“transgender is a culturally specific term” it’s really not
two-spirit is a culturally specific term. hijra is a culturally specific term. genderfuck, in the sense of a term with particular, intentional political and social connotations, is a culturally specific term. transgender is an umbrella term encompassing a myriad of experiences from any and all cultures should someone feel like it’s valuable to their identity, and people who were born before the word ever got coined can and should still be considered trans, because to do otherwise serves no purpose but to suppress the knowledge that people like us have always existed, and the only thing that can do is harm
hey thanks for saying this in a really clear way
i had asked a roman historian about the roman emperor that may have been a trans lady and the historian tried to tell me that we can’t put labels on historical figures and also that the romans had called this emperor a woman to slander them and i was just. so fucking pissed. better to misgender them or wash away all references to trans people in history than to, what, maybe put a label on somebody? fuck that.
anyway thanks for saying this and if it’s okay with you i’d like to use this if i come across that historian again because UGH
elagabalus/marcia aurelia? yeah lmao i mean rome isnt my area but while damnatio memoriae was certainly used against her there are iirc more than solely roman texts attesting to her gender, so like…. take that as u will, by which i mean she was a trans girl and you can rip that out of my cold dead hands
@patrexes unsurprisingly the argument was that she distrusted nonbinary people as a group for not “understanding transmisogyny”. and then tried the whole Monopoly of Suffering thing where an imagined trans person never suffering for being trans is an insult to the fibre of her being. they read like a villain backstory tbh. “dysphoria is my ultimate curse and so i swear vengeance on other trans people! they shall kneel before my deeply pointless wrath”
ace person: hey you’re being kind of aphobic rn, could you maybe not
aphobe: i’ll have you know i was born with glass bones and paper skin. every morning i break my legs, and every afternoon i break my arms. at night, i lie awake in agony until my heart attacks put me to slee
at least give me credit for the post idea goddamn
what????
i KNEW i had seen this post somewhere before! it’s almost identical to this post by @sapphics down to the fact that you cut short at “slee” like damn how many posts are you going to steal?
Can you imagine being so far up your own ass you try to claim credit to a meme that existed long before your pathetic ass post?
only exclusionists can make spongebob jokes now apparently
anybody else thinking about that time somebody made a joke about how you can only have four aces in a deck of cards, and slimecourse said that op was saying all people who arent ace cheat on their significant others?
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