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@JoscelynTransient im reminded that for a hot minute in the mid 00s, the transgender umbrella was a beautiful brief glimpse of actual unity, including crossdressers, drag king and queens, enough to be enshrined by Serano in the Whipping Girl in 2007 as "how things are". And then the standard cycle repeated and new babies came in with internal validity pains and desire to rebrand and it was all tore down once again because this time transsexual was the painful old word that defined at least one mean non passing trans woman (real or fictional) in the mind each baby trans who didnt like the look of the ghost of christmas future, and so transgender was now the correct word for everyone except who let these people into the club? So back out out out you go drag and crossdressers.

Its never in the trans community's interest for there to be an iron wall between us and the spaces that those who are gender questioning/playing most often congregate, we should be opening paths for those who fear they are unwelcome or not allowed. The battle we have is within ourselves to recognise that our own self validity of gender only feels compromised by our minds interpreting the rough shapes cast by those who play in the dressing up box. And sadly as one group reaches the point where their self validity becomes strong enough to see through that, the cycle repeats and a new wave of babies appear in pain and looking to push away anything that hurts.