"Abuse is about power and opportunity. Gendered power imbalances are a source of such individual power and opportunity to exploit and abuse others."— Glassfembot

Do trans women ever experience male privilege ? >

https://nosuture.blogspot.com/2021/07/do-trans-women-ever-experience-male.html

#male_privilege #trans_women #women #abuse #power #gender #privileges #short_essay #blog #oppression #cis_normativity #patriarchy #power_imbalances #discrimination

"Transgender people in Estonia are aware of what awaits those who turn to psychiatrist and sexologist Dr Imre Rammul, head of the medical assessment committee for gender reassignment. The questions have remained the same for years, the same applies to prerequisites and even ignorant jokes."—Aet Kuusik

A Non-Transparent System & Assessment Specialists.
How The Estonian State Treats Transgender People >

https://feministeerium.ee/en/how-the-state-treats-transgender-people/

#Estonia #retrograde_policies #transgender_rights #cis_normativity #retrograde_screening #bigotry #gatekeeping #transgender #GR #gender_reassignment #ignorance #opacity #gender #transphobia #Tallinn #self_determination #human_rights #gender_recognition #backwards_procedures

"Insisting on clumping such disparate groups together, and referring to them with the same term, means emphasizing their similarities while also disregarding their differences. When those differences are substantial and relevant, and have widely varying implications for the everyday lives of these distinct groups, glossing over this can be a disservice to everyone – both the many groups who are now seen as fused into a single mass, and the people on the outside who are trying to understand who and what we are."—Zinnia Jones

The Worst Assimilation Of All >

https://nosuture.blogspot.com/2021/12/the-worst-assimilation-of-all-how.html

#essays #gender #assimilation #liberationism #umbrella_term #trans #transgender #transsexuality #drag_queens #differences #oppression #assimilationism #cis_normativity #normativity #women #trans_women #constraint #discrimination #misconceptions #drag #confusion #clarification