“So say it once and say it loud, I’m Trans and I’m proud.”
In 1975, in a bed, in Mill Road Maternity Hospital, a young red-haired first-time mother gave birth.
The fresh bundle of genetics was observed to be a member of the male reproductive-sex class, and assigned upon assumption the gender of a boy, expected to grow into a man.
This was the protocol, upheld and processed in every hospital in the western world, and even elsewhere, it was simple and it seemed to work.
Of course some people turned out to be a bit ‘peculiar’ but you could hardly blame the system, people did weird things and lived weird lives, and some went a bit faulty in the head, but they probably had bad mental hygiene, and besides even if the system had a slight margin of error, it was good enough right? A lot of people loved this system, would not hear a bad word against it, and enjoyed great privilege because of it. The privileges were unevenly shared in favour of those who’s sex and gender was male/boy/man, it wasn’t perfect, but still…..
Most people could see how amazing this system was, billions upon billions of people could easily be reduced into a simple binary, their whole lives and expectations could be pre-emptively prophecised and laid out requiring only the simple task of drone-like fulfilment.
Eventually, over time, the people who didn't fit into this system built networks, shared stories and worked together to bring change to the system.
They campaigned and protested, they debated and fought legal battles.
The people who built the system, and most of the people who had passed through the system still thought it was a pretty good system.
It was very bureaucratic to change the system and it required people to forget the old system in order to work on a system v2.0.
Some people couldn’t understand the proposals for the new system, they liked the old system and didn’t see why they should try to improve or change it for such a tiny amount of people.
As more people thought about the system and listened to the people who wanted to improve it, including many people who passed through the system as female/women, slowly they began to see the benefits of removing the rules of the old system and giving people more freedom and autonomy to live their lives under a new system.
Of course people can be really stubborn, some people still use Windows XP, but eventually outdated systems require replacements.
The older service users have a tendency to prefer older technologies, while the youth uptake brings about the long-standing changes.
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The child born in 1975, now has a female hormone ranges, mammary glands, and estrogen-driven physiological changes to the brain, and no longer fits the criteria for male or female, thus rendering this system compromised.
In 2019, that child has since transitioned gender to become a woman, and inhabits a ‘Trans’ sex class.
