cis people who legitimately questioned their gender and decided they were cis are cis, but theyre not cis about it. i respect that.
exactly!! even if youre cis, examining your relationship with gender closely like that is only gonna help you understand yourself and grow as a person!!!
Please be careful about how you talk about puberty blockers in relation to how cis kids who are going through early puberty get them but trans kids don’t.
Some of these cis kids are intersex kids. For them, puberty blockers are often the first step in forcibly changing their body so that it doesn’t develop in a way deemed unacceptable (ex: an afab child going through “masculizing” puberty).
It is not a privilege. This is people trying to “fix” us and erase our intersexness. They are giving us medically unnecessary “treatment” for bigotted reasons. It’s a violation of our bodily autonomy. It’s traumatizing. Not to mention that some of these intersex “cis kids” may go on to realize they’re trans.
Don’t step on intersex people when trying to make a point about trans rights. Educate yourself on us overall, because this isn’t the only talking point around being trans that ignores (and ultimately invalidates) intersex people. And it’s especially harmful to trans intersex people.
Nef goes on to explain the difference between her photoshoot with Velencoso, versus how transgender women are typically photographed in fashion editorials. “Images of trans femmes being loved rarely exist outside of pornography,” Nef wrote. “We tend to be hyper-sexualized and objectified within the cisgender gaze. Either that or we’re dehumanized as scum or (just as bad) untouchable goddesses.”
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