@[email protected] and yourself, it’s about the difference between nouns vs adjectives. Grammatically, transwoman is a single noun, while trans woman is an adjective and a noun. You might not have noticed the distinction, but your brain did. Trans women are women because the noun is the same. Transwomen aren’t necessarily women, because the noun is different. Being a trans woman doesn’t mean you’re some other woman-like thing, it means you’re a woman who happens to be trans. The grammar is important because it shapes your perception in ways you might not even notice as it’s happening.

I’m an anarcho-antirealist, which means I’ll admit that our subjective consensus reality is constructed by the dominant culture. That’s a racist, sexist, queerphobic, capitalist, statist culture. And it denigrates trans people in invisible ways, turning public perception against us, through our very language. Language shapes subjective reality. In order to have a free and equal society, we need to take back control of the means of perception. We need to understand and master the way language shapes subjective reality, and take the magic for ourselves. Share the magic with our fellow workers, so we can build an unreality together. That’s a subjective world which doesn’t call itself objective, doesn’t call itself real. Instead, it welcomes change and reinterpretation to suit the needs of its people. We need to make perception a democracy, instead of the corporatocracy it is now.