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Trans Studies
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Susan Stryker, an early trans rights activist, speaks out about her struggles as a transgender woman in her writing.
Stryker, Susan. “Transgender Studies: Queer Theory’s Evil Twin.”, Saraswati and Shaw, 2004, pp. 70-72.
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“Transsexuals were considered abject creatures in most feminist and gay or lesbian contexts, yet I considered myself both feminist and lesbian” (Stryker, 70).
Stryker was attacked by the same groups that she herself belongs to, making her outcasted from feminists and lesbians. She became an activist to promote trans rights and cement their place in the LGBTQA+ community.
She says that trans studies has gone on too long evolving under the umbrella of queer theory and that trans studies is now evolving separately from queer studies so that it can advance the ideas of gender expression and sexual orientation outside of the gay contexts (Stryker, 71).
Trans Struggles
Transgender women face the same struggles that cis-women face and they also face their own unique struggles because they are transgender. They are an oppressed group within an oppressed group and they are constantly being targeted by conservatives.
Transgender people have to deal with the constant battle of society seeing them as their assigned sex at birth and not who they are inside. People also think being transgender is a mental illness and that trans people can be "cured".
TERFS: Trans Exclusive Radical Feminists. A group of feminists who believe that transgender women should not fall under the topic of women's rights because they do not see them as "real women".
Trans people have to fight for their right to use public restrooms and play sports in the league of their gender.
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