what is transmed:
- thinking diy hrt is dangerous and you shouldnt do it
- thinking hrt should only be prescribed to adults aged 18
- being against other forms of treatment such as hormone blockers
- thinking sex is immutable
what isnt:
- thinking trans people transition
In Toronto, the first community policing model began in 1967, introduced in two neighborhoods with large Black communities. By 1970, it had expanded citywide, with a 1973 creation of the Ethnic Relations Unit, and a “Black section” in 1975. from PBL briarpatchmagazine.com/artic…
The Chinese government is no more transphobic than the average Chinese, but the methodology of the CPC’s ruling causes it to strengthen the family system to stabilize society, which leads to reactionary behavior festering in the family instead of being combatted and controlled
You would get forced out of your home because of conservative parents, you'd turn to sex work in the inner city to make ends meet, and either get murdered by some freak or end up addicted to heroin to cope with trauma and often die from that anyways.
…whose entire argument was, basically, “unfortunately janice raymond’s critique of transsexualism is exactly correct so we need to become post-transsexual”
3. the primary channels of social control and oppression in china are the family and the hukou (residential registration) system. chinese children often have to bear gratuitous violence from their parents enacted in the name of discipline with no means for accessing external support, and trans kids are extremely at risk of being subject to extreme domestic violence or sent to privately run children torture camps by their parents. the hukou system supports this structure of violence by binding your social benefits to your parents’ region of residence, thereby heavily regulating your spatial mobility, which is why most of us don’t survive.
it’s mainly because 1. non-chinese people (especially white people) are often treated as an exceptional class that shields them from the many forms of legal & social discrimination that chinese trans & queer ppl usually face; 2. trans issues are much less politicized paradoxically due to the government’s heavily censorship on lgbt issues (and basically all forms of social organizing & expression), so there’s much less explicit hostility on a social level;