I’m just going to beg that people not erase this man as a transgender Mexican man. I’m begging that during Pride month that his legacy & identity aren’t erased by people claiming him as a “lesbian icon” or a “gnc icon” or anything of the sort as it is common practice for trans men to be erased and relabeled as lesbians. We deserve to have our histories remembered as trans histories. We don’t deserve to be ignored, erased, & vilified as trans men of color. Thank you. Amelio Robles Ávila was a Mexican transgender man. That cannot be taken away.
I love the use of “therefore” in that last line as if historians were worried he’d come back to threaten them with a pistol if they misgendered him.
Please don’t erase trans man history. Especially when they’re cool as fuck like this.
