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Julia Serano
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author of Whipping Girl, Sexed Up, Excluded & 99 Erics. also a musician & biologist. more at juliaserano.com. @juliaserano most other platforms. she/her
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ICYMI the thread is complete! with lots of excerpts from my new piece!

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...here's an excerpt from the intro to "Why Does 'Transvestigation' Happen? On Gendering, Ungendering, and (Mis)Perceiving Trans People" – I'll 🧵 more excerpts later. if you appreciate this essay, please consider supporting me on Patreon for as little as $1/month! www.patreon.com/juliaserano

screenshot from linked to essay that reads (in part): Most accounts of “transvestigation” that I’ve come across either portray the phenomenon as a “bizarre” conspiracy theory, or the inevitable byproduct of “transphobic brain rot” (i.e., individuals who’ve become so consumed with transphobia that they’ve lost their grip on reality), or some combination thereof. While all these things may certainly be true, this framing seems to imply that the rest of us see gender and trans people “normally” or “correctly.” And frankly, nothing could be further from the truth! In reality, as individuals, we often see and interpret gender in wildly different ways. I have written at great length about how we perceive sex and gender in my most recent book Sexed Up. And I explored the many obstacles these ways of seeing create for trans and other gender-nonconforming people in my first book Whipping Girl. In this essay, I will draw on some of those ideas to explain what “transvestigation” really is and...
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Something happened to me after I got old where I just started looking more closely at people’s faces—and my brain just went ‘wow, people’s FACES are all so different.’ There’s a way that people’s faces have all the genders. If one doesn’t like that, one can get weird about it, maybe? But I like it!

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author of Whipping Girl, Sexed Up, Excluded & 99 Erics. also a musician & biologist. more at juliaserano.com. @juliaserano most other platforms. she/her
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