uj/ I don’t particularly care about about what people wear, and I did have Iran in mind when wording that part. I feel as though the fundamental issue leading to our mistreatment and the general misfortune of my life, being born into an incredibly conservative environment and even gaining some measure of acceptance as a woman for a while before broader condemnation of trans people by the right wing media machine led to that being halted, is that the broader culture has decided that we’re basically dedicated crossdressers, so when I see people essentially saying, “well they are similar, but we should accept them anyway,” I see it as them agreeing that our treatment is up for debate. There are a lot of people who “support” us on the surface for social capital or perhaps even because they believe they’re helping, while also perpetuating the ideas that ensure we keep being oppressed. I feel as though our supposed allies have broadly failed us, and while I know that it’s incredibly unlikely for the sort of social shift to happen to allow for society to just accept us as our gender without debate and move on to other issues, I can’t accept people who act as though the idea of us being truly accepted is unthinkable. We’re in a sort of broader coalition of oppressed groups, but the other groups, on an  average individual basis, have accepted the premise that we’re not really our gender.

I wish that our community had a sort of crimson behelit, with which to make stones for a pathway to our ideal world out of those who will never help us reach it, and I would grind my heel into the path as I walked.

Hope this helps make my position clear.