The number of people misreading "dissident" as "transgender" when the purpose was specifically to illustrate their distinction in gender identity frameworks shows the complacency of a trans politics which believes merely IDing as trans already completes trans liberatory work! https://twitter.com/yungtyranny/status/1387437153026772997

Obviously not only is being a woman fake but being transgender and nonbinary and ?-identified are also fake... so Dani is not saying anyone isn't really trans!! I think she's saying liberation is political work exceeding identity categories. Language is a strategy.

I'm sorry to add more commentary I'm just obsessed with the virulent reactions to this thread... especially when so much queer theory illuminates how idealizing identification as stable and articulable at any one moment is so often part of regulatory regimes of power, byeee