Thank you for posting this-- I caught this article a little while back via the transgroup blog and I've been emailing it about ever since. I think this piece manages to be simultaneously the most respectful and the most politically sophisticated article I've ever read about trans people in a non queer-specific publication. Really, it's an amazing piece. (Also I think it provides a critical rejoinder for any trans person or ally who finds themselves caught up in some of the more banal debates about transmasculinity and its ostensible implications for feminism, you know?)

This is my first time commenting here, but I just couldn't pass up saying thank you for posting this!

Welcome, wormulus - hope to see more commenting from you!

Thanks for posting this: I've been looking forward to blac (k) ademic's movie about this subject for a while: it's fascinating to me about how somebody transitions and suddenly experiences entire shifts in how they're treated - in some respects better because they are men, in others worse because black men are considered threatening by society.

http://www.blackademic/

Thanks for the article--a fascinating look at the intersections of gender and race.

This line caught my eye, though: "Rather than passing as heterosexual, an increasing number of them in the last decade have identified as 'trans.'"

Isn't that confusing the two different categories of sexual orientation and sex identity? You can be trans and hetero, without hiding who you are--because that IS who you are. Shouldn't it be "passing as cissexual"?

What a fascinating and informative article. I just wanted to thank you for posting it. It really made me think!