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[–]reluctant_commenter 10 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 0 fun11 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

This is a great question. :)

I guess here's what I've been doing:

  • Suss out friends/acquaintances' opinions about the transgender movement and about LGB people - I try to probe my IRL friends and acquaintances a little to see how they felt about LGB-adjacent and T-adjacent topics. I wanted to do this originally because I was hoping to find a few people I could confide in a bit, and to some extent, I have (a win) but I've come to realize that it's also a valuable exercise in watching out for my own safety. A couple people I've talked to made remarks supportive of physical aggression towards anyone who is not staunchly pro-T-- and I'm talking about straight people here, they aren't even trans!

  • Read a lot about LGB and detrans experiences - It feels like there's so much good material out there to read that I can't keep up!

  • Sharing articles - If I see a news article or essay, I try to post it to this sub.

  • Reading about other movements similar to the TQ+ movement - The TQ+ movement operates off of this sick sort of "hierarchy of oppression" where you supposedly have more value the more "oppressed" you are; identifying as transgender is on top of the pyramid. I've been trying to read about similar "pyramids of oppression" found in other demographic groups such as people with disabilities, neurodiverse people, race, etc. I kind of wonder if it might be helpful to take a much broader look at the whole issue; Queer Theory is just one of several popular frameworks. And it seems like there might be a bunch of other demographic groups currently under siege in the way we are, particularly, other invisible minority groups. (If anyone has reading suggestions, feel free to let me know!)

I'm not sure what else to do but curious to see what other people are doing.