#and might well agree with the v common feeling that at least like... queer ppl are predisposed to Doing Queer Things in a way others are not

[tyrannuspitch]

really funny how some ppl will be like “sorry but transgenders were only just invented so you get, at most, one (1) century into the past, and if you see your experiences in anyone further back, that’s ahistorical :(” and then ten minutes later they’re like “ICONIC WOMEN IN HISTORY: 1. this 20,000 year old mummy”, as if they have literally any reason to think a palaeolithic person was cisgender

#blah blah blah i'm not a historian and don't have a perfect solution to this #but i do get the feeling that ppl... underestimate things #like. things may be very different in specifics #but i feel like.. just logically speaking... #if you have society organised by assigned sex you will develop a system of gender #and if you have a system of gender you will end up with trans people #we just kind of happen #and like. hmm. slightly different thing but ppl are always saying #'well before this point the vocabulary for queerness was about what you DID not who you WERE' #'so they didn't distinguish gay and straight as identities or internal experiences like we do they saw it all as a choice' #as if vocabulary (generally determine by those in power) can 100% determine the self-concept of the *oppressed*? #like. the lack of vocab does not mean that there was no-one who *understood* themself as queer and closeted #as being Strange or Different or Broken and as idk having ~sinful desires~ or whatever #and having more in *common* with ppl who Did Queer Things than ppl who didn't *even if they never actually did them* #also like just bc cishets saw queerness as a choice does not necessarily mean queer ppl would agree with them lmao #like yeah they'd be influenced by those societal ideas of course! but they also have far more data to draw conclusions from #and might well agree with the v common feeling that at least like... queer ppl are predisposed to Doing Queer Things in a way others are not #i feel like this is common sense. #people thinking of themselves as gay or ace or trans does not begin with the coining of words for gayness or aceness or transness #i know this for a fact re: asexuality and i see no reason why it should be different with gayness or transness