@whitequark@social.treehouse.systems
Post #2648674
2026-04-13 06:22 UTC
@iris_meredith@mastodon.social
To use an example from the trans community, it's very, very common for trans people to have strongly held wank-statements as to what we are and why that makes us valid members of our gender [...]
a related one that I was mulling over just this morning (and still am) is the idea that "transitioning will necessarily make you happier". it didn't make me less happy (mainly, i did it because lying to people about what my name and gender is was getting inconvenient and high-friction), but not more either, and i talked to people who ended up worse off in terms of both happiness and safety. they don't tend to have any space in the usual trans circles, but... even i don't really feel like i do, despite being only in a slightly heterodox position
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@iris_meredith@mastodon.social 2026-04-13 06:25
@whitequark@social.treehouse.systems It's an odd one, certainly. I find that I find myself in spaces that *have a lot of trans people in them* but that aren't exactly trans spaces. It's not a bad way to be positioned, but I will admit that I do miss a sense of common cause with other people going through the same shit sometimes.