But all of that is moot because 7/9 didn't choose to become a woman. Parts of its body were rotting and sloughing off as they were rejected, and Janeway said "Tough nuts, you're a woman now". That is the body horror experienced by transmascs. 7/9 never expressed consent, only acceptance that it was the only possible option for survival. Janeway never asked permission, and with 7/9 being forced to become human, everybody implictly accepted that meant 7/9 had to become a woman because humans aren't nonbinary. That entire angle of the plot dehumanises nonbinary people, not to mention that 7/9 is pressured to pursue men as it becomes a woman because all must bow to the heteropatriarchy.
If trans women see themselves in a being that was forced against its will to become a woman then that is also horrible, and the difference between myself and them is that they have options. Even within Star Trek, trans women have Jadzia Dax and Soren. They have people of their gender with a similar experience and journey. And for the journey of being forced into womanhood under threat of violence we have Seven of Nine. And that is not a transfem experience, that is a transmasc/nonbinary/intersex experience such as I had.
If you're correct to say that the transfem reading of Seven of Nine resonates with the desire not to be accused of having been forced into transitioning, then how does the fact that 7/9 was forced into transitioning make any sense? No, 7/9 is the story of forced transition, forced womanhood. The abuses suffered by intersex infants and nonbinary adults. 7/9's story is the clericofascist groomer narrative if 7/9 is transfem. But if 7/9 is nonbinary, then its story is the actual oppression of sex and gender nonbinary people.
But all of that is moot because 7/9 didn't choose to become a woman. Parts of its body were rotting and sloughing off as they were rejected, and Janeway said "Tough nuts, you're a woman now". That is the body horror experienced by transmascs. 7/9 never expressed consent, only acceptance that it was the only possible option for survival. Janeway never asked permission, and with 7/9 being forced to become human, everybody implictly accepted that meant 7/9 had to become a woman because humans aren't nonbinary. That entire angle of the plot dehumanises nonbinary people, not to mention that 7/9 is pressured to pursue men as it becomes a woman because all must bow to the heteropatriarchy.
If trans women see themselves in a being that was forced against its will to become a woman then that is also horrible, and the difference between myself and them is that they have options. Even within Star Trek, trans women have Jadzia Dax and Soren. They have people of their gender with a similar experience and journey. And for the journey of being forced into womanhood under threat of violence we have Seven of Nine. And that is not a transfem experience, that is a transmasc/nonbinary/intersex experience such as I had.
If you're correct to say that the transfem reading of Seven of Nine resonates with the desire not to be accused of having been forced into transitioning, then how does the fact that 7/9 was forced into transitioning make any sense? No, 7/9 is the story of forced transition, forced womanhood. The abuses suffered by intersex infants and nonbinary adults. 7/9's story is the clericofascist groomer narrative if 7/9 is transfem. But if 7/9 is nonbinary, then its story is the actual oppression of sex and gender nonbinary people.