there are a sect of (mostly, in my experience) older, white trans people who still seem to be locked into the rigid structure of gender roles and believe that you can only be considered your gender after numerous (very expensive!) surgeries and presenting in a certain way.
To a large degree it’s a function of what medical gatekeeping for transition looked like until 2011 in the US. You get through that either by learning to lie to doctors (often with community support) or internalizing it heavily.
You still see that with younger transmeds/people who self identify as HSTS. But I think you’re right that it’s mostly older white trans people.
oh yeah it is absolutely the medical structure that made so many of them internalize it. i’ve observed that so many of them seem to treat transness as a disease or an unfortunate affliction they must overcome through treatment and that’s 100% a result of navigating the medical system. its an inherent flaw with tying transition to the medical system i think, but i digress.
but its also just them being older too. they just grew up with heavier enforcement of the patriarchal standard (women look this way, men look this way, you need these parts to be female and these parts to be male). its super generational, i think younger transmeds are a very loud yet tiny minority.
That’s why rich assholes make the worst relatives at social gatherings, too. They’re the ones that must be the toppers all the time: “oh, you went on vacation to (affordable) place? I went to (expensive) place with authentic (foreign thing that is prestigious to insufferable rich assholes)” as a regular conversation topic.
Her Twitter bio says “challenging transactivist nonsense” so
She’s a party functionary of the local log cabin republicans and has showed up (in the news) at anti drag-story time protests.
She’s obsessed with the groomer narrative. It’s funny at one point she used to say she knew she was trans since she was a child. Now it seems she thinks children shouldn’t even know transgender people can exist. I think it’s some kind of narcissism in which she thinks she’s legitimately transgender and everyone else was tricked into it.
Though once I asked her if her and my stepmom were grooming me when they’d watch RuPaul with us since we were 10-12 lmao she got pissed as hell “not the same”
Though once I asked her if her and my stepmom were grooming me when they’d watch RuPaul with us since we were 10-12 lmao she got pissed as hell “not the same”
I just assumed there was a because unless someone pays the bazinga tax there’s hundreds if not thousands of bazingas that are prioritized in front of anything the person posts.
My mom sent me this and said “must watch”
My mother is a post-op trans woman btw, and also the most reactionary conservative person I have ever met.
May even be some boomeresque sunk cost fallacy: “UNLESS YOU SPENT X DOLLARS ON SURGERY LIKE I DID, YOU DON’T COUNT!”
Transmedicalists are unfortunately a real thing, and as you could imagine, they do tend to be very white and privileged.
there are a sect of (mostly, in my experience) older, white trans people who still seem to be locked into the rigid structure of gender roles and believe that you can only be considered your gender after numerous (very expensive!) surgeries and presenting in a certain way.
To a large degree it’s a function of what medical gatekeeping for transition looked like until 2011 in the US. You get through that either by learning to lie to doctors (often with community support) or internalizing it heavily.
You still see that with younger transmeds/people who self identify as HSTS. But I think you’re right that it’s mostly older white trans people.
oh yeah it is absolutely the medical structure that made so many of them internalize it. i’ve observed that so many of them seem to treat transness as a disease or an unfortunate affliction they must overcome through treatment and that’s 100% a result of navigating the medical system. its an inherent flaw with tying transition to the medical system i think, but i digress.
but its also just them being older too. they just grew up with heavier enforcement of the patriarchal standard (women look this way, men look this way, you need these parts to be female and these parts to be male). its super generational, i think younger transmeds are a very loud yet tiny minority.
Capitalist mindset means everything is more legitimate if it’s also more expensive.
Oh, nice apartment, but it’s not a real house, unlike my McMansion.
Cute boat, but my yacht is better.
Oh you have a functional car? Yeah I drive a hummer.
Darling, you took an uber here? My chauffeur drove me in a limousine.
Etc etc.
That’s why rich assholes make the worst relatives at social gatherings, too. They’re the ones that must be the toppers all the time: “oh, you went on vacation to (affordable) place? I went to (expensive) place with authentic (foreign thing that is prestigious to insufferable rich assholes)” as a regular conversation topic.
Brain worms are real
Does she still say stuff like “gender identity disorder” unironically?
Her Twitter bio says “challenging transactivist nonsense” so
She’s a party functionary of the local log cabin republicans and has showed up (in the news) at anti drag-story time protests.
She’s obsessed with the groomer narrative. It’s funny at one point she used to say she knew she was trans since she was a child. Now it seems she thinks children shouldn’t even know transgender people can exist. I think it’s some kind of narcissism in which she thinks she’s legitimately transgender and everyone else was tricked into it.
It’s wild
She is weird
And you still speak with this person?!
Doesn’t this mean she’s the groomer in the case of raising you? Do transphobic people not have a cell of logic in their brains?
She wasn’t out till I was like 15
Though once I asked her if her and my stepmom were grooming me when they’d watch RuPaul with us since we were 10-12 lmao she got pissed as hell “not the same”
No internal logic
Trans-medicalism is a particularily caustic type of brainworm.
Something something leopards eating faces
“Tokens get spent”
Did you find it? Don’t want to dox myself but feel free to clown on her as long as it doesn’t come back to me lmao
I just assumed there was a
because unless someone pays the bazinga tax there’s hundreds if not thousands of bazingas that are prioritized in front of anything the person posts.
Oh well you’re right though, that fool pays for Twitter
the 5% of trans people that look at caitlyn jenner and are like ‘wow i wanna be exactly like her’