Since I've been talking trans politics mildly today, let's have a discussion, potentially self-serving, about how we're channeling trans acceptance into the elevation of clean, nice transes doing respectable things.
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Whereas very little mainstream support or recognition is given to the (non-white & Black) (non-passing) (fat) trans women who are out there doing the work in the trenches.
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Support the trans people who eat the riot shields and get beaten by the cops and stand up to corporations and shift the course of US law and take on Nazis and live on the streets and teach their own doctors and love and love and love each other.
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Danica Roem gets more praise for talking about a godforsaken intersection than any of my trans friends do for standing up to the KKK and standing up to pipelines and advocating against new prisons in Appalachia. Roem has earned her place but those other people earned theirs, too
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We are not your shiny queers who play nice.
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Support the trans folks who say "fuck" and shout and scream and bang on the tables, because we see very clearly when you don't support us, and we see you talking out of both sides of your mouth.
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And support means taking us with our imperfections and our rage.
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This kind of happens towards pretty much every lgbt subgroup too though; just because one is trying to elevate one group doesn't mean that societal and/or personal racial and class biases don't exist.
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Not disagreeing or saying it's not a problem, just that it's a symptom of a larger problem around what's culturally accepted as 'presentable' or 'desirable' and etc.
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