#izzyisms

when we came out, 2016, and were met by an unaccepting voice, it didnt call us a faggot or queer or a tranny. yknow what we were called as a way to disavow our transness in 2016? flat, to our face, we were called a “transtrender”, by a 40 yr old woman who doesnt even use social media.

this online discourse, “transmed”, etc., has taken tiny in-community discourse that is gross and unecessary and fed it straight into the hands of the fuckin enemy. it has armed bigots w new power, the ability to imput themselves into the discussion of what qualifies a person as trans and how little they can allow it. it gives them a way to gaslight and convert trans youth by pretending they know transness, pretending they can stand up for the gold star gender experience, bc of these hyper discoursed points made up by kids who think theyre standing up for trans rights by taking trans rights away from ppl and giving them to the ppl who want us gone.

now i dont care what u think ab dysphoria and/or its effect on transness. but i think that before u allign urself w invalidating terms meant to degrade, exclude, and punish ppl for self discovery and self expression, know that u are being transphobic, both directly in ur own action and in how u allow that to become commonplace. u are bringing ab a new generation of slurs and suppression tactics to be used by communities to convince the ppl coming out as trans that they r wrong.

this isnt to say that weve replaced the days of queer and faggot and tranny as being slurs and harmful or anything like that. im not overwriting history and experience. i am not demeaning the affect those terms have had on us, and how other forms of bigotry like violence and discrimination especially in intersectional queer experiences r, and if u treat me like thats what im doing u r missing the entire fuckin point.

trans+ ppl who dont want to transition (for ANY reason)

trans+ ppl who dont want to be cispassing (either with or w/o transitioning)

trans+ ppl who identify with transness as much as gender itself

trans+ ppl whos ideal expression isn’t gendered or is culturally associated to a different gender

(he/him)