In the wake of the supreme court ruling, I attended 2 protests in one week against it. They were 2 very different protests, and having spoken to a few other trans folk across the country about this, our experiences have varied a lot. It made me think a lot about the purpose of protest and how important it is to cultivate the right vibe, and to not let them get captured by the "well ackshully" brigade.
Over the years there's been a major shift in how the internet works. More and more, big platforms like Reddit, TikTok, YouTube, Facebook (to a lesser extent now) and Instagram (to name a few) have become the primary way we share, create and connect with each other. In decades gone by, we still had big platforms (think MySpace or Friendster), but they existed more alongside the federated internet: blogs and personal websites.
So just moments after I open my eyes yesterday on Wednesday morning, I read that headline... I felt my stomach drop, as I try to understand what this means for me, as a trans person. Reading all the headlines about it being a "victory for women's rights", that it "brings clarity to the issue of gendered spaces" was all the more infuriating. Especially given that this is not a victory for women's rights and brings no such clarity to this so called "debate". But yet another normal day on Terf Island, huh?
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Just a late 20s
transfemme with a passion for academia, science, politics and coding.
