I think it's safe to say I, older, would have gladly taken on this additional price you speak of for younger people, to have had those lost years back, that they will get to have.
I knew from age 3. I gathered the cost of suffering then and gained only lost time for, as you say...some suspect benefit that never was.
I think it's safe to say I, older, would have gladly taken on this additional price you speak of for younger people, to have had those lost years back, that they will get to have.
I knew from age 3. I gathered the cost of suffering then and gained only lost time for, as you say...some suspect benefit that never was.
So...
To do a bit of pushback to the pushback.
To argue against comparisons of "worse" and "better", or "more" or "less".
Very much. That reminds me of something ErinInTheMorning wrote on twitter once:
Trans femmes were never “socialized male,” and do not have “male privilege.” My socialization was bullying and mass societal abuse of the core of my being. I was socialized “terrified,” and my privilege was to “hide myself until I die.”
I think it's safe to say I, older, would have gladly taken on this additional price you speak of for younger people, to have had those lost years back, that they will get to have.
I knew from age 3. I gathered the cost of suffering then and gained only lost time for, as you say...some suspect benefit that never was.
So...
To do a bit of pushback to the pushback.
To argue against comparisons of "worse" and "better", or "more" or "less".
Say simply: "different".
In my time, younger, the 60s, transition was a thing very few were able to access. As was simply words or knowledge of what the heck was going on.
I'll repeat a thing I have said before:
I was not socialized as a boy or a man. I was socialized as a closeted trans girl and closeted trans woman.
Until I transitioned. Then I was socialized as a trans woman, or simply, a woman.
Very much. That reminds me of something ErinInTheMorning wrote on twitter once:
Trans femmes were never “socialized male,” and do not have “male privilege.” My socialization was bullying and mass societal abuse of the core of my being. I was socialized “terrified,” and my privilege was to “hide myself until I die.”
That was years ago, and the link (https://twitter.com/ErinInTheMorn/status/1462659618593779718?s=20) doesn't seem to work anymore (thanks, Elon!) but it resonated with me pretty hard at the time so I saved it.
I have that exact same tweet saved in my clip file too! Definitely resonated.