Transgenderism & Class Realness
Try to guess context from this bit from a conversation I had with my friend Ènziramire : when they figure out womb transplants we’ll be back to square 1 gonna be the first tbitch to be denied an abortion and they’ll be like why did you want it you stupid bitch He had shared with me a recent article called “ Reject Transgender Liberalism ” by Jules Gill-Peterson, author of Histories of the Transgender Child . We knew someone who was going to see her at a guest university lecture, so we read up on her out of curiosity and felt like that new article was in contrast to certain tendencies in the introduction to her aforementioned book. Earlier, she over-historicized cultural expressions of trans-female experience such as the hijira so as to emphasize differences between those expressions and conceptualize them as categorically distinct: Clearly there have been people in nearly every recorded human culture who have lived in the roles of women, or between specific understandings of ma...