Cassandra is only carbon nowMar 31

I am happy to be visible to other trans people, to people who might actually be trans and not yet realize it, and to cis people who want to use that visibility to advocate for me and people like me.

I'm not happy to be visible to people who want me hurt or even dead, and I am not happy to be visible to people who want to use me as a wedge to hurt others.

Show threadCassandra is only carbon nowMar 31
In part, it's because knowing that I'm trans helps understand where I sit in systems of privilege and oppression — along with my whiteness, my being a woman, my having some disabilities while being able-bodied as compared to some, and the like. Knowing that I am trans is to know something *extrinsic* about me, to know how other people are likely to treat me. It's also intrinsic, but in a way that doesn't say much about my personality or goals or hobbies or loves or philosophies.
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If I were to meet you in person for the first time, I would not open with "hi, I'm trans." You could probably tell, I don't exactly pass. But it's not the detail I want you to know about me first and foremost.

I'm not ashamed about it, but there's higher priorities: my name, what I do with my day, and so forth.

From that perspective, visibility is something I offer to others if it is useful, it's something I have in my bio, and because being trans is something I will never hide.

Mar 31 at 5:52pmWeb