martianaviator:

Talking about one’s trauma can be cathartic, if it is done on one’s own terms.

However, when the only opportunities you offer trans people revolve around hosting workshops, panels, and sensitivity trainings, you have to realize that what you are doing is tokenizing and ableist. 

You are taking people who may very well have experienced public humiliation in the past and doing crash-course exposure therapy without acknowledging how draining this can be, or how it is inevitably turning people away who cannot handle speaking in front of a crowd of strangers about the worst events of their lives. 

It also feels awful because our skills and talents in other areas get ignored. We have more to offer the world than constant, ongoing Trans 101s. 

Another thing about this is that cis people want to be the ones doing the art projects on trans people, like we’re not already making our own art. They want to ‘facilitate finding our voices’ when we are already talking. They want to ‘elevate’ us and help us ‘find our voice’, but they don’t promote trans people who are already going around doing public speaking on their own. 

Cis people want trans voices on cis terms, with cis people in charge. They want to curate it so it fits their picture of what being trans is like and so that the project makes them feel better about helping downtrodden people. So if you have any skills or talents or interests or complications in your life beyond being trans, no, you’re just a downtrodden trans person for the purposes of the project. If you are reluctant to participate because you have PTSD or something, you’re just ‘shy’ and need the nice cis person to help you find your voice.

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