My main issue with trans identities (excluding gender)
Real talk for a second. I really don’t care what your identity is as long as is doesn’t affect anybody else in any negative way. It’s your identity and just because I don’t believe in it, I’ll recognize that it’s what you believe and that, at least, you feel that it’s somewhat integral to you.
I’m left-handed. If you’re right-handed and decide you’re transleft-handed, more power to you. I immediately regret typing that because I feel like I’m just giving people ideas at this point.
But this, other than privileged co-opting, is this: Where the fuck are the trans-Black people who run anti-racist blogs? Where are these trans-fat people who run blogs against fat-shaming?
Because the majority of what I’ve seen has been this is how I identify and why are you policing my identity rather than I am trans-Black and why is anti-Blackness running rampant?? Because, historically, you have to deal with the fact that racism and anti-Blackness are a far greater issue than transethnic ID policing.
The entire focus I’ve seen has been on the trans and not on the identity. I know I need to look farther into this but… Christ, folks, nobody is trans*privileged. I haven’t run into anybody who is Black and calls themselves trans-white or fat and calls themselves trans-thin or disabled and trans-able. I’ve never met a trans-human dolphin, to stretch this point a little thin. I wonder about this, and I question the motivation behind a bunch of people who seem only to ID as more oppressed and never less oppressed (or more normal, we might have said in the past) and coupled with this I never see people speaking out about the ways their Black/fat/disabled identity is oppressed as much as how their personal identity as trans is oppressed.
I cannot fucking wrap my head around this. I’m not sure if I want to keep trying.
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I feel like there’s something here to be related to the fact that I bet if you ask every single brown person, they will know someone who at one time wanted to be white (maybe even themself) because of social pressure. I’m not entirely sure how it fits in, but this makes me think about it.
Like, POC face such pressure to hate ourselves because of our race that it is a really almost radical act for us to value being ourselves, with our color and our heritage. It’s like society expects/demands that POC want to be white people.
