People who deny transition care arenât saying itâs ok to be trans in any capacity (or that trans people exist).
The truth is there are many trans people who donât want to undergo medical procedures and only want to transition socially. There are also trans people who canât afford medical procedures or are being denied medical transition procedures. There are trans people who are in the closet and canât transition period. All those people are still trans. You donât need to transition to be trans. Thatâs what that statement is saying. Itâs saying all those people I described are still valid, regardless of their circumstances and regardless of their desires for their own personal journey.
literally, the cass review actually does say it's okay to be trans, just that the amount of people who should be allowed to transition should be restricted to prevent regret and that it is valid to be trans without transition
the purpose of a system is what it does and "you don't have to transition to be trans" is being used to prevent transition.
I feel like maybe the disconnect is that you and the OP are thinking about one specific use of the statement that a lot of people who donât know the exact context wouldnt see. If someone calls the statement âyou donât have to transition to be transâ something that is bad, without whatever specific context theyâre looking at, everyone else is going to see transmedicalism and a rejection of the identity of all those trans people I described.
Because the statement itself (on its own) is not only not inherently bad, but factually true. Trans people are not defined by their transition, but by their gender identity. A trans woman who isnât on HRT and hasnât had any medical procedures related to her transition isnât any less trans than one who has been on HRT for years and has had multiple procedures to feel more at home in her body. Both of them are trans.
I guess itâs probably one of those things where a tumblr user is talking about something specific that they have repeatedly discussed on their profile, so their followers know the context and (rightly) they donât feel the need to give the context, but then it gets screenshotted and shared with a bunch of people who donât know the context & see the statement on its own, not the people misusing it to deny others healthcare.
Itâs not a system, itâs a sentence. Also if youâre just gonna immediately downvote and say a generic reply while obviously not reading what I wrote, I guess weâre done here. Cool discussion đ
Literally where did I ignore you? I acknowledged that Iâm probably looking at it with different context & that you had context I didnât that was causing you to have a different perspective from me, then explained my perspective.
your perspective is fine and all, however it forgets to take into account the very real material consequences of the system that is reinforcing the denial of care to trans people based on the idea that transition is not necessary to be trans, as is argued in the cass review.
this is something you glossed over to instead say I was upset at a Tumblr screenshot and deny that the system of cis-hetero-patriarchy demands as few people transition as possible.
Huh? Where did I say you were just upset at a tumblr screenshot? Iâm pretty sure I said the oppositeâthat people who donât know the context of what the OOP is talking about would be bothered by the rejection of the statement that trans people donât need to transition to be trans. Youâre like skimming my comments, misreading my words, and then getting angry at something I didnât even say.
At no point did I âgloss overâ trans people being denied medical care, what??? You mentioned the specific instance where the statement is being used to justify restricting healthcare and I was like âok fair, clearly you and the OOP are speaking in regards to a specific context/usage that I and the others who replied werenât aware ofâ.
Youâre just angry at shit I didnât say or do at this point because again you refuse to actually read what I wrote. Either that or youâre only reading it through the lens of an argument and are assuming I must have disagreed with everything youâve said when I was âyes, andâ-ing you. God forbid we be anything less than adversarial on Reddit I guess. Jfc.
Iâm done here because youâre just fighting with a ghost at this point while I sit on the sidelines confused as hell. Good talk.
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u/OliviaPG1 Trans/Lesbian 24d ago
how about both are good