like look, just a bit of background - I engage in activism and spend a lot of energy getting trans people with dramatically different outlook on life and their transness to respect and talk to each other. It is possible that I am way too concilatorary.
I do as well. I'm also trans. Are you? Just out of curiosity.
But I just think it's crap to say someone's gender "doesn't make sense" because it does not follow some kind of internal logic. Like, does it ever? Gender is an internal experience. It is inherently emotional.
Cisgender and transgender are not genders.
A person who transitioned from their gender assigned at birth to another gender stands before you and claims, "My gender assigned at birth aligns with my current gender." THAT is what people are claiming when they say they are cis in this context. This is the contradiction I'm speaking of, not the subject experience of being male or female.
But again, can we like, respect the history and width of trans identities?
I respect and acknowledge people's right to identity how they choose. I will not always agree with that identification though, especially when we still in an age of conversion therapy and various internalized phobias.
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I do as well. I'm also trans. Are you? Just out of curiosity.
But I just think it's crap to say someone's gender "doesn't make sense" because it does not follow some kind of internal logic. Like, does it ever? Gender is an internal experience. It is inherently emotional.
Cisgender and transgender are not genders.
A person who transitioned from their gender assigned at birth to another gender stands before you and claims, "My gender assigned at birth aligns with my current gender." THAT is what people are claiming when they say they are cis in this context. This is the contradiction I'm speaking of, not the subject experience of being male or female.
But again, can we like, respect the history and width of trans identities?
I respect and acknowledge people's right to identity how they choose. I will not always agree with that identification though, especially when we still in an age of conversion therapy and various internalized phobias.