Elliot Page on biology gaslighting
Elliot Page has described the experience of learning biology as "gaslighting." #ElliotPage
Transcript (en)
The natural world and what we learn in biology class and in terms of it seemingly being this cis-heteropatriarchal, you know, system is, I don't know, however we'd say that, is, I feel, used against queer and trans people in terms of us being made to seem maladaptive, there's something wrong with us, we're... Not real, we're fake. Or we're some modern thing, which is, of course, we know that's not true. We've been, you know, everywhere forever, you know? I feel like as trans people, we're just constantly being gaslit by people. And it's baffling. It's human beings are the only species that are, you know, ridiculous enough to seem to have a huge problem with trans folks.
