i wasn’t ‘wary’ of cis white lesbian exclusionistic women until years of facing their transphobia, racism, and aphobia
so just maybe, people who have every right to avoid further oppression under guise, especially since its just … not interacting with users that have, like, a specific tumblr theme going on or w/e
bc in comparison, you ppl literally invaded a safe space not intended for you, and secretly took a random user’s words out of context to laugh at, hmmmmmmm
like maybe its about time you people took this opportunity to examine that being gay isn’t actually the Great overarching politic of All Time and lesbians really do have problems as a community oh wait does that only apply to everyone else
Tumblr just flip flops from one extreme to another. We went from:
“Demiboys and demigirls are fake and cis special snowflakes trying to be trans for a trend, if you’re so close to the binary you’re just male/female”
to
“Are you male-aligned or female-aligned nb? What? You cant NOT be aligned because its about oppression/you can’t opt out of gender/gender as a class"
Like, where’s the middle ground here? It SHOULD have been:
“Hey so there’s an issue with seeing binary-aligned nbs as fake or cis or not as nb, but there’s also a big issue with erasing the existence of non-aligned people and telling them they need to align. Maybe…maybe we should…weird thought but…respect ALL nbs?”
Notice both are attempts to reconcile people into binarized categories
uhh tbh ive never thought of it that way, my train of thought has always been im trans -> and hrt sounds right -> im a trans person on hrt
so although im not dysphoric, and i dont attribute my transness to a ‘need’ for hrt, my hrt regime isn’t for any other context other than my transness
aka i take hrt also because i foresee a different-looking body for me that aligned with what people think ‘androgynous’. and not just because ive been interested in it for so long
i wonder how many historic trans men we’ve lost to “this WOMAN went by a man’s name, wore men’s clothes, took the job of a man, lived as a man… GIRL POWER!”
this isn’t a “pushing my identity on historic people” thing, it’s the fact that every single time i or another person brings up the possibility of someone like us in history, we’re immediately shut down, told that we didn’t “exist yet”, given a billion different reasons why we aren’t ALLOWED to see these people as reflective of us and our struggles and experiences – i get that we didn’t have the vocabulary back then but for so many of you the IDEA that someone who went to the same stretches that we do today to separate from their dead selves and identify similar to the way trans people do is too “far out there” and “disrespectful” to them somehow. they’re dead. we’re alive. we’re trying to connect the pieces. go get your kicks out of isolating us from history somewhere else, away from me.
yeah, there were women who did crossdress in order to take up jobs they would not have been permitted to access
but when people say it about Albert Cashier, who donned Union uniform, bound his chest, and lived as a man even after the Civil War, when he was reclusive and lived in a tiny village, after there would have been no incentive for him to do so, I question their motives.
I also question their motives when they list Alan L Hart, who legally changed his name and was one of the first trans men to pursue a hysterectomy, referring to himself as “a fellow.”
people DONT want historical figures to be trans. they WANT to interpret these historical figures as women, not trans men, because that makes them uncomfortable.
same with the musician billy tipton, who hid his trans status from his wife and children his whole life, and whose son didn’t know his father was trans until billy was dead. he told his wife that his binding was necessary because he had been in an automobile accident before they met, never disclosing his trans status to her. the number of historians that refer to him by his deadname and call him an “actress” make me feel sick. he was a stealth trans man around everyone but his parents, and it hurts trans men everywhere to call trans men in history “lesbians”.
whitemanning critical 