multiheaded1793 asked: Concept: don't celebrate the birth of more trans women, because most are being born into countries that are really fucking bad for them, and, despite all your bravado, you currently can't do jack shit to change things for the better.
a human in e.g. pakistan or indonesia being born AMAB and trans instead of AMAB and cis is nothing to celebrate, it’s a condemnation to suffering and terror.
That’s true.
Because my previous posting hadn’t made it clear enough: births of trans women are to be celebrated in utopian bubbles, which are an outlier. The rest of the world is shitty and trans women should not be born into shitty places. In fact, trans women should be taken out from shitty places and into utopian bubbles.
However, the claim that I’m unable to do anything about it is exaggerated. I just bought 20 bednets and statistically speaking 0.1 of those is going to a trans woman. She may not have a utopian bubble, but she will have 0.1 bednets which is better than zero bednets.
In addition, those bednets will increase the material prosperity of the people who receive them, and evidence suggests that material prosperity is linked to places not being completely shitty to trans women.
Furthermore, the reduced infant mortality will hasten a demographic transition ultimately reducing the number of trans woman births in shitty places, even if nothing else of it truly helps.
Also, this community has a proven track record of removing trans women from shitty environments into less shitty ones.
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