#Trans If you have transitioned from one thing to another, why include the word trans? You won’t mention your “dead name,” so why point out the rest of your past. Why not concentrate on today and the future?
@AlliFlowers 1) I should be exactly as free to talk about my past as literally every other person on this planet 2) I don’t owe you invisibility for your comfort 3) I’m proud of the Herculean effort it took to get here 4) it makes trans youth safer 5) it isn’t an option anyway because I don’t pass, not everyone does or ever will and 6) because visibility is essential to gaining civil rights. The real question is: why do you think you have the right to ask me to hide??
@phoenixashes76 If one goes through the effort of transitioning, you are now a butterfly. No need to point out that you were once a caterpillar.
