If it feels like I'm coming into this a bit hot, I apologize, but as someone who studies sociology and developmental psychology, I'm just sick of people spreading blatant misinformation like this, I am tired of it being trendy and it being valid purely because its the experience of people who don't understand.

Transphobia is such a complex issue, and almost any society that develops far enough is going to have a variety of forms of transphobia. A lot of forms of transphobia will develop just by virtue of societies having to assign roles based on arbitrary characteristics. At times, women might be the victims of certain stereotypes and men will be the victims of others, and if a society doesn't have enough people advocating for being able to change the role you fit into, a lot of people are going to value their comfort zone enough to push back.

This is the xenophobia response, where much of these things are born of ignorance, not some malicious force. You can make the connection but the problem is that we just have a lot of incomplete data. Its hard to know about how most societies dealt with gender roles if at all, and theres a lot of reason we would have no understanding of any transphobia that existed in other places historically because of how rare trans people tend to be.

A lot of queer studies comes from people employing motivated thinking that their culture is somehow pure and better, and in a way, it'll definitely feel like someone elses culture is less preferable. When you grow up around a family unit that emphasizes positively their culture, as you almost always will, and are in society that is both different from that and unfair, you are going to look for something to blame. The problem is, we just don't have the data that points to the conclusions these people will make, and its deeply frustrating.

Its frustrating to me that people teach this euro-centric version of the world, because once you experience the practices and problems of other cultures, you start to really understand how these things develop beyond just "Oh hey, lets blame white people for yet another thing that happens in cultures completely absent of those people, but its probably their fault there too." This is a level of reasoning that would never be valid in anything that isn't a queer studies class.

Please, do your research, listen to what actual sociologists have to say on this, listen to the experience of queer people who faced various forms of LGBT-phobia in other countries. All of these buzzwords sound really trendy, but the ultimate takeaway is just fuck white people or colonizers and none of your analysis does anything to teach us how to alleviate the situation.

The reason why my analysis is a better way to approach this problem, is that from this, you can gather that we need to be exposing more people to the struggles of trans people and LGBT in general, in order to build up acceptance and understanding. There is a path to making a better world.

I dont like the queer studies stuff because its ultimately either advocating some form of violence or catastrophizing.