Genny Beemyn: Difference between revisions

Beemyn began openly identifying as [[transgender]] in the late 1990s.<ref>{{cite journal|title=Trans Youth: Introduction|year=2005|journal=Journal of Gay & Lesbian Issues in Education|volume=3|issue=1|pages=3-5|doi=10.1300/J367v03n01_02|url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1300/J367v03n01_02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230721211248/https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1300/J367v03n01_02|archive-date=21 July 2023|access-date=2 May 2020|url-status=bot: unknown}}</ref> They realized they identified as neither male nor female after reading [[Leslie Feinberg]]'s ''Stone Butch Blues''.<ref name=":0">Beemyn, Genny. “Being Genderqueer Before It Was a Thing.” ''Nonbinary: Memoirs of Gender and Identity'', edited by Micah Rajunov and Scott Duane, Columbia University Press, New York; Chichester, West Sussex, 2019, pp. 41–47. ''JSTOR'', www.jstor.org/stable/10.7312/raju18532.11. Accessed 5 Dec. 2020.</ref> Around 2001, Beemyn requested that some colleagues, friends, and queer community members use ze/hir for them, but found continually correcting slip-ups and explaining the unfamiliar pronoun set exhausting. In 2006, Beemyn moved to a new position at UMass Amherst, and started going by they/them, hoping others would find it easier than using neopronouns.<ref name=":0" />