Excellent episide with a lot of very important things to hear.
Trans Ally Essentials
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There's more to trans allyship than simply not having anything against trans people. I (re)post things here that are important for allies be aware of, such as trans 101 stuff, news, history, and resources for more info.
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So, to be clear, most cis people don't actually think that gender affirming care works.
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This is made evident in a lot of different ways.
One of those ways is how when cis people talk about someone's transition, they talk about it as if it happened in a day. Like, when a trans person talks about their transition, they usually say "I started transitioning in [date]". Where as the cis person will say "X transitioned in [date]".
They think transition is surgery. It's a surgery. They think trans people go under, get bottom surgery, breast implants and ffs all in one go and wake up all transitioned.
They think it's possible to change the shape of your body, but not its function. It's all superficial, just changing your appearance. You might even look like the opposite gender, but nothing meaningful actually changed. You have breasts now? That doesn't mean you can ever produce milk. And if you do something so you can? That milk would probably be harmful to a baby.
That's why you'll never be a woman.
As if we don't know that TWERFs stick to the fact that trans women don't have utureses as the ultimate undeniable proof that we are not actually women. Do you think if medical technology ever changes so that we can get uteri grown from stem cells, suddenly they'll accepted that we are now women?
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And you might be thinking, if cis people don't really believe medical transition works, why are conservatives constantly talking about hormones?
They think it does *something*, but not that that something is equivalent to an endogenous puberty.
Like, they'll interfere with your development and make you sterile. They definitely affect you in some negative ways, but they will never produce meaningful results. After all, boys and girls are genetically different.
I'm sure they think someone assigned male at birth taking estrogen is going to get larger breasts. But they don't think those breasts are the same as a cis girl's breasts. They wi…](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:fn7gmsrozrf54vvm2ivgkqbb/bafkreidh36e4k7uxa5zjvhjinmql6vmtnc7npkw3ln75whehefjod4j3ma)
