Jack Halberstam - Trans*: A Quick and Quirky Guide to Gender Variance

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NYU Florence - La Pietra Dialogues
Trans*: A Quick and Quirky Guide to Gender Variance
JACK HALBERSTAM
Professor of Gender Studies and English at Columbia University
In the past few months, not a day has gone by without some kind of news story on transgender people in bathrooms, in the military, in the law, in sports, in school, in fact and fiction and everything in between. [3] Transgender is the new gay, the new orange, the new reality show, the newest marker of exclusion and pathology to be seamlessly transitioned into a template for acceptance and tolerance. While we should undoubtedly celebrate recent attention to transgender rights, transgender visibility and transgender recognition, not to mention TG access to public facilities, we must also resist some of the streamlining effects of this recognition and ask about what price will be paid and by whom for this new visibility.

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@pricklypear300 5 ай бұрын

Thank you for uploading this!😊👏

@ApparentlyHuman 4 жыл бұрын

So thankful that someone introduced me to this speaker. I find it sad how negative some of the trans community can be towards those who are trans but don’t want to transition for whatever reason (by choice or not). We are who we are 💙

@ritasasaki9625 3 жыл бұрын

If you dont feel confortable answering no problem, and im sorry of i offend you, But may i ask whether you mean social or medical transition?

@janewrin1830 2 жыл бұрын

@@ritasasaki9625 Interesting question.

@caromikalef4602 Жыл бұрын

what an amazing talk, so grateful you made this available, so inmensly grateful to Jack

@tracybachman2519 3 жыл бұрын

CLOSE CAPTIONING WOULD HELP

@louisesumrell6331 7 ай бұрын

I transitioned, m to f, in 1993 San Diego. I've lived as a man, then as a woman, then as a man again, a woman again, and now, at 65 years old, I'm nonbinary...and tired...😉 (oh, definitely lesbian) 🙏💜🙏 -weezi 🙏💖🙏💜🙏 "WeesiSbaby"

@rainarasofiaanjos193 Жыл бұрын

About transgender representation and the kids situation off taking hormones before puberty leads me into Euphoria, the episode that Jules talks about her experience and the possibility of her stop taking the hormones now just suits perfect with your topic

@louisesumrell6331 7 ай бұрын

I knew that I should have been a girl in the early 1960s.

@PalsWalkthroughs 2 ай бұрын

This needs subtitles.

@jessicafelizardo9914 Жыл бұрын

Legenda em português espanhol/francês por favoooor

@TropikSchmitt 3 жыл бұрын

27:08 describes the case of JK Rowling perfectly

@clemdane Жыл бұрын

Rowling is absolutely right.

@robokill387 Жыл бұрын

@Clemdane no she isn't. She's hanging out with literal nazi sympathisers and anti feminists just because they also hate trans people.

@matissedupont5224 5 жыл бұрын

@andreal.1035 2 жыл бұрын

50:59

5 жыл бұрын

new found love

@kkhushkkhush9892 3 жыл бұрын

All white, green, and pink people loving Diversity and Inclusion. Look at the audience.

@janewrin1830 2 жыл бұрын

I know an odd questions: why does he sound English? I only ask as I have never heard an American sound so English. Meanwhile, I am dipping my toe into all sorts of waters in an attempt to understand why there is so much anger and division, lack of debate and general misogyny in this subject. Unpick that!

@emilymaddox9300 Жыл бұрын

he is Englsh ;)

@janewrin1830 Жыл бұрын

@@emilymaddox9300 Ha. I can't remember why I was surprised now, but that would certainly explain it! lol

@hiwetberhe3001 Жыл бұрын

How do kids understand gender. Insane.

@clemdane Жыл бұрын

The whole "pharmacology conspiracy" makes me wonder if he's a Scientologist

@louisesumrell6331 7 ай бұрын

But I don't insist on certain pronouns. She/He/They/Them, I don't care, just don't call me late for supper 😅

@pricklypear300 5 ай бұрын

Your latin variant of language system of gendering can be overly binding yeah. I don't want to care either. For me I don't want the implications that follow each gendered pronouns. I wouldn't mind being seen as one in real life but I just avoid he/him used on me in online spaces because it carries things that i don't like.

@tiffanyhardy6965 Жыл бұрын

The insanity!

@kabardinka1 3 жыл бұрын

I think Halberstam has a very naive view of "The Crying Game" which, at the time, is almost solely remembered for perpetrating yet another sensationalistic "reveal" scene. Endless jokes and ridicule about trans women were the result. This concept was even used as a routine defense for the murder of trans women. Perhaps Halberstam doesn't have enough perspective about that from the actual community which was being ridiculed and made horrific.

@allan2468 Жыл бұрын

You're the one with the bad memory. It was (and is) a love story, and revolutionary: Two straight men fall for a transwoman who is loyal and a great role model. Far from jokes and ridicule the film takes the relationship seriously, as did the audience after the initial shock. This film, like M. Butterfly and Boys Don't Cry did much to humanize and create sympathy for the trans community. Gay/trans panic defense was a real thing but had been around long before this movie came out and has nothing to do with it.

@benevans7564 Жыл бұрын

Super late comment, "that scene" was extensively parodied and talked about to the point where the average person was familiar with it in spite of not having seen the film, in part at least because of the marketing campaign. I think Dr. Halberstam is absolutely right to call it a breakthrough film in "western" media markets, it just may not have breaking through to a better place. It went into the same macho canon as deliverance, a horror film to express your disgust at the pub if any of these topics ever came up so that people knew you were on the right team.