Post #1236392
2026-04-11 18:56 UTC
There were so many like me. Isolated by their shame, by society's judgment.
Until society changed, and transgender people started becoming more visible, started telling their own stories. Suddenly I and so many like me saw our own reflections, and in a wave, came out.
So many like me, says the lady from the white, middle-class, liberal background. Social change is not evenly distributed.
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@Tattie@eldritch.cafe 2026-04-11 18:57
Being transgender is two things. On one hand it's a social construct, a shared terminology and set of narratives. And on the other it's an inviolate fact of how we are born. Why am I so sure of the second? Well, because even in the most progressive community, who would actually choose to be transgender? I know I wouldn't've. I'm proud now to be trans, but it would've been a hell of an easier journey to be cis. 5/