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Anthropology has a lot to answer for. Back in the 90s, a transphobe named Serena Nanda turned the gaze of the university onto the issue of gender in India and we are still living with the consequences. With the power of imperial knowledge-making behind her, she has laid down the dogma that only (educated, middle-class, white) Westerners claim to be trans women while those Indians we call hijra are actually a third gender. All the cis academics since agree with her and even the Indian courts cite her, so it must be true, right? So if you see photos of a protest with signs like “Hijras are women” or Indian trans women saying that they’re trans women, you can rest assured that’s that just our malign colonial influence. The exotic truth, on the other hand, is safely preserved in the centers of power of the Anglophone world thanks to the daily labor of cis academics everywhere – preserved from the colonial force of white trans women who threaten to extend their reach everywhere.

Bluesky is almost acceptable in terms of transphobia, but they should remove the part where you’re put on a new list of evil trans women every day

I’m feeling very depressed this evening and I genuinely cannot tell whether it is because of dysphoria or because I lost at some meaningless video game

The Matrix chat is already going so strong that Element is unable to display all new messages after a few hours lol

Here’s a kind of sweet and sour tofu that’s easy and I find tasty

Someone I followed on Twitter once joked about starting the “Transsexual Review of Books” and I keep thinking that should be a real thing so that the idea of trans literature could become institutionalized (and so we no longer have to search in the most desperate places for any intelligent discussion, obviously).

The idea of “chat rooms” is strange and new to me, personally, but I’m trying it out now.

There’s a nice essay by Michelle Tea about her visiting Camp Trans, the counter-festival trans people were putting up against Michfest. Anyway, wait till you find out that the infamous “trans penis” incident that helped to galvanized the whole conflict occurred because a trans man who’s also a cop took a shower – you couldn’t write this in fiction.

I want to complain about HRT dosage and endocrinologists. Back when I took E via pills, I had some okay hormone levels going, but on the order of my new endo I switched to gel. I don’t understand why, but it just doesn’t work properly and I haven’t been feeling right for a long while now. The doctor never really cared of course. I swear they’re trained to think of “cross-gender” hormones as some rare poison that’s the ultima ratio for the strange patients. Anyway, I’ll be getting a new one soon and if they also suck, I’ll have to look into getting a better one at the next town over. Why does it have to be that difficult?