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Something that a lot of white trans people, and people living in “Western” countries that have a vague understanding of what trans is, tend to forget is that “trans” is not a universal concept. Trans isn’t just something that only uneducated people don’t know about. Trans is, very specifically, a byproduct of the gender binary that white people created and enforced through the colonization, subjugation and genocide of indigenous peoples around the world. As such, “trans” is very much a concept that only works in “Western” countries, in much the same way that the term “POC” does–it makes sense when it’s used in those countries and is a response to the need for that term, but as soon as you attempt to use it more broadly and say something like “POC countries” or “trans people around the world”, it falls apart, because it was never meant to work that way to begin with. 

When white trans people (and to some extent, trans people living in “Western” countries) say “trans people around the world”, they don’t mean “people who identify as trans around the world”–they mean “anyone around the world who isn’t cis”. White people in general tend to spend more time doing “damage control” than they do actually getting to the root of the problem–so when the gender binary was created and we were thrust into it for centuries upon centuries, instead of coming back from that and recognizing that this false binary was the problem, the term “trans” became a reality. Yes, under the white gender binary, trans is necessary and it’s real, I’m not denying that. But from this, white trans people have created a coercive cis/trans dichotomy in that all people who aren’t cis are coercively assigned trans by default, not by self-identification. This is basic binarism whereby white people force their gender binary, as in the one they created, onto cultures around the world who never had it to begin with. Only this time it looks progressive because it’s coming from white trans people and not white cis people. 

This is why the “only 1% of the world is trans!” statistic fails. This is why GAYCATION is such a shitty idea. Because it’s binarism 101 and doesn’t serve to help the indigenous genders that might still exist or that once existed, even if it is “spreading their stories”. There is nothing about the label “trans” that helps indigenous genders, unless they self-identify, because it is playing right back into the idea that only white people’s gender binary matters or is relevant. It completely ignores and erases other genders and expressions by forcing them into a binary that is not theirs. There is no singular gender binary that the entire world relies upon, and that is the misconception that white people make. Not every person who fits the “trans” definition is trans at all, and presuming that they are only furthers the complete genocide of an entire culture and real life people that still exist, or at least those genders that existed before their initial colonization.

‘You can transfer your Pokemon from the e-shop versions of Red, Blue, and Yellow to the Pokebank, and then to Sun and Moon.’ GUESS WHAT I’M BRINGING INTO THE SEVENTH GEN.

In before they actually make Missingno canon and give it a new Gen 7 Pokedex entry and everything.

EDIT: I am aware that Missingo as it is in Gen 1 would be unable to be transfered to a future gen due to all of its technical complications.