On this day in 1911, the Japanese government executed twelve anarchists, including radical journalists Kanno Sugako and Kōtoku Shūsui (shown), as part of a widespread crackdown on left-wing activism. Among those executed were Uchiyama Gudō, a Buddhist priest and socialist who spoke out against the Meiji government for its imperialism and advocated for conscripted soldiers to desert en masse.
The pretext for this crackdown was the “High Treason Incident”, a plot to assassinate the Emperor of Japan. The incident began when police searched the room of Miyashita Takichi, a young lumbermill employee, and found materials which could be used to construct bombs, concluding that there was a broader conspiracy to harm the imperial family.
On the basis of this plot, the Japanese government rounded up leftist activists from all over the country. 24 of the 26 defendants actually brought to trial were sentenced to death, despite the evidence against nearly all of them being circumstantial.
Among those executed anarcha-feminist journalist Kanno Sugako (some sources say she was executed on January 25th). At the age of 29, Kanno became the first woman with the status of political prisoner to be executed in the history of modern Japan.
Prior to his execution, Kōtoku Shūsui etched this message on the wall of his cell: “How has it come about that I have committed this grave crime? Today my trial is hidden from outside observers and I have even less liberty than previously to speak about these events. Perhaps in 100 years someone will speak out about them on my behalf.”
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Saw a tweet that said “You don’t have to medically transition to be trans, but you have to have medically transitioned to be able to detransition” and another tweet that explicitly stated that people who only socially transitioned and later changed their mind aren’t “really” detransitioners. In the replies there were picrew trans people like “Yeah, that’s sad but true :/”
Found it
Like ok, fuck you?? I went by a female name for over 2 years, I got yelled at in public by strangers for wearing dresses, I had to put up with a lot of shit during my time as a trans girl. Do you have any idea how shameful it feels to try so hard to get people to accept you for who you are for so long, only to then have to turn around and say “uh, so it turns out you were right and it was all just a temporary thing”?
Seriously, fuck you. You’re trying to gatekeep a community you’re not even a part of? How can it be “valid” to socially transition, but not valid to socially detransition?? I guess I’m stuck having socially transitioned then? Or did I just imagine the whole thing? I identified as a gender different from the one I was assigned at birth, that’s all it takes to be transgender, and now I don’t anymore. Just because I now identify as male again doesn’t mean I didn’t go through years of confusion, self-doubt and conflicting feelings about my own identity.
I know there’s a non-insignificant number of trans people who categorically deny that some people who transition simply “change their minds” about it later, which likely has to do with wanting reassurance for themselves and their surroundings. The prospect that you might change your mind about it later is scary (I know that because I fucking felt that fear myself), and the idea that that is literally impossible, that if you have any feeling you might be trans you 100% definitely are, is comforting. It’s also a nice line to feed your parents if they’re not on board with you transitioning. But it’s pure cope and you can’t just retroactively invalidate someone as never having really transitioned in the first place, that’s just trans-medicalism with extra steps. 3 years ago this person would’ve been all like “Yaaaas, of course you’re valid sis, you don’t need to take HRT to really be trans” but now, that I decided it isn’t for me, I guess I was a poser all along.
but if you transition twice, doesn’t that make you twice as trans?
here, have some external validation: