#ftmgenderisttext

For me, the question of why I am transsexual has always been a source of shame and self-loathing... Like most people, I assumed that it was better to be cissexual. Eventually I realized that dwelling on "why" was a pointless endeavor--the fact is that I am transsexual and I exist, and there is no legitimate reason why I should feel inferior to a cissexual because of that.

The question, "Why do transsexuals exist?" is not a matter of pure curiosity, but rather an act of nonacceptance, as it invariably occurs in the absence of asking the reciprocal question: "Why do cissexuals exist?" The unceasing search to uncover the cause of transsexuality is designed to keep the transsexual gender identities in a perpetually questionable state, thereby ensuring cissexual gender identities continue to be unquestionable

Jules Gill-Peterson, in a July article responding to the Skrmetti ruling, asks us to "Reject Transgender Liberalism" and instead focus our legal attention onto the material right of all people to change their sex.

Skrmetti has made painfully clear two things I have long argued, albeit for very different reasons: First, that the legal protection of transition cannot successfully be derived from medical expertise. Nor can it derive from the political invention of “transgender status,” which is vulnerable to judicial critique not just from conservatives but for its flagrant class antagonisms. Instead of clinging to a losing strategy, we must find the courage to engage the law on its own terms. We should not keep pressing for liberal transgender rights; we should wield the historical foundation of what Andrea Long Chu wisely calls “the right to change sex.” Far from something new, transition is a practice older than the United States, and people who transitioned have not been marginal to or excluded from the country’s legal and political institutions. In fact, the practice of transitioning sex shaped the constitutional guarantee of equal protection at issue in Skrmetti and other transgender cases.

She then draws upon the incredible story of Frances Thompson, a Black woman, who's 1866 testimony helped push Congress to ratify the 14th amendment. Gill-Peterson rightly points out that Thompson's testimony establishes a legal precedent for the right to change one's sex, because Thompson herself had transitioned sex, and her direct assertion of her inalienable rights as a woman guarantees the right to change sex in the 14th amendment itself.

I'm posting screenshots of the original article below, if anyone is interested. I really recommend reading it.

I know some people are trying to reclaim it, but it's not really possible to separate it from transandrobros...

I'm not familiar with the term in that context! does anyone want to add to this conversation? gang how are we feeling about the term "forcemasc"? Transmysoginistic in origin? or a way for trans men to express delight in masculine transition? or both? Is it inherently tied up with the problematic "transandrophobia"?