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Everyone Plays a Part
Make no mistake, at the end of the day, much like how everything else in society functions when it comes to active participance in asymmetric power-dynamic protests, it'll always be the most active and by design, the most radical of individuals who are all collectively taking on the most work to keep things alive in the minds of individuals who compose a large collective of people that show up and are conscious, if not anxious, if not active about whatever particular movement you are attempting to bring to fruition.
These are the realities of the mechanics that help people acquire and or preserve rights, particularly within the realm of the information-integrated age. When we consider the struggle of people's right to have an abortion, we also consider where it is that transgender individuals of all types exist in relation to all of this.
We are equally entrusted with the same realities of tomorrow, that we are all fused to the same vulnerable machine: the never-ending war for bodily autonomy versus those that believe that, literally, your life is not your own. Our very existence as transgender individuals is deeply "chained to the radiator" within the realm of the fight for body autonomy rights.
Knowing this, and understanding some of the underlying mechanics at play that I mentioned above, it means that some of the most active individuals will inevitably wind up being transgender people - no matter what may occur. Perhaps far less people take the time to stand up for trans people when we are attacked, versus when the right to abortion is attacked. That's always a potential reality.
This also matters in an internal scope. We'd be keen to not forget that the ability to give birth is not something that is particularly tied to gender itself, but instead, is a function of an individual that has been collectively and historically perceived as one specific terminology which has been shown, historically and currently, to not be the accurate means of measuring or quantifying one's own existence in reality and coexistence among others.
It's plenty hard for binary transgender men right now. They have to essentially contend with being collectively improperly referenced or nonreferenced in the existing struggle for the right to abortion as a right of body autonomy. It's also strange for binary transgender women because we have to contend with how it is that we feel about people lumping us into some ally role when we aren't really just allies, but are instead directly also at the mercy of these threats to body autonomy as an entire set of rights that the individual deserves to have no matter what. We are future victims, current victims, and current accomplices. For nonbinary people, all of these struggles and anxieties come to a flashpoint within the realm of understanding how it is that people perceive all of this as well as their own bodies, that they are directly on the hook for this too - that truly a ton of people really are.
There is a sense of feeling either erased or misrepresented at times, but it's important to also remember that without the deeply active and perceptive radicals, of which they are less noticed, less seen, and of smaller numbers, that they must exist, because they have to exist, because without them all you have is a crowd of people that know that they *want something,* but don't understand the means of how they properly go about "shaking the fence" or rattling the chassis of the existing structure so that they (the people inside of the structure) actually open their window so that the masses can shout and spit directly into it.
Everyone plays a part, everyone has a role.
