Tag: transphobia

i think i just saw a blog i followed run by a genderqueer person get sucked into terf shit?

their archive had a bunch of antiterf posts pretty solidly debunking the myth that trans women transition to fucking assault cis lesbians, and a whole bunch of good trans pos posts but more recent cotton cieling shit reblogged by terfs. particularly nasty ones blogs like, fucking dedicated to the idea that all trans women transition to bget away with rape, and all trans men are guinea pigs for sadistic doctors who are doing it bc they hate women? convinced that the government is trying to forcibly transition women w hormonal disorders or something?  like buddy ur blog says ur genderqueer how are u falling for this shit?

how do people get convinced terfs are going to let them into their club it’s like 100% based on exclusion and gaslighting people into thinking their own gender was forced onto them by the medical industry or whatever. how does this happen. who looks at a blog dedicated to gaslighting people exactly like u and think, hey this looks lgit? this looks like something i should check out just to be fair u know? give them a chance

or like who even experiences being genderqueer thing and thinks, yeah Doctors love letting ppl transition! no jumping through hoops here! doctors just line up to give people like me hrt! society loves me! my identity isn’t for myself, it’s part of a plot to either erase or assualt cis women! this is either like someone nonbinary who really has it out for trans women, or a form of self harm tbh

more generally there’s really never a way to prove, 100% that someone’s a terf, or that something is ever intended to be transphobic, if they’re careful about their word choices (more careful than ive ever seen a radfem be but lmao just run w the hypothetical)

but instead of that, just a bit of life advice here, u can ask how does this look to trans people? is it positive? what messages do trans people receive, and is it conducive to their mental health and survival? because they’re a lot easier to answer, and we’re probably telling you already if u listen

like im not up for debating “is this malicious or did it only look bad?” because feigning this shit has been in the conservative playbook for centuries as a way of wasting our energy on a debate designed to be fundamentally pointless. don’t fall for it lmao

gryffinewt:

gryffinewt:

you know what i think cis people, and especially lgb cis people, rely too much on people validating their romantic revulsion to trans people. like i’ve never met an lgb trans person who wasn’t asked “what do you think of gay people who aren’t willing to date you because of your transition status/agab/etc” and it’s the emotional labor we’re forced to carry to just say “no i don’t think you’re an evil cis gay for not being attracted to me, it’s within your right to have boundaries” an whatnot lest we be The Evil Transes Who Will Rape You.

like is it not enough to just reject us and go? can you just be satisfied in the knowledge that, yes you are rejecting us because we’re trans, but you’re gonna leave us with enough dignity to not say that’s why. we already know our attractiveness is in a permanent state of “up for debate” can you at least do this the simple courtesy of shutting up about it?

thank you to all the cis lesbians reblogging this but i still see almost no cis men reblogging it

dandymeowth:

http://cardozzza.tumblr.com/post/162364426138/caseydickdanger-kindergraph-kindergraph-hey

this post is hilarious considering cardozzza was one of the diehard defenders of discourseprincessa, who was a cis woman pretending to be an intersex trans woman to get away with attacking people

this shitwipe was constantly telling inclusionist trans women to die and making other violent remarks lol which many trans women were calling out lol

and on top of that also claimed to be a “messianic” jewish person which many jewish people have said time and time again is not a thing and is antisemitic as fuck

and don’t come at me with that “but we were manipulated! stop hanging this over our heads!” because even if she wasn’t lying about who she was she was still claiming to be a “messianic” jewish person and threatening trans women!!

and that shit’s not suddenly unacceptable only because she turned out to be fucking cis, it was unacceptable to fucking start with!

I’m not gonna sit here and pretend this doesn’t have anything to do with the discourse and is “actually about helping people” because aphobes, cardozza included, have shown time and time again they don’t care about or will even defend when their own pull these kinds of stunts

Here’s some facts about this callout

1. aerf was not coined by them, in fact it was supposedly coined by trans women, and here’s a tweet from June 9th using it before this person did

2. this isn’t “bragging” about blocking trans women; they just remarked that they can block whoever they want after making a post about how nobody’s entitled to their creations 

and 3. it is absolutely correct that many trans women have expressed about how aphobes borrow TERF tactics and that it makes them feel afraid and unsafe, especially considering how often aphobes agree with TERFs and think that’s fucking fine

let alone the amount of cis people using “cishet” and saying shit like “saying cis people don’t have a say in transphobia is homophobic”, let alone the amount of people who are super willing to misgender nonbinary people and call us “basically (wo)men” to prove that sga is the main and most important aspect of being LGBT+, let alone their fucking constant intersexism

(this reblog explains it more eloquently)

and there’s a damned lot of people on this post that are completely ignoring all the ableist and misogynistic slurs which btw is an incredibly fucking common thing aphobes have been doing lol 

so again this all smells very strongly of being exactly about ace discourse

honestly, y’all need to stop listening to only the trans women and trans people that you personally like lol

a good reply:

tatterdemalionamberite said: I’m so fucking exhausted and enraged that this is going to be (is already being) used as a bludgeon against the trans women whose perspective Nora was boosting in the first place. Oh, and OP isn’t a trans woman either as far as I can tell, they just decided they’re an arbiter of what counts as transmisogyny, now that they can use that against a group of people including trans women that they don’t agree with. 

all this said i do think i’m going to block anyone using AERF because it’s painfully incorrect: exclusionists aren’t even tangentially related to any brand of feminism, they’re not radical, and the E in TERF and SWERF was meant to stand for exterminationist instead of exclusionist. AERF has also turned actual trans women calling out transphobic exclusionists into a joke

“trans people have existed the entire time” yo i studied greek and roman literature in college and this dude Lucian (2nd century CE) wrote a piece called Dialogue of the Courtesans and one chapter called “The Lesbians” (unfortunately misnamed) has a courtesan named Leaina tell about a lover she had named Megilla who was AFAB but preferred to be called Megillus and presented himself as male and insisted in very detailed dialogue he was male in every way except for his birth, check it out

support-our-trans-sisters:

thank you! it’s seriously ridiculous how terfs think trans people just popped up in the sixties?? like?? talk about not knowing your own history

there’s also the Cult of Cybele, an important religion to the Roman empire that had a priestess-hood made up of trans women. Catallus, a very famous latin author, wrote about their mythology, where apparently dysphoria is treated as a sacred calling from the goddess. Here’s my fave translation, it doesn’t add in any unnecessary misgendering that wasn’t there in latin, because apparently translators feel the need to do that sometimes. TW for descriptions of intense dysphoria, and a gorey description of ancient bottom surgery.

a good rule of thumb is that if you see the word ‘eunuch’ in a history book, that’s usually a reference to trans women that’s been lost in time thanks to the rise of Christianity.