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Kind of thinking that maybe letting GCs set the ground rules for how to talk about being trans is not gonna help.
They've been whining about "wrong body" stuff for ages and honestly it doesn't really matter? It's just another attempt to circumscribe language we might use.
They've been whining about "wrong body" stuff for ages and honestly it doesn't really matter? It's just another attempt to circumscribe language we might use.
Some trans people *do* say they feel like they've been born in the wrong body, and that's okay. There's nothing wrong with that. The GCs are wrongly insisting that *other people* like Mermaids and parents are telling trans kids that they were born in the wrong body and that's BS.
But we don't really need to disclaim any and all uses of that phrase to appease their demands that none of us ever use it. They want us to stop saying a lot of things and try to be extremely controlling. Don't bother to play into that. Let it go.
It's just like when they insist "woman isn't a feeling." That's another attempt to constrain us from language that can describe or approximate what it's like to be trans. It's clear nothing will make them happy and they won't take any disclaimers in good faith anyway.
Plus they're all a pack of vicious liars trying to hurt us. This isn't a debate and it doesn't have ground rules.
To be clear, a lot of people have hated the language. I hate the language. I wasn't born in a boy's body or a man's body or the wrong body, I was born in my body. Some trans people saying they hate it, some saying it was a way to make trans experience comprehensible, and some
saying they identify with it now or did in the past isn't evidence of some kind of sinister conspiracy. It's the fact that trans people are individuals. If you encounter trans people or parents of trans kids using the phrase and then another trans person who disclaims it, that's
not evidence of perfidious motives or a lie. It's different people with different opinions.
Also, since GCs insist that it's only today that anyone has ever disclaimed the wrong body narrative, it's been going on for years, for at least as long as GCs have been whining about it.
Also, since GCs insist that it's only today that anyone has ever disclaimed the wrong body narrative, it's been going on for years, for at least as long as GCs have been whining about it.
This is me two years ago. Tell me again how it's only just now anyone's criticized that particular formulation. https://twitter.com/lisaquestions/status/1043653142800293889
Plus the GC take is very wobbly. Stella O'Malley's falsely claiming she was attacked for criticizing "wrong body" language when she was criticized for her overall transphobic views. GCs have trouble with distinctions, nuance, and the truth, so they'll say whatever's convenient.
