My main issue with trans identities (excluding gender)

stfuconfederates:

Real talk for a second. I really don’t care what your identity is as long as is doesn’t affect anybody else in any negative way. It’s your identity and just because I don’t believe in it, I’ll recognize that it’s what you believe and that, at least, you feel that it’s somewhat integral to you.

I’m left-handed. If you’re right-handed and decide you’re transleft-handed, more power to you. I immediately regret typing that because I feel like I’m just giving people ideas at this point.

But this, other than privileged co-opting, is this: Where the fuck are the trans-Black people who run anti-racist blogs? Where are these trans-fat people who run blogs against fat-shaming?

Because the majority of what I’ve seen has been this is how I identify and why are you policing my identity rather than I am trans-Black and why is anti-Blackness running rampant?? Because, historically, you have to deal with the fact that racism and anti-Blackness are a far greater issue than transethnic ID policing.

The entire focus I’ve seen has been on the trans and not on the identity. I know I need to look farther into this but… Christ, folks, nobody is trans*privileged. I haven’t run into anybody who is Black and calls themselves trans-white or fat and calls themselves trans-thin or disabled and trans-able. I’ve never met a trans-human dolphin, to stretch this point a little thin. I wonder about this, and I question the motivation behind a bunch of people who seem only to ID as more oppressed and never less oppressed (or more normal, we might have said in the past) and coupled with this I never see people speaking out about the ways their Black/fat/disabled identity is oppressed as much as how their personal identity as trans is oppressed.

I cannot fucking wrap my head around this. I’m not sure if I want to keep trying.