Requiring that I erase my past, to present a consistent and current identity to the world is a violence.
I have not always been a woman. My being a woman is complicated. My old name was still my name. My time as young man taught me a lot about being a man in our culture. My time as a woman has taught me a lot about it too, and vice versa.
If you want to argue with me about whether I'm _currently_ a woman, however, we will have to have a very nuanced conversation. Any blanket statement about whether trans women are women without the context of how gender and our notions of sex are socially constructed is a non-starter, as is a conversation that doesn't include us.
Gender construction cannot be applied to us without our participation.
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