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.
What if they oppressed individual is enacting liberating policies? Then can we be proud of their achievements?
I don’t take much time pondering this hypothetical because I have yet to see a member of a minority in a position of power enact actual liberating policies, tbh. What is often presented as liberating policies is actually just the bare minimum of acknowledging that the minority exists while nothing significant changes on the ground. And it often comes at the price of glossing over massive injustices. I’m not going to cheer the lgbt politician that helps legalize same sex marriage while endorcing laws that kill lgbt refugees, so there’s that.
But sure, hypothethically, if these policies would actually make things better I would celebrate first the change and second the movement that probably fought for them for them decades or centuries to create a situation in which they could happen and maybe third the person that worked to give them the final push.
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