Random rant about 4tran and also race.
Like i think someone said something about how 4tran denounces neo nazis but like… idk i feel the obsession with “brow ridges” and “chin shapes” or whatever is a little bit too close to 1900s eugenics to my liking. I don’t know the history of 4tran nor do i particularly care, but it feels like they adopted racist viewpoints about stuff like “skull shape” and “brain cage size”, and put a transmedicalism filter on it. Also doesn’t help im autistic and cant really tell the difference of like. Facial structures. Between any individuals.
Mmmm and also. While i don’t mean to be like oppression Olympics, i very much see a bunch of “oh no these (white) old Christian ladies think im (white) weird!” Can you imagine that??? Old bigoted people being bigoted towards you???? Imagine if there’s some shitfuck towns with shitfuck white cissoids that would lynch murder you! For something beyond your control!!
I mean of course this isn’t every 4tran user. Obviously there’s gonna be poc in there. I just uh. Haven’t seen any. And many are of other minority groups than just trans, and they’d have the experience of being persecuted before attempting difference gender identities. Regardless, the idea that many seemingly “safe” friends would suddenly hate you because they “didn’t know you were one of them” sucks ass and i hate it. So the obsession with “passing” in order to not get harassed or hated is something i can see the “logic” behind.
But something every person of color has to learn is that there will always be racist assholes that will hate you and will never treat you kindly or equally or fairly based off of some integral part of your identity. I can’t really “pass” as a light-skinned person. Even though i don’t want to be harassed, there will be some i cannot placate and some i theoretically could but it would slowly kill me inside. It pains me to see when someone forgoes parts of their culture and identity so that their asshole boss doesn’t glare at them every shift or some white man doesn’t do that scoff and nodding of his head. You ever see a video of like “lead poisoning stare.” Type of stuff you’d see on an old white guy before he calls the poc next to him on a plane a slur and then gets escorted out.
Anyways. In that scenario it’s pretty obvious that the solution isn’t to become self-hating and wish you were born white and then form a white supremacy group where all the members are brown. But i feel like 4tran subreddits follow a very similar pattern.
In conclusion that’s why I’ve never seen a non-white 4tranner. Because poc have the privilege of being discriminated since birth and get used to it. (These last two sentences are sarcastic)