"It started because we care about the gays, and trans seemed gay. Because the average normie doesn’t really understand the LGB, much less the T. Because the first transsexuals we knew were gay men and drag queens. Because we think a femme man is a femme man. Because trans people said they were adjacent to gays, even if many of them don’t…
"It started because we care about the gays, and trans seemed gay. Because the average normie doesn’t really understand the LGB, much less the T. Because the first transsexuals we knew were gay men and drag queens. Because we think a femme man is a femme man. Because trans people said they were adjacent to gays, even if many of them don’t seem to be."
Thank you! As far as I am concerned, the new gender-identity theory doesn't look anything like the gay rights movement of which I was a part. We tried to knock down the walls of gender stereotyping, not add another row of bricks. We understood you could be butch or femme and still be either a man or a woman--all combinations worked. Now, you dare not be a boy who likes pink or a girl who plays football without everyone asking your pronouns or offering hormones.
I sometimes think all this focus on identity is really just a way to escape from the reality that what we do is usually more important than what we are.
"It started because we care about the gays, and trans seemed gay. Because the average normie doesn’t really understand the LGB, much less the T. Because the first transsexuals we knew were gay men and drag queens. Because we think a femme man is a femme man. Because trans people said they were adjacent to gays, even if many of them don’t seem to be."
Thank you! As far as I am concerned, the new gender-identity theory doesn't look anything like the gay rights movement of which I was a part. We tried to knock down the walls of gender stereotyping, not add another row of bricks. We understood you could be butch or femme and still be either a man or a woman--all combinations worked. Now, you dare not be a boy who likes pink or a girl who plays football without everyone asking your pronouns or offering hormones.
I sometimes think all this focus on identity is really just a way to escape from the reality that what we do is usually more important than what we are.
I've written about that too! Doing versus being
https://shannonthrace.substack.com/p/identity-and-doing-versus-being?utm_source=%2Fsearch%2Fbeing&utm_medium=reader2
And yes to knocking down the walls.