Just One of the Guys? Quotes

“Negotiating these expectations as female-socialized men, transmen can develop a gender "double consciousness" (Du Bois 1903).3 They simultaneously inhabit social space as men and maintain, to varying degrees, an internal repertoire of female-socialized interactional strategies. This double consciousness can generate culture shock as they struggle to synthesize two identities-a female history and a male social identity-that natural differences schemas position as opposing. To gain gender competency, transmen study the idealized qualities that make up a hegemonic understanding of masculinity. As”
― Kristen Schilt, Just One of the Guys?: Transgender Men and the Persistence of Gender Inequality

“I've been the L, G, B, and T. I've done them all.”
― Kristen Schilt, Just One of the Guys?: Transgender Men and the Persistence of Gender Inequality

“Reflecting on his childhood, Chris (b. early T96os) recounts always thinking of himself as just like any other little boy.' Yet the onset of menstruation brought with it the realization that he was going to grow up to be a woman. He experienced a deep disconnection between his social gender as a teenage girl and his personal sense of himself as innately male. He describes this internal maleness as unable to be masked by dresses and makeup.”
― Kristen Schilt, Just One of the Guys?: Transgender Men and the Persistence of Gender Inequality

“Having worked on both sides of the gender binary, transmen have a unique body of experiences to compare and contrast, which can give them an "outsider-within" (Collins 1986) perspective on gendered workplace practices.”
― Kristen Schilt, Just One of the Guys?: Transgender Men and the Persistence of Gender Inequality

“As a counterpoint, he offered his own experiences as someone who had lived both as a man and as a woman. Barbara Barres struggled to have her intellectual abilities taken seriously as one of few women in undergraduate and graduate science courses. Yet, when Barbara became Ben, his intellectual capabilities and research suddenly gained more value. Illustrating this change, he wrote, "Shortly after I changed sex, a faculty member was heard to say `Ben Barres gave a great seminar today, but then his work is much better than his sister's"' (Barres 2006, 134). For Barres, these experiences suggested that he was evaluated as a better scientist when he looked like a man.”
― Kristen Schilt, Just One of the Guys?: Transgender Men and the Persistence of Gender Inequality