GC: are there any QT/trans people that you like and admire and QT/trans: are there any GC people you like and admire?

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[–]loveSloaneDebate King 10 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 0 fun11 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

There are some trans people that I admire as far as being artists go, not because they are trans but because they just happen to be talented individuals.

I admire any trans person that is willing to be publicly gc leaning, and the trans people here who are as well. Doesn’t mean I always agree with them, doesn’t mean I don’t sometimes find some of the things they say to be self serving or occasionally misogynistic, but I admire anyone who can publicly acknowledge fact as it pertains to the trans community today, it comes with a lot of backlash and vilification.

[–]questioningtw[S] 8 insightful - 5 fun8 insightful - 4 fun9 insightful - 5 fun -  (3 children)

There is this transwoman that is a blacksmith that I really like, because she makes a lot of really cool swords and actually seems like a nice person. I also admire trans people that are more gc leaning, and there are a suprising number of them that are.

[–]adungitit 11 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 0 fun12 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Meh, in my experience most "GC" leaning trans people are just transmedicalists, and are extremely invested in the idea of ladybrains.

[–]MarkTwainiac 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Sword making, particularly in the 21st century, seems hardly like a past time indicative of "gender nonconformity" LOL. Using one's metal working skills to make phallic weapons, especially in this day and age, strikes me as very male and masculinist in the most traditional of ways. And not the good ways, either, but in the throwback ways that associate males with violence, war and bloodthirstiness. The iron smiths and other metal workers I've known in the current century and the prior one have tended to focus on making things like furniture, fencing, gates, latticework, trellises, sculpture, fountains, grates, various forms architecture, parts for transportation vehicles (bike frames, car chassis, axels) and horse shoes. Swords not so much.

[–]questioningtw[S] 5 insightful - 6 fun5 insightful - 5 fun6 insightful - 6 fun -  (0 children)

Huh. you make a good point. I was more thinking of Renassaince Fairs where the swords are more just for looks. There is another female blacksmith I really like that actually makes the other stuff you mentioned.