If the identity terms I use for myself offend you, I kindly invite you to Get Fucked.
Yes, I identify as transsexual, which I recognize as existing under the wider transgender umbrella. I identify this way because my experience of transness is rooted in physical dysphoria.
My needs as a trans woman centered around physical/medical transition. That is MY experience. Transsexual as an identity gives me space to both honor that specific experience and advocate for those needs.
It has *nothing* to do with having or needing bottom surgery to be trans
MANY trans women have reclaimed transsexual as an identity that they find affirming for their experiences.
Please don’t project *your* baggage with terminology onto others, or make ridiculous, facile assumptions about my beliefs based on a single word in my profiles
And yes, I’m subtweeting the shit out of someone because I’m supremely annoyed.
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Trans women continue to be primary target of transphobic harassment, and the most vitriolic hate is reserved for us. That’s life under transmisogyny, and how pretty you are matters very little. Whiteness and wealth might protect a little.
But we are still villains, each of us.
Transmisogyny-exempt folk are written off as merely misguided...brainwashed by the Agenda.
Trans women are castigated as perverts, r*pists, deviants, & child-abusers...orchestrators of a grand sexual conspiracy to undermine society & ruin the youth
We are absolutely not prepared for the aftermath of the collective trauma experienced by healthcare workers during this pandemic.
My colleagues across functional areas and allied professions are so far beyond their limits. Not just doctors and nurses, but laboratory, radiology, respiratory therapy, transport, pharmacy, housekeeping, nutrition, physical plant, clerics, etc. It’s ALL OF US.
It’s also important to understand that most healthcare & hospital workers are women. Many are BIPOC and/or immigrants. Many of us are from poor/working class backgrounds bc healthcare was an accessible path to employment stability/benefits.
I don’t give a crap about whether a lawmaker displays the trans pride flag in their office. It’s a nice photo op, and a sign that we’re no longer *absolute* political poison pills. But, it’s a toothless milquetoast gesture.
What I DO care about:
-Does your office have trans people on its payroll?
-Are you actively pushing for a comprehensive LGBTQ civil-rights act?
-Are working to make healthcare and transition care available to every trans person?
-Are you working to address the rising violence against TWOC?
-Are you actually talking to trans people who don’t work for a national organization about what is important to us?
-Are you working to address the HORRIFIC treatment of trans women in prisons and immigrantion detention?
-Are you working for sex work decrim and SWer rights?
I am genuinely curious...how many of you were “identified” as “gifted” at some point in K-12, but diagnosed with one or more learning/cognitive disabilities as an adult. Obviously, no need to participate if you don’t feel comfortable sharing.
I ask because I find myself really frustrated knowing so many of the things I struggled with, that I was made to feel were my personal failings, are things I have no control over, and maybe college would have sucked a lot less if I could have had support for disabilities.
I was ID’d as “profoundly gifted” when I was 7. I was in my mid twenties when I was diagnosed as autistic. Over the ensuing years, it’s been figured out that I also have sensory processing disorder, visual-spatial/visual-motor deficit, dysgraphia, and dyspraxia.
Women, LGBT folks, and people of color have been talking for years about how “online hate” is the same thing as “real hate”. We’ve been telling you that the ultra-right are being taught to *enjoy* harming others in online spaces, and that it was breeding real world violence.
The Internet is not some walled-off, consequence free space. Whether someone is the target of a harassment/stalking campaign, being doxxed, being “swatted”, or being gunned down...the goal is the same: sadistic pleasure in harming marginalized people to feel powerful.
It’s time to confront the fact that right-wing political rhetoric is one of the roots of this problem. Cis straight white men have been indoctrinated to believe that they *belong* at the top, that anything less is discrimination, and any change is a direct assault on them.