I told myself I would steer away from the whole tucute vs transmedicalism debate but here’s your fave angry brown queer giving away some free education since I’m tired of white trans people always trying to talk over BIPOC trans issues:
Transmedicalism comes from a very RACIST, COLONIALIST AND PATHOLOGIZING BACKGROUND. Transmedicalism talks about how the only way to be trans is to feel dysphoria and that is extremely invalidating. If you think about the world before Euro and Seppocentrism became a thing, DIFFERENT GENDER IDENTITIES EXISTED BEFORE *gasp* WHITE PEOPLE FOUND OUT ABOUT IT?? 😨😨😨
Lets give some good FUCKING examples:
Hijras, machis, tongans, fakaleitis, two spirit, muxes, etc
When Amerigo Vespucci (el mismismo fucker that changed Abya Yala’s name to AMERICA) alongside his little whyt crackeritos coming along to invade and colonize our culture, we were punished to have this gender non conformity. We were FORCED to learn their Eurocentric rhetoric that there were only two genders - Man and Woman. When in reality, there’s more and white trans truSCUM seem to fucking FORGET that being trans is a worldwide experience. Your definition of being TRANSGENDER is white supremacy at it’s finest.
Transgender Black, Indigenous, people of color are always in the shadows when it comes to talk about OUR trans issues. You always hear about white trans issues and THEM describing their life in a very transmedicalist way and erasing cultures that are not white that had always accepted breaking gender roles.
GIVE TBIPOC A PLATFORM TO SPEAK ABOUT OUR EXPERIENCES.
