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AC (she/they) is a 32 year old Indian trans woman who grew up in India and now lives in Canada. Professional biologist by day and keenly interested in how gendered systems operate on the side.

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Hands off our lives, our stories, and our bodies

As a multiply marginalised trans woman who grew up in India before moving to the west at 23, I am incredibly disturbed by the specific patterns in which our lives, our stories, and the transmisogyny we face are appropriated by similarly racialised cis people, who are nonetheless our oppressors. I aim to illustrate these patterns using some of the Twitter reaction to Alina Boyden’s book, Stealing Thunder, which was explicitly based on Indian trans women that subsequently organise themselves into communities of hierarchical teacher-disciple relationships, forming a sociocultural identity known as the Hijra, or Khwaja Sira in Pakistan, or various other terms based on which particular locations in India these communities reside in , as a direct outcome of the need to survive after ostracization by brown cis people. I find it remarkably disingenuous that this community structure is wrongly turned into a gender identity itself, and how cis narratives seek to bury our ob...

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