Designing a new sticker/flyer/thingy.I’m not sure about the text on the second version.

I want to get the point across that trans people are being presented by the liberal assimilationist transgender movement in a way that’s as desexualized as possible and as far removed as possible from the sex workers that make up a significant portion of trans people. This is meant to make trans people easier to accept and assimilate by mainstream culture but it directly hurts trans people.

Trans people’s sexual lives are not talked about in an honest open way and as a result the only narratives about trans sex lives that are hugely transphobic and fetishistic ones. Consequently many trans people’s sexual lives and feelings about their body as a sexual body are wrapped in silence, shame and doubt, full of questions like “am I still real if this turns me on? will people still believe that I am real?”.

This disconnects trans people from their desires, needs and boundaries and directly contributes to many trans people’s inability to assert desires, needs and boundaries which directly contributes to the already staggering rates of sexual violence against trans people. Oh and by the way, the desexualization of trans people also contributes directly to the lack of conversations about the staggering rates of sexual violence against trans people.

For asexual trans people being desexualized by society can mean not being able to identify and name their asexuality because the narrative that trans people should not have or express a sexuality anyway is so present.

And last but defenitely not least this creates a trans movement that does not feel connected to trans sex workers and does not feel a need to include them in their activism in a meaningful way beyond ‘silent victim at TDOR to be mourned but never allowed to speak’.

So for fuck’s sake, fuck all the fucking people who don’t wanna acknowledge that a lot of us fucking fuck.