being non-binary is not new.

this rhetoric of new “gender ideology” taking over is white fragility. these are racist narratives that deliberately conceal the lived reality of gender variant BiPoC.

the real “gender ideology” “erasing how things used to be” is the binary gender/sex system which was forcibly imposed on the entire world through the criminalization + murder of gender variant people. what’s new is the masquerading of this cultural racism with the rhetoric of biology.

there is a reason why the majority of trans exclusionary feminists are white. gender is a racial construct. trans exclusionary feminism is racism by another name.

conservatives + exclusionary feminists (conservatives) scapegoat “postmodernism” for erasing “real” biological sexual difference. sounds about white!

western academic theory did not invent us nor a critique of gender/sex. TGNC BIPoC people + two spirit people have been resisting attempted cultural genocide + gender binarism for ages. we have been critiquing colonial eugenics — specifically naming how defining womanhood through reproductive capacity was a racial logic (created by white men who believed that the only role of white women was to give birth to the white race). exposing how eugenics argued that gender/sexual bifurcation was a civilizational achievement capable by white people only. showing how this fake “biology” used by trans exclusionary feminists is a continuation of racist eugenics— collapsing + narrating social difference through bodily difference, justifying power differentials through ideas of inherent fitness. “this is the way things are” vs “choices were made to make it so.”

white fragility monopolizes the discourse such that we are constantly rendered unthinkable + irrelevant. feminism remains tethered to cis white womanhood. our — biological — reality is misrepresented as a conspiracy to erase them, not something that just exists. this is a red herring which further distracts from what’s actually going on: the ongoing erasure of non-western gender systems, + the continuing violence against BiPoC TGNC people at the hands of white gender normativity.

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