pretty minor problem in the scheme of things but i’m taking a trans studies class in my university taught by who i’m 95% sure is just A Cis Guy and it is bothering me to no end.
going to class every week to learn why postmodern academics think Transsexualism™ is problematic and Reinforcing The Binary while i’m finally coming to terms with myself for actually wanting bottom surgery and realizing that it’s gotten a lot less accessible for me during the few years i spent waffling
pro-Hamas domestic woke terrorists are secretly building an elaborate hose network to facilitate a full scale invasion of our beautiful suburban lawns
at least for me the dehumanization is kind of the point, we use ‘it’ for animals too, but only for the disposable ones. cis ppl will apologize for misgendering a dog and then turn around and use the same language for a trans person that they would for a pest.
i don’t like that it’s as simple as “dehumanizing” to take away your consideration for someone, like maybe if being other than human weren’t a license to be treated with cruelty and disregard it wouldn’t be as easy to deny empathy just for being different.
i’ll use it/its out of solidarity with everyone and everything that doesn’t get to be a person, and bc i still have that privilege (usually) but i’d rather it not be a privilege at all.
also anecdotally as a trans woman saying she/it is a great way to not get passively aggressively they/them-ed and “that person”-ed
yeah i think a lot of this is based on a settler brained distortion of decolonization/landback as like reverse colonialism with the ultimate goal of instating some kind of bizarro ethnostate for the colonized. literally just isn’t what it’s about. especially in the US where we don’t have the same kind of hyper violent concentration camp thing happening (anymore) revenge really doesn’t seem to be a priority of any Indigenous people.
uncritical support to ewichuu for being so nice she actually reads my rambling
because for better and worse, white USian transfemininity is culturally linked to spending a lot of time posting online
it hurts because it’s true 
yeah we’re in a pretty reactionary area but i don’t think it’s that, like all this stuff is pretty mainstream liberal scholarship as far as i can tell, it just feels so alienating. like maybe i’m being spiteful or close minded but so much of “trans studies” just feels like trying to shoehorn us into some philosophical gender abolition thing for the sake of cis people instead of the actual material struggles of living as a trans person. the prof also seemingly can’t go a day without doing some really dismissive dig at marxism and then spending like half the class time trying to make my partner who’s in there with me look dumb for caring abt materialism.