I don't understand how "trans activist" has become a single concept. It's not a thing. There's just trans people who refuse to sit silently.
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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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fwiw, you're partially correct. i voiced in ’91 at 18 & DIY'd the entire damn thing, but it also took a lot longer to clear an IC care path
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what ended up happening by later ’90s were class/generational schisms on assimilation/respectability which gouged open the community in ’00s
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So literally exactly the thing I said, thanks.
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i'm trying to assess why you're speaking responsively to this with dismissiveness. is there something problematic w/ experiential knowledge?
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Apparently there is when addressing my generation's experiential knowledge.
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and your generation being?
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The one you just accused of being gatekeepers themselves.
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what i find interesting/baffling abt this exchange is your response suggests i'm questioning your own experience. idk when/where you voiced…
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Still happens.
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