trans* identities and kyriarchy
also, yeah, i was angry at you and other people for being so oppressive about transabled and transethnic identities. i am angry at a lot of people, at the general ~consensus~ as it seems to be, to have this instant reaction of oppressive revulsion and anger. i don’t think it’s right that this is what is happening. so every time you find out that an identity you have never heard of before actually exists, you’re going to attempt to police it, to say that it doesn’t deserve to exist, that people with that identity are wrong and lying?
that’s really not okay. it’s horrible and oppressive and demeaning and cruel, and it is a sign of privilege. i wish we would all stop this identity policing in our movements, i really do.
oh, and then, those of us who are privileged, you’re / we’re going to say things like “well i’m white so i can’t talk about transethnic identities” or “i’m abled so i can’t talk about transabled identities” or “i’m thin so i can’t talk about transfat identities” but in your / our so-called silence and “neutrality,” you / we are siding with oppressors, you / we are pretending that somehow your, or our, privilege isn’t already inherently evident in the whole thing, whether we / you speak about it or not.
i wish at least you / we wouldn’t proclaim how we’re not going to talk about the things we’re privileged in, as if it’s some great thing to do. it’s not. nothing that we do out of our privilege is ever a great thing. certainly, proclaiming our efforts to be accountable or whatever, is just yet another disgusting display of privilege.
i do think it is complicated, the intersections and layerings of dis/privileges between, for example, transethnic people of colour and cisethnic people of colour. similarly for transfat people and cisfat people, transabled disabled people and cisdisabled people. i think maybe we should try to talk about the complexity, if we can? rather than being oppressive and dismissive and erasing and outright terrible about all of this.
