What’s My Sexuality?



https://twitter.com/TransLifeline/status/1318651537506250752?s=20

We live in a world that has been designed to kill and harm anyone who is “different.” This needs to change.

We wouldn’t be where we are today without trans people, and we need to give them the credit and recognition that they deserve. Trans history is world history

All too frequently do we paint trans people as victims who can’t stand up for themselves. In reality, they’re victims who not only stand up for themselves, but for others as well. I wanted to find imagery that expressed that, which is why I chose this format.

This article talks about how the latest proposed HUD rule would allow sex-segregated shelters to discriminate against trans people. This would allow shelters to approve placements based on sex rather than gender, including demanding proof of biological sex. With the economic crisis resulting from the  pandemic, this rule further endangers the public due to increasing rates of poverty/homelessness/etc.

Biopower allows institutionalized prejudices to exist. It’s what keeps Trans people from being able to participate in society or even be seen as human.

This article gives a brief summary of how trans people have always been at the forefront of activist movements. Pauli Murray, a trans POC, was jailed for sitting in the white section of a bus a full 15 years before Rosa Parks. Murray’s actions and story have largely been glossed over, but are still echoed in the social justice movements of today.

In her TEDTalk, Suzannah Temko mentions colonialism and how it has affected the Intersex community. Malatinto also talks about how Eurocentric ideas have largely (and negatively) impacted the way we view gender, sex, and genatalia. Specifically, that “sexual dimorphism” (the condition where the two sexes of the same species exhibit different characteristics beyond differences in their sexual organs, according to Wikipedia) was used to further colonialist ideals and actions. Cisnormativity has been harming trans and intersex people for centuries.

I view the gender spectrum as a 3-D shpere. A person can fall anywhere within the sphere, or outside of it in an electron-cloud-type space.