More than anything it's just exhausting to be around, no wonder these radlib orgs are always dealing with activist burnout and drama. In my experience, it made it harder to recognise that I am non-binary since people are so quick to label in those spaces and I didnt want to get called out for "taking up space" that wasn't mine so I just went along with the cis label.
It's tricky because the conception of transgender and cisgender presupposes that those exist as binary categories, or are even necessary to exist at all.
Gender is obviously not a useful idea in any utopian power relations so should be done away with.
the conception of transgender and cisgender presupposes that those exist as binary categories, or are even necessary to exist at all.
Well they exist because people actually experience their lives this way. People are assigned a gender at birth that is incorrect, which is what makes them trans. I'd be careful this this line of reasoning, it kind of sounds like that post-gender, gender-blind stuff. Not saying that is the case with you, but I would be critical of those intuitions.
I am of the view that post-gender is a theoretical ideal to slowly meander towards, but doing so now represents significant harm against people who live in a gendered society.
I think the actual lived experience of people is important to consider but not something fixed forever.
More than anything it's just exhausting to be around, no wonder these radlib orgs are always dealing with activist burnout and drama. In my experience, it made it harder to recognise that I am non-binary since people are so quick to label in those spaces and I didnt want to get called out for "taking up space" that wasn't mine so I just went along with the cis label.
It's tricky because the conception of transgender and cisgender presupposes that those exist as binary categories, or are even necessary to exist at all.
Gender is obviously not a useful idea in any utopian power relations so should be done away with.
Well they exist because people actually experience their lives this way. People are assigned a gender at birth that is incorrect, which is what makes them trans. I'd be careful this this line of reasoning, it kind of sounds like that post-gender, gender-blind stuff. Not saying that is the case with you, but I would be critical of those intuitions.
I am of the view that post-gender is a theoretical ideal to slowly meander towards, but doing so now represents significant harm against people who live in a gendered society.
I think the actual lived experience of people is important to consider but not something fixed forever.