The whole genre of essays where cis people seize on "the trans moment" to compare being trans to something else they actually have experience with is still going strong It's pretty shitty
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I dunno, it's not my lane exactly to be talking about this, but I have done stuff like try to bring my own history with racism into a discussion of Trayvon Martin's death etc and it felt effective and powerful at the time Now I regret it and feel bad about it
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Comparing things to each other is the way we talk about things and try to build bridges and all that stuff but come on you gotta have some awareness of what exactly you're doing when you do that, whose toes you're stepping on
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