I really don't give a fuck where you're at in the book, tell us your thoughts so far. And I better not seeing any of you shitlibs saying "Wahhh someone already said this buttttt", I don't give a single fuck. I want to hear them regardless of whether or not someone has already said something similar. Put your thoughts out there and I won't ask again. Do some self-crit amongst each other.

  • Are you beginning to understand how trans issues are inexplicably tied to cis people as well as trans people?
  • What can be done materially on this site to further the trans struggle?
  • What have you learned from Trans Liberation?
  • What was shocking for you to read about?
  • What misconceptions regarding trans struggles did you have that were clarified through the reading?
  • Is there anything you didn't understand that you have questions about?
  • Do you have a better understanding of what 'trans rights' entails instead of meaninglessly shouting it into the void?
  • Have you learned anything about yourself through reading this book involving your own gender?
  • Are there things that brought out intense emotion?
  • Literally anything else you want to say. God, please, just fucking discuss.

For any of you confused about language used throughout the book, I highly encourage you to read this brief wall of text that I wrote breaking things down.

If you found the parts about Leslie's interactions with doctors to be horrifying, please read this comment from yours truly about my experience with needing to find a new doctor a couple weeks ago and the challenges I faced with that. I got very lucky and that experience is no where N E A R as bad as M O S T of us have had it, but it's an experience I feel comfortable sharing.

Here is a comment from Quartz talking about her own lived experiences with transphobia. Read it and let the emotional confusion that this is the life a lot of us are forced to live flow through you.

  • maverick [they/them]
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    3 years ago

    I found it to be a very powerful. The part near the beginning about the doctor was shocking (but not surprising, if that makes sense). Being disabled and chronically ill, I related to it heavily. I've experienced a lot of bigotry and dismissal from doctors and other medical professionals in my life.

    There was another section around the middle expounding on the history of liberation movements, how their tendency to scapegoat a certain group to make themselves more easily accepted by the cishet patriarchal order ultimately ends up harming them. The women's liberation movement excluding lesbian women, the gay/lesbian liberation movement excluding trans / GNC people, etc. This was very compelling and succinctly illustrated the problem that plagues our movements today and fundamentally harms us all.

    The sections where various kinds of people told their stories were also powerful and I think they would probably be the most convincing part for cis readers.

    I also learned quite a bit, which I didn't really expect to given that I am nonbinary myself and have dealt with a lot of what the book handles. For example, I was unaware of bi- and tri-genderism. In hindsight, I'm surprised that I didn't know about them but I'm certainly glad that I know now.

    Overall, it's a good, fairly easy read that I think has educational value for just about anyone. Even boneheaded cishet men that refuse to learn on their own. I think you'd have to be deliberately and actively obtuse to not derive some kind of new understanding from the book. 10/10