Focusing on HRT access, DIY, and material conditions rather than validity and inclusivity is paramount imo, we need to make being trans *mean* something again

Trans activism needs a hard reset

To mainstream trans advocates, tanking trans rights and acceptance is seen as preferable to making even a single person feel uncomfy

Trans/queer activism has long been running on "wholesomeness and vibes", not with effectiveness in mind.

There's also a lot of frustration with the trans community's ineffectiveness at advocating for itself and leaving transsexuals/dysphorics behind but I guess finding ways to fashjacket transsexuals and dysphorics has been going on since the dawn of time

Algorithms, the big boogeyman of everyone from normie establishment centrists to socialist leftists since 2015.

So true. There's literally no difference between
-being perceived as a trans woman by society; and
-writing "He/They" or "She/They" on your bsky bio while being perceived as a cis person of your agab by society.

Also by gating access to HRT behind "therapy", you just incentivize half-lying and stretched truths, disincentivizing discussion of actual doubts one might genuinely have.

Crazy how AGAB language was being mainstreamed in the 2010s as a "non-problematic" alternative to MtF/FtM.

At least MtF/FtM imply change, while AGAB only acknowledges the starting point.

Also relatedly (from a legal pov rather than socially as you were saying)

>We're not going to convince people who are misusing the word trans

A good first step would be if we as a community stopped constantly jumping to their defense. A lot of this is self-policed.

>northsky
>r/mtf, r/ftm, r/trans

We basically let cissexuals write down the academic foundations of transness.
Which now every mainstream trans org mindlessly repeats verbatim

Enbyphobia started out with the connotations of "people are hostile to me because I'm weird / blue-haired / pregnant-trans-man"

And now it just means "a trans person told me I'm not trans because I'm literally indistinguishable from a cis person of my AGAB. How unfair."

Crazy how AGAB language was being mainstreamed in the 2010s as a "non-problematic" alternative to MtF/FtM.

At least MtF/FtM imply change, while AGAB only acknowledges the starting point.

Probably feels emboldened because the mainstream normie LGBTQ/trans orgs somewhat promote that narrative, especially in their "respectable" public messaging.

The actual experiences of trans women don't matter.
All that matters is not rocking the boat with the validity theorists and queer academia.