#passingprivilege

[nobodyknowsiamatransman-blog]

I never would have known if you hadn't told me.

Every cisgender person who learns that I am transgender

[germainedelarch]

No. This PSA, created by the trans community completely misses the point of the Bathroom Bill in America and is part of spreading misinformation and #passingprivilege. The point this PSA misses, with all its good intentions, is that neither Buck Angel nor his trans woman friend in the picture will never be questioned when using a bathroom. The Bathroom Bill is not about them, and this is the issue that the trans community is not realising and making worse. Even with hormones, many trans people do not have passing privilege - they do not 'pass' or look cisgender. And: they shouldn't have to. The problem is that not all trans people do or want to pass as cisgender, and not all trans people are binary - male or female, so this PSA makes it much more difficult for those who do not look male or female, and it is these trans people who are specifically being targeted by the Bathroom Bill. Our trans siblings, brothers and sisters who do not pass and do not want to pass are the ones being arrested, raped, beaten and tortured, and are now the focus of this bathroom bill. The Bathroom Bill is, and never was, about bathroom use or the 'safety' of women using the bathroom with trans people. It's not just that #WeNeedToPee. The Bathroom Bill is, ultimately, a way for the gender-policing Republican Party to illegalise being transgender. They're trying to make it as difficult as possible to be transgender in public, and therefore in private, which is why visibly transgender people will be the target of this Bill, and not cis-looking people like Buck Angel. #BathroomBill

[genderqueer-me-blog]

Fuck passing

I wish adherance to passing and blindness to passing privilege wasn't so much of a thing in the transfemme community. Everything not passing = bad and horrible. Well, fuck that, y'all. I'm not passing right now, likely never will be, and I fuckin' love my body for all its quirks and what makes it mine.

[biphobic-bisexual]

angelhood, wax, paper, poison, hiccup (for the tender ask meme thing)

Angelhood - What is one of your favorite memories?Well, I visit my family in England every year. Over the past few years both of my grandparents who lived there have passed away, but when i was a young kid we used to stay with them. We had some ‘traditions’ i guess, every year we’d go there and i think most of the memories from those are really good. Like my grandfather would pick us up at Heathrow and drive us the full 2 hours to his house every year and it was always so nice seeing him after a year apart so yeah.Wax - Can you keep a secret?

I can keep other people’s secrets better than my own because I feel like I have to keep theirs because they’ve trusted me and only me. My own are harder to keep because no one is trusting me with it except myself... if that makes sense.

Paper - What is your favorite novel?

I don’t think I really have one, as bad as that sounds. I don’t really read very much. When I do read I prefer teenage books, and a few years ago my faves were probably Princess Diaries so 

Poison - Do you have an addiction?

Nope

Hiccup - What makes you nervous?

Pretty much everything. School, people, natural disasters, animals, everything.

[sandiblouse]

#passingprivilege

[gender-wtf]