thescavenger.net – Cath Davies
Cath Davies talks to writer, spoken word performer and activist Julia Serano, author of Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity.
In the introduction to your book, Whipping Girl, you claim that ‘as a transsexual woman, I would have to say that most of the anti-trans sentiment that I have had to deal with is probably better described as misogyny’ and that ‘we are ridiculed and dismissed not merely because we transgress binary gender norms, but rather because we choose to be women rather than men’. Is this something you have experienced within lesbian or queer women’s’ communities? And how do you think the experiences of trans women differ to those of trans men?