Transsexual.org

Transsexual.org is a blog by American transgender writer Jennifer Diane Reitz which purports to host "both basic and advanced information about transsexuality, provided in a gentle and compassionate manner." Actually, the blog provides swaths of misleading information and advice, cushioned only by the tasteless web design of the late 1990s and green ink.
The site gives a copacetic if ugly first impression; digging slightly deeper reveals the dark underbelly: full of gender stereotypes, hatred of men, creepy idealization and outright objectification of women; information that is, at the very best, outdated. The site is cisphobic, with many (unfounded) claims which paint transgender people as special and generally better than non-trans people.Reasons To Cherish Being Transsexual A consequence, intentional or otherwise, is that the site's name may end up luring in people with gender dysphoria or those with uneasy feelings about their gender identity, thus feeding this misinformation to them at their most vulnerable. Critics speculate this may be the page's actual purpose.(Warning: Possible Poe's Law in action!)
==Jennifer Diane Reitz==
Reitz's own mini autobiography describes her as an artist, game designer, writer, webmaster, and post-op transsexual woman.Jennifer Diane Reitz, Jennifer Diane Reitz's mini autobiography.
Reitz repeatedly denounces religion as "unproven" and "baseless," appearing to be an agnostic.Belief In 1973, when she was 13 and "urban camping" in a friend's backyard in Blackfoot, Idaho, she claims to have seen a "perfectly triangular" UFO.OBJECT 
==Quiz==
The site has a quiz (COGIATI: Combined Gender Identity And Transsexuality Inventory) attempting to diagnose gender dysphoria but which relies instead on gender norms and gender- and sex-independent traits, such as:The Combined Gender Identity And Transsexuality Inventory Gender Test Center
*Mathematical affinity
*Liking hugs and physical affection
*Probable ability to discern emotion on photographs
*Writing skill
*How one feels about their own sexual arousal
*Various social skills 
Reitz tries (and fails) to defend her precious against allegations of sexism and the quiz's resemblance to goat feces:The Last Word On The COGIATI Test
Wait a second.
Way to make sense.
By the way, here's a less astounding possible explanation: the studies purporting to demonstrate higher IQ test results among trans people could have been subject to a sampling bias. That is, people on the higher end of the income spectrum (associated with better education and lower stress) may be more cushioned from the social consequences of openly transitioning (keep in mind that one of the significant studies on this front was published in 2005), and so may be more likely to participate in studies aimed at trans people than poorer trans people are.
==Words==
The website repeatedly misdefines many core terms to enforce a transmedicalist classification scheme. On "transgenderism":What Transsexuality is Definition, Cause, and History This definition is highly misleading: transgender is the proper term for any person who suffers, or has suffered in the past, from gender dysphoria. 
The site also misdefines or misuses the following terms:
*hermaphrodite: in the modern day this is a slur against intersex people.INFORMAL GENDER IDENTITY SELF DISCOVERY PROVOCATEUR Essay style thought experiments designed to facilitate self analysis Dialogue With Jennifer Letters27 - Transsexuality Dialogue With Jennifer Letters8 - TranssexualityDon't Call Them Hermaphrodites They prefer the term "intersex." And now that a South African track star has thrust them into the spotlight, this surprisingly large minority group thinks their Stonewall moment just may have arrived.
*This entire page not only contradicts itself, but reality, too.
*Calls "transsexuality" [sic] a "birth defect," like some sort of mental disability, rather than a neurological peculiarity.A primer on transsexuality "This primer, written for the late grade school - early high school level, should provide a basic understanding of what transsexuality is all about."
==Conclusion==
In a spectacular possible exhibition of Poe's Law, the website manages to simultaneously insult both transgender and cisgender people.
==See also==
*Gender dysphoria
*Non-binary gender
*Transphobia
*Transsexualism
==External links==
*transsexual.org
*Reitz's personal blog
==References==
Category:Blogs
Category:Internalized discrimination
Category:LGBT
Category:Gender
Category:Sexism
Category:Transphobia