not sure i’m entirely a fan of the trans umbrella just replacing the queer umbrella as it did
the logical argument is sound: if you are queer, then you disrupt the gender binary; if you disrupt the gender binary, then you are trans
but the effect has been to both deflate and distract from the political project of the queer movement and to politicize, intellectualize, and ideologize the visceral and embodied trans experience
it’s hard not to feel like it is relatively more privileged queers taking advantage of the cultural currency that transness has now without participating in or giving back to the actual trans community more broadly
(which btw has always been the relationship between gays and transness but that’s a longer digression)
because transness predates queerness and it will postdate this current intellectual interest in the various potentialities it offers
and trans people need to plan for THAT future, which is OUR future
i think the queer project still is relevant and i wish people would work harder to keep it alive rather than dusting it under the rug and making transness the Next Big Thing