LOCAL / Discussion explores women-centered spaces and gender identities
Ariel Troster / Ottawa / Wednesday, June 17, 2009
UP FOR DISCUSSION. Evan Hazenberg will be facilitating a discussion about the place of trans folk in women's spaces Jun 20.
Butch dykes and trans men are a diverse bunch. Some identify as one but not the other, some both. Some lesbians come to identify as trans, and some of them decide to transition.
Transitioning is the process of switching from living and presenting as one gender to living and presenting as another. For some it involves hormones and surgeries, for others no.
All of which complicates the definition of women's space.
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