adaptation. We don’t need a rich, white, abled, cisgender, heterosexual woman with limited feminist views representing or speaking for us.
This rhetoric isn’t just painful to read—it does real, lasting, material harm to the trans and autistic communities.talking about the attorney general of Missouri’s “emergency” rule barring not only transgender minors, but also trans adults with depression and autistic trans adults from receiving gender-affirming medical care.
also seek to prevent trans adults from accessing the medical care they need. This sets a terrifying precedent for U.S. medical freedom in general, along with theWhat comfort can any of us find in times like this? I find myself turning to research and writing as a form of activism, and to my “spins” for emotional comfort. But how I engage with them has changed over the years.
Feminism isn’t just for the most privileged women in the world—it’s for all of us. It’s for autistic trans men who know with all their heart that they’re men. It’s for Latinas with ADHD who love snakes, spiders and books about witches. It’s for trans girls who were bullied and saw themselves in Hermione, Ginny or Luna, just like I did, and learned the author they idolized was just another bully. It’s for lesbians who are sick of straight women using our identities to justify their transphobia.