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The original was posted on /r/transsexual by /u/gagap98 on 2023-04-19 14:22:08+00:00.
I am a transsexual woman who transitioned while I was still living in a muslim country before moving to Canada. I came to the West under the illusion that my life would be easier than it was in a country where my very existence is illegal, but I was wrong. The law meant I could be put in jail for years on end or lynched in public if people found out I was trans, but people around me were pretty accepting of me and I didn't have that many issues socially, things like using the bathroom or being seen as "one of the girls".
The reason why being a part of the LGBT was starting to get accepted there was that we were telling people that we are born this way and can't change it even if we wanted to or if we were forced to. I'm sure it's the same reasoning that allowed for same-sex marriage in the West as you wouldn't want to deprive someone from their basic rights. Trans acceptance was on the rise after that, but the pivotal moment that opened the door to all this tucute bullshit and division which ended up pushing conservatives to try and outlaw our existence as transsexuals was when we allowed self-ID and accepted that anyone who says they're trans should be seen as such.
When the medical world stopped seeing transsexualism as a medical condition to which gender dysphoria is an essential symptom, being trans went from something we can't help and should be getting medication and surgeries for to something anyone and everyone can opt into whether it's to feel special and quirky, to be part of a community, or to be able to have a victim card to whip out in the case of people who are otherwise being told that they are privileged. Now, they're saying you don't need gender dysphoria to be trans and anyone who says they're trans is. This implies that HRT and surgeries are something that trans people can do without and that, since anyone can opt into being trans, we can opt out of it too, which means people who would've otherwise accepted and empathized with us are now seeing how insane the discourse has gotten and dismissing every single person who's trans, even actual transsexuals.
The next step after this invasion of our label and our medical condition was the erasure of our identities and everything we fought so hard for. No one cared about trans women using the women's bathroom until we allowed men in dresses with full beards to self-ID and call themselves trans and use the women's bathroom. No one cared about trans people getting our HRT and surgeries paid for by the government until trans rights terrorists started saying gender dysphoria is not a thing, let alone something that's debilitating, which ironically is the real transphobia. No one cared about trans people being represented in the media until all the companies started jumping onto the woke bandwagon and forcing imposters like Dylan Mulvaney onto people's screens in the name of inclusivity when in reality they're only doing it for social points and to make a quick buck off of the LGBT. No one cared about gender non conforming men and women until some of them decided they were "non binary" so they're also trans now. I don't understand how people don't realize this and why the lack of self-awareness is this severe.
Self-ID was the biggest mistake of the trans acceptance movement, and the progression of events from allowing people to "identify" as part of our community to them actively destroying it from the inside out is not lost on me. I never chose to have this medical condition, and for these gender nazis (tucutes) to erase our identity and struggles, speak over people like us who are actually trans, label us as transphobic or truscum for not wanting to be associated with xe/xum fascists, campaign against our access to life-saving surgeries and hormones, brainwash children going through puberty, make everyone around them bend over backwards to accommodate their delusions, and make us feel ashamed to say we're trans is something I will never forgive them for. I would rather be beaten up again while being called a tranny than have to endure having one more second with these disgusting beasts in the public eye and speaking in our name. We need to speak up and we need to act now. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.