The political climate is shit, and no one cares

Post this on MtF, meant to be a crosspost thing but honestly i got really frustrated and had a large rant at tucutey behaviour. Enjoy?

Look, im not ok right now. I'm halfway to crying and just got off the back of a severe bout of dysphoria. I'm going to offend people in this post. I'll try put tws and whatever retrospectively but as a general warning I'm going to be offensive.

The title sums up the post. I mean, thats what a title is for. Im from the UK, and things are going very USA over here. I detest your country even more now, ty for voting in the equivalent of a sociopolitical kamikaze. More and more people are going against trans people, just recently the situation with Emma and Rowling* (and before you start i AM on Emma's side, none of you understand how nuanced her relationship with Rowling is and the fact you guys attacked an ally over that was fucking disgusting) *has caused more people to be outspoken against trans people. New guidance is being released to basically treat trans youth as incapable of deciding for themselves, indefinitely barring them from access to healthcare until theyre 18. Reform UK is growing ever more popular, and Farage has spoken on trans issues with more sickening ferocity than any straight white man ive ever heard talk with.

And yet the trans community just doesnt give a shit. People are STILL lobbying for right to self identify and gain the benefits of such. They are STILL treating transness as if it's something not capable of impacting your entire fucking life. People dont give it any thought, dont register the fact that they've never felt dysphoric, they just go 'hmm ive got an urge to be a woman, surely that means I am one'. In an ideal world, that would be fine, great actually.

This isnt an ideal world. This is a world where people are fighting to be legally recognised. To have social rights akin to everyone else. But instead of focusing on yknow, the bare necessities like medical recognition, the trans community is overreaching and causing a lot of cis people discomfort. Believe it or not people dont like discomfort!!

And youre probably going to say 'well it shouldn't matter if they feel discomfort with my actions' and youre SO SO RIGHT. it SHOULDNT matter. But it DOES fucking matter. I hate it just as much as you do, but being quiet and unassuming is genuinely the only way people are going to start accepting us. Because a majority of people complain about the fact that 'the trans community is too loud and obnoxious and demanding'. They're partially right, but they'd be less inclined to believe so if we... i dont know asked nicely?

The gay rights movement was catalysed by a lot of things. Some of which were protests. But you cannot deny the fact that a lot of acceptance came from the silent acceptance of gay people by straight people. Those conversations where people were humanised, and not pedastalised, whether to be praised or vilified. Media that came out that told straight people that gay people werent some mystical species intent on 'turning your child gay', but were just human. A sentiment which, by the way, is literally mimicked today. Gay people didnt respond to that by replying with a meme. People are genuinely careless with the very little ground we have to stand on and it utterly infuriates me.

I wanted to be a doctor, for fucks sake. I wanted to fucking help people. And im going into medicine anyways, and im going to get in, because believe it or not this is something im actually capable of, and im so fucking good at it. But shit, this country is so bad the gender recognition certificate system will likely be shut down before I get out of uni. And why the fuck would the NHS want a trans doctor when theyre trying to suppress trans people? And i can't help but think this would at least be partially better if trans people werent so fucking demanding. What the fuck happened to 'just getting diagnosed, medicated and living a normal life'. Why did we have to encroach on things we just werent ready for?

I genuinely believe if Rowling or Lineham or any one of the transphobic pricks in the UK had a real, human conversation with a trans (woman), then they'd at least reconsider their views. Because all theyre attacking is this idea of trans people that has been put forth. An idea of this 'radical, oppressive force' thats trying to 'invade womens bathrooms' and 'sterilise children'. And those notions have been at least somewhat enforced by the trans community. Lily Tino, as an easy name to pick out of the crowd, fucked up the publics perception of trans women.

Not to mention this... reluctance? That trans people seem to have with talking about science. Our body is born the sex we're not, end of. When we take hormones and present differently, we're altering the secondary sex characteristics, those that typically define a 'man' and a 'woman'. That, in turn, better aligns the sex of the brain with the sex of the body, so we can function like a normal human. For some reason, trans people just cant decide on what 'biological reality' they live in. That indecisiveness quite literally hurts us; ive seen multiple people complain that they dont understand what being trans actually is, and so they never bother to understand. Which is exactly why we need to establish clearer information on this.

Trans people are being erased, its time to stop reaching for space; we need to ground ourselves first.