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FWIW, I just stumbled over this googling for something else... i hate linking to FW, but the original stuff was deleted. link (http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:mT9lSja9-FcJ:www.journalfen.net/community/fwgreatesthits/20236.html+alchemia%40livejournal.com&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=8&gl=us&client=firefox-a) Someone posts about a disagreement about switchknife's gende between me and someone else because they thought switch was another person in fandom that had wank about their gender.

Someone points out that switch at one time id'd one way and later changed- therefore we were both "right"- which is basically denying the identity of a trans person by saying that they are "still" their birth sex- thus they can never be the "real" man or "real" woman that they id as / transitioned too, and that its everyone's right to drag out the trans person's past to "reveal" what they "really" are. :-/ (that said, i've no idea if switch was trans or not, i just know they were going by genderless pronouns for a long time before they left)

I didn't know the other person (Cravache), or what actually happened with that situation, but I think that wank, among a couple other incidents, caused an increase in paranoia in this part of fandom re gender. It was shortly after that, a person on my flist left because people said he was really a girl because he wrote too much like one in their opinion (and i think that is who pauraque was thinking of in the post I linked to above)