Trans Woman Manifesto

 
1 Viviane K. Namaste, Invisible Lives: The Erasure of Transsexual and Transgendered People (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000), 145, 215-216; Viviane Namaste, Sex Change, Social Change: Reflections on Identity, Institutions, and Imperialism (Toronto: Women’s Press, 2005), 92-93.
2 American Psychiatric Association, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition, Text Revision (DSM-IV-TR) (Washington, D.C.: American Psychiatric Association, 2000), 574-575.
3 Jacob Anderson-Minshall, “Michigan or Bust: Camp Trans Flourishes for Another Year,” San Francisco Bay Times, August 3, 2006, and my open letter in response to that article (www.juliaserano.com/frustration.html). For more on how lesbian attitudes toward trans women tend to be far more negative than toward trans men, see Michelle Tea, “Transmissions from Camp Trans,” The Believer, November 2003; Julia Serano, “On the Outside Looking In,” On the Outside Looking In: A Trans Woman’s Perspective on Feminism and the Exclusion of Trans Women from Lesbian and Women-Only Spaces (Oakland: Hot Tranny Action Press, 2005); Zachary I. Nataf, “Lesbians Talk Transgender,” The Transgender Reader, Susan Stryker and Stephen Whittle, eds. (New York: Routledge, 2006), 439-448.
4 For an overview of feminist anti-trans-woman sentiment, see Pat Califia, Sex Changes: The Politics of Transgenderism (San Francisco: Cleis Press, 1997), 86-119; Joanne Meyerowitz, How Sex Changed: A History of Transsexuality in the United States (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2002), 258-262; Kay Brown, “20th Century Transgender History and Experience” (www.jenellerose.com/htmlpostings/20th_century_transgender.htm); and Deborah Rudacille, The Riddle of Gender: Science, Activism, and Transgender Rights (New York: Pantheon Books, 2005), 151-174. For pertinent examples of trans-misogynistic feminist writings, see Mary Daly, Gyn/Ecology: The Metaethics of Radical Feminism (Boston: Beacon Press, 1990), 67-72; Andrea Dworkin, Woman Hating (New York: E. P. Dutton, 1974), 185-187; Margrit Eichler, The Double Standard: A Feminist Critique of Feminist Social Science (London: Croom Helm, 1980), 72-90; Germaine Greer, The Madwoman’s Underclothes: Essays and Occasional Writings (New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1987), 189-191; Germaine Greer, The Whole Woman (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999), 70-80; Sheila Jeffreys, Beauty and Misogyny: Harmful Cultural Practices in the West (New York: Routledge, 2005), 46-66; Robin Morgan, Going Too Far (New York: Random House, 1977), 170-188; Janice G. Raymond, The Transsexual Empire: The Making of the She-Male (Boston: Beacon Press, 1979); Gloria Steinem, “If the Shoe Doesn’t Fit, Change the Foot,” Ms., February 1977, 76-86.