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juney-blues · 20 hours ago

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when a cis person gets medical surgery and treatment to allign closer with their coercively assigned gender at birth, that is in fact, different, to when a transgender person does it.

yes, even if they're the same surgeries! and yes, even if the cis person is intersex!

that does not make a cisgender person meaningfully "trans" in any way what are you people talking about?

being transgender is kinda, fundamentally about being a different gender than you were assigned at birth! and the societal pressures that come with being that are always going to be different than someone who has the same gender that society assigns them!

like this line of thought implies that, being transgender is just a process of surgeries and hormones and medicalization? which, i shouldn't have to tell you that's transphobic but it kinda fuckin is !

i'm sorry but this is just a nonsensical concept and following it to any of its logical conclusions implies really weird things about transgender people and intersex people.

#juney.txt #people seem to have this weird conception of intersex-ness that like #it's just magically complicating somehow #in a way that just kinda seems like any time intersex people are brought into the conversation #they just don't wanna think about it anymore.#and just throw their hands up and go ''well whatever none of the pressures of society apply here anything at all can happen''#just idk #the example i was given seems really fuckin obvious to me in how not trans it is #like ''oh if an intersex afab woman's body started masculinizing and it made her dysphoric #and she started taking hormones to relieve that dysphoria #wouldn't that make her an afab trans woman?''#like no what the fuck are you talking about #like even if we're just treating trans-ness as a purely medical thing for some reason #surely you can see the difference between taking hormones to allign closer with the gender society wants you to be #and the gender society doesn't want you to be #surely you can imagine the latter might come with a hell of a lot more roadblocks and medical gatekeeping and discrimination right

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