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And when you are a spectacle, the harassment you experience becomes part of the show.
As if my gender is something that is being done to them and not something that belongs to me.
I learned about gender through shame.
Seeing other people defy this mandate brings the entire system into question.
Makes you question EVERYTHING you've been taught by authority figures in your life, and that makes people VERY uncomfortable.
We divide billions of people into one of two categories and tell them that this is the way things are.
I needed to put other people down in order to bring myself up. To make myself real, I had to invalidate other people; to make myself right, I had to say other people were wrong.
Conditional acceptance is not freedom—we shouldn’t have to erase our differences in order to be respected.
Power can be defined as the ability to make a particular perspective seem universal.
They are okay with language shifting as long as it’s the people in power doing it,
The selective outcry over new words to describe gender and sexuality—amidst the thousands of words that are added to the dictionary every year—is about prejudice, not principle.
Gender diversity is a natural attribute of human expression, not an illness that needs to be fixed.
People think their discomfort is just like the discrimination we face.
“Gender neutrality erases my right to be a woman or a man.”
No it doesn't
Everyday people without adequate training pretend to be scientific experts.
This is a deliberate strategy of using feminist rhetoric as a smokescreen to cover up anti-trans bigotry. Trans and gender non-conforming rights are women’s rights because many trans and gender non-conforming people are also women. The irony is, then, that people are misusing the language of women’s rights specifically to harm women.
This is how power works: It makes the actual people experiencing violence seem like a threat.
