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25 Dec, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Since my retweet got some very White Replies™, let’s retweet it again. White trans people have white privilege. Being trans doesn’t mean you stop being white.
And you know what? I sometimes get that emotional ‘oomph’ when people point to my white privilege. It’s something I’m actively working on, because I absolutely have it and having it detracts in no way from whatever hardship I may have experienced.
However much I may get shit for being trans, I don’t have to worry about facing racism and that’s significant. There’s nothing wrong with people mentioning that, and it’s not okay for me or others to try to minimize our white privilege because we feel attacked.
Also please don’t just retweet my added commentary as a white person. Go retweet the original tweet. We need to listen to and amplify the voices of trans people of colour.

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One thing I learned studying law is that a lot of what people do every day is illegal and much of our ability to live in society is predicated on the discretionary non-application of laws.
Now ask yourself: how scary would it be if people started religiously enforcing every single law against you? How quickly would your life crumble?
What if we add laws of sufficiently vague and case-by-case application that you need to go through a whole trial before the claim against you fails?

What if we add claims that are ludicrous enough to be rapidly dismissed—but not before you’ve sent tens of thousands of dollars?
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I have a million thoughts on Bell v. Tavistock.

The first is that the Court confuses consent to puberty blockers and consent to hormone therapy. Though the latter often follows, it is independently consented to at a later time. Full knowledge of the latter shouldn't be required.
This confusion is related to a second issue, which is the Court's confusion as to the purpose of puberty blockers. Puberty blockers serve at least three purposes: (1) alleviate gender dysphoria, (2) prevent bodily changes that would have to be reversed, and (3) gives time.
It isn't one or the other - if blockers weren't about giving more time to the youth (a goal I disagree with), then we would just prescribe hormone therapy directly and skip over blockers. After all, waiting until 16 for hormones significantly delays puberty compared to peers!
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I need my cis followers to do more to share the voices of trans people. Anti-trans articles get 2,500 retweets while those trans people write are barely getting a hundred or two.

It's not enough not to oppose trans people. You must make our voices as loud as theirs.
In my trans studies class, I teach students about 'cisgender mediation' - about how the shape and visibility of trans narratives is determined by cis people who stand between us and the audience.
The most obvious example is the editor who decides who gets published, makes suggested edits and picks the title of the article.

But it's also you. It's also every single cis follower when they decide to retweet or not to retweet something trans people say.
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A just-published study (that I won't link to because they don't deserve views) looked at cis people's perception of pre-FFS and post-FFS quality of life, in comparison to being blind in one and two eyes. This isn't only useless but super grossly transmisogynistic and ableist.
So grossly ableist, in fact, that they literally removed from the study people who rated being blind in two eyes as a higher quality of life than being blind in one eye - which has a high chance of excluding participants who are, you guessed it, blind in both eyes.
As for the transmisogyny, it arises from the fact that they're not actually building on any experience of facial gender dysphoria (contrary to their claim).
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Trans health is an irreducibly political area of medicine. Clinicians must become aware of that politicization and actively engage with trans communities in humble, attentive and supportive ways, using their power to better trans lives across the board.

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journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117…

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It very quickly spread once the abstract of a conference presentation was published in 2017. Conservative journalists began publishing on it in droves before it was even peer reviewed and published in full. 3/
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