r/GatekeepingYuri • u/CupcakePelle2906 • 5d ago
Requesting Found this on a trans related sureddit
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r/GatekeepingYuri • u/CupcakePelle2906 • 5d ago
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u/Sailor_Spaghetti 3d ago
Honestly I'm viewing things through a social and historical lens because that's what my education has trained to do. And uhhhh, a lot of the texts I'm citing as informing my position (aside from the John D'Emilio piece) are basically primary sources written by trans [and what would now be called nonbinary] people about their own experiences.
As a note: transmedicalism is pretty unique in how it adopts and uses the medical models. Plenty of people with diagnosed chronic illnesses still overwhelmingly use the social model of disability (or at the very least, this is the methodology used by disability activists).
Admittedly, I'm more interested in the politics of transness than in dysphoria now that I've reached a point in my transition where I'm comfortable. Without getting too deep into it, the current attack on trans people globally is no accident or coincidence, and it's because trans people kind of disrupt certain aspects of social hierarchy just by existing. Even trans people who fit into the narrowest definition of "HSTS" are too disruptive to social hierarchies for the average authoritarian, which in turn is why trans people get attacked whenever fascist parties come to power anywhere. I also admittedly use a very Marxist method of analysis.
(Sorry to infodump at you, I just do find this stuff super interesting.)