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It's an ourobouros—for those of us "trans" at the margin of "gender" where the system can't describe us and has to try to contain us but somehow can't quite wrap its tentacles around us in any consistent way, anti-trans people develop a conspiracy theory about "well, who created gender? it must have been the trans who started gender and imposed gender on everyone else." It makes zero sense. And then they're like: "well, if gender didn't exist, you wouldn't be trans." And we say: "and?" And they're like, "hmmm: OK, gender doesn't exist and therefore trans people don't exist, but gender does exist because trans people created it to oppress cis people, and our resistance against gender is going to be to make trans people not exist."

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Tucker Lieberman
Tucker Lieberman

Written by Tucker Lieberman

Cult classic. Author of the novel "Most Famous Short Film of All Time." Editor for Prism & Pen and Identity Current. tuckerlieberman.com

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