Trans =/=

Trans =/=

(Trans does not equal)

By Melanie E.

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Trans =/= "Can pass as the gender they identify as."

Trans =/= "Responsible for when others hate them for simply existing."

Trans =/= "Only counts if you've had bottom surgery."

Trans =/= "Only counts if you've transitioned or are transitioning at all."

Trans =/= "It's only a gender identity and social construct thing."

Trans =/= "Fully embracing the social standards of the gender you identify as."

Trans =/= "Insisting that the modern gender binary is a good thing."

Trans =/= "Misogyny as a means of validating one's identity."

Trans =/= "Into fetishes or being someone else's fetish."

Trans =/= "They're coming to turn your children."

Trans =/= "Groomers and child abusers."

Trans =/= "It only counts if you're like me."

Trans =/= "Survivorship bias proves that you should only come out if you pass."

Trans =/= "You deserve to be second-class because you asked for it by being a freak."

Trans =/= "Unwell."

Trans =/= "Unworthy of being loved."

Trans =/= "Just a confused gay man/lesbian woman."

Trans =/= "Only transgender/transhumanist/trans-whatever else."

Trans =/= "They should accept me because I'm one of the GOOD ones."

Trans =/= "I have to defend someone's bad takes purely because they're trans too."

Trans =/= "white man who doesn't realize that being able to be trans is a male privilege."

Trans =/= "Women who want male privilege."

Trans =/= "Victim."