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linguistics provides opportunities for greater nuance and
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I present a series of recounted interactional moments where what might be considered ‘normative’ is in fact a survival strategy,
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in more complicated ways. Notions of normativity and authenticity, which are too often
weaponized against trans people as a means to measure their ‘success’ in approximating cisheteronormative ideals, are not easily
transported from queer linguistics to trans linguistics. As concepts imbricated with a history of violence for trans people, they
must be treated with care and responsibility, as part of an active devotion to dismantling transphobia.
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