I honestly can't take any of these conversations seriously because a lot of this is about legibility within largely anglophone online subcultures that will larely ever apply to a brown girl because darker skin = hulking manful manly man, so this topic is practically incomprehensible to me sometimes.

Often this "HRT and trans are colonial" rhetorics are comorbid with a fantasy of prior veneration of gender-diverse peoples. Daydreaming of temple priestesses. Whether that is based in fact or not, it is not the present reality. It will not be made real by wishing it was

it kind of feels like i'm ghostwriting my own dissertation