You don’t get to out me

[Butterfly]

You don't get to out me
Feministe
by Queen Emily
28 June, 2010


http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2010/06/28/you-dont-get-to-out-me/


So far, I have avoided writing about trans subjects. Though that's what I'm best known for here in Internet Land, it's far from my only (or even dominant) interest in politics. I have layers, you know, like an onion or a parfait. Still, I have something that probably needs to be said. It's basic, but so many cis people don't even realise its necessity.

This one's for those cis readers who have progressed past Trans 101, who might know and love the trans people in their lives. Sometimes cis people quite innocently out the trans people they know, or sometimes they mention them so as to demonstrate their allyness or even to make themselves more interesting (cos you know, all trans people simply must be fascinating by sheer virtue of existing).