Christine's Published Writings on Gender


I have been writing about gender and transgender topics since 1988. It began in a drug rehab with a "purgative" autobiography that was supposed to exorcise my transsexual demons but only ended up confirming their entrenchment. By 1991 I was contributing to transgender-specific publications, and over the next decade my work was seen in Tapestry, Chrysalis Quarterly, Transsexual News Telegraph and TransSisters, where I was a staff writer. (I thank Davina Anne Gabriel, the publisher of now-defunct TransSisters for giving us that forum in the mid-1990s.) I have assembled some of the most important articles here for your enjoyment and thoughtful consideration. If you'd like to discuss any of these topics I will do everything I can to dialogue with you, just email me.
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What Sex Are You?
TransSisters Magazine, Summer, 1994
Sex and gender. What is meant by those words? Interchangeable, right? Okay, so what do you think they mean? Could they have more than one definition? And what would it mean to our concept of man, woman, male and female if they were rooted in a definition whose meaning may be open to interpretation? An outrageous yet thoughtful exposition into the most primal of topics. And far from the dry treatise you might expect. Careful, you might learn something!

Toxic Thinking, Part One: Elitism
TransSisters Magazine, Winter, 1995
One would think that a group as marginialized and oppressed as transgendered people would shy away from making value judgements of other people within the group, of ranking them, of excluding them, of engaging in us-and-them thinking within our own little gender ghetto. Sadly this is not the case. In doing so, we are sacrificing the power of community, creating our own little islands, diminishing our own collective power.

Chicks with Dicks
Transsexual News Telegraph Magazine, Autumn, 1998
Given that SRS is considered so important by many, that the desire for SRS is often held as the hallmark of the "true" transsexual, why would a transsexual person not undergo that procedure? This article delves into the reasons why some transsexuals forego this "radical" surgery.

It's not just another label
gay.com's Transgender Gazebo, September, 2000
What "transgender" means to me in 669 words. The evolution of my identity over twenty years and the search for a place to belong in the world.



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