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vermouthea:

you ever notice how to bureaucrats trans people are whatever gender is most expedient for them? transgender woman gets denied a change of gender, she goes outside topless and gets arrested on public indecency charges that only affects women. not woman enough to change her gender, but woman enough to go to jail. this trans woman veteran from ww2 got married after changing her gender on her birth certificate, and after her husband died she was denied widow’s benefits because social security said gay marriage wasn’t legal in the state they were married in. didn’t matter that legally she was a woman and he was a man. she fought that decision and won, but she still was woman enough for her state but not woman enough for the feds

being trans isn’t always about people deliberately misgendering you, sometimes it’s about them deciding what gender would fuck you over the most at any given time. you’re not a woman until it’s expedient for them, you’re a woman until they’d have to actually give you benefits. it’s a bitch and a half

vampireapologist:

I’m really done with the infantilizing of white women, acting like anything they do wrong is because they were somehow “forced” into it by men. In my own life as a white woman, some of the most heinous words and hateful hearts I’ve ever encountered belonged to white women. News Flash: it’s 2017. Barring some bizarrely specific abusive relationship, no man is forcing any white women to vote for racist politicians, to join the KKK, or to call someone the N word on twitter. White women have autonomy, and we are capable of evil all on our own.

But we’re also capable of putting a stop to it in our own ranks and doing good.

So stop making excuses and start making choices about where you want to stand.

transhamlet:

concept: bring back “sexuality is fluid” but not in a “it’s ok to coerce people to be something they’re not” way, and instead in a “the boundaries between gay/bi/trans experiences are not as strict as separatist bloggers would like to make you think” way, and also a “there is no shame in someone changing how they identify” way

orionsoreo:

bigsphinxofquartz:

passionpeachy:

Something about Rebecca Sugar coming out as a nonbinary woman is a huge surprise but it also makes so much sense in retrospect. The Gems aren’t nonbinary because they’re aliens or because she wanted to look Woke or whatever….she was literally just representing her own gender identity this whole time, even if she admittedly did make it subtle (except Stevonnie, she said the fandom knows they’re very obviously nb) but I think making subtle representation for a group you belong to is very very different from a cis creator who just wants to throw the nb community a bone but not quite commit to it, if that makes sense

since this post doesn’t link to it, here’s the interview where she discusses this; that part of the discussion starts at about 10 minutes in.

If anyone would like a transcript, I wrote up what was said on the topic below!

“One of the things that’s really important to me about the show is that the gems are all nonbinary women, um, they, they’re-they’re very specific in their coming from a world where the don’t really have the frame of reference, uh, uh, they’re coded female. which is very important, and them being coded female, I was really excited because I felt like I had not seen this – To make a show about a young boy, who is looking up to these female coded characters-

[Interviewer: I’m- I’m sorry, when you say they’re coded female, what do you mean by that – ‘coded’? ]
Uh, they, they appear to be female, uh, they’re a little more representative of nonbinary women, they, they wouldn’t think of themselves as women, um, but they’re fine with being interpreted that way, amongst humans, um and I am also a nonbinary woman, which is- it’s been really great to express myself through these characters because it’s very much how I have felt, throughout my life.

[Interviewer: I do want to talk more about that as we continue but is that a challenging thing to relate to kids? I mean is that something that they actually say in the show or is that just something that’s implied in the background?]
Uh, I think it has everything to do with the way that the characters act and relate to each other, um, I think that, Stevonnie is very clearly a nonbinary character, uh, I think that’s something that everyone in the audience can understand, with the gems it- it may be subtler, but it’s definitely part of – a huge part of who they are.”