Refusing to accept bullshit silently is actually a big deal, especially for trans women. There's an insidious history here.
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Replying to @EmilyGorcenski
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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Replying to @EmilyGorcenski
Yup. I've never seen myself as an activist but that's what everybody calls me because I talk about my experiences being trans.
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And I think of myself as an activist who happens to be trans. It's so weird.
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