That’s the only message that most media will publish and the only part that a ton of cisgender people get at all. It’s like how any piece about trans women has to include a photo of her getting dressed, putting in makeup, etc. There’s a long history of this being enforced on trans people - meet this stereotype or no…

The intersex part was her way of working around a common restriction by doctors at the time: trans people without intersex conditions were not allowed access to medical treatment for transition. This comes up in a now sometimes circulated story of Agnes Torres, first published in a late 1960s book by Dr. Robert…

You can blame the medical establishments of the day who made that a requirement to get the care she needed.

Incidentally these issues remained common through at least the 1990s. Accessing transition often came with the requirement to start a new life, disowning everyone who had been part of life before that - children,…

This did happen to me but I have to rely on my parents’ telling of it decades later because I was too small to remember at the time.

Shorter, "let the fascists destroy trans people so that I can believe that they'll spare me."

Also, I’ve run into views that not maintaining a manner of dress that is extremely stereotypical is detransition. I did the skirts and heels plus makeup thing to get access and vaginoplasty to permanently secure the access (it was always made very clear to me that the doctors had no qualms about abruptly taking away…

That gatekeeping is still around. I was denied HRT for years because I didn’t wear makeup and a skirt to my first appointment and that was in the U.S.in 2009. That I later did was dismissed as “inauthentic” and “obviously just done to appease us.” When they did finally prescribe it was at exceptionally low doses and…

That’s why I do it. 8:30-3:30 “core hours” (why bother with the facade of flexible time at that point?) and effective demands of 50 hour work weeks (40 hours on projects per week exclusive of non-project meetings, of which we have at least an hour per day.) I tend to plow through lunch so I’m not stuck there even…