Hope yall dont mind if I set this soapbox down right around here for just a sec.
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.
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.
Anyways, if people could be more normal about trans women instead of always trying to paint us all as counterrevolutionaries on a mission to uphold the gender binary this would be a lot less surprising to people.
