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Elaine Scattermoon Nov 14, 2022

The problem with Trans Awareness Week is that people are now aware of trans folk, given we're the subject of an ongoing international culture war.

Awareness isn't the problem. It's agency. We are spoken *about* all the time but we so rarely get to speak *for ourselves*, especially in big legacy media. It's why Twitter and similar spaces have been such a useful place for trans activists, journalists, and creators, because we are marginalised elsewhere.

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@scattermoon cis people are aware that we exist, but, they think, not here, their neighborhoods and workplaces and all the social spaces they spend time in are in their minds completely devoid of trans people, the possibility doesn’t even cross their minds. Trans people, to them, exist only as a far away thing, a mental exercise to have opinions about, but not in the “real world”. I think we need cis people to be aware that we exist not only somewhere but everywhere around them, and we need them to stop never getting anywhere close to even considering our needs.