This affects any gender or orientation. When I was a boy I wanted to play netball because my big sister played that. But that’s a girls game. Had she wanted to play basketball she would have gotten similar rejection.
Yup, hence why I said also (ie. both cishet and queer people suffer under this exclusion).
That said, as another commentor already pointed out, the consequences are often a lot worse for trans people. But the fact is that this is a stupid gatekeep for all of us, and so it needs to be broken down.
Indeed, notably the newsworthy bad stuff coming from the US recently. Trans was hardly recognised when my story is set, and my real point was “it’s not just trans people, it’s not just one gender”
This affects any gender or orientation. When I was a boy I wanted to play netball because my big sister played that. But that’s a girls game. Had she wanted to play basketball she would have gotten similar rejection.
Yup, hence why I said also (ie. both cishet and queer people suffer under this exclusion).
That said, as another commentor already pointed out, the consequences are often a lot worse for trans people. But the fact is that this is a stupid gatekeep for all of us, and so it needs to be broken down.
While stuff like that sucks it’s not quite comparable to what trans people go through.
Indeed, notably the newsworthy bad stuff coming from the US recently. Trans was hardly recognised when my story is set, and my real point was “it’s not just trans people, it’s not just one gender”