choice selections from this dogshit lecture:
"Black, Latina, poor, working-class, and sex worker trans women actually try to pass"
...as opposed to whom, exactly?
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translation: "you see, trans women transition male-to-faggot, and i wish i could transition into a faggot in the same way they do. i am a gay trans man now but i dont want to be, i want to be a transfeminine faggot. i wish we lived in the timeline where transfems were in gay male spaces (read: where i still had access to them sexually as males). gay male spaces which are not, somehow, as ive criticized elsewhere, not white-dominated"
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> translation: "trans lesbians actually hadnt existed until at least 1980-whatever"
nevermind that Transsexual Empire was responding to a preexisting phenomenon of trans lesbians that cisbian radfems felt at threat from
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translation: "trans lesbians don't actually live transfeminine lives, don't actually live as women. instead, as above, to really live transfeminine lives and live as women, they need to be attracted to men. coincidentally this has No Bearing Whatsoever on my assertion elsewhere that transfeminine ppl should be in primarily gay male spaces, as a subset of gay males, and that those are more legitimately transfeminine, and who i can maintain sexual access to"
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translation: "lesbian trans women arent actually oppressed
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translation: "the most important part of actually being a trans woman is to internally recognize yourself as an internal girl, as opposed to a "social" or "material" girl. but actually, im gonna contradict myself literally the next sentence, and say that the most important isnt just seeing yourself as a girl but embodying a girl, which im not actually gonna define how that works, and thats because trans lesbians all have unilaterally good jobs or whatever.
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author's note: the section under 7:30 is a quote from Denise D'Anne's autobiography, in which she specifies that she didnt start transitioning until age 36. the section under 7:41 is from the speaker, "Dr." Amin, whom i have been dragging. Additionally, it says "Dan" in reference to D'Anne, but this is just a youtube transcription typo
translation: "even though ive established that social and life transition actually results in a severe drop in socioeconomic status and significant exacerbation of social violences, im still going to describe it as a luxury and act like the imperative to transition is precluded by relative poverty, rather than precluded by transmisogynoir/y which is then functioned through poverty and impoverishment as punishment.
"this assertion, also, has no bearing on my asinine assertion that white trans women dont actually give a shit about passing, unlike more marginalized trans women, because they actually have careers, nevermind that Ms. D'Anne lost her career, could not take advantage of having a degree, and had to move across the country to actually pass, which she, in fact, gave a huge fucking shit about."
