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Are trans women, women? What is a woman? It's a cluster of traits that's reappeared so often that we recognize it as a pattern. These traits are all over the board - physical, behavioral, mental. Nobody has the perfect set of all 'woman' traits, but we recognize 'womanness' 1/

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Expecting—or requiring—trans people to pass as cisgender is pretty transphobic. It's also non-binary erasure, but whatever. Misgendering trans people can trigger dysphoria, and reinforces other mistreatment of them. Are your patterns more important than not killing people?

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whoah way to equate what im saying to 'killing people', that's a great way to just never even start having a reasonable discussion

9:07 PM · Jul 12, 2020

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Many trans people do not WANT their gender presentation to fit neatly with cis expectations, and their health and safety should not rely on whether we think they're fem or masc enough.

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Aella

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Jul 12, 2020

What should we do about this? I think providing better social support to help these trans people actually overlap with womanhood better makes sense. Easier access to estrogen as an adult, greater social approval for surgery, and empathy for what they're going through.

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Its essential in twitter debates on this topic to divert any discussion into the claim that any questioning of trans discourse is transphobic and tantamount to genocide.