kristina [she/her]

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Cake day: July 30th, 2020

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  • neat caught-in-4che

    there have been situations where gays have been pressured into transition in iran, afaik that is true. but its not nearly as widespread as this claim makes it seem, and this particular claim is meant to downplay the improvement to life of transgender people, as Iran has provided transgender surgeries to much of the middle east’s transgender population (who can afford it). downplaying the tangible improvement to the quality of life of trans people is patently transphobia.

    and shipping homeless trans people out of sight in china? yeah ok whatever raiden-source the closest thing ive heard to that is being deported back to your home province (china has internal passports to preserve culture and language) if you lose your visa to live in a particular place. they always make sure you have a place to live in this situation. the absolute worst ive heard is from a trans person who got deported back to their hometown and had to live with their parents for a bit (they have to take you in), and what this trans person did is apply for a plot of land (free) so they could build their own house





  • Most places in the world are fairly equally shit for trans people. If a place is doing well, it is often hard for trans people still. If a place is in war and in famine, downgrade those conditions a step as you would if it were somewhere nice and calm.

    And Iran isn’t even the worst conditions. Of the countries with the most trans surgeries, the USA is number one, Thailand is two, and Iran is three. Iran’s major cities are very modern and even look nicer to live in than many American ones.

    Cost of living is very important to trans people, as we are often making less due to discrimination. Every trans person I’ve talked to in China has mentioned the discrimination and some unusual cultural quirks, but they’ve also mentioned they’ve not met a single homeless trans person. For the record, it’s very easy to find homeless trans people in America, you can find some on hexbear even in our mutual aid comm. And despite the discrimination, these Chinese trans people have cheap housing in the downtown of major cities









  • There are a lot of people that do tinpot dictator stuff like this in various groups. I’ve been kicked out of online trans spaces before for getting people hrt, for finding people housing, hell even one time was ghosted by a friend I helped cause she learned I was a communist despite “changing her life completely” as she put it.

    People are weird. I try to not be bothered by it. You’re in a vulnerable spot and frankly it’s my opinion that these tinpot dictator types love fucking with people that are vulnerable. I don’t think it’s much else. I’ve met countless autistic trans folks in my time and not a one did something so bad it warranted social shunning. Some people are just abusive freaks.