Quote:Now, I wish trans people would dare to accept themselves, as they are, and realize that they are not the problem, the way society is structured is the problem. I want them to know that no one is born incorrectly. No life is incorrect. No body must be reshaped to be an authentic expression of the self, nor is transitioning a rebellion from the gender binary: that is a lie that we have been told in the interest of upholding patriarchal standards of manhood and womanhood, and the ulterior goal behind such standards is to maintain and expand patriarchal power. When feminine men can't be men, and masculine women can't be women, who benefits? Patriarchy does. Gender roles keep everyone in line. If a feminine man maintains his identity as a man (rather than transitioning to a trans woman), the male sex is emasculated, and in patriarchal terms, disempowered, because the masculine is viewed as more powerful than the feminine; the most disempowering state of being is femininity, as women are seen as mere sexual objects. The gender-non-conforming male must be punished and exiled from his brethren. If a masculine woman maintains her identity as a woman (rather than transitioning to a trans man), she loses her use in patriarchal society, as her use as a woman hinges upon her sexual objectification and servitude to male power. The gender-non-conforming woman must be punished and exiled into inhumanity, relating to no one. Gender non-conforming people are a threat to patriarchal power because we rebel against social coercion and conditioning. Of course we would be encouraged to transition! It's a brilliant method to silence us, busy us, while the world goes on as it's been for millenia! These standards of gender roles hurt everyone. I wish society allowed us all to express ourselves as we wish while keeping biological fact intact: I dream of the abolition of gender roles, I dream of a world where no one wants to transition. I dream of a world where the healthcare system doesn't make billions of dollars each year by exploiting the insecurities of gender-non-conforming people through medical experimentation (with hidden health complications) marketed as life saving, gender affirming care. Transgender healthcare (if you can even call it that) is a criminal deception on a massive scale, driven by greed and patriarchal power. The only way that society will change for the better is if we make it that way. It produces much more social change to reject the rigid, unfair gender roles thrust upon us by our birth sex and express ourselves as we feel, rather than reinforce gender roles by transitioning. Because when you transition, you perpetuate the idea that feminine=woman, and masculine=man, and that simply isn't true, nor has it ever been. A woman is a female, a man is a male, and there's nothing that should tell us what to say, how to act, what clothes to wear or who to love. In my personal opinion, going down the arduous and honorable path of radical self-acceptance is the most important work anyone can do. Self-acceptance is a much more rewarding and worthwhile task, rather than changing yourself into something more palatable within our society and within your own perspective. Self-acceptance leads to a fuller, richer, more authentically joyful life.

Quote:I had to mourn the woman I could never be: that heterosexual, obedient ingénue. I will never know the woman I would’ve grown up to be had I never been medicalized. What would she look like naturally, if there was never any medical intervention? What would she sound like? Who would she be? Happy and whole? Unlike me?

Quote:When feminine men can't be men, and masculine women can't be women, who benefits? Patriarchy does. Gender roles keep everyone in line.