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   CJ Bellwether (siege@octodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 21:27:35 JST CJ Bellwether

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   @Impossible_PhD just to add AIDS along with Reagan and others indifferent reaction to it is also a huge reason for why we are missing so much of generations. We never had a wave, or the capacity for a wave to transition before, and those who could have been that wave, most did not survive to see a time where they could be.

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     Doc Impossible (impossible_phd@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 21:27:36 JST Doc Impossible

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     I have no interest in burning bright and dying young. I want to live a long, long life and be a menace at whatever retirement home I land at, chasing the residents down the hallway alongside my cackling wife.

     But that's hard to imagine when I've never seen other folks like that.

     WPATH and the APA stole our elders from us. I will never forgive them for it.

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     Doc Impossible (impossible_phd@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 21:27:37 JST Doc Impossible

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     Where are those of us who transitioned thirty, forty years ago? They're out there, I know, just living their lives. But invisibly.

     And representation is how people imagine a better future for ourselves.

     This is why you see people despairing, crying out, "is it too late for me to transition? I'm 25." Absurd, on one hand, but... all too understandable, really. And it's a great sadness to me that I've only ever met two trans people over fifty who transitioned more than a decade ago.

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     Doc Impossible (impossible_phd@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 21:27:38 JST Doc Impossible

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     ... can have *after* transition. Because, sure, you look around a gender support group or even around here on Mastodon, and ***overwhelmingly***, it's people who transitioned no more than five years ago, maybe ten at the outside. There are a few exceptions (Cait, I will never stop loving you for being so visible), but all this is a young person's game, it feels like.

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     Doc Impossible (impossible_phd@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 21:27:39 JST Doc Impossible

     There's a very specific piece of gendered violence that the trans community rarely talks about, and which was inflicted upon us by WPATH (before WPATH was WPATH) and the APA, and which I will *never* forgive them for.

     By requiring trans people to go stealth after transition, to pretend that there had never *been* a transition, by effectively making generations of us a shames of who we were, these organizations have robbed us of our elders. Of the people we can look to to see the future we...