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Written by Ruth O’Day on 2025-01-23 at 03:54

@FinalGirl @WrenArcher @kelidanovus

No sense in repeating what has been posted several times far more eloquently than I would. But I do want to add a historical note and an opinion.

Before internet, there wasn’t a huge community. Maybe you’d be lucky to meet a dozen or so people, and maybe hang out with a couple of them.

Everyone was following their own path but there was a huge influence that no one really could get away from. You had to pass (loaded word, but I can’t think of another) and to do that you had to fit the cis woman mould and not stand out.

Kate Bornstein’s Gender Outlaw was just published and the binary did not yet face any threat. Cis woman style was the only game in town for trans women.

Nowadays it’s a different story. We do have community. Not in person, but with photo sharing, we can see what each other is wearing.

Maybe it’s debatable, but my opinion is that there is a critical mass of us to have a trans woman style.

::frantically draws circles on a transparency sheet::

By examining this Venn diagram shown on the overhead projector, we see an overlap of the Trans Women Style circle with the Cis Women Style on one side and another overlap of the Trans Women Style circle with the Enby Style circle on the other.

::shuts off the overhead projector and speaks a bit more loudly, over the noise of the fan::

The cis women in your lives are criticizing offering the benefit of their opinion because they have the Cis Women Style circle all by its lonesome, as per the Before Internet era. It’s all that they know.

And we are fitting into the Trans Women Style circle because ::gets into a mental quagmire of “to be is to do” or is it “to do is to be” and leaves it up to the philosophers::

And cis women (probably most people) aren’t aware that there is a Trans Women Style let alone that they can’t and shouldn’t have an influence on it.

At any rate, it’s the style that we have.

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