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Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender

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  • Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender
    Bias in rereading the past - Introduction (5%)

    To anyone who accuses me of rereading the past from a perspective that’s biased towards finding trans history, I would say: you’re absolutely right! But I would also say that I’m no less objective than any other historian. Because we live in a society that sees cis people as the default, the majority of histories are biased against finding trans history even when they try not to be.

    This! I've had to argue about this in more than one occasion: sometimes when I was in academia, sometimes when engaging with other writers, and sometimes with friends and family, too. When we center trans and LGBT+ experiences, we are quickly accused of being biased, of disregarding the experiences of "normal" people. But why do cisgender and heterosexual perspectives always have to take precedence? Why are they framed as "normal"?

    When societies are organised so that the accepted range of gender expression and sexual behaviour is incredibly narrow, many completely natural human forms of expression and experience are silenced and cast as shameful. It's a coercively enforced form of normativity and bias; arguably, a much more harmful bias than that of people who fall outside the narrow "gender and sexuality range" trying to find evidence that we're not alone and that, actually, normativity is not the norm.

    I was very glad to see Hayes bring this point up.

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  • Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender
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    Talking about being trans as an identity, rather than an action, helps us to understand transness as relating to who you are, not what you do (…) It makes space for people who can’t, or don’t want to transition socially or medically.

    The urge to scream this at the top of my lungs. This is something I notice a lot with older generations - how they need “evidence” in order to accept someone as trans. That if you don’t present yourself physically different, that if you haven’t had medical surgery in order to look a certain way, then you’re not trans until you do so. This is such a harmful way of thinking as it completely denies someone’s identity purely by the way they look.

    The way someone presents themselves does not take away their identity and you don’t have to look a certain way or change yourself in order to validate how you identify. And like Kit Heyam says, not everyone can or wants to transition either socially or medically. Not everyone lives in a safe space where they can be open about how they see themselves, not everyone has the means or the access to medical transitions. But it’s also completely valid those that don’t want to transition in any way, that feel comfortable in the body they were born in, that don’t feel the need to change in order to look as they see themselves.

    When being trans is described as “anyone who doesn’t identify with the gender they were assigned at birth”, the word identify is so crucial here, it’s all about how someone sees themselves, how someone is comfortable identifying, rather than having to take any action to fit a gender stereotype.

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    Enjoyment: 5.0Quality: 5.0Characters: 5.0Plot: 4.5
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    Sweet, warm, cozy, and healing. This is peak soft BL. For a one-volume story, it uses its structure perfectly—setting up a relationship that grows organically. A slow burn that feels rich and earned 🥰

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