I've settled on the idea that "How can you tell the difference between a 'real' trans person and someone who was passing for other reasons?" is unimportant I mean, it's interesting if you really care about the person as an individual but unanswerable in the endhttps://twitter.com/iridienne/status/1377475676400283651 …
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There are people in our modern world who are "only trans on the Internet" about whom you could say the same thing Only difference is today we have a word and a concept "trans" allowing them to confirm it with the words "I'm trans but only on the Internet"
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What we do know is that the George Eliot "persona" mattered to her, on some emotional level, it was something she was personally defensive of after it no longer served any mercenary practical purpose She wouldn't let them change the name on her books long after she was outed
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There's obviously SOMETHING there, in the ballpark of what we'd call "being trans" You can tell because of the degree to which TERFs have to make shit up to deny it was there ("There were no lady novelists back then and if Eliot had been outed she'd have gone to prison")
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I think its worth pointing out gender fluid and gender queer people exist... also queer was literally designed as a term for people who dont fit neat boxes which makes it very useful when discussing historical figures.
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And maybe this is a result of being an elder-millennial Eternal September cyberspace latchkey kid, but the idea that you only have one "real identity" and don't code switch who you are just as much as how you talk is ludicrous to me.
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