Jul 7
I'm as much for getting rid of gendered roles, expectations, and standards as the next gal. But isn't it funny that for an uncannily large number of so-called progressives, "gender abolition" amounts to telling a trans woman the most helpful thing she can do for the cause is degender herself and not talk about The Signs? That being a gender-nonconforming man—almost invariably described in ways indistinguishable from a hateful cis cariacature of a non-passing trans woman—is the ideal embodiment of progress?
What passes for gender abolition rhetoric is often little more than the creation of a gender you can feel good about forcibly assigning to someone, because it's simply being done for the Greater Good.
