Refusing to accept bullshit silently is actually a big deal, especially for trans women. There's an insidious history here.
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As recently as the late 1990s, in order to receive transition care as a trans woman, you had to prove that you fit in this progressive scale
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This scale included adhering to a very traditional notion of femininity and had escalating levels.
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If you didn't claim that you salaciously stole your mom's pantyhose as a child, you wouldn't be allowed hormone therapy.
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So essentially to receive the medical care you needed, you had to be a good 1950s housewife. And good housewives didn't run their mouth.
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The fact that trans women can speak--and speak loudly--is a revolution not juat against society at large but against our gatekeepers.
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There is a lot of resentment between my generation of trans women and the previous. We fight against the way they are conditioned to act.
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But for them, it was what they had to do to live. Most trans tropes are based off what they had to do to get medical care.
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So when people see loud trans women, they're presented in foil to those tropes, and we're given the label "trans activist" as a single word.
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But we're not. We're activists. We're trans. And we refuse to be pressured to shut up and be good housewives anymore.
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If you want to read about the scale, you can do so here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_scale … Note the Kinsey Scale parts. I'd be denied for being gay.
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