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i think what's especially reductive about this take is that our ideas about 'masculine' & 'feminine presentation' are like v much designed by colonisation .. what would make me acceptably 'androgynous'? a smaller nose, a skinnier body, ffs? what determines appropriate 'themness' https://twitter.com/percahunnits/status/1335411008853172225
op's reply to the original tweet makes me think this is meant to be a critique of demographics like 'white gays' who start using they pronouns to deflect from accusations of transphobia & racism without any actual change 2 their own lifestyles or presentation. 1/
i've seen this argument a lot & in some vague sense i get the intention ... but i think it's quite misplaced 2 gatekeep identity & expression as if we can speak for every individual's experience, & determining their validity from how they 'present' is quite a transphobic idea
why i wrote such a nice thread for such a mean shitty tweet peljfsdkjfjksdgjkdfjkgdfjk
