hyenaboy:

freedominwickedness: micdotcom: In landmark gesture, Canada has granted Wren, 12, a male birth certificate without reassignment surgery “A birth certificate is a fundamental form of identification. This will ensure that transgender people can obtain accurate birth certificates that reflect who they are,” Michael Silverman, executive director of the Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund, said earlier this month following New York’s policy change. Read more | Follow policymic This article is blatantly transmisogynistic; it mentions that there’s two landmark cases in different provinces, but only one of them is actually presented in human terms in the article — the one with a trans boy, as opposed to a trans girl. Even though the article itself acknowledges that the Ontario case is more far-reaching and important than the Alberta case, it centers the Alberta case because only trans males are deemed appropriate to center in a positive article. I will admit firstly that I didn’t read the article before reblogging it. As a follow-up, though, I think you are referring to the British Columbia case, not Ontario? I didn’t see whether or not her family had received an answer, so that may be why they didn’t mention it? The Alberta law was struck down by a 23-year-old trans woman.

Yeah. It was a trans woman who successfully fought for the changes in Alberta – yet the damned article barely even mentions her, and centers a trans boy who didn’t lift a finger but is deemed more newsworthy because of his gender. The British Columbia case is, as far as I can tell, still unresolved; the previous win in Ontario is only mentioned peripherally, even though it’s a critical part of the background to this victory.

The liberal media has two biases here: 1) center white trans men at all costs, and 2) erase from history any organized movement by trans women. That’s why they’re downplaying Ontario and minimizing British Columbia; they’re trying their damnest to present this as an isolated win and deny that trans women’s rights is an issue that’s gaining political traction and social momentum.

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