Weiss Jillian T
School of Science and Human Services, Ramapo College of New Jersey, 505 Ramapo Valley Road, Mahwah, NJ 07430, USA.
J Lesbian Stud. 2007;11(3-4):203-11. doi: 10.1300/J155v11n03_03.
In 1998, Dr. Jacob Hale wrote about a 'borderland' between butch lesbian identity and FTM masculinity, suggesting a 'demilitarized zone.' While the intervening years have brought no 'demilitarized zone,' the border may not have a long future. Converging trends in identity among the younger generation in their teens and twenties suggest this, such as changing meanings of 'lesbian' and 'FTM,' the blending of sexuality and gender, and understanding these as personal, rather than identity, differences. The socio-historical circumstances that gave power to anti-trans feminist attitudes and trans rejection of lesbian identity are disappearing. This is not to say that we are 'post-lesbian' or 'post-transsexual,' but the tension between identities, the need to distinguish clearly between them, and the arguments about who is 'really' lesbian or 'really' FTM may be of supreme unimportance to the next generation. Time will tell.
1998年，雅各布·黑尔博士写到了女同性恋身份与跨性别男性气质之间的“边缘地带”，提出了一个“非军事区”的概念。尽管在这期间并没有出现“非军事区”，但这个边界可能不会存在太久了。十几岁和二十几岁的年轻一代身份认同的趋同趋势表明了这一点，比如“女同性恋”和“跨性别男性”含义的变化、性取向与性别的融合，以及将这些视为个人差异而非身份差异。赋予反跨性别女权主义态度和跨性别者对女同性恋身份的排斥以力量的社会历史环境正在消失。这并不是说我们处于“后女同性恋”或“后变性人”时代，而是身份之间的紧张关系、明确区分它们的必要性，以及关于谁才是“真正的”女同性恋或“真正的”跨性别男性的争论，对下一代来说可能极其不重要。时间会证明一切。
