Alex von Kitchen@Dangerous_beans@aus.social
So cisnormativity claims to be a binary system, but in my view there's functionally 3 layers with a freaks group at the bottom (race and age interact in complex ways with this, but i'm not qualified to comment on). This gets used in rhetoric; when transphobes say trans women aren't women the conclusion they want people to reach is that we are men, but what they are actually arguing for is putting us into the freak category. The idea of the binary functions as a myth that denies our existence and justified dehumanisation
You can also see this thinking in people who are not dickheads; cis women saying that they wouldn't have been subjected to misogyny if they had a male characteristic. Thinking that would put them in the man category, when it just gives you a chance to hang out with us freaks
Under cisnormativity man and woman are rewards for upholding cisnormativity. You participate in the creation of it and you get to be a man or a woman
Look at how patriarchial society handles sex workers, although maybe that's better to call straight misogyny
It's interesting to see when people have fallen for this myth, especially when they have rejected cisnormative thinking but still believe this is how transphobic people think
Also it seems that a lot of transphobic people think this is how they are thinking