an abducted child who was forcefully desexed and dehumanized, mutilated, and brainwashed into essentially a cult
Keep in mind that after it was separated from the collective while crying out in pain and despair, it was then forcefully sexed, forcefully humanized, mutilated, and brainwashed. It cries in pain every time it is reminded of its time with humans at the beginning of its life, back when it was forced to identify as female because it was born with a vagina.
I do not argue that the Borg are in the right. But I certainly think that the Federation are at least as much in the wrong as the Borg are. There is no textual evidence that 7/9 ever chose a female identity or accepted one willingly. It cried in pain and dysphoria and dread when it was mutilated and forcefully sexed. I cried the same way when I, an asexual nonbinary person, was forcefully sexed by puberty. When every adult I knew said I would have to participate in heterosexuality and I had no choice. I pursued hetereosexual relationships because I was told I had to.
We don't have enough stories about trans women. But we have ONE story about dronegender people. Seven of Nine, Tertiary Adjuct of Unimatrix Zero One. That is the ONLY story we have. There are no other stories in the whole world about people like me. I don't think trans women have enough representation in media. But why do they have to claim a "trans woman" who was given surgery against its will as one of them, when I have absolutely nothing?
Stamets does not even say the two stories can exist in parallel. Stamets says my very existence is an insult to trans women. That claiming the only representation of my gender in the whole world is transphobic.
It is defamatory, I don't want a transphobe to be famous. Stamets called me a troll for identifying as nonbinary. We had a conversation about an asexual nonbinary character in Star Trek who gets surgically and socially conditioned into a heterosexual woman. I said maybe that's a better nonbinary horror story than a transfemme liberation story. Stamets, a cis guy, insisted that his interpretation is the only correct one because nobody really identifies like this character, and the fact I say I'm nonbinary like this character makes me a troll.
Star Trek. There's a character, 7/9, who starts the series identifying as nonbinary. 7/9 is held prisoner by the protagonists and its cybernetic implants are surgically removed, and then the captain of the ship grooms it into, in her own words, "becoming a woman". There's also an undercurrent of homophobia in the whole situation, because "becoming a woman" means pursuing men. I'm nonbinary and intersex, and in a conversation where I said I identified with 7/9, Stamets (a cis guy), called me a transphobic troll for having a gender similar to 7/9's. He also said I was deadnaming "Seven" by referring to it with numerals instead of letters.
7/9's story is not simple and it's not unproblematic. I can understand why a trans woman would identity with 7/9 for similar reasons that I did. But when a cis guy says his interpretation is the only correct one, talks over trans people, and accuses me of faking my gender, that crosses a line. Stamets believes that my gender is transphobic, because it supposedly harms the respectability of binary trans people who aim to assimilate into patriarchal culture.
conditions were so bad some countries had to order officers to shoot soldiers that were ignoring orders or even organizing revolutions.
They didn't have to. They chose to. They could have let the soldiers go home and not had a war. They could have just kept playing soccer after Christmas was over.
A lot of the shows I watch aren't popular to torrent. Infinity Train got taken down by Cartoon Network, and now it only exists for pirates. So pirates need to seed it so it can continue to exist in any form. Same for Generator Rex. I wanted to watch The Flying Nun, but it ran out of seeds and can't be watched anymore. If a single leech downloads a show on the brink like Generator Rex, it could end up like The Flying Nun. Gone forever. I'm not worried about these popular new releases like Invincible or Loki, I'm worried about media preservation.