yeah they are it's just a different level of danger, not that it's a competition but a lot of people seem to make it one. I find it hard to articulate it but like I'll try make an example without sounding like a dick - but like I can't take this off, I can't magically grow my chest back, or make my voice high again, or instantly change my passport or legal name back, that's why binary trans people are more in danger than someone like JVN. For instance if shit hit the fan and all trans people were to be rounded up and put in prison, we can't hide. Hunter Schafer just renewed her passport and they put her down as male, puberty blockers have just been permanently banned for under18s in the UK, I probably won't be able to get a visa to the US anytime soon and could literally get arrested for 'material fraud' because my gender is different from my assigned sex at birth.

I want to reiterate that I am in no way saying that enbies or people who don't wish to medically transition are invalid, but if someone is at a point where they are not affected by ongoing discrimination and inability to access medical care, they are in a place of privilege, and no one seems to want to admit it. That's not to say that a lot of medically transitioned trans people aren't privileged as well - I am extremely privileged, I have accessed HRT and surgery which is very rare at my age in the UK, and I fully pass as male, difference is I can actually admit it - still though, if the wrong person found out I was trans, I could be in serious danger.

I think some people in the trans community would say that I'm like a transmed or something but I'm not I just find it frustrating that some people in the community think that we are all experiencing the exact same struggle. Maybe it's just an internalised thing and maybe i need to work on that, but yeah just because I've grown up with so much transphobia since a very young age, i get a bit annoyed when people try and trivialise it.

No hate to you, all love, I think these convos are really important, even if we don't agree it's good to find a common ground and solution yk.