larkandkatydid:

parttimepup:

Look you guys, there has never been a time when transwomen couldn’t vote. There has never been a time when transwomen couldn’t get married. There has never been a time when transwomen couldn’t adopt children. Transwomen are male citizens and have always enjoyed the rights and privileges that go along with that. Transwomen have never been institutionally oppressed for being trans. Like, enough.

This is such a combination of factually inaccurate statements and then just absurd goal-post moving.

Would you suggest that women’s oppression ended in 1919 or 1964? This would be before Roe, before the phrase “sexual harassment” was even invented? If I said that women aren’t oppressed because we can vote or that the legality of gay marriage means institutional homophobia is over you would rightfully laugh at me because of course access just to the ballot and legal marriage doesn’t make up the whole of institutional oppression. 

But you’re also wrong on the details:  

I mean, to start, it’s been documented that a totally straight married couple trying to adopt in the 1950s and 60s would likely be denied if the straight, cis, happily married mother said she wanted to adopt a daughter instead of a son…that being a strong enough sign of suspiciously lesbian urges that the couple should not adopt.  Chances that even a straight married man who once was caught cross-dressing (which is in many places still on the books as a crime) would be allowed to adopt in that environment? They wouldn’t even try. 

Littleton v. Prange in 1999 was a case where a trans woman married to a man tried to sue the doctor who negligence killed her husband and was denied by the Texas Courts because her marriage was ruled invalid. 

Michael Kantaras, a transgender man, was denied custody of his children in 1998 because his marriage was, again ruled invalid.

Jodi Ciseck, who did not transition until after divorcing her wife, had visitation taken away because an “expert” psychiatrist said that having contact with a transgender parent would have “sociopathic” effects on the children  (link is to a pdf, case law citations are on page 25)

Here is a list on the EEOC’s website of LGBT employment discrimination cases argued under Title VII sex discrimination rules, including a section that specifically lists cases involving transgender plaintiffs.