I don’t want to read about the first transgender judge, the first transgender major, the first transgender senator, or even the first transgender prime minister.
Stop presenting someones individual success as something that makes the world better for us all, it doesn’t.
Show me the first year in which no transgender person was murdered, the first clinic in my country that practices Informed Consent, the first year in which all my refugee friends get a passport or the first year where we no longer do the shitty ‘passports are required to live’ shit.
I want change, not the individualist illusion of change.
that an individual person is able to overcome obstacles of a transmisogynist racist institution often doesn’t say so much about the institution as it does about the person
The person and their function as a collaborator in an oppressive system that likes to prop up minority individuals as empty symbols of progress while using these same individuals to enact oppressive policies.
