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When trans folks point out the cowardice of institutions complying with anti-trans bigotry, we're often hit with "but what do you expect them to do?"
Well, this.
Say "no." Refuse. Defy. Grow a goddamn spine.
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Idk what to even put here anymore. 30. It/Its.
![Tumblr post from user tpwrtrmnky on June 4th
[person with a horrendous understanding of both marxism and queerness]: Closeted people are the bourgeoisie of queerness, because they benefit from the labor of out queer people while adding no visible queerness of their own.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cfaqiryvp2b55j5pwpny7cmn/bafkreihdk5nioi2dzlzsi3mjkyndhhxc4a2kljzrmw6qalvtwjbfs3wsxi)
![Snippet of Tumblr reblogs:
taliabhattwrites
A panel of two trans guys and a cis woman explaining that trans lesbians are bourgeois and fake, very cool thank you queer theory
prognostichannya
It's actually even worse than Talia is making it out to be, my jaw genuinely dropped multiple times. Amin frames trans lesbians as square-jawed, non-passing bourgeois white women who "talked and acted masculine" and didn't care about their appearance, and straight trans women as passing, feminine, working-class women of color who were oppressed by them.
He frames trans women attracted to women as being a white, upper-class, homophobic oppressor class who considered themselves at least partially 'heterosexual men', and claims they had a deep disdain for and privilege over trans women attracted to men (who were all non-white street queens), and then only in the 1980s began to re-evaluate their self-identity to become 'lesbians'
In maybe the most specifically egregious moment, in response to a question which explicitly mentioned Beth Elliot, he said "there wasn't an articulation of trans lesbian identity until the 1980s, when this upper-class group [of rich white non-passing women-attracted trans women] began to re-examine the understanding of transvestites as 'heterosexual' [i.e. men attracted to women], and some of them began to articulate this as 'lesbianism'."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:awkrsu65rc42u6abvzrjwuck/bafkreicbwcnmb7qy3b3crawxsest3yp4baimt5ufcmuwmjndp6znjvwehe)
