Call for Interview Subjects: Women Who Love Transmen
In the Life is seeking women in the New York City area who partner with transmen to interview for an upcoming show:
PBS television’s LGBT-affirmative “In the Life” is producing a segment on women who partner with transmen. We are especially interested in stories about women who’ve had to rethink their identities due to their involvement with transmen – lesbians who now grapple with a heterosexual identity and straight women who now find themselves identifying as more queer. And those who are quite comfortable with a “trans-am” identity.
The show will be produced by the same guy who wrote the show “The View from the Other Half” for NPR’s “This American Life.” Listen here: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/pages/descriptions/03/247.html
For more information, send an email to ukulelejack@yahoo.com.
Now, who wants to explain “trans-am” identity to me?
Not only is this an awesome article, but it has a blurb on TransAm. Here you go:
“As Manhunt and Trans*Am (meaning amorous) imply, transmales are on the prowl for folks who are willing to break the mold of gender and sexual orientation�or at least go out with someone who does. Along with this evolution has come a new breed of queer women who like dating trannies and who gag on the word lesbian. “I don’t give a shit if people read me as lesbian or straight,” says Alana Chazan, 24, a femme queer woman who has dated both dykes and transmen. “For me, it’s about respecting my partner’s gender identity.””
Hence, I am assuming it is those who enjoy romantic/sexual relationships with transgendered persons on any level. And I personally am one thankful boi that they exist!
Thanks for that link!
So… Is trans amorous a sexual orientation, an identity? Am I a trans amorous queer femme? I really think that’s too long of an ID – for me. I don’t want to push it and end up as a trans amorous queer femme dyke top blah blah blah blah blah blah.
If anyone wants to come up with a short and simple name for women who partner with other women and trans men, I’d just love that. I use “queer femme,” but I know it’s an ID with many meanings and it’s not perfect.
Oy – yet another label. I see “trans*am” and think car, which keeps me from thinking about much else. I think queer femme is a better choice, at least for me, still.
You know, when I first came to grips about being a trans guy, I had myself convinced that I was going to be single for the rest of my life. My reasoning: “What straight girl would date a dickless guy and what lesbian would date a ‘guy'”?
Obviously that was a completely non-dynamic view of people and their preferences. I’ve been growing in my understanding both on an intellectual and emotional level upon learning about women and men who are attracted to a trans person or trans people in general.
I think I have a lot more to learn. My girlfriend has been teaching me a lot and your site as well. Maybe every person out there has a different reason for dating a trans guy. I’m curious to learn more of why.
Maybe the “GBL” community doesn’t get it’s own “T”. But then again, does it really matter what they think or how they define trans culture? I’m still myself understanding the depth and span of all that is trans and about the women who love us.
I am delighted to see a word–trans am–for an “identification” i’ve been “struggling” with. The identification is in quotation marks because i don’t think it’s an actual id, but it may be closer to an id than to anything else. struggling is in quotation marks to stress that struggling is a wonderful and difficult thing. I like trans am because of its proximity to identity; i love “queer” too, but trans am is great because it has trans in it. And the more people “identify” as “trans,” the easier it gets to be it. Slowly. I love transwomen and transmen.