I never mention “myc”, I use “moneycat”, and that you’d confuse the two shows you know damn well who that is

transtumblr’s changed a lot since then, anyway

back then the discourse still felt like it had to legitimize things with reference to existing structures instead of getting by on just foot-stomping, so you had stuff about “Two-Spirit” and other “third gender traditions”

you also had people going against the idea of transition as gatekept as part of a medical regimen leading to bottom surgery and full-time passing, complaining in terms that it represented mandatory *sterilization* of transitioners

no one seemed to notice the conflict there that the Western third gender tradition was eunuchs and castrati