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Submitted by ebock on Wed, 10/01/2008 - 7:51pm.

In Kate Bornstein's "Gender Terror, Gender Rage," s/he discusses the tension experienced in "women-only spaces" by transgendered women. S/he claims that women in these "women-only spaces" are inhibited in their "healing" because they see transgendered women still as men (242), and also, according to Janice Raymond, these transgendered women apparently still bring remants of the "dominant" position to "women's spaces." (238)

Conversely, Alex, did you feel any hostility or tension at Bryn Mawr (which I think most of us would think of as a "women's space") in transitioning from "female-ness" to "male-ness?" Was there a time where you might have felt gender-ambiguous and felt intentionally isolated by others being in such a gender-specific space?

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