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What do you call it when:
- You can't access trans-friendly mental health services;
- You are deemed sexually undesirable because you are visibly disabled;
- You are a child living in a culture that deprives you of correct information about your body.
We call it... systems of marginalization. Systems of marginalization include white supremacy, male supremacy, body norm supremacy, and capital supremacy. These systems manifest in too familiar ways such as queer/transphobia, fatphobia, ableism, racism, classism, xenophobia, and imperialism.
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