, and no one makes much of a fuss about it, so why imply that transsexual people have any greater share of responsibility for reinforcing that binary?"

- Jamison Green, Becoming A Visible Man (Second Edition)

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"Many gay people wanted to avoid further stigmatization. They claimed not to understand how gender identity issues were related to sexual orientation issues.

They felt their community was only about who they wanted to have sex with, and they apparently didn't think about the violation of gender norms that homosexual expression constitutes in the eyes of heterosexual people. They forgot that straight people often think that gay people want to be the opposite sex, or think that crossdressing, transsexualism, and homosexuality are all different words for the same thing...

When so many people think of trans people as only men in dresses, exposure to trans men can jolt some into realizing that their prejudice against trans women is a thoughtless reaction to projections of their own fears about sexuality or judgments about what a woman should look like.

Those who find themselves attracted to trans people can begin to examine their preconceptions about sex, gender, and attraction, which may be one of the biggest threats trans people present: they might make people question their assumptions about themselves.

It was time for trans men to shoulder our share of the burden of misunderstanding that trans women had been carrying all these years."

- Jamison Green, Becoming A Visible Man (Second Edition)