The supposition of this entire post seems to be that, in order to be trans, your gender needs to deliver you some kind of pain — emotional pain from being perceive in a way that makes you uncomfortable, physical pain either from others or yourself from being perceived in a way that makes you uncomfortable, etc.
If the criteria for being trans is experience distress, what about the trans people who don’t feel distressed, but feel the need to alter their bodies?
Me, for example. I’ve been openly trans since I was 4, openly transitioning since I was 16, and now, at 21, as I’ve grown and learned, about feminism, how feminine bodies are perceived and treated under patriarchy, etc — I’ve come to be comfortable in my body, but still ID as trans.
Or what about He/Him lesbians.
If the expound factor for being trans is emotional distress regarding your assignment, does this not make He/Him Lesbiands trans men by virtue?
Ff your argument is that, if you have distress regarding your assignment, you’re trans, and He/Him lesbians have distress about their assignment (or at least the perception of their assignment) to the point of wantig to be refered to as male, yet are not transgender (at least by your definition)
Can you not see how this is holding up?
The notion that you have to, full stop, be uncomfortable in your body to be trans is widely misogynist and pretty anti-woman and prett-anti a lot of shit.
What about trans people who also happen to be intersex?
It seems to me like your definition of being transgender is relegated to a binary comprehension of gender — either or, male or female — and that’s sad because their are millions of trans, GNC people out there who are comfortable with their bodies but not their assignments.
And I don’t think people who are comfortable with their bodies would undergo a process to alter it.
Gender means a lot of things to a lot of people.
So the expound factor of “being uncomfortable with your assigned gender” is way to narrow a criteria for being trans.
Like, what if a trans man love his chest, but hates his vagina? Or a trans woman wants breasts and loves her penis??
Are these people sufficiently trans in your eyes?
The only people who will be benefit from trans people being trans because they are sick are bigots and Eugenicists; if they can use being sick against us in the work place and in public, they will.
I think we really need to stop seeing gender as this innate state of being and agree about what it really is:
A very convoluted and deeply personal experience specific to individuals.
A trans person is any person who does not conform with their assignment and IDs as trans.
Trans and GNC people existed long before any medical association in varied manners accords literally almost every society in recorded human histroy.
And they’re not going to all look, feel or act the same.
Stop telling trans people they aren’t trans because they don’t meet your criteria.
It’s wrong, deeply transphobic and honestly just really god damn dangerous.
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