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Tag: trans stuff
hi my most controversial opinion by far is that disney’s mulan is significantly more meaningful as a trans girl story than as a trans guy story
although i agree completely that both groups share the same feeling of, i need a better term for it but being Not Like The Other Girls and a particular unease and anxiety surrounding womanhood and mainstream ideas of femininity, as perfectly represented in the opening song. and wanting to run away and also get Dad’s approval. It’s Definitely a Queer Film.
but ultimately, mulan had to hide herself in the military, i mean as in The Closet, as Just One of The Guys.
the narrative ultimately affirms that mulan is a woman and should not be treated lesser for it.
it ends with the reconciliation of herself as both a woman and a soldier, as just two parts of a whole, and really the message that the whole damn film is about is actively watered down with the interpretation of mulan as a trans man.
therefore i propose a compromise we can all agree on; general shang is a bi trans man.
‘trans character’ ao3 tag drinking game:
- drink when the fic is rated M or higher
- drink if the trans character is gnc (that is, masculine trans women or feminine trans men)
- drink if the fic has any sort of dominant/submissive dynamics, two drinks if the trans man is submissive or if the trans woman if dominant
- drink if it’s clearly and obviously fetish material
- drink if the character’s transness is written as tragic
- do a shot if the fic involves pregnancy
- do a shot for every fic revolving around dysphoria that wasn’t written by a trans/nb author
- i was trying to think of a finish your drink prompt but actually just finish your drink whenever you think “what’s wrong with cis people” and have to exit the tab for your own mental wellbeing
hot take: hrt, gender therapy and trans surgeries should be free
if cis people don’t have to pay to have a body that doesn’t make them dysphoric, neither should trans people
So by that logic does that mean that I should get anti-depressants and all the other pills for my mental issues for free because the people who don’t suffer from them don’t have to pay to have them?
yes
WHICH ONE OF YALL MADE THIS 😂😂😂
OMG
Every time I see this post, I remember briefly after I came out to my mother, I had to calmly and rationally explain “Women can like video games and computers too”
some of you really need to learn the difference between
‘this character is defying gendered expectations to show that it’s alright to differ from the norm’
and
‘this character is defying gendered expectations and the audience is supposed to see it as obviously absurd/creepy/funny/wrong’
So basically The Daily Mail teamed up with some 15 year old narc to take down a site that helped trans people all over the world (and nearly every trans person I know) access HRT. Now they’re investigating into trans forums to find more information and people are speculating more sites will be shut down. It’s extremely common for trans people to be denied healthcare (happened to me) and in other countries they’re subjected to incredibly cruel and humiliating practices for up to two years before they’re even a candidate for HRT. Shutting down supply sites isn’t the answer. It’s doing more harm than good. It’s depriving people of their right to happiness.
It’s true, this just happened, QHI is now officially down, maybe for good. In a country such a mine, where the GID clinic, the only place in the entire country allowed to prescribe hrt, denies something like 90% of their patients, DIY self medding is the only option.
I would personally be completely fucked from this, and would pretty much have to detransition or wither away from malnutrition from lack of estrogen and testosterone, but luckily I’m moving to Australia in just 7 days where I can legally transition (hopefully). Fuck everyone, seriously.
they shut down qhi? wild
internaionaldrugmart.com still exists and i have bought estrogen from them and had it shipped to europe in the past. psa for people freaking out in the notes
trans person names by cis people
birthname: tom
new name: tomella
transmisogynist feminists who withdrew their solidarity from transgender women have essentially made themselves into “useful idiots” for the greater reactionary movement.
when violence against transgender women is reframed as “male violence against other males, and therefore not a feminist issue,” you’re fucking intellectually surrendering. You’re a failure of a critical thinker. You’re refusing to do the necessary work to analyze WHY men are violent towards transgender women, WHAT type of violence they commit, WHERE else these implications might lead! You’re just being lazy.
As a feminist, you’re obligated to account for ALL of the social and material conditions of society in your conceptual understanding of that society. There are no social “externalities” that you get to ignore.
You’re sweeping the epidemic of violence against transgender women and the structural oppression that makes that happen under the rug.
Do you really think that there are common numbers of men who are violently misogynistic against transgender women but perfect angels to cisgender women?
Men express their violent misogyny through the most socially acceptable channels.
That fundamental fact is why gendered violence is WORSE against women of color than on white women, WORSE against mentally ill women than neurotypical women, WORSE against poor women than rich women, WORSE against transgender women than cisgender women.
It’s BECAUSE we’re discriminated against that men seek to express their violence, their sadistic sexual proclivities, their aggression, their vitriol against transgender women. We’re an “acceptable target.”
Men don’t get LESS violent as they enact violence. Their horrible behavior towards transgender women, so long as it is tolerated, so long as it is allowed, so long as we are treated as disposable, is something they condition themselves to perform over and over and each time they are able to gratify themselves through violence, their proclivity towards violence is increased.
This is dangerous for EVERYONE.
You may allow right-wing-backed transgender bathroom bans to go through, but as you allow those right-wing men gaining political power, you will see them shut down abortion clinics and planned parenthood (the latter specifically hurts transgender women because planned parenthood administers HRT in many states).
I have seen transmisogynist feminists say things like “I am glad that this transgender woman will likely commit suicide.” Some of you claim that being transgender is a mental illness, or a paraphilia (regardless of the fact that the most advanced and up-to-date mental health organizations do not describe it that way, including the DSM-V). If your idea of feminism IS cheering on the death of people who are “mentally ill,” you are abandoning your humanity. Your justification for this behavior? “Transgender women are perverts.” Are we? Are gay men not also considered perverts by many? Are drag queens not also considered perverts by many? Are lesbians not also considered perverts by many? What exactly is your ETHICAL critique of transgender behavior? If you do not have one, then you are simply regurgitating right-wing talking points.
You say that transgender women are “violent men.” But we share no solidarity with men. We are attacked by men. Transgender women suffer disproportionately high rates of physical violence, sexual assault, sexual harassment, workplace harassment, academic harassment, compared to cisgender women.
I mean for fucks sake. If you really doubt these discrimination claims that i’m making just read this:
http://www.thetaskforce.org/static_html/downloads/reports/reports/ntds_full.pdf
Whatever. I’m done. I have solidarity with women as a class and I am part of that economic, social, political class. If you’re choosing to deny that, then you’re hurting me, you’re hurting the feminist movement, and you’re hurting yourself.
It’s your choice to be receptive to what other people say or to deny it. It’s not hard to deny everything that doesn’t agree with your views. But empathy and critical thinking that requires you to step outside of your own point of view is the only way you can really understand other people.
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