>>7215
>"it encourages the shunning of trans people that operate too much along the lines of the "gender binary""there's the contradiction: Dugin is still a traditionalist. Much of his framework remains tied to Evola and Guénon.
The mistake they make is treating tradition as something sacred in itself rather than as a tool to preserve what is sacred.
That's why I can't distance myself from the gender binary.
Not only because many trans people genuinely experience and long for it, despite what spectrum theories might argue.
Adhering to the gender binary is not about assimilation.
Call it performativity or determinism, but femininity, womanhood — whatever name you give it — like any doctrine has a canon. Rituals, aesthetics, expectations, symbols. Many of us want a place within that canon, even if our individual expressions vary.
Humans don't only live through theory. We live through shared scripts.
This doesn't invalidate non-binary identities. If anything, it allows space for them to develop their own doctrine and canon rather than existing as a permanent negation of the binary.
But treating binary identification as somehow reactionary or "cis-aligned" misunderstands why many of us pursue it in the first place.
Resenting cis people isn't the cause of the problem, and separatism isn't the solution. Creating a political separation from the wider gender canon would likely isolate trans people even further.
If I'm honest, a lot of resentment comes from a much simpler place: the desire to belong to the same rituals.
Queer cultural spaces and artists, whether experimental figures like Sewerslvt in anglophone internet scenes or ARCA in Spanish-speaking ones can provide recognition and solidarity. But that still doesn't erase something many binary trans people feel: the desire for the ordinary experience of simply being a woman, a cis woman.
We can spend endless time deconstructing gender or reshaping cultural language, but that doesn't change a basic emotional fact.
Many of us will still feel gender envy.
We will still look at the lives of cis women and imagine the simplicity of having grown into that place naturally.
That doesn't erase gratitude for surviving this path. It just means the counterfactual, the "what if" will always exist somewhere in the background, because that's where most trans experiences begin: in the recognition that something about our trajectory diverged.
You can shun me all you want, I still have needs and my transition ahead of me. And people like me, many binary transsexuals will fight hard to protect that path.
Sometimes that defensiveness manifests in ugly ways, even hurting other trans people. But the root of it is usually fear of losing access to the only path that offers stability.
Hope matters here.
Without hope you end up at the bottom of the /tttt/ barrel: perpetual self-pity, irony-poisoning, and zero action.
Learned helplessness is a trap.
And that's why balkanizing the community especially in a moment where access to transition itself is under pressure isn't just a bad idea.
It's suicide.