Amelia 🏳️‍⚧️ Baeddelia
The idea that being #cis is inherently superior to and more desirable than being #trans is the great unexamined assumption at the foundation of the worldview of most people, even #allies, even trans people, and they all get very uncomfortable very fast when you start to question it.
Feb 18, 2023 at 2:05amWeb
Show threadAmelia 🏳️‍⚧️ BaeddeliaFeb 18, 2023
Most #cis people, even those who consider themselves #trans #allies, along with most trans people who have achieved quiet #assimilation within #cisnormative society or aspire to it, are deeply uncomfortable at the prospect of no longer being privileged for being "#normal".
Show threadAmelia 🏳️‍⚧️ BaeddeliaFeb 18, 2023
Most #cis people, even the ones who think they're #allies, deep down still ultimately want #trans people to remain objects of pity and curiosity and reflexively bristle at the idea of truly normalizing being trans and seeing it as a difference as benign as eye color.
Show threadAmelia 🏳️‍⚧️ BaeddeliaFeb 18, 2023
To state it even more bluntly, most #cis people, even the ones who think of themselves as #trans #allies, and a lot of trans people who #pass as cis, want to keep being better than trans people a lot more than they want any kind of true #liberation for trans people.
Show threadヤンキーちゃん／MissMischeifFeb 18, 2023

@autogynamelia

Malcom X had an excellent speech about this very issue, which I cannot link to or quote lest I run afoul and get accused of racism or appropriation... But by way of allusion: house and field are words in the title.