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Lynne✋🖤 @livingpuppet.bsky.social · 1d

I've always had an ambiguous relationship with "queer" for this exact reason. cis queers don't own it, but they sure act like they do. and why I'm emphatically annoyed when people insist certain people *aren't* queer *enough* for whatever reason.

Lynne✋🖤 @livingpuppet.bsky.social · 1d

as a group we're never the "right kind" of queer either individually or collectively. we are simultaneously too transgressive and/or too normative for the cis gays to consider us truly "one of them"

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Lynne✋🖤 @livingpuppet.bsky.social · 1d

as much as it's denounced, if you're reading this you should understand that for most trans people many queer spaces have always been lgb without the t. they are nominally inclusive but only insofar as we remain in their margins

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Lynne✋🖤 @livingpuppet.bsky.social · 1d

transphobia has become a centerpiece of the global far right. part of this story is how mainstream queer politics has repeatedly defined itself against transness. something that has reframed anti-transness as a progressive cause palatable to liberal elites

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Lynne✋🖤 @livingpuppet.bsky.social · 1d

whenever there's a conversation about who is the "right kind" of queer, trans people generally and conspicuously find ourselves excluded from this category.

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Lynne✋🖤 @livingpuppet.bsky.social · 6d

misgendered! on the court order to change my name!

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Lynne✋🖤 @livingpuppet.bsky.social · 6d

yes

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Lynne✋🖤 @livingpuppet.bsky.social · 6d

feel like it has to be restated over and over and over: your doctor is a cop

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Lynne✋🖤 @livingpuppet.bsky.social · 7d

Authors: Green, Richard, John Money.

Dave Hutchinson @hutchinsondave.bsky.social · 7d

‘Six words or _fewer_.”

A meme. There’s a skull at the top, followed by the words ‘WRITE A HORROR STORY IN SIX WORDS OR LESS’

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Lynne✋🖤 @livingpuppet.bsky.social · 7d

The Irish National Gender Service

Dave Hutchinson @hutchinsondave.bsky.social · 7d

‘Six words or _fewer_.”

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Lynne✋🖤 @livingpuppet.bsky.social · 7d

1 mg estrogen 100 mg spironolactone

Dave Hutchinson @hutchinsondave.bsky.social · 7d

‘Six words or _fewer_.”

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Lynne✋🖤 @livingpuppet.bsky.social · 10d

"what did she mean by this?"

Lynne✋🖤 @livingpuppet.bsky.social · 10d

most discourse is a result of context collapse. new discourse happens when the context collapse itself collapses into another context collapse. like a context prolapse

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ghost malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 10d

we should invent a Discourse that isn’t increasingly furious people talking past each other

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Lynne✋🖤 @livingpuppet.bsky.social · 11d

we should ban people from making new kinds of accelerationism. call it ban/acc

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Lynne✋🖤 @livingpuppet.bsky.social · 11d

It has also made me recognize how America-centered many online trans spaces really are. There are trans people everywhere, in places you couldn't even imagine. And everywhere, we are being threatened by the rise of the far right. This means we have to be transnational in our outlook and solidarity.

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Lynne✋🖤 @livingpuppet.bsky.social · 11d

This whole experience has really instilled a sense of solidarity with the immigrant community in both my current country and the States, where they're being deported, kidnapped, imprisoned in detention facilities and concentration camps.

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Lynne✋🖤 @livingpuppet.bsky.social · 11d

I'm incredibly lucky, but I've had to work my ass off just to live on scraps. I've couch surfed, slept on the bare wooden floor, and lived in crowded housing. I'm tired and I've completely destroyed my mental wellbeing. This isn't easy, even once you come out on the other end.

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Lynne✋🖤 @livingpuppet.bsky.social · 11d

Discrimination and bigotry doesn't disappear just because you've moved countries. You may still encounter the same attitudes you did at home. Transphobia is a global phenomenon. As an immigrant, this can compound your precarity. Do not expect fair treatment, even in "progressive" countries.

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Lynne✋🖤 @livingpuppet.bsky.social · 11d

You should know that being a transgender immigrant is not easy, even if you have the privilege of being American. Your status might be complicated by your inability to access the right documents. You may get challenged by immigration officials on the basis of your gender identity.

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Lynne✋🖤 @livingpuppet.bsky.social · 11d

Depending on your visa, you might not be able to find full-time employment, legal employment or employment that pays a livable wage. You might not be able to find decent housing, or find housing at all. You might even have to return to the United States, periodically or permanently.

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Lynne✋🖤 @livingpuppet.bsky.social · 11d

As somebody who left the States a while ago, people should be aware it isn't always as easy to access HRT in other countries, where it might be gatekept or withheld because of your immigrant status.

The only reason I could leave is because I got incredibly lucky and had nothing else tying me down.

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ktb ⧉ @kevinbaker.bsky.social · Dec 24

The longest debate in the history of forums is actually "Are mods cops?"

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Lynne✋🖤 @livingpuppet.bsky.social · 13d

my favorite thing about Bluesky moderation is they immediately banned me when I created my account, without reason, but apparently we can't ban people for off-platform activity

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Lynne✋🖤 @livingpuppet.bsky.social · 13d

cis people really love to pretend being trans is a privilege