crossposting from twitter, https://twitter.com/NireBryce/status/885655558178701313

a lot of the reason cis people keep paying/giving platform to newly out trans writers is that, among all the other things, they're likely to make mistakes that the cis people, especially those who want us erased, can use as the crack in the armor, the leverage. so they can go 'look! a prolific writer said this!"

the longer you're out and the longer you're around the less and less you'll get hired to write for these platforms, generally, and thats mostly because with experience comes actually learning things and the slice of what you know expands

so much of what i knew the first two years is wrong, i keep discovering things i think are wrong/need changing/etc

but also like, this brings up something else, something that this is often a symptom of, which is that, between the late 1990s and the early 2000s, internet communities started but most of them had ~very little of the oral history/knowledge/etc collected, and very, very few of the books/paper resources. and a lot of people didnt bother even putting them up -- lots of zines lost, etc etc