Like, all the stuff with trans pushback laws in Texas and Idaho and wherever…

The thing is, the ‘10s wave where ah, left-coded identities were gaining cultural ground peaked, and now we see what survives the backlash and you get to keep long-term!

From the '70s peak through the subsequent trough you managed to hold on to the idea that transition was a thing, in a transmed truscum way that required you to buy indulgence from both the midcentury medical priesthoods of surgery and psychiatry out-of-pocket (while the humanities extracted significant volumes of gender, feminist, and identity theory) and was gatekept on passing so thoroughly that not only any individual transgender person but the entire concept of transgender people were effectively stealth.

You’ll almost certainly come through this one holding better ground. It won’t be the paradise you dreamed of on 2014 tumblr.