Tumble DC 25

Marginally better than silence

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I think the reaction has two sources, one is a legitimate fear of marginalization through appropriation. The second is that people don’t like the idea of body dysphoria causing people to be happier without certain working extremities. It’s “weird and icky and gross”, as one person I’m following put it- the exact same reasons people use the exact same arguments (that it’s not a real problem, that people with dysphoria are appropriating from a marginalized community, concern trolling for people who undergo surgery to get rid of dysphoria, et al).

I think the reaction has two sources, one is a legitimate fear of marginalization through appropriation. The second is that people don’t like the idea of body dysphoria causing people to be happier without certain working extremities. It’s “weird and icky and gross”, as one person I’m following put it- the exact same reasons people use the exact same arguments (that it’s not a real problem, that people with dysphoria are appropriating from a marginalized community, concern trolling for people who undergo surgery to get rid of dysphoria, et al).

Filed under transableism

  1. transversegirl said: It seems the sources you listed derive from the old bugbear essentialism. Agree? I think this is a great point. In the suburbs of identity, cul de sacs abound. Transableism seems to question the existential basis of radical theories of identity.
  2. jonathan-cunningham posted this