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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& #39;ve been whining about "wrong body" stuff for ages and honestly it doesn& #39;t really matter? It& #39;s just another attempt to circumscribe language we might use.
They& #39;ve been whining about "wrong body" stuff for ages and honestly it doesn& #39;t really matter? It& #39;s just another attempt to circumscribe language we might use.
Some trans people *do* say they feel like they& #39;ve been born in the wrong body, and that& #39;s okay. There& #39;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& #39;s BS.
But we don& #39;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& #39;t bother to play into that. Let it go.
It& #39;s just like when they insist "woman isn& #39;t a feeling." That& #39;s another attempt to constrain us from language that can describe or approximate what it& #39;s like to be trans. It& #39;s clear nothing will make them happy and they won& #39;t take any disclaimers in good faith anyway.
Plus they& #39;re all a pack of vicious liars trying to hurt us. This isn& #39;t a debate and it doesn& #39;t have ground rules.
To be clear, a lot of people have hated the language. I hate the language. I wasn& #39;t born in a boy& #39;s body or a man& #39;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& #39;t evidence of some kind of sinister conspiracy. It& #39;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& #39;s
not evidence of perfidious motives or a lie. It& #39;s different people with different opinions.
Also, since GCs insist that it& #39;s only today that anyone has ever disclaimed the wrong body narrative, it& #39;s been going on for years, for at least as long as GCs have been whining about it.
Also, since GCs insist that it& #39;s only today that anyone has ever disclaimed the wrong body narrative, it& #39;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& #39;s only just now anyone& #39;s criticized that particular formulation. https://twitter.com/lisaquestions/status/1043653142800293889">https://twitter.com/lisaquest...
