Like, that’s one of the most insidious things cis people have done to us, create this idea that we suffer because we are trans and not because of how we are treated for being trans.
I mean, it constituted a huge “discovery” in the psych world when research showed that rampant depression and increased risk of suicide in trans people was tied to how badly we are isolated and alienated, and that conclusion would likely never have been reached without transness first being slowly de-pathologized, and thus not treated as just being something that is conveniently co-morbid with debilitating mental illness.
Cis people are deeply invested in any narrative that removes their involvement in our suffering and thus places the onus of change on us, demanding we subject ourselves to a psychiatric community that first attempts to obliterate our transness before it even considers helping facilitate it.
This misdirection of responsibility needs to be called out for what it is, an act of violence against trans people at the hands of cis people, and whether its through media, or medical discourse, or casual cissexism, it needs to fucking stop, and y’all cis folk need to hold yourselves accountable for how you perpetuate it.
also TERFS: pretty much always describing a sense of belonging and community with other cis women, a deep desire to protect cis women & girls, literally talk of women’s spaces as sacred and holy and beautiful 🙊
TERFs: all male children undergo male socialisation
also TERFs: “gender neutral parenting is abusive”, offer no solutions to their own concept of male socialisation
“The anti-LGBT Religious Right has been actively synchronizing their message with and adopting the terminology of anti-transgender feminist academics for a few years now. The goal is to divorce their position from the stodgy backwards-seeming prudish views that they believe lost them the culture war on gay marriage and adopt a language and message that will more easily infiltrate and divide progressive circles.”
If you think 12 year olds are too young for tattoos but can decide on hormone therapy, there is something wrong with you.
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If you think a picture on your body for cosmetic reasons and life-saving medication for a serious medical condition are in any way comparable, there is something wrong with you.
Furthermore, no 12 year old goes on hormone therapy. They go on puberty blockers once puberty kicks in, which does nothing more than delay puberty and has been found by studies to be safe, extremely helpful to transgender children, and completely reversible should the child not go through with transition. It buys them time so they can make the decision once they’re older.
When you advocate against transgender teenagers going on puberty blockers, you advocate for more transgender teen suicides.
These are necessary and often live-saving treatments for very distressing medical conditions. Stop comparing them to something as unnecessary as fucking tattoos.
the more pissed a get. now, i’m not saying disney needs to make shang canonically bisexual (*cough* disney should definitely make shang canonically bisexual *cough*) but like…this changes some of the core lessons of the animated movie?? like
animated mulan:
shows a romantic relationships that is strongly rooted in friendship and mutual respect (unlike many other disney movies)
moral: gender is not your most important characteristic. your gender alone does not define who you are
live action mulan, apparently:
it’s totally healthy to date someone whose personality you actually can’t stand so long as You Want To Bang Them ¯_(ツ)_/¯
and all of this…just to remove….any slight hint…….of bisexual subtext………
Can we also talk about the transphobic undertones here? Like, he hates this one soldier who is Suspiciously Not Performing Masculinity Quite Right…..up until the moment the (heteronormative) narrative reveals that soldier to actually be a Perfectly Bangable Cis Lady! Whew! (So gross…)
[caption: a tweet from Nerdy Asians @nerdyasians which reads: The new character “Chen Honghui” hates Mulan all the way until he finds out she is female. This change from icon Li Shang is very suspicious]
Hey guys remember when people started ace discourse on a post about the gay pride flag that was honoring the creator, who had just died? Because I sure as hell do.
Didn’t they say it was divisive since aces bi and trans people weren’t community members yet even though the flag was made in 1978 when both bi and trans people were already in the community and aces aren’t lgbt for being ace???
1978
LGB was the most popular acronym less than ten years ago in Australia. idk about anywhere else, but, dear god cis exclusionists and the “alliance of SGA and Trans” shit like this still isn’t a functional alliance by any standards. it’s 2017 and i still have to give a trans 101 any time i enter predominantly gay LGBT spaces
idk about when exactly bisexuality even became a term or made it into the acronym but I’ve got a strong suspicion 1978s a fucking stretch to say their inclusion was in any way agreed upon by then
like… the flag doesn’t cover everyone. it’s good shorthand but it’s not an umbrella. even lesbians get a separate flag this isn’t even new
I’m trans obviously the flag made by an American, and our community in america has been trans inclusive since the 60s. Why don’t you do a little research. And isn’t you country so massively homophobic that gay people literally started a country while also being literally 15 times smaller in population??? Lesbians and bi people have there own flags because gay men were very dominant in the community early on and they wanted representation
that micronation is made up of one dude on an island? we also have the Hutt River province, another kingdom made up by a guy as a tax loophole, with a population of him and his wife, it’s ? micronations dude they aren’t real. you guys literally have Texas trying to cecede again and half your other states bending over backwards to criminalise gay marriage? we’re run by conservatives here but so far they aren’t bad enough to actually spout nazi propaganda so? god maybe both our countries are homophobic? maybe?
the 60’s. Trans wasn’t a word yet by the 60s, we were called transvestites back then, and called ourselves “full time” to distinguish ourselves from “part time"crossdressers.
The 60’s was the decade before TERFism became a thing, who caused quite a few years when there wasn’t a T. The ‘70s and ’80s was when 2nd wave feminism was at it’s peak and TERFism was the most mainstream feminism there was. There was no trans acceptance in the community at this time unless you were okay with misgendering yourself, trans women had to call ourselves gay men and trans men only got acceptance if they called themselves butch lesbians. terfs are still saying we all should go back to before the T was in the acronym so when the fuck did that happen, the ’50s? 20 years before terf ideologies existed?
the 80s is when we had to reclaim the word queer exactly because there was no trans acceptance or T in the acronym in any use by then
so the flag is for gay men? it’s settled it’s not an umbrella. and, if you want a flag that represents a community that trans people have never been removed from and one that has any reason to exclude aces, you should make that flag yourself and give it a name because that community sure doesn’t exist yet.
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