Like 1.something% of the population is the center of a crusade because the red clowns need a boogey man, and yet their precious leader is on gender affirming care itself.

I fucking hate it. I don't get why the right wing zeitgeist is focused on trans people.

I mean I do, but I don't.

Fuck them (the transphobes).

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I think it's completely valid to feel this sort of anger, the oppression we face as trans women is deeply arbitrary, and only serves to make the world a crueler place for every living person.

As far as why it's like that, that is colonialism and white supremacy. Control over what constitutes and ideal, privileged group of people delineated by something "natural" like race and gender is the driving force behind the emergence and maintenance of heteronormativity. British common law constructed women as property because men wanted to own their children and their inheritance, interracial marriage bans were a response to the threat of any other group than white men gaining access to the privilege or property ownership through the autonomy of white women, anti-queer laws were necessary to ensure that the white-settler masses saw women's bodies as a vector to reproduce the white-settler way of life through their oppressed children. The anxiety they feel over us is by no means new, in fact, "deviant" gender expression was one of the primary expressions of anxiety that colonizers would make about colonized peoples as well as the settlers that they saw as corrupted or compromised by existing in colonized spaces. Transness truly is an existential threat to this way of life, because its very existence proves that it is in fact not natural or inevitable, and never was, which means there is no reason for it to continue.

The true tragedy of this violence is that it is actually pointless, even if you subscribe to the most bigoted, isolating construction of human life and human behaviour; all of it is to safeguard a system of power that is incompatible with the material world anyway. This is the hatred of people who know that their way of life is dying because it deserves to. They have never found a way to erase us, and never will, and they know that.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 1 day ago

    thanks for the perspective.

    This construct will find a wall it won't be able to smash. And whilst perhaps I may not survive the fallout, the collapse of the economy, or the war that will ensue, I'll be glad it's finally over, and nature can keep on doing it's thing, building flowers out of corpses.

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  • "Misconstrued" would certainly still apply, but that sentence is specifically referencing how the laws functioned to produce a *social construction *of women as property. As in, not only is this yes, a misrecognition of women as human beings, it also has the very real effect of dominating how they are imagined in culture and social relations.

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