分享 | Opinion: Why is trans debates important by Racheline Maltese
Racheline Maltese ｜ 3:24 AM · Jun 20, 2022
顺性别人。我需要你理解（并帮助其他人理解），"跨性别辩论 "不是 "只与少数人有关"，而是与所有人有关。下面的主题是为什么。(这主要是针对顺性别女性，但顺性别人男性我也需要你听。你们也处于危险之中）。
只有通过对每个人的性别和性进行监控，才有可能反跨性别。因为我向你保证--你不知道谁是跨性别，谁不是。此外，这大部分都不是真的关于跨性别者，尽管我们首先受到的伤害最大--这是关于控制。
反跨性别政策需要猜测，并惩罚人们--无论其性别如何--因为ta们不符合关于男人和女人的长相、行为和打扮的极其刻板的（和白人）假设。
以下是一些因使用女厕所而面临骚扰、暴力和法律影响的顺性别女性的类型。
- 短发女性
- 患有脱发症的妇女
- 身为运动员的妇女
- 做过乳房切除术的妇女
- 身材高大的女性
- 秃头的妇女
- 有面部毛发，但由于各种原因（包括宗教原因）选择不去除毛发的女性。
- 喜欢裤子和纽扣衫的女性。
- 喜欢超女性化的戏剧性复古风格的女性
- 有明显面部特征的女性 （AKA：长得不够「女性」的女性）
顺性别男子在他们的性别空间里也面临着骚扰，如果他们身材微胖、矮小、长发、即使刮干净也不明显长出面部毛发、喜欢不使用小便池、对以厌女症和暴力为中心的结合仪式不感兴趣，等等。
当跨性别人失去权利时，每个人都会成为性别PC的审查对象。任何有权对性别进行监督的人都不是在试图保护任何人--ta们就像一个讨厌你的老师，ta们热爱着ta们的红笔。
我的意思是，我们已经有多个州government超级热衷于给孩子们进行内部和外部生殖器检查，因为俄亥俄州可能有一个打垒球的跨性别女孩。除了告诉女孩她们的身体属于state之外，这样做的目的是什么？
总之，反跨性别的人越是能找到并惩罚性别可疑的人，ta们就越是高兴。这是一种Fascism的形式，甚至不是关于跨性别人。这是关于你在衣服、爱好、工作和关系方面的自由。
这是关于母亲的身份不是可有可无的。这是关于你身体里每一个有创造力、有好奇心的细胞都是危险的。
对于顺性别女人来说，跨性别权利是关于你是否足够好地做一个女人，是否足够好地被限制在白人基督教民族主义版本的女人身份中，以获得安全。你可能不是。而且，无论怎样惩罚跨性别人都不会改变这一点。
你喜欢穿裤子吗？你喜欢你的跆拳道课吗？很喜欢留短发？超级喜欢自己决定什么时候，如果有的话，生孩子？除了双腿交叉坐在脚踝处，你还喜欢其他的坐姿？恭喜你，顺性别女性，跨性别权利是关于你的。
如果你不为你的跨性别兄弟姐妹撑腰，你就有可能不得不告别你所喜欢的一切，即你作为你一直以来的性别生活的方式。
反跨性别的恐慌是一个更广泛的Fascism议程的一部分，其重点是剥夺每个人在公共和私下的选择。抛弃跨性别人，让ta们遭受迫害和死亡是不道德的。它也为Fascism打开了你的社区、你的家和你的心的大门。
简单的自我利益确实要求顺性别人支持跨性别人的权利，即使这让你感到不舒服，即使你不认识任何跨性别人。如果你不关心我们，至少要拯救你们自己。也许要忙着向你周围的顺性别人解释。
同样的，顺性别人？想为此做些什么吗？每次报纸主张一个政党放弃跨性别权利时，你就写封信给编辑，因为它与足够多的人无关，在我们的政治中不重要。
此外，你是否喜欢这个主题，但却因为 "顺性别人 "这样的 "学术 "语言而咒骂我？那就用你自己的语言，以你知道人们会接受的方式来表达这些观点。来吧!
Opinion: Why Trans Debate is important
Cis people: I need you to understand (and help others understand) that “the trans debate” is NOT relevant “to only a small number of people” but to everyone. Thread below for why: (This is focused on cis women, but cis dudes I need you to listen too. You are also in danger.)
Being anti-trans is only possible by policing the gender and sex of everyone. Because I promise you - you don’t know who is trans and who isn’t. Also, most of this isn’t really about trans people although we get hurt the most first - it’s about control.
Anti-trans policies require guesswork and punish people - regardless of gender and sex - for not conforming to extremely stereotypical (and white) assumptions about what men and women look like, act like, and dress like.
Here are just some of the types of cis women who have faced harassment, violence, and legal repercussions for using a women’s bathroom:
- women with short hair
- women with alopecia
- women who are athletes
- women who have had mastectomies
- women who are tall (Continued)
- women who are balding
- women who have facial hair and choose not to remove it for a range of reasons including religious ones.
- women who like pants and button downs.
- women who like hyper-feminine theatrical vintage styles
- women with pronounced facial features
Cis men also face harassment in their gendered spaces if they are slight, short, have long hair, don’t obviously grow facial hair even when clean shaven, prefer not to use a urinal, are disinterested in bonding rituals centered around misogyny and violence, and more
When trans people lose rights everyone becomes open to scrutiny by the gender police. Anyone empowered to police gender is not trying to protect anyone - they’re like a teacher that hates you and loves their red pen.
I mean we’ve got multiple state governments super hyped to give kids internal and external genital exams because there might be one trans girl in Ohio playing softball. What’s the purpose of that beyond telling girls their bodies belong to the state?
Anyway, the more people anti-trans people can find and penalize for being gender suspicious, the happier they are. It’s a form of fascism that isn’t even about trans people. It’s about your freedom in your clothes, hobbies, jobs, and relationships.
It’s about motherhood not being optional. It’s about every creative, curious cell in your body being dangerous.
For cis women, trans rights are about whether you’re good enough at being a woman and good enough at being confined to the white Christian nationalist version of womanhood to be safe. You probably aren’t. And no amount of punishing trans people will change that.
You like wearing pants? You like your kickboxing class? Big fan of wearing your hair short? Super into making your own decisions about when, if ever, to have kids? Enjoy sitting in anyway other than legs crossed at the ankle? Congrats, cis women, trans rights are about you.
And if you don’t stick up for your trans siblings, you’re at risk of having to say goodbye to everything you love about how you live as the gender you’ve always been.
The anti-trans panic part of a broader fascist agenda focused on taking away everyone’s choices in public and in private. Abandoning trans people to persecution and death is immoral. It also opens the doors of your community and your home and your heart to fascism.
Simple self-interest really does require cis people to support trans rights, even if it makes you uncomfortable, and even if you don’t know any trans people. If you don’t care about us, at least save yourselves. And maybe get busy explaining that to the cis folks around you.
Also cis people? Wanna be useful? Write a letter to the editor every time a newspaper advocates that a party abandon trans rights because it’s not relevant to enough people to matter in our politics.
Also are you bleating about liking this thread but cursing me for “academic” language like “cis”? Then USE YOUR OWN WORDS TO CONVEY THESE POINTS IN A WAY PEOPLE YOU KNOW WILL BE RECEPTIVE TO. Come on!
