My coping mechanisms in a violent world: fuck cis people, lol. everyone on the down with cis bus.

My politics to change that violent world: all the oppressed of the world unite, we have nothing to lose but our chains

These are not incompatible. I think cis people could understand that if they tried. My mechanisms to shield my mental health from being effected too much by transphobia are compatible with my compassion and solidarity for all who experience oppression.

I also see a lot of people who are turning their coping mechanisms into politics, (as liberal identity politics pretty much urges us to do), shaping their queer activism around a hatred of ‘the cishets’, which makes them more likely to support a trans celebrity for president than a ‘cishet’ neighbour struggling with starvation wages and racism. 

And it makes me sad. Our anger could be about so much more than individual survival, our anger could unite us. Our anger could break all these systems down.