The Null HypotheCis

Great article by Natalie Reed on transgender doubts, the “maybe it is only a kink/phase/misunderstanding” dilemma, and how cisnormativity forces trans people to constantly question themselves.

As Natalie points out:

Cis people may wonder about being the opposite sex, but they don’t obsessively dream of it.

Cis people don’t constantly go over the question of transition, again and again, throughout their lives. Cis people don’t find themselves in this kind of crisis. Cis people don’t secretly spend every birthday wish on wanting to wake up magically transformed into the “opposite” sex, nor do they spend years developing increasingly precise variations of how they’d like this wish to be fulfilled.

Cis people don’t spend all-nighters on the internet secretly researching transition, and secretly looking at who transitioned at what age, how much money they had, how much their features resemble their own, and try to figure out what their own results would be.

Cis people don’t get enormously excited when really really terrible movies that just happen to include gender-bending themes, like “Switch” or “Dr. Jekyl And Mrs. Hyde”, randomly pop up on late night TV, and stay up just to watch them.