applying queer inclusionism and exclusionism to non-queer things doesn’t even make sense to me because the whole premise of them is that you shouldn’t infight among the queer community based on queer identity. Exclusionism as a concept for respectability politics, arose in the context of queer “respectability”. It started with a context of “this group of queer people is making me look bad because they’re different than me”. it doesn’t make sense outside of that context because the context of queer community is what made exclusionism and inclusionism possible in the first place. exclusionism only arose because queers who wanted assimilation instead of acceptance threw their less-privileged queer siblings under the bus. exclusionism started with the basis of their being something to exclude people from.
so it makes literally zero sense to say that being against non-queer identities like trace and transabled is “exclusionism” because like. they’re not inherently queer. so there’s nothing we’re excluding them FROM- they’re not being excluded from the queer community on an axis of their queer identity, there’s no context of respectability or infighting. exclusionism doesn’t just mean “being against something”. I’m not an exclusionist for being against things, the point of exclusionism isn’t just to be against something it’s to actively exclude someone from something. that’s not what happens to transx shit and them acting like they’re experiencing exclusionism is fucking annoying and disrespectful above all else to the people who actually have suffered from queer exclusionism.
im not saying it’s not possible to apply exclusionist rhetoric to non-queer things, but exclusionism is a specific intra-community dynamic so it doesn’t make sense to apply it as an introcommunity one. there are forms of exclusionism in every marginalized community- being anti-self dx is a form of disability/nd exclusionism, being anti-endo is a form of plural exclusionism, and yes people can be excluded from a community on an axis unrelated to said community, such as the way many disabled people are excluded from pride events due to inaccessibility, but absolutely none of that is comparable to fuckin transx and it’s so fucking shitty and ignorant to just call any old thing exclusionism just because you don’t like that you’re being called out for being a dickwad