The way I read their policy was "no one identifying as male" and also "no one assigned male at birth", based on the whole focus on "brought up as women". It's not clear to me that transwomen are allowed.
I also feel like their use of quotes around hybrid and intersex, especially the latter, given it's a very standard term, is kind of patronizing and offensive. And their parenthetical translation of intersex seemed a bit problematic. (But I am not intersex, and don't know what hybrid means, but doubt it applies to me either.)
(Note about personal bias on this: as a neutrois person who was male-assigned at birth, policies phrased this way tend to make me uncomfortable in general because I feel like they're gendering me as male because I don't identify as and don't pass or try to present as female. If they want to be female-only and thus exclude me, I'd really prefer they not phrase it as "we're trying to exclude men", since that implies that as a non-woman, I must be a man.)
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regna
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Date: 2011-12-27 05:16 pm (UTC)I also feel like their use of quotes around hybrid and intersex, especially the latter, given it's a very standard term, is kind of patronizing and offensive. And their parenthetical translation of intersex seemed a bit problematic. (But I am not intersex, and don't know what hybrid means, but doubt it applies to me either.)
(Note about personal bias on this: as a neutrois person who was male-assigned at birth, policies phrased this way tend to make me uncomfortable in general because I feel like they're gendering me as male because I don't identify as and don't pass or try to present as female. If they want to be female-only and thus exclude me, I'd really prefer they not phrase it as "we're trying to exclude men", since that implies that as a non-woman, I must be a man.)