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What are the most blatant examples of ciswashing by the media?
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Well, Willa Cather spent most of her life wearing trousers and preferring friends to use the first name 'William' or 'Bill'; if she had access to modern terminology and thought she might well have identified as a trans man ( Willa Cather ). A lot of gender-variant people in the past have their gender-variance dismissed by historians or outright hidden.
Joan of Arc, for example, was ultimately burnt not for professing heretical ideas and saying she heard saints speaking in her head, but for refusing to swear to quit wearing male clothing. ( Cross-dressing, gender identity, and sexuality of Joan of Arc).
A number of female-bodied people (best research currently thinks in the low hundreds) fought in the US Civil War in male dress. Some of them maintained male dress and names for the rest of their lives, their bodily sex only becoming known to other people upon their death or because of medical treatment for an injury.
Also, if you want to view it that way, coverage of the Stonewall Riots and the birth of the modern militant queer-rights movement often calls Stonewall a 'gay bar'; what it was is a drag queen bar, full of women who later identified as trans (and a bunch of gay guys and some lesbians), very few of them white.
Joan of Arc, for example, was ultimately burnt not for professing heretical ideas and saying she heard saints speaking in her head, but for refusing to swear to quit wearing male clothing. ( Cross-dressing, gender identity, and sexuality of Joan of Arc).
A number of female-bodied people (best research currently thinks in the low hundreds) fought in the US Civil War in male dress. Some of them maintained male dress and names for the rest of their lives, their bodily sex only becoming known to other people upon their death or because of medical treatment for an injury.
Also, if you want to view it that way, coverage of the Stonewall Riots and the birth of the modern militant queer-rights movement often calls Stonewall a 'gay bar'; what it was is a drag queen bar, full of women who later identified as trans (and a bunch of gay guys and some lesbians), very few of them white.
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I think a lot of queer culture has been cis-washed. For example the most of the LBGTQIA+ rights movement, the Stonewall riots are often brought up to do with gay men (and even the charity Stonewall mostly focuses on cis gay/bi people) when in actuality a lot of the Stonewall movement was started by trans women, in particular trans women of colour. Look up Marsha P. Johnson.
This is also the case with ball culture, for example Paris is Burning, a film about the trans and drag scenes in the 80s and 90s in New York is often referenced by RuPaul in his tv show, he calls them all drag queens and uses it to talk about the plight of gay cis men, often excluding the massive involvement by trans women.
This is also the case with ball culture, for example Paris is Burning, a film about the trans and drag scenes in the 80s and 90s in New York is often referenced by RuPaul in his tv show, he calls them all drag queens and uses it to talk about the plight of gay cis men, often excluding the massive involvement by trans women.
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