Consumer culture has two existing dominant categories:
(1) stuff we get that's not supposed to be tweaked because it is God-given or for whatever reason someone isn't giving us authority to change it.
(2) stuff we get on the consumer treadmill that we're constantly paying to replace, because we're taught that dissatisfaction and regret need to be managed. The treadmill needs us to feel this dissatisfaction so we continue to pay into it to get rid of the dissatisfaction, although we're supposed to claim outwardly that the thing we just bought has cured the dissatisfaction, because that's part of the game.
Gender transition isn’t in either category. We originally come into our bodies and gender presentations through non-consumer channels (nature, culture), but though the dominant culture doesn't explicitly give us authority or permission to change them, we can change them. We're buying something that isn't a disposable consumer product and it isn't for a purpose legible under consumerism like "looking better."
They try to socialize us as girls or boys, and for some of us, it doesn't work:
so like we are socialized into our assigned gender roles its just that in trans people it failed. making it some unserious bullshit to say trans women are socialized male— that socialization failed!!! clearly!!!! it didnt work!!
— the postes (@rem.bsky.lol) July 15, 2024 at 10:33 AM
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So like two things are true:
— Maddie, Haunted Era (@lisaquestions) October 5, 2022
* If trans people really were a modern phenomenon we'd have just as much right to exist, get healthcare, etc.
* The erasure of trans people from history, anthropology, and archeology is a part of the institutional bias against us and it's bad.
It would actually still be cool to be trans even if it wasn’t true that “trans people have always existed”. Free yourself from needing to justify our existence against the “natural”!
— cosima bee concordia (@bimbotheory) October 5, 2022
As a reminder, the first trans reconstructive genital surgery on record was performed in 1907. https://t.co/AdbMDi17ss
— Colby Gordon (@badinfinity2) March 22, 2023
Risk: If you're seen as artificial, you can't get healthcare
They will not let you see a doctor for anything if they can argue that it's related to your being trans or that your body is somehow fake. This is "trans broken arm syndrome."
In this example, no doctors were willing to scren a trans woman for breast cancer when she was having chest pain. "Interestingly," someone says on Bluesky, "the British Times found the time to write an entire article about it, the time to investigate whether the patient had had bottom surgery, the time to interview anti-feminist activists about it, but did NOT find the time to write in that she was there for a breast cancer screening."
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