I'm not gonna quote them because I don't think people need to keep seeing this stuff, but I'm always just vaguely baffled when people talk about transness as a 'political' stance - as something we do to reinforce or attack gender in society.
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The personal is the political? The hard-ass gender binary does hurt everyone and is something worth opposing. But it isn't why we are LBTQIA+. But it can very well be part of how we be and be among our flavorings and motivations. Course many think any part must be the whole. SIGH
sep 1, 2025, 8:39 pm • 1 0 • view
It's been made to be political because they keep on fucking attacking us.
sep 1, 2025, 6:47 pm • 7 0 • view
Clearly trans people are just being selfish, they should force themselves to be miserable and bury who they really are, so that bigots can feel more comfortable.
sep 1, 2025, 7:56 pm • 1 0 • view
We should just leave trans people alone. Let them live their life. If someone doesn’t like them, they shouldn’t have them in their life! 🙄
sep 1, 2025, 6:50 pm • 1 0 • view
Do people really define their sexuality according to their political opinions? Kinda explains how angry the Right is...
sep 2, 2025, 4:07 pm • 1 0 • view
I don't think it is possible to exist as a trans person *without* challenging patriarchy, true. But I don't think anyone 'becomes trans' to make a political statement. I don't think people become 'politically trans'. I think we mostly do it to survive?
sep 1, 2025, 6:28 pm • 67 7 • view
It’s only political because some people have a weird, second-grade fixation on gender essentialism, and other folks have exploited that fixation to gain political power.
sep 1, 2025, 9:28 pm • 1 0 • view
It's a bit like looking at the process of cooking and deciding that the 'point' of it is to make washing up. Like, no, that will happen, unfortunately, but that's the by-product, you don't make a meal for the sole purpose of scrubbing the pots and pans. That'd be weird.
sep 1, 2025, 6:29 pm • 53 3 • view
Like. What the fuck. I wanna shake this person and scream “I didn’t do this to be political.” Jesus Christ.
sep 1, 2025, 7:36 pm • 13 0 • view
It reminds me of how much I've seen complaints about "political lesbians" that use the idea to reinforce lesbophobia against lesbians who decenter men in their lives. If we aren't being sexualized, they see us as nothing beyond a challenge to the hierarchy they've grown to be a comfortable part of.
sep 1, 2025, 6:36 pm • 3 0 • view
My dad was very adament that I "chose" to be trans. Whenever I said anything about money issues he would always say things like "Well you decided to do your gender change..." Yes he called it that and never called it transitioning
sep 1, 2025, 10:06 pm • 5 0 • view
I may be misunderstanding, but I think that was actually the point of the OG baeddel movement, wasn’t it?
sep 1, 2025, 6:45 pm • 0 0 • view
Not as I understand it. From what I have seen the Baeddels weren't even a unified movement, particularly, but they largely focused on a materialist analysis of transfeminine existence within cis society.
sep 1, 2025, 6:49 pm • 4 0 • view
Then please forgive my ignorance and thank you for your perspective.
sep 1, 2025, 6:55 pm • 1 0 • view