One of the worse aspects of tumblr discourse is the separation of gayness from innate gender nonconformity
Gay people have a long and weird historical relationship with gender that’s been completely wiped away with identity politics
The assumption that any deviation from cis-ness is trans-ness is separating gay people from a historical relationship that gay culture grew around.
This isn’t to say that us cis lgb people aren’t cis/don’t have cis privilege because that’s not true.
What I’m saying is that the history is more complicated than that and attempting to remove an important aspect of gayness from gay people is dangerous for gay youth especially because our connections to our history are so thin at the tail end of the AIDS crisis.
This is OK to rb
Gender crits fuck off
Yes! And we need to be just as explicit about the historic connection of transgender people to sexual diversity and the massive fucking grey area between the two.
Feminine gay men, non-binary people, transwomen, butches, transmen: these people have always found each other (and loved each other and fucked each other) in the confusing grey areas between identities, the double marginalization that involved and together they have created spaces of community where romantic, sexual and genderdiversity could thrive, unlimited, unrestricted.
Pretending trans men don’t share a history with butches and gay nelly queens didn’t make weapons out of their heels side by side with their trans sisters robs us of the historic threads that tie us together.
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