#this is why incorporating bioessentialism and thinking you can revive it but make it better by being trans-inclusive will NEVER work

[uncanny-tranny]

Sometimes, when people try to invoke "trans-inclusive" bioessentialism in their arguments, I want to ask exactly what about our assigned sex says about our place in society, and ask how they've worked that into their worldview in a way that somehow simultaneously doesn't deny who we are and includes the fact that a trans experience will mean that we navigate the world in often very different ways than our cis peers, and often bucks the trends of what is commonly experienced by cis people

#trans #transgender #lgbt #lgbtq #ftm #mtf #nonbinary #transphobia #transphobia tw #biological essentialism #bioessentialism #(mentions of SA and transmisogyny after this tag) #saw somebody saying that 'AMABs' essentially don't have to worry about SA... #...but 'AFABs' do because 'that's what they were raised in'... #...ignoring 1.) trans people AMAB are disproportionately aware of SA and its affects and... #...2.) nowhere in 'AFAB' biology dictates that they have a sixth sense surrounding anything adjacent to SA #i only started being terrified of being targeted AFTER i came out as a trans man and AFTER i started presenting male #where does that put me? how am i 'more aware' than a trans woman who is deeply aware of what SA is and looks like because of *experience* #this is why incorporating bioessentialism and thinking you can revive it but make it better by being trans-inclusive will NEVER work #you are operating on a FUNDAMENTALLY patriarchal understanding of human experiences/development/societal placement #you are still upholding the exact same tennents of patriarchy and who it protects and subjugates #(not only that but in they took to attention directly away from an artist with trauma about SA and made it about sex) #(like great... glad we're *still* treating survivors like shit by ignoring their stories/art/messages/experiences (sarcasm))