Jess on Nostr: Trans visibility is one of those genies that transphobes are terrified they can't put ...
Trans visibility is one of those genies that transphobes are terrified they can't put back in the bottle.
I can't even tell you how blown away Jess of 1995 would have been if she could see an honest to God trans woman being sworn in to the US Congress. Shaking hands and smiling at the cameras with the minority leader and other Caucus leaders. Casting votes in the halls of power on the behalf of hundreds of thousands of people from her state who knew exactly who she was and wanted her to represent them.
Or that there are trans musicians with millions and millions of fans
Trans actors
Trans engineers
Trans rocket scientists
Trans doctors.
And even that a trans woman could be a normal suburban housewife, living with her wife and kids, going to the PTA and helping out with bake sales and just living her life. Most folks in the neighborhood know she's trans, and simply don't care.
Sure, 1995 Jess had found that 'transsexuals' existed, in porn or on Jerry Springer or deeply stealth. But she didn't know that we could be normal. Respected. Loved. Successful. Or even ... that people could know who you are, and find it ... Normal. Boring. Like that being trans is the 4th most interesting thing about you.
Of course they're going to fight like hell to try to cram us back in the closet. At times, violently so. But it's going to prove impossible for them to do so.
I can't even tell you how blown away Jess of 1995 would have been if she could see an honest to God trans woman being sworn in to the US Congress. Shaking hands and smiling at the cameras with the minority leader and other Caucus leaders. Casting votes in the halls of power on the behalf of hundreds of thousands of people from her state who knew exactly who she was and wanted her to represent them.
Or that there are trans musicians with millions and millions of fans
Trans actors
Trans engineers
Trans rocket scientists
Trans doctors.
And even that a trans woman could be a normal suburban housewife, living with her wife and kids, going to the PTA and helping out with bake sales and just living her life. Most folks in the neighborhood know she's trans, and simply don't care.
Sure, 1995 Jess had found that 'transsexuals' existed, in porn or on Jerry Springer or deeply stealth. But she didn't know that we could be normal. Respected. Loved. Successful. Or even ... that people could know who you are, and find it ... Normal. Boring. Like that being trans is the 4th most interesting thing about you.
Of course they're going to fight like hell to try to cram us back in the closet. At times, violently so. But it's going to prove impossible for them to do so.