This post perfectly articulates something I am so frequently frustrated by, and it feels especially poignant as a trans person of color. I want to articulate transness with as much inclusivity and variance as possible, it sucks feeling like people dont see your transess because it doesn't function like theirs, or because they masculinize or feminize people with your skin color.
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in reply to @princess-icky's post:
I think my least enjoyed expression of this is "You haven't watched (XYZ media thing usually made for children)? You have to, it's so queer!" Not only as though that's the only criteria that matters, but also as though said piece of media has been adopted into queer canon as pop-culture identity must-haves for 30 year olds.
God I feel this post so deep in my bones.
I can't count the number of times I've been given that recommendation only to watch the thing and be like "wow, this is all white/pale skinned thin people. Time to feel worse about myself!"
Huh. The definition I've seen most is, roughly, that transgender people are people for whom the set of genders they are does not match the set of genders they were assigned at birth.
The post is not about the literal definition of transgender but about the social definition of what a trans person is for some people. Like the idea that all transwomen have a blahaj, play Fallout New Vegas, and drink Monster energy drinks is a social definition of transwomen that comes out of very specific groups of people but is often applied as a blanket statement.
