You're going to take a subject where people really about generational trauma, inherited expropriation and systematic ghettoisation of certain groups and shoe horn trans people into that? I call bullshit.
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There are a bunch of ways people talk about attempts to eradicate trans people as if they were isomorphic to attempts to eradicate ethnic and cultural groups and I hold that neither trans people nor groups that have been subject to genocide are well served by eliding these.
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Trans people have a whole set of difficulties that are caused by the specific shapes of the attempts made to eradicate us from society. We face constant epistemic threat without the generational lineage to actually connect us to our history. We almost all of us grow up in...
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...cis supremacist environments and if we're lucky enough to learn to recognise what we are we might even start preparing to find people like us on the cusp of adolescence. This is a different experience to being targets of genocide.
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Then there's the cultural destruction stuff. Trans culture is a myth spread by white extremely online anime fans. It's a subcultural movement which does not capture the cultural contributions of the majority of trans people at all.
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In short: yes, society would really rather we did not exist. Yes society has gone to great lengths to stop us existing. But unlike groups subject to genocide they will never succeed because CIS PEOPLE KEEP GIVING BIRTH TO US WHETHER THEY LIKE IT OR NOT).
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Every time I challenge this idea I'm meet by (mostly) white trans women who want to act as if I'm downplaying the attempts to eradicate us. I am not. We have been subjected to experimental psychiatric attempts to detrans us since the field existed and even as early as the 1970s..
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.. people were recognising that there was no magic way to therapy people out of being trans. Where talking therapy and electric shocks didn't work people turned to violence. Trans ppl (mostly not white trans people) have been killed, deterred, exploited, psychiatrically detained.
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Thank you, this is really well put and has helped straighten out some thoughts that have been going round my head for a few months.
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I'm always uncomfortable when people say things like "the Holocaust targeted queer people too", because yes, we should recognise fascism as an existential threat and stand with other marginalised communities against it, but no, my grandparents aren't concentration camp survivors.
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It gets messy again when talking about people who are both a religion or ethnicity that were subject to genocide, and are queer and/or disabled. Trying to express being subject to hate+harm both within and without your own communities, and generational trauma... It's complicated.
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Yeah this bit in not trying to get into criticising how anyone's talking because it's not really my experience in that way.
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