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then I got blocked for pointing out his was the original quote tweet, I don't understand this stupid website lol

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Getting tired of copy pasting the same earnest messages in response to those reading this in the worst possible faith—sometimes people are just really unhappy, angry, and scared and any suggestion that things could be different flips their lid. A problem only time can fix!

From your text, being impoverished is radically different in a country with such wretched and crumbling social safety nets. As someone who's partner + partner's family get Native Casino money that functions exactly like UBI, I've seen first hand how it radically changes material conditions!

If you don't get how 30k could radically change the material conditions of a huge percentage of people in a way that completely alters their entire life trajectory then your class position has totally alienated you from understanding what it's like to have even the barest adjacency to poverty.

yes! the doomerism is so endlessly unhelpful and is always just a complete surrender to bioessentialism—the technology is right there for you to seize the means of production of your own body and the transsexuals you are demonizing are on the front lines fighting for you to have access to it!!

If you don't get how 30k could radically change the material conditions of a huge percentage of people in a way that completely alters their entire life trajectory then your class position has totally alienated you from understanding what it's like to have even the barest adjacency to poverty.

I mean no, I was using an example to extrapolate about dominant cultural norms + mentalities across queer / trans space that I've seen play out over the decade since I transitioned, and which tons of others have come to me saying they've also been negatively effected in similar ways by

Reducing trans identity to aphorisms is what she's speaking on! Like, transness involves discreet actions relative to conditions!

everyone objecting to the idea that ostensibly unobjectionable statements can reinforce an anti transition message seem perfectly comfortable reading a transmed or anti nb message into this post that are nowhere in the text

She wasn’t saying if you don’t medically transition you’re not trans. She said using validity as a means to discourage trans people from doing so is terf ideology that’s been co-opted by bad faith allies. Some of you need to touch up your reading comprehension

Getting tired of copy pasting the same earnest messages in response to those reading this in the worst possible faith—sometimes people are just really unhappy, angry, and scared and any suggestion that things could be different flips their lid. A problem only time can fix!

You don't have to medically transition to be trans, I never said otherwise! However access to medical transition is the primary target of the anti-trans movement and if they have their way none of us would—not transitioning is what society encourages and pretending otherwise is anti-trans.

Before I started hormones, I worked at the dollar store. This Christian guy used to come in and tell me, when I was en femme, how God loves "strong young men" like me. I ran into him at a gas station the other day, jeans, tee, and no makeup. He held the door and called me "ma'am." Problem fixed!

Notice how this fully anti-trans detransition therapy rhetoric is so functionally similar to the "you're valid no matter what, you don't have to transition to be trans" rhetoric that we have all inculcated ourselves to?

once again there is a huge overlap in the rhetorical tropes of ableism and the rhetorical tropes of old-school homophobia and the rhetorical tropes of anti-transness-- i think it's interesting how these all echo and feed off one other

The mythology of the changeling where a fairy replaces a baby with an identical but intangibly "wrong" copy is easily read as queer bc the phenomena of parents feeling like their child failing to live up to their idealized image is a murder/replacement is a tale as old as time!

Your mom and I are the same age. It's truly fucking depressing how little has changed in terms of the prevalence of sexual violence, the treatment of survivors, the deflection of causation, or how easily privileged guys just skate away to fail upwards.