autumn in recoil

because it could have stopped at removing “trans” from the Stonewall historical marker or painting over the crosswalk at Pulse, but no, literally trans federal employees won’t be able to access healthcare. That is not just cruel that is actively dangerous.

And that is the dominant narrative because cis people generally cannot conceive of someone finding joy in transition. That simply doesn’t make sense to them or doesn’t occur to them that joy is the actual goal of transition.

When i hear people parrot that old saw about how they’re “fine with gay people as long as they don’t put it in everyone’s face,” what I hear is “you are not performing queer suffering to my satisfaction.” Trans joy is a threat to the status quo because it denies cis people the assurance that our queerness is a horrible mistake