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Being trans then becoming a communist (the more common route) makes a lot of sense. Transition opens your eyes to oppression but also intersectionality and solidarity.
But being a communist and then becoming trans (what I imagine quite a few here are) is hilarious. It’s like I feel something is fundamentally wrong. Oh turns out society is built on the violence required to enforce capital accumulation and imperialism, was that it? No that’s bad but I feel there’s something else…
Coming from the second category it is pretty absurd to realize despite having a clearheaded understanding of the external world that somehow I hadn’t applied that analysis to the internal for a long time. At the same time being a leftist and already having an understanding of the fucked nature of so called gender and social roles and oppression helped bring that understanding of myself when I was really ready for it. Still a little ridiculous tho
I think that understanding of gender roles contributed to me thinking I was just a very ‘ambivalent’ guy for a while before realizing things were still woefully incomplete for myself lol. Not that it made the egg crack any sooner or later but the inbetween was especially funny in hindsight.
Honestly, intersectionality is what got me here, as I just kept leapfrogging. My path was
It is a really odd path, but for me it has always been easier to wish better for others, rather than myself. Doing that made me realize that I deserve consideration too
2nd route here
It is fucking hilarious.
Even more hilarious is how many years I spent crossdressing at home before realising I’m trans.
Oh I forgot to say I’m the second route too.
But “here’s only the things about the world that suck, and gender-norms might be disproportionally represented in what issues I think about” is far easier to confront than “I’ve been forced unnecessarily to go through a puberty I never wanted and if I try doing something about it, it might have significant negative social repercussions”.
The second one is not fun to think about