I have to admit, I did not expect the nonstory that #TDOV happened to fall on Easter this year to become an all-consuming conservative obsession approaching the level of last year's nonstory that Dylan Mulvaney did an Instagram spot with Budweiser.
What this is about - what all of these stories are ultimately about - is an attempt to terrorize the #transgender community out of public life. #news#journalism
@e_urq it’s difficult to overstate just how much damage these hypocritical loud-mouths have done to the image of Christianity, between their hatred of LGBTQ+ people, their crusade to take away our reproductive rights, and their embrace of a lying conman aspiring dictator
For so many of us, coming out isn't just about ourselves--it's about the people we love most, and especially our partners.
But we do come out to them, and then the person we love the most is faced with the reality that, "Oh, s#!t, my partner just told me they're trans." What the fuck do I do?!
They deserve support in those tender first moments, and this week, I'm going to try and give them a little with a jumbo edition of #StainedGlassWoman!
I wrote about Easter falling on the same day as #TDOV last week, when it was just a twinkle in conservatives' eyes.
At the time I didn't think it would take off bc it was too dumb. As usual I overestimated just how dumb and hateful this moral panic is. #trans#news#easter
Closing out #TDoV with a personal post about how important visibility has been to my transition and how I strive to be visible for others.
I would not be where I am in my transition and in my life if it were not for the visible examples of so many of my trans siblings … whether it is seeing trans actors such as Laverne Cox on the screen, following trans people on (at first) Twitter and then here or meeting each other in person, all were necessary reassurances that I was not unique and alone.
Whatever I knew of transgender people before my egg cracked, was 90% hypothetical. Transgender people existed (in theory) but I never had (knowingly) met a trans person. All my suppressed questions and issues with gender felt wrong or abnormal and something only I was facing.
Wishing a Trans Day of Visibility of strength for all trans fam and friends (+ trans friends I don't know yet!) and wanting you to know that when you run out of spoons I am your ally with knives, always and forever ❤️ 🏳️⚧️ #TDOV
"The reality of this situation is we have known exactly who we are for as long as we can remember. It may have been a looser sense of difference from the mainstream than it is now, but I can guarantee it was there. We may not have had the language to describe that feeling, or had the visibility to be able to voice who we are at an academic level, but we have always been who we are." -Ben Pechey, The Book of #Nonbinary Joy
Happy #TDOV! Are you a cis person whining about how trans people online tend to talk about being trans an awful lot?
Imagine having something about yourself that you can't change but is pretty innocuous. And yet somehow that thing is a constant source of public debate, legal jeopardy, death threats, and occasional actual violence.
Then revisit your weird public judgements about what other people think is important to talk about.