This old Pizza Hut building that isn’t a Pizza Hut anymore is actually a perfect metaphor for being a transgender person. For some more context, the first meme posted below has been spammed in a lot of spaces online as an “argument” against trans identities. Leiracal Muse breaks down that argument and turns it into a trans positive analogy:
Source: Leiracal Muse
(via: Trans Army)
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If you kick a ball and think you can play soccer, then you can. your gender does not affect how you think just as your body does not affect your brain, if you believe your another gender then you are.
This is a beautiful metaphor, and it really shows how backwards the logic people will go to just so that they can be bigoted towards transgender people.
The building was never a Pizza Hut. It is, and always be a building, not a Pizza Hut, not an accounting office, or a military tank. It is a building, always has been a building, and will always be a building until it is razed.
And a Trans person is a Human Being, no matter what they look like on the outside or how they decide to change that. From birth to death, a Human is what they will be. But like a building can be remodeled, renovated, and repurposed to fit new roles, so can the Human body (given our level of medical technology) be changed to more reflect the person INSIDE instead of what the original builder (their DNA) decided they were going to be.
That building started out as a Pizza Hut, just like some people start out male appearing or female appearing. But that didn’t work anymore, so a few cuts here, some additions there, a new coat of paint and VOILA!! A Tax office! Or a Female who started life as a Male (or vice versa). And the Tax Accountants are happy to have a new place to work out of, as the Trans person is happy that they are more comfortable in their own skin.
Honestly, if it doesn’t affect your life in any real meaningful way, why do you CARE so much??
Why can’t I share these on fb anymore? It’s either Pinterest or X, formally known as Twitter. Not even Instagram cam it be shared on. This is only slightly annoying