Slice of Life: Why I am.
Today, I am launching my blog. Today is the National Trans Visibility March in Washington, DC. In solidarity, I am starting my blog off with my experiences and to shed light on how I, your author, experiences being trans. This will be rather personal, but I, as a writer, write about what I know, and I know myself quite well, not to be a bit arrogant. Personal experiences do shape philosophy and political views. I do experience transmisogyny, as a transfemme nonbinary, not fully a woman, mind you. The most obvious example is saying that transfeminine people are “men pretending to be women” . It’s all funny yet horrifying to me as a NONBINARY PERSON, because I’m getting misgendered and erased. I look like a nonbinary person because I am one, the thing is with being nonbinary, is that you don’t have much frame of reference to integrate yourself into compared to a binary trans person, this is especially common in the so called western society, which enforces the gender binary. Al...