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Dec 1 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
I think one of the greatest barriers to getting cis people to care about and invest in trans liberation is that many cis people perceive trans issues as "boutique" issues, issues that can only be addressed after "more serious" issues have been addressed. I think this is an error.
Perceiving trans issues and trans people as unserious is the effects of a transphobic society that portrays trans people as weak, frivolous, and demanding special treatment. This is propaganda.
The things that would improve trans people's material conditions, ie medical care access, freedom of expression, access to housing, gendered freedom, protections against discrimination in employment, etc all benefit cis people, especially marginalized cis people.
Rather than accepting anti-trans rhetoric that says that trans people's issues are unimportant, realize that trans people's issues are all of our issues. When we say #TransRightsAreHumanRights, this is what we mean.
Trans people's treatment is a very sensitive litmus test for how free a society is in terms of expression, how much gender equality it has, how much medical care access, how much housing and employment access.
Trans people being treated poorly signals a society and a state committed to authoritarianism, enforced gender roles, manufactured poverty and housing scarcity, lack of medical care access, and anti-medical and anti-scientific sentiments.
TLDR: Trans people's wellbeing is not a "lesser issue", it's a highly effective indicator of material conditions, gender roles, authoritarianism and freedoms within a society.
What is going on in the global anti-trans movement right now is not coincidentally, but intrinsically connected to a rising fascist and authoritarian movement that harms all but the most powerful. The treatment of trans people right now should scare you. It should be important.
If you live in the United States and would like to learn more about the anti-trans legislative crisis and do something about it, please go to transformationsproject.org to search our database of legislation proposals impacting trans and nonbinary people and contact your reps.

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Dec 2
extremely tired of all the sympathy for "mentally ill" people being directed at public figures who objectively do bad things
the only time the general public cares about mental illness is when they try to use it as a justification for why their fave is openly genocidal and it's so transparent
every time an atrocity is committed, people talk about the mental health of the perpetrator and I'm so sick of it
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This is a really important thread, and I want to take a minute to add my experience.
I was "diagnosed" with BPD (borderline personality disorder) when I was 18. It was one of the most destructive decisions a mental health professional ever made for me. 🧵
BPD is HIGHLY stigmatized, including within the medical community. Labeling someone with "BPD" essentially signals to other clinicians that the patient is too difficult to work with, a lost cause.
I was an 18 year old kid, struggling so much with mental health issues that had surfaced when I was a child and continued to get worse as I grew. I was desperate for an answer as to what was "wrong" with me, and what I could possibly do to manage my deteriorating mental health.
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Nov 29
If you believe that fascism will be obvious to you when it comes, or that it only looks like its most extreme examples, or that marginalized people calling out fascism are "overreacting" or "taking things out of context", you are a useful tool to fascism.
You do not have to agree with fascism to aid its rise. You are incredibly useful to fascism by doing nothing at all, in fact.
The average people, the ones who do nothing at all as fascism rises, they are the foundation of a fascist society. The ones who are willing to look away because it's uncomfortable to acknowledge the truth. The ones who are successfully held in line by threats.
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Nov 29
This #GivingTuesday, please consider donating to @the_TFP. We are an entirely volunteer run organization that relies entirely on individual donations to fund our work. We are dedicated to tracking, educating, and acting on the anti-trans legislative crisis in the United States. The Trans Formations Project logo, which features a phoenix
Despite being less than two years old, our work tracking anti-trans legislation has been praised and cited by a variety of sources, including The Independent, The Washington Post, CNN, The Daily Beast, NBC, and most recently, NPR.
We were honored to be able to present our findings and an overview of the crisis and our work against it at the Philly Trans Wellness Conference (@TransPHL), the largest trans-specific conference in the world, this past summer.
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We don't talk nearly enough about how a core tenet of toxic masculinity is that men are only allowed to have emotional intimacy alongside sexual intimacy.
This leads to many, many men either 1) depending solely on one woman (their partner) for all their emotional needs (a massive burden placed on women) or 2) expressing their traumas/emotions immediately towards a sexual partner (a massive burden placed on women).
This lack of an emotional outlet has severe emotional and cognitive consequences, often leading to emotional instability, that combined with emotional repression leads to anger and resentment. Burdening only one person with all of your emotions also degrades that relationship.
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Nov 28
It is dangerous to think of oppressive systems as being direct interactions between an oppressor and an oppressed. The actuality of lived experience is much more complicated and nuanced.
This idea that oppression is carried out primarily by individuals leads to the logic that no one from an oppressed group will ever uphold their systems of oppression. This is false. Identity is not equivalent to positionality.
It's dangerous, and obscures the issues at hand to think of fights against oppression as being between individuals, rather than between groups and systems.
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