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Apr 28

So, the #PLANAct town hall last night was 🔥, but I want to talk about a specific thing I noticed re: who showed up and who *tends* to show up at stuff like this. (thread) (1/)

The organization spearheading the PLAN coalition is focused on justice-involved women and gender-expansive folks, who are primarily Black and brown. And Black and brown women turn up; and Black and brown men turn up; and white women turn up. You know who doesn't? White men. (2/)

I think that comes from a few things:
First: People who aren't white cisgender men are more likely to be at least marginally aware of intersections of marginalization and injustice, and to see problems that don't primarily impact them as nonetheless being relevant to them. (3/)

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(((Jay Edidin)))

@NotLasers

Apr 18

I want to address one of the most persistent arguments against affirming trans kids' gender: "What if it's just a phase?"

Here is my compelling counterargument: "So what if it is?"

Nobody is suggesting medical interventions for young kids. If calling your kid by a different name/pronoun and letting them wear different clothes makes them happy, why the hell not? If it turns out to be transient, you can go back to what you were doing before.

See also "They're just experimenting."

Cool. Participate in the experiment.

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(((Jay Edidin)))

@NotLasers

Apr 18

@teaberryblue

It's been really fascinating seeing whether/how other people gender our baby--we use neutral language to describe them, but a lot of people jump to gendered terms. (that they conclude "boy" and "girl" roughly equally probably means we're doing *something* right?) @teaberryblue

I don't think it's deliberate most of the time--I suspect people don't even quite register the language we're using, and just pick up on what they interpret as gender cues from name/clothes/descriptors.

K's actual name may also be a factor--it's divided roughly evenly demographically, but people's individual experiences/contact with it are probably more gendered (I know mine has been, which would likely influence my assumptions if I heard the name w/o gender indication)

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(((Jay Edidin)))

@NotLasers

Apr 6

I think a lot of cis people are quick to accept "groomer" myths because they assume their own experience of gender is universal. For *them* to identify as trans would in fact have required abusive levels of social coercion; and they can't fathom that anyone else is different.

What's doubly ironic is that the coercion it would take is *exactly the same kind trans kids are subjected to in a cisnormative society.* But instead of recognizing and rejecting that, they double down because the coerced outcome is what comes naturally to them.

Growing up trans in America is living steeped in continual, low-key conversion therapy. At its gentlest, it simply ignores your existence and experience. At its harshest--well, you can read the news.

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(((Jay Edidin)))

@NotLasers

Jun 4, 2022

Cis people: If you can't see the relationship between exclusionary and exterminatory anti-trans policies, now is a good time to sit down and listen quietly.

Pundits have been calling for our nonexistence for years; now they are explicitly saying that there's no place for us in a "sane" world and citing things like the complications of our medical care as we age. (cont'd)

State after state in the US is passing legislation based on those principles, even if they're not outright stated. They're forcibly detransitioning youth and--as of this week--adults; ignoring or twisting medical evidence and best practices and risks.

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(((Jay Edidin)))

@NotLasers

Apr 18, 2022

One of the most violent, awful bits of TERF shit that's been going around is the assertion that transwomen shouldn't have access to resources for sexual violence survivors; and as a former crisis center advocate, I think it's important to both challenge and unpack this. (1/)

The conversation so far has focused--rightly--on the ways that this impacts transwomen--misgendering, lack of access to vital resources. Transwomen a) are women who belong in women's spaces, and b) experience sexual violence at a higher rate than ciswomen. (2/)

But there's another unspoken and incredibly fucked up idea scaffolding the whole argument that I think is worth unpacking, and that's that men don't deserve access to resources for survivors of sexual violence. (3/)

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