recursiveparadox | Re: Two points (Reply)

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The GLB element certainly has caused problems. Not just for the TS zone but also for the TG zone entirely. So I won't go there, considering my own bitterness on the topic.

What I will say is this: The only things the TG community, the smart, saavy, capable activists and advocates do in relation to TS folk is to push for surgery to be protected, less gatekeeperism, insurance coverage of the medical zones and our rights to be retained if bigots find out our history.

Because that's where things go wrong. Bigots do not consider you or me a woman. And they will operate based on that birth circumstance alone. There is currently no legal protection based around being fired or denied resources because of how you were born, body wise. Such a thing would be included under the T inclusive ENDA, along with unusual expression for the variant folk. By using a broad inclusive brush, they maximize the power of the act to protect everyone in the hugely varied TG umbrella. So you might feel like you don't need such a protection, but if there's even one flaw in your stealth mode, you will need it.

There are shitty members of the TG community. I've been told that my physical transition was drastic and ridiculous by some of the more crazy gender deconstructionalists. I have been told that self referential definitions are a good idea to protect identity (something that makes both the scientist and hobbyist linguist in me cringe). But trying to sever ties with the TG umbrella because of a vocal minority is just as bad as painting all of the NI model advocates under the brush of the Neo HBS separatists.

And worse than that, it's suicidal. TS can not do this alone due to being a minority.