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posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 05:24am on 2017-11-17

"This notion of transgender deception pervades our culture. [...]

"This same thing is at the heart of the transgender bathroom arguments, with people conflating transgender people with sexual predators using trans public accommodation rights as a cover for violent illegal activities.

"The big irony of it all is that, by living our authentic lives in the genders we have spent so long coming to an understanding of, we are by extension being far more open and honest to the world about who we are. We are shedding an identity that was the true deception, crafted to conceal our deepest secrets. We are literally showing you who we really are, while being brushed off as being deceptive for not remaining in a gender identity that was false."

-- Gwendolyn Ann Smith, 2017-04-27

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posted by [personal profile] madfilkentist at 11:19am on 2017-11-17
I'm reminded that after the North Carolina bathroom bill was passed, the governor set up a hotline to report people who visually didn't match the usual image of a person of that sex. That is, he encouraged reporting people for obeying the law that they had to use the bathroom that matched their birth certificate, rather than the one that was appropriate.
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posted by [personal profile] siderea at 08:57pm on 2017-11-17
Since prejudices are so often projections, I do wonder if some modest element of transphobia isn't that the irreducible integrity of trans people being openly themselves in a world lethally hostile to their existence shames those who have compromised their own integrity over much lower stakes, telling themselves they "had no choice". I suspect some or even many transphobes accuse trans people of deception because they are, themselves, deceivers and ashamed of it, and want to bring these chastening exemplars of integrity down to their level so they can stop feeling so inferior about their own lack of integrity.
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