Re: the reemergence of OrangeBlossom
The LGBTQI community can feed this sort of thinking too, funnily enough. There's this idea that if you aren't "out and proud" (insert showers of sparkling rainbow unicorns here) you're somehow bad and betraying all of them and maybe not even an authentic nonheteronormative that can be very strong in some of the areas that you think you're going to find the most tolerance. Which for a long time made me think that I either had to choose pretending to be a man or introducing myself as "Hi, I'm Jane, formerly John, I'm a transwoman, and here's every gory detail of my personal journey because it's my duty to represent and answer your questions about the trannies." I can really see how appealing it would be to just want to say "John? Who the fuck is John? I'm Jane, always have been, here's my whole (new, invented, very feminine) backstory, and I'm just a normal woman like you." I'll even admit to having faked PMS and carried tampons in my purse just to pass better, so the penis thing makes sense to me. Because to just be normal really is, in my experience, the whole Queer Agenda anyway.