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History of Transphobia Part 1
I want to share some video references regarding the historical aspect of Transphohia. How did this hate began? How did it grow? How did we get here?
I live in Brazil 
, the country in the world where most trans people are killed just for being trans and this is something very important for us to understand, because not only trans lives are human lives, but also trans rights are human rights.
I want to star this with this somewhat new reference from The Amber Ruffin Show on TikTok telling us how did we get here? A lot of this fear and bigotry stems together with homophobia and anti-communist propaganda, foccused around political and government power to create an enemy from whom their voters would need protection.
https://www.tiktok.com/@theamberruffinshow/video/7164154388309626154
History of Transphobia Part 2
My next reference brings the cultural aspect of Transphobia, showing how Hollywood cashed in this fear to create movie tropes and villains around trans and queer people. This is a longer video by the excellent Lindsay Ellis and should be seen with attention.
History of Transphobia Part 3 A and B
A third reference actually has two parts and are both from the same creator from the YouTube channel Philosophy Tube, by the excellent Abigail Thorne. The two videos are thee years apart and they both give an excellent philosophical and empirical perspective on the subject.
First video: Transphobia, an analysis https://youtu.be/yCxqdhZkxCo
Second Video: Identity: A Trans Coming Out Story https://youtu.be/AITRzvm0Xtg
History of Transphobia Part 4 - And a Queer History of Autism
Just finished watching another Philosophy Tube video, a longer one about the [lack of] medical healthcare for trans people in England.
But what calls my attention to all of this - and to my previous toots about #transphobia is how closely related the history of #Autism is to all of this. All the bigotry, the violence, the medical treatment and exclusion, the diagnosis. I wish I had the time to collect and build all the resources there are about this they way they all have done.
But to start, I want to lead with a paper about the Queer History of Autism, that shows how #ABA treatment for autism was first made as queer #ConversionTherapy. Their main proponent, Autism Speaks, poses as allies but are actually a hate group. A lot of what #ActuallyAutistic people go through daily is very similar to what queer and trans folk go through as well. And Abigail Thorne, from Philosophy Tube, also ends her reflection on this process talking about disability, the medical and social models and how a lot of ot comes down to #SocialExclusion.
https://catalystjournal.org/index.php/catalyst/article/view/29579
Not considering, as well, how much of our communities - #AutismCommunity and #QueerCommunity - overlaps:
"Autistic people are more likely than neurotypical people to be gender diverse, several studies show, and gender-diverse people are more likely to have autism than are cisgender people" ( https://www.spectrumnews.org/news/largest-study-to-date-confirms-overlap-between-autism-and-gender-diversity/ ).
My point is that we should all work together and learn from one another.
@passis@neurodifferent.meI love when I find people who echo what I believe, and this image is the case. I've been talking about how much the history of autism and of trans people are similar, since we're taking about autonomy, identity and exclusion.
The same way we don't need a diagnosis to be autistic, we will find validation within community. This is very true with trans community that saves many lives of those excluded and suffer violence by family and society. Maybe this is what we need with autist too: a strong community that helps fight psychiatric violence.
We don't need diagnosis: we need acceptance.
@actuallyautistic #ActuallyAutistic #autismCommunity #autism #transCommunity
Posts like this move me so deeply. Thank you. 