genderqueerpositivity:

I think that, at one point, we were on the right track. Dismantling binaries, fucking gender, fighting gendered oppression, and opening up new worlds of possibility. Honoring the reality that gender is a unique experience for every person, that gender is more personal and complicated than those arbitrary rules and roles we’d been subjected to our entire lives could ever command.

Which is what makes the reality of the trans community today even more disappointing. Instead of allowing space for individuality, autonomy, and personal freedom, we’re policing those who don’t neatly fit into a list of symptoms, a narrow narrative of “acceptable” and “respectable”. Instead of making room for those who have complex relationships with gender, we’ve begun constructing and enforcing arbitrary binaries, rules, and roles of our own.

I still believe we have potential. I believe we can do better. I hope. I know. We have more to offer than this.