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it just gets to a point. it just gets to a point!! sometimes it just gets to a point!!!!
TL;DW: panel of TME's saying that "trans women closet during college and so are more socially mobile", and insulting us, calling us crossies and transsexuals [derogatory] within ten minutes. by a PhD. a doctorate-holding trans man is lecturing us about class mobility by calling us fucking crossies
It Just Gets To A Point
yk @manipulated-pieces its actually really on the nose how transmascs will push-push-push the line "transmasc invisibilization is not a privilege, the closet isnt a privilege" when it comes to them, but for us, bam, immediately its "YOUR CLOSET IS A PRIVILEGE YOUR INVISIBILITY PUTS YOU AHEAD OF ME"
Having listened to the rest of the 20 minute panel I have a lot of thoughts because the part at the end was making me lose my mind a little. The first speaker, Kaji Amin, ends his panel by arguing, "trans studies without class analysis merely forwards the elite class interests and class tastes of those able to make our trans careers in academia." Which, like, I do absolutely agree with, & it does reinforce the claim made at the beginning of the video, which was that trans studies has undervalued analyzing the relationship between gender & class. The panel moderator in the beginning specifically says that they're excited to address that before giving the mic to Amin. And so it's just crazy to then proceed to give a 20 minute panel in which you talk almost exclusively about the privileges associated with staying in the closet for trans women. like, yes it's important to analyze the relationship between gender and class but if you were actually devoted to doing that you would be talking more in-depth about the ways in which being transfeminized affects one's socioeconomic status, instead of focusing on the situations where the transfeminized person is actually granted the opportunity for socioeconomic mobility (with almost no thought given to the cost that comes with staying in the closet). and while Amin argues that this is a widespread phenomenon, in the example with Denise D'Ann he acknowledges that D'Ann's ability to avoid sex work & the street queen way of life was "No small accomplishment during the mid-century" (do you think it might be worth talking more about how so many transfeminized persons in the mid-20th century needed to do sex work or become street queens to survive?) and so I'm just baffled by the myopia required to end off your section of that panel, on a panel with no transfems present, by acknowledging the fact that without adequate class analysis, trans studies, is doomed to reflect only the ideas of those able to make their trans careers in academia. I wonder if there might be a group of trans people who notoriously have a more difficult time building a career in academia? Maybe class analysis could even help us identify this problem? There's probably no point to it though, I'm sure trans studies as a field doesn't have, like, a reputation for being exclusionary to trans women & transfems or anything. Now to just take a huge sip of my drink and
choice selections from this dogshit lecture:
"Black, Latina, poor, working-class, and sex worker trans women actually try to pass"
...as opposed to whom, exactly?
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translation: "you see, trans women transition male-to-faggot, and i wish i could transition into a faggot in the same way they do. i am a gay trans man now but i dont want to be, i want to be a transfeminine faggot. i wish we lived in the timeline where transfems were in gay male spaces (read: where i still had access to them sexually as males). gay male spaces which are not, somehow, as ive criticized elsewhere, not white-dominated"
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> translation: "trans lesbians actually hadnt existed until at least 1980-whatever"
nevermind that Transsexual Empire was responding to a preexisting phenomenon of trans lesbians that cisbian radfems felt at threat from
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translation: "trans lesbians don't actually live transfeminine lives, don't actually live as women. instead, as above, to really live transfeminine lives and live as women, they need to be attracted to men. coincidentally this has No Bearing Whatsoever on my assertion elsewhere that transfeminine ppl should be in primarily gay male spaces, as a subset of gay males, and that those are more legitimately transfeminine, and who i can maintain sexual access to"
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translation: "lesbian trans women arent actually oppressed
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translation: "the most important part of actually being a trans woman is to internally recognize yourself as an internal girl, as opposed to a "social" or "material" girl. but actually, im gonna contradict myself literally the next sentence, and say that the most important isnt just seeing yourself as a girl but embodying a girl, which im not actually gonna define how that works, and thats because trans lesbians all have unilaterally good jobs or whatever.
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author's note: the section under 7:30 is a quote from Denise D'Anne's autobiography, in which she specifies that she didnt start transitioning until age 36. the section under 7:41 is from the speaker, "Dr." Amin, whom i have been dragging. Additionally, it says "Dan" in reference to D'Anne, but this is just a youtube transcription typo
translation: "even though ive established that social and life transition actually results in a severe drop in socioeconomic status and significant exacerbation of social violences, im still going to describe it as a luxury and act like the imperative to transition is precluded by relative poverty, rather than precluded by transmisogynoir/y which is then functioned through poverty and impoverishment as punishment. "this assertion, also, has no bearing on my asinine assertion that white trans women dont actually give a shit about passing, unlike more marginalized trans women, because they actually have careers, nevermind that Ms. D'Anne lost her career, could not take advantage of having a degree, and had to move across the country to actually pass, which she, in fact, gave a huge fucking shit about."
That second screenshot is fascinating to me. Beyond what you've already mentioned re:desire for tme people to have sexual access to transfems, is it a mystery to Amin why trans women aren't prominent in gay male spaces in the same way trans men are in lesbian spaces? Is this just what happens when all of the academic spaces you find yourself in don't have trans women or transfems in them? I don't really think it's hard to figure out why trans women & transfems wouldn't want to be sexualized by gay men, but maybe that's just me
I missed this watching it originally but the bit at 19:41 is insane, the implication here is that being in the closet means you're not actually living a transfeminine life which is a crazy assertion to make. the part at 12:26 is similarly ignorant, it's really clear that Amin thinks closeted trans women & transfems basically live identical lives to cis men, otherwise I don't know how you could argue that their material conditions are identical
The bit at 19:52 similarly is just a really silly thing to say, like I promise you any trans woman choosing to come out of the closet is weighing many different things in her mind and if she chooses to stay in the closet because of how she's evaluated job prospects, how she'll be accepted socially, personal safety concerns etc that does not place her in a privileged position
A lot of these get into what my broader problem is with the panel I think, which is that Amin assumes that when trans women & transfems take years to come out after realizing that they're trans, it's broadly because they're too attached to the privileges of staying in the closet (downplaying the cost of this is how he's able to assert it as a privilege in the way that he does.) If he talked about the deeply harmful consequences of the social forces keeping transfems in the closet, his analysis doesn't make as much sense, so he hardly acknowledges it. Like, how often do you hear transfems saying I wish I had stayed in the closet longer, I wish I hadn't come out as soon as I did? Now compare that to how often you see transfems saying they wished they had come out sooner, started e sooner etc. it's just a really silly argument to make!!
And just because it hasn't been said in a while.
NOBODY ON THIS PANEL ABOUT TRANS FEMALE EXPERIENCE IS A TRANS WOMAN
i was really really sick to the degree that i couldn’t work for the rest of May, and we’re going through a cost of living crisis in my country so if you want to support a disabled trans woman with an incredibly low income then maybe slip a couple bucks my way. thank you ❤️
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Charlie Kirk is awfully quiet this pride, what gives?
if you were to watch only the great works of the us cinema you could gain the mistaken impression that these are human beings with real thoughts emotions and a vibrant culture but if you watch a layer further you will see that these works appear nearly on accident, on the same level of cognition as a hyena eating a watermelon and randomly uttering clearly and unmistakably the phrase 'overwatch' before returning to its mindless gnawing
if I hear the phrase "vote with your dollar" one more time we're building the Stalin canal
deltarune next week !!
Marking you green on shinigami eyes for posting about wanting to kill dogs
Marking you red for talking about your boyfriend
notice how he didnt ask for irish american chan?
Oh okay. Alright. Random HL3 teaser *after* Summer Game's Fest sure is a choice.
[shaking your hand] hey you ever hear about the scorpion and the frog [not letting go] exciting friends and a good adventure
vavr having a beiber penis moment is a throwback to earlier this year when icesnort had a moon child moment
Sorry to post shit I found on reddit but this video has been on my mind for like 3 weeks now
sorry but this video is like a parasitic species to me
No. Fuck you.
Fuck.
You.
It's
literally
international
suicide
day,
and you're all out here celebrating that a REAL PERSON died?
Okay.
I guess that's what AMERICA is doing now.
A. Hecking. Human. Being. died today. Can you sit with that for a second? He literally KILLED HIMSELF.
His neck just did that, and you're all LAUGHING?
He may have been into conservatory or whatever, but he was a REAL PERSON. I'm actually crying because I have a thing called EMPATHY and you clearly don't. and I need YOU to sit with that and how far AMERICA has fallen. okay?
A Hecking HUMAN BEING died today.
I want you ALL to remember that we all bleed red at the end of the day.
We're ALL just people. WE ALL have flaws. So for all of you to come on here and celebrate a REAL HECKING HUMAN BEING KILLING HIMSELF?
yeah.
honestly. you're worse than him.