"I actually have noticed that my relationship to my work has already changed since coming out. I feel more invested in my work. I was already invested but I think I felt emotionally detached from work because I was going by different names, not being truly seem, etc. For example I didn't mind working for a little over an hour today (Sunday) to make progress on my project =)

I think a lot of this has to do with the completely positive response to the coming out, which is a true privilege"

  • AcidSmiley [she/her]
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    1 year ago

    A big part of marginalization is that those stealing our wages get a whole new set of benefits that cost them fucking nothing to leverage against us. As long as there's a sizeable number of transphobic workplaces, being employed at one that treats you with the minimum of basic human dignity means that you will be reluctant to switch to a job at a place that you don't know, because that always has the potential to give you a bunch of new traumas. This is why liberalism's inability to truly end marginalization instead of putting a band aid on it at best is actually liberalism working as intended within bourgeois society.