I find it difficult to empathize with this position, because I feel like if other people were forced to treat my every feeling with rubber gloves, I wouldn’t feel respected. I would feel sheltered and overprotected. But I guess this might be different if one had to fear everything, I certainly haven’t had to feel that since high school.
We don’t want the rubber glove treatment. All we want is to have the same right to bodily autonomy as straight white American men do-- free to go where we feel comfortable AND comfortable in our own skin wherever we go, with no one trying to legislate away our mastership over our own bodies.
I find it difficult to empathize with this position, because I feel like if other people were forced to treat my every feeling with rubber gloves, I wouldn’t feel respected. I would feel sheltered and overprotected. But I guess this might be different if one had to fear everything, I certainly haven’t had to feel that since high school.
It’s a good thing that this isn’t what’s happening, then :) if people were treating trans people’s every feeling with rubber gloves, then we wouldn’t be four times as likely as a cisgender person to be the victim of a violent crime
We don’t want the rubber glove treatment. All we want is to have the same right to bodily autonomy as straight white American men do-- free to go where we feel comfortable AND comfortable in our own skin wherever we go, with no one trying to legislate away our mastership over our own bodies.