The Supreme Court on Tuesday passed up a chance to intervene in the debate over bathrooms for transgender students, rejecting an appeal from an Indiana public school district.
Federal appeals courts are divided over whether school policies enforcing restrictions on which bathrooms transgender students can use violate federal law or the Constitution.
In the case the court rejected without comment, the Chicago-based 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld an order granting transgender boys access to the boys’ bathroom. The appeal came from the Metropolitan School District of Martinsville, about 30 miles (48 kilometers) southwest of Indianapolis.
/phew I was a little worried that you would just tell me 30s count as old. 😉
But I understand completely where you are coming from, and let me just take a moment to entirely refute the entire concept of “truscum transmedaclist non binary erasure”, it’s gate keeping bigotry that has no basis in understanding of gender and just pure outdated hogwash. Very much not an ideology I agree with nor support. You are absolutely allowed to feel however you like about the term transexual, we all have our own personal history that comes with emotional responses. Yours are very understandable, and even if I couldn’t understand it, you would still be valid in those feels.
For me, this type of conversation comes up a lot around the term “queer”, which I prefer to use as a more encompassing alternative to LGBTQIA+ acronyms. But at the same time, I also recognize that there are people who have had the term applied to them in a defamatory way and I don’t blame em an inch for feeling reticent to reclaim the term for themselves.
At its core, it’s just the pedantic in me that feels like transexual is the best term to describe my body when I look in the mirror. I haven’t, and don’t have plans to, have any trans related surgery. But with my particular combination of secondary sexual traits, transsexual just feels “right”. However, I also know that because I haven’t had surgery there are transmedaclists out that will say I’m not a “real transexual” either. Far be for me to think I am any different from any other trans person, no one is more or less trans based off their medical history or diagnostic requirements and that is a terrible metric to use for identity. Much less identity policing of others.
Yeah no worries on the 30’s thing. I am pushing 40 and have actually had the “Ummm yaaa Aren’t you a little old to be a non-binary?” levied at me… Like it’s a fad for edgy teens and not something that I had to shelve for 20 years because I figured people would think me a loon for outwardly expressing because nobody talked about it.
I am lucky to be in a place were I have been able to meet older trans folk because the community where I am has been a stronghold of queer identities since before it was more widely accepted as cool. There is a bit of reverence inside the community to be had for anybody who survived the AIDS epidemic and the rough persecution of those times, particularly trans activists over 60 who have been out aince rocks were soft there maintains a “I eat roofing nails instead of cereal for breakfast and honey badger don’t give a shit” vibe about them. From that very select demographic “trans sexual” almost seems to have like a “badge of honor” status where heaven help the little shit who tries to call them “transgender” because they will turn you inside out with a stare and incinerate what’s left with words.
Like I have gotten some real bad enbyphobia off of one of them and have had secondhand warnings regarding others but the general concensus amoungst others in the Pride volunteer realm is kind of like they get a free pass.