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.

  • Posadas [he/him, they/them]
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    3 years ago

    Here's a quote for anyone looking through this thread, and wondering why they need to pay attention to this.

    Long Quote

    “Let us win our demands first,” they plead, “and then your demands will be more easily won later on.” That’s a trickle-down theory of reform. But those of us who have been trickled on in the past are not impressed with that strategy.

    When a young social movement breaks down societal closet doors and floods into the streets, its leading activists suddenly begin to get advice from those in power who were never “friendly” before. These advisors urge leaders to send in their “best-dressed, most articulate spokespeople” (code words for white and middle- to upper-classed) to negotiate for progressive legislation and other reforms. But, they counsel, “Keep it to a single, simple demand. And disassociate with those who are too angry and too militant.”

    This is an old tactic. When I was a teenager involved in factory struggles in Buffalo, New York, management sent similar messages through emissaries to union activists. But it was divisive - because the relationship of strength atthe bargaining table is directly related to the relationship of forces on the picket lines outside. When we fought a list of demands together, kept each other’s spirits high on the picket lines, and defended each other from attacks by cops and company goons, we frequently won.

    But when we allowed ourselves to be split along lines of oppression, we always lost.

    “An injury to one is an injury to all.” It’s the truth the union movement was built on. It’s solid bedrock to build a lesbian, gay, bisexual, and trans liberation movement on, too. And it reminds us of our connection to others who are fighting for justice and equality.

    We are not just gay, lesbian, bi or trans people. Our populations include many oppressed nationalities, people with aids, women, youths, elders, people who are unemployed, homeless, Deaf, disabled, prisoners, people dependent on welfare, ssi, Medicaid, and Medicare.

    Today we are witnessing a violent bipartisan attack on all our standards of living. This slash-and-burn policy will affect millions of people all over the country, including many lesbian, gay, bi, and trans people. Is it any wonder that we are seeing a simultaneous rise in scapegoating?

    Leslie Feinberg