A huge difference between me and Kristi Noem's hubby is that I'm actually trans and not a fetishist, and I'm also not a bigot against crossdressers and trans people in my public life.

I just feel normal having tits, and the thought doesn't turn me on. My brain expects me to have them, and I had sadness and distress for the longest time at not having them.

I also don't feel degraded by being a woman. It makes me happy. I felt extremely degraded living as a male.

I hate to say it, but I have more in common with kristi noem herself than I do with her husband

@burnoutqueen They are both fetishists: one for violence and one for femininity. Given that Christie Noem needs to force her fetish on others, I don’t see how that’s “better”.

Please don’t shoot puppies.

@steff

im saying that I am not a man, and I cannot pretend to understand what it is like to be a man

@burnoutqueen I am a woman who revels in her femininity at times, wrap myself in it and love it. And I can understand how men can sublimate that desire into erotic or fetishistic desire. Yet, I can’t understand why another woman would want to cos-play masculine bravado to such a degree that she’s willing dehumanize and perpetrate violence on others to prove she’s not like “other girls”
@burnoutqueen when right wing idiots treat femininity like a fortnight skin they get what they deserve, but we don’t have to degrade the femininity of others simply to knock him out. I applaud your statement.
@burnoutqueen isn't that where their anger comes from...they hide it, they live "Normal" Lives it doesn't effect them.....but it does. The hate and misunderstanding radiates out of them because they can "act normal" but hate isn't normal. If they could live as the selves that they hide maybe be decent humans.
@burnoutqueen thank you for putting this into words, I’ve been deeply uncomfortable and disappointed whenever I’ve seen accusations of hypocrisy /because of how Republicans regard trans people/. Like, no, I am not a fetish, and her husband’s behaviour has nothing to do with trans people or being trans, stop conflating us with it for a political gotcha.