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If I can offer one piece of advice to trans twitter, it's that discourse about issues is productive, and discourse about personalities is not
Also, just... everyone who arrives to transness arrives in mortal suffering. It's an existential crisis. You will always have more impact by tending to the wounded than you will by worrying about cis people listening to flawed voices.
I'm not saying anyone's anger is unjustified!
I'm just begging us, as an embattled minority, to consider the bigger picture and to act with purpose, instead of reactively flailing out at valueless targets within reach.
We have so few resources. We have so much to do.
I'm just begging us, as an embattled minority, to consider the bigger picture and to act with purpose, instead of reactively flailing out at valueless targets within reach.
We have so few resources. We have so much to do.
When someone publishes a video that pushes aside nonbinary identities, would you rather we, collectively:
(A) Form factions dedicated to the moral judgment of the celebrity and anyone associated with them
(B) Speak our support, validation, and love for nonbinary people in unison
(A) Form factions dedicated to the moral judgment of the celebrity and anyone associated with them
(B) Speak our support, validation, and love for nonbinary people in unison
You can say I've posed a false dichotomy and that we can do both, but we actually can't. We each only have so much breath to say things with. And it's especially true online, where the algorithm, driven by negative interactions, will drown out (B) with (A).
This existential nightmare is always on the back on my mind:
Every day that passes, uncountable closeted trans people:
-look for support and information and fail to find it
-end their lives in the belief they can't be helped
-suffer through another lost day, to be mourned later
Every day that passes, uncountable closeted trans people:
-look for support and information and fail to find it
-end their lives in the belief they can't be helped
-suffer through another lost day, to be mourned later
If what we are is the sum of our actions, then I would always, always, always rather be pulling people out of this huge, oppressive void than worrying about literally anything else.
That's all.
That's all.
