Trans =/=
Author:
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Trans =/=
(Trans does not equal)
By Melanie E.
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Trans =/= "Can pass as the gender they identify as."
Trans =/= "Responsible for when others hate them for simply existing."
Trans =/= "Only counts if you've had bottom surgery."
Trans =/= "Only counts if you've transitioned or are transitioning at all."
Trans =/= "It's only a gender identity and social construct thing."
Trans =/= "Fully embracing the social standards of the gender you identify as."
Trans =/= "Insisting that the modern gender binary is a good thing."
Trans =/= "Misogyny as a means of validating one's identity."
Trans =/= "Into fetishes or being someone else's fetish."
Trans =/= "They're coming to turn your children."
Trans =/= "Groomers and child abusers."
Trans =/= "It only counts if you're like me."
Trans =/= "Survivorship bias proves that you should only come out if you pass."
Trans =/= "You deserve to be second-class because you asked for it by being a freak."
Trans =/= "Unwell."
Trans =/= "Unworthy of being loved."
Trans =/= "Just a confused gay man/lesbian woman."
Trans =/= "Only transgender/transhumanist/trans-whatever else."
Trans =/= "They should accept me because I'm one of the GOOD ones."
Trans =/= "I have to defend someone's bad takes purely because they're trans too."
Trans =/= "white man who doesn't realize that being able to be trans is a male privilege."
Trans =/= "Women who want male privilege."
Trans =/= "Victim."