trans homelessness is bad but you know what really matters is whether other trans people are allowed to say "transsexual" or "assigned gender at birth"
if you come at me with that attitude like what actually matters amounts to internet arguments, i'm going to write you off completely
you should know that a lot of the language has complicated historical context and intentions, and frankly I've concluded you don't want to know
it's okay for these conversations to happen in terms of general rhetoric, like, in situations far removed from action and need
but jesus christ the trans movement is not internet drama. i swear to god i hear some people and it's like, they're so not ready for adversity. They're complacent and comfortable in their marginalization as a personal brand without real world consequence
i mean you look at tumblr, you'll see tons of trans people who keep yo-yoing towards genuine disaster and don't seem to register that on any level.
i blame the AIDS crisis wiping out a queer generation and the lack of curiosity about that from the younger ones. You'd think from some of us that being trans was invented in 2015, and from others that it was always exactly like this
@heatherhorns_lite it's not even that people don't listen to queer elders, I think... it's that they don't know any. Not on a personal level, not on a "yeah that's Steven, he's the gay uncle of the Wine Mom Social Club that used to be our girl scout troop" kinda level
IMO the message of "listen to queer elders" doesn't work for a very simple and sad reason, and that's because the message we need to be broadcasting is "YOU HAVE QUEER ELDERS"
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