Ky Schevers

So when I detransitioned, I explained my past transition as false consciousness mixed up with dissociation. My satisfaction was bad because it was an individual solution instead of attacking the root social/political conditions that supposedly caused my dysphoria.

I saw myself as being the same as transmasculine people, dealing with the same dysphoria, but I was interpreting my condition differently, according to a radical feminist framework. I thought other trans people could do what I was doing by reinterpreting their experience.

I knew transitioning and living as a trans person could be satisfying, I'd known too many trans peole not to know this. But that was a problem because it supposedly made them complacent instead of engaging in sex class war.

Quick question: how did you view other trans people who were happy being trans and also feminists (particularly radical feminists/working from/with radical feminist traditions), and were engaging in feminist work while being trans?

I would've seen them as getting closer to "waking up" but still deluded and in need of "consciousness raising". I had always been really into feminism, including during my transition, and that's how I saw my past trans self.

Even if, for example, they were deeply experienced in the field - more so than, say, a lot of transphobic feminists? Thank you for answering - I'm trying to understand better, but this particular point always confuses me deeply!

Yes, even then. A lot of what I used to believe doesn't make sense to me now but I believed it then because believing and belonging to an ideological group met my emotional needs at the time. The ideas wouldn't have been as compelling if I wasn't in such distress.

Or if I had access to different resources. A lot of what I did was because I was suffering and believing/acting as I did seemed to help.