Nando161<p>“If we lived in a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/culture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>culture</span></a> with a higher tolerance for ambiguity, rather than obsession with measurement, fixed <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/identity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>identity</span></a>, and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/knowability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>knowability</span></a>, transition wouldn’t be so confounding to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/people" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>people</span></a>, and the process might be more normal. <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Epistemologically" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Epistemologically</span></a>, we are anal retentive. Not rigorous, just stressed out. We need to know what a trans <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/girl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>girl</span></a> is. What are you, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/trans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trans</span></a> people get asked. Where are you from, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/people" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>people</span></a> of colour get asked. White <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/supremacist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>supremacist</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>capitalism</span></a> wants to make a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/map" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>map</span></a> of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/everything" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>everything</span></a>, and then <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/monetize" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>monetize</span></a> the ways that things move around the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/map" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>map</span></a>. Basically literally. The <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/museum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>museum</span></a>.”</p><p>— Baer, H., 2022. Trans Girl Suicide Museum. Los Angeles: Hesse Press. pp. 131-132.</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quote</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quotes</span></a></p>