President of the Marxist-Leninist-City Popists

This shit is annoying enough when cis people do it but it especially gets on my nerves when I see other trans people buying into this nonsense

I've met far too many pre- or early transition trans people worried that medically transitioning is somehow conformist or some kind of personal failing, a temptation to be resisted.

Too many people have bought into this naturalistic notion that medical transition is a tragic symptom of a society that isn't accepting enough. That if our world was more enlightened people wouldn't need or want to alter their natural bodies.

Genuinely fuck that noise. Bodily autonomy rules and biohacking your endrocrine system is based actually.

Cancer is natural.

Diabetes is natural.

Cyanide is natural

Just because something is natural doesn't mean it's inherently good for you.

Setting aside medical necessity of transitioning for a second, if this society is supposedly accepting enough that people can express themselves and act however they want, then what's with this weird arbitrary line at people altering their physical form?

In a fully accepting society, I'd expect more people to medically transition, not less.

"You can look and act however you want so long as you don't change yourself in any way" isn't freedom, it's just reified cissexism.

You have to free yourself of the notion that unaltered, non medically transitioned bodies are ideal and inherently superior. It's not true. It's a lie you've been told to keep you from owning your own body.

It's okay to want to medically transition and, if you have the access and you have the ability, you are 100% allowed to do it.

Medically transitioning is a good thing and should be freely accessible to anybody who wants or needs to medically transition. Saying that isn't transmedicalist, it's what's necessary for real trans liberation.

I wholeheartedly reject the notion of describing medical transition as "binarist" and "conformist" and I'm sorry if this comes across as bitchy but biohacking your endocrine system or getting a surgeon to perform gentital origami on you is actually pretty radical defiance against naturalistic cisnormativity.

describing this as generalized transphobia flattens out the differences in how variously trans people are variously discriminated against. framing this as transmisogyny correctly focuses our attention on the ways in which discrimination which uniquely targets transfems is weaponized. there will no doubt be downstream effects felt by any number of transmisogyny exempt people, and they will rightly feel upset about the injustices they will experience. i do not want those things to happen, but they will and it will be bad and wrong when they do. but the first people targeted will be those least able to exempt ourselves from transmisogyny, those named explicitly in the majority opinion.

you'll pardon me for not sparing much consideration for future injustices when my sisters and siblings are already suffering, already being cast out and labeled as dangerous, things whose inclusion is a bourgeois luxury reserved only for when we have the time to weigh the complications and the nuance.

But yeah, Takashi was there. And got totally chewed out by Jaime Wolf over the Warlord Samsonov situation. In hindsight, he probably wished he hadn't gone.