#Why are you perpetuating this transphobic nonsense

[nervoustragedyluminary]

Reductress is just spreading terf rhetoric now

The "joke" is that nonbinary people are somehow escaping from violence by being trans that we can opt out of fearing violence and don't fear violence when walking at night....

Like just yuck as a transmasc nonbinary survivor whose actually aware of the stats of violence against nonbinary people this just disgusts me...

Also I'm betting they have talked to zero Black trans enbies or men or women of colour about how being seen as "scary" puts them in danger from racist white people & or they're just assuming all enbies are white idk it's disgusting... There's just so many layers to the bigotry and white fauxminism of this "joke"

They've previously made posts like this so idk if they've got terfs on staff who keep trying to slip this in to pipeline people or people who think certain trans people they dislike facing violence including sexual violence is funny and that those trans survivors are lying and shouldn't be beleived.

They're priming their audience to disbelieve and mock nonbinary trans survivors. They're literally pushing the "people transition to escape/opt out of patriarchal violence like a fun game" terf talking point which isn't reflected in the stats of violence against trans people who face higher rates of physical sexual and domestic violence than cis people

Just "it's a coin toss!"

As a survivor fuck you

Like the comments section is full of transphobia and people going "har har they think they're in danger they're delusional " or spouting transphobic BS and a trans man whose talking about how he fears violence walking at night being called 'female' and misgendered like well done you've curated a comment section full of transphobes and people who think trans people aren't who we say we are fucking yikes

None of the transphobic comments have been deleted reductress seems happy to leave up comments calling trans men "female" and saying that trans people are a danger to children

#Reductress #Exorsexism #Rape culture #transandrophobia #Terf rhetoric #Erasing tpoc #When your “joke” is “haha enbies don't face violence people think you're men and trans men don't face violence” in current year just wtaf #Did a nonbinary person reject one of the writers or something there seems to be this persistent creepy obsession with mocking and belittlin #It really sounds like the “all my exgfs are crazy” shit but projected onto enbies like who hurt you and why are you hurting survivors? #Like they already tried a similarly transphobic joke and it went over just as badly then why do they keep trying to push this maga shit #Enbyphobia #Anti-Transmasculinity #This is what violent transphobes who harass assault & kill us WANT you to think when we try to talk about fearing for our safety #Why are you perpetuating this transphobic nonsense #Also I wonder if the stock model whose image they used knows its being used to mock&erase trans survivors

[void-thegod]

if I see man hating bullshit from you I'm blocking you on sight

if you want an ideal man but not a human being, I'm blocking you on sight

if you think all masculinity is toxic or unnecessary, it's on sight

fuck all this radfem misandrist/transphobic bullshit.

why are yall perpetuating cishet norms like it's fuckin revolutionary?

I've had more hurtful run ins with other queer bipoc women/folx bc of this nonsense at this point

I have had a relationship end/never start bc my anxiety, want for reassurance/communication, and sadness were seen as toxic or a means to manipulate than just a natural consequence of living in a fucked up world

yall have got to stop finding ways to run from your problems and the problems of others.

people using red flag/attachment styles and every other nonsense to just.. not work on themselves or be there for others.

but esp the most marginalized and silenced

#queer #trans #trans masc #he/him #lesbians #he/him lesbian #trans femme #trans woman #lgbtq #bipoc #queer bipoc #person of color

[eradicatetehnormal]

Terminally Online, Pseudo-politcal Rant.

I was watching a video essay the other day about how right-wing talking points are bad. Its conclusion was that they don't have to be good or compelling arguments because they're appealing to people who already agree with them. To a certain extent, they're correct. It does seem that as of late, the right-wing has resorted less to debating people on the street or on college campuses and more to circling their hatred for trans people and other "degenerate" groups.

In a way, that might signal a good thing. A party that's increasingly incapable of defending itself? Doesn't seem very strong to me. They're still pretty being, of course, if MAGA and Project 2025 are to indicate anything (for fucks sake, give me money for a passport). I do wonder where they'll be in the next 10 years or when Donald Trump dies. A lot of Republican politicians have been having "negative rizz" as of late. I'm side-tracking, though.

The problem I have with that essayist leaving the conversation there is that it might perpetuate this very Twitter, lazy leftist idea that there's no point in refuting bad talking points or educating people about a subject. That's likely not what that person meant, but it's where that idea could lead.

I'm not saying that people should just go around, looking for right-wingers to debunk and dunk on. That carries its own set of problems by making the left wing look catty and disingenuous. People can use their own platforms to talk about various issues and the right lens to see something. The thing is, not engaging and just yelling in an echo chamber, over time can make the left wing look incoherent and nonsensical.

Imagine you're just a normal, center-leaning person logging into Twitter to keep up with your favorite celebrity, and you see a right winger being like, "Western society won't be fixed until the perversion or trans ideology and crt is pushed out of our schools." To which that centrist might think "What the fuck is crt and trans ideology? This person sounds outlandish." Then they see a left-winger all like, "The rates of women who have reported being SA'd are abysmal, but let's not forget about our black and indigenous sisters who were trafficked and never had a search done for them." To which the centrist might say, "Why is this person centering black and native women on an issue that affects all women? This person also sounds outlandish." From their perspective, there's not just one dumbass in an echo chamber, but two dumbasses in an echo chamber, since they didn't grow up around an outwardly conservative community and don't listen to enough of those people to flat out being transphobic or racist, nor do they have an understanding of intersectional politics.

Some might say, "Well this post is just making people engage with optics and identity politics. We have nothing to prove!" I get where this is coming from. A lot of great people and activists were pushed out of communities or silenced because people felt that they optically made them look bad. To the person who says this, though, have you ever supported the de-platforming of a leftist or liberal because of their bad takes or terrible behavior? Guess what? You care about optics. Part of the reason you wanted them gone was because, they were toxic and annoying to deal with, but another part of that reason was likely because they were garnering an audience who may go around acting like them or using their arguments, which could lead to a large group of people misrepresenting and hurting a movement.

We need to get better at distinguishing people who are trying to insult or belittle us from people who are asking questions in good faith. We also need to learn when to end a conversation. Having the last word does not always make you look good. If you get frustrated easily or you get nervous, you don't have to engage. It's just worth explaining what you mean, on occasion. Throwing in a statistic every now and then (rarely ever personal life experience, because not only is it not the best evidence, but people will try to belittle it).

#video essayists #online politics #rant

[opinated-user]

You have to keep in mind that Lily is a person with a ton of stalkers and harassers who have every reason to lie about her. So at least keep in mind where your sources lie. Some of that is real, like her flashing her audience, but she makes it clear her channel and tumblr is for adults. Even just based on her constant swearing, anyone old enough to have access to the internet should know she’s not making videos for kids. It’s not Lily’s responsibility to police how those kids use the internet, that’s their parent’s job. You can’t baby proof the internet.

But if you have proof, actual proof of any of the truly bad stuff she’s done, you should send her an ask. She’s shown to be very willing to discuss mistakes, like how she discussed perpetuating the firerose ship or not giving Aliana any relationships with other black women, but the thing is that most of that is not true or is exaggerated and/or taken out of context.

Also I should clarify I’m not defending her because I think she’s going to appreciate me helping her, in fact she’s actively recommended people not focus their blogs on defending her because of the potential harassment. I really don’t care if she appreciates it. I do this because she’s a person I greatly admire, and because she has so many absolutely nonsensical accusations hurled at her that need to be dispelled.

But if you have proof, actual proof of any of the truly bad stuff she’s done, you should send her an ask.

did you read when i said that she has made a smear campaign on every victim that has ever come out about what she did to them? that is exactly what bitch eating cracker video is all about. just a big smear campaign. when essenceofthought made two videos calling out LO, one on her ahistorical lies about queer and another about her involvement putting a minor on the brony fandom in danger, LO responded by calling essenceofthought a terf. the trans creator whose entire body of work is about calling transphobia is a terf because they called LO out. when abirdcalledlevi called her out for spreading rape culture apologia and then another where he calls out how she control the narrative for her own benefit, LO wasn't willing to discuss any of it and proceded to talk about levi about he was "insecure on his masculinity" and that is why he "attacked her". consider that levi is a trans man and LO was weaponizing his gender against him. when jess and zena from TGT started calling out her toxic behaviour, LO not only added jess on her bitch eating cracker videos but has continuesly lied about her, her credentials and has even gone as far as to imply that jess could be a danger for her own child, implicitingly accusing her of being a molester, a transphobic narrative that trans women particularly are more vulnerable to. levi and jess once were both fans of LO, just like you. they admired her just like you. LO was one of their major influences when it came to the type of opinions they had, just like you. but the moment they expressed any disagreement because they started to think for themselves, LO not only threw them under the bus but she has keep demonizing them even today and has never conceded to any of their points no matter how well they presented them. isomeday she'll do the same to you if you keep at her side and when that day comes, and it'll if you keep with her, hope that people will believe you or that you have enough screenshots to convince them.  LO's a predator and all predators look after their own wellbeing first and foremost. that’s not an accusation, it’s a fact based on her own actions.

#lily orchard

[miraculouslumination]

There's a lot with panphobia that is just so fundamentally, historically, and accurately wrong. It's much like all other types of exclusionism; it's petty, pointless, has no credible foundation, ahistorical, and all it's good for is traumatizing, slandering, and ostracizing a group of queer people. It's no different from ace and aro exclusion, or bi exclusion, nonbinary, xenogender, MOGAI, mspec lesbian, any other type of exclusion.

Yet I've noticed it may be one of the most prevalent in online spaces. Of course, so is general mspecphobia. Fandom spaces are notoriously hostile towards mspec people. Bi ships and characters are tossed and written off as homophobic, pan ships and characters are erased, omni and ply are completely ignored and forgotten about, and so on.

But even just regular spaces, I have seen time and time again people showcasing panphobia. Entire posts dedicated to "proving" how pan is biphobic and transphobic, with often thousands or tens of thousands of notes. And I rarely see anyone question it. I rarely see a post discrediting these claims get as many notes.

Exclusionism in online queer spaces is often loud and violent. Asexual people got threats of all kinds, bi people got screamed at that they weren't welcome, aromantic people were told they were narcissistic sociopaths that should be locked away, etc. etc.

Pan exclusionism has its moments of being loud and violent. But that was back when the discourse was in its prime. Nowadays, panphobes are quieter, but much like how a predator stalking its prey is silent on its feet.

Panphobes love dogwhistles and strawmans. And I feel this is a strategy done on purpose. Because, with dogwhistles and strawmans, it becomes a guessing game for the victim(s). They end up having to comb through every word, every meaning it could have, find out what the intentions are, and more.

That way, when the person does find something, and does call attention to it, there's a mighty fine chance that they'll be attacked for it. I know this term has been thrown around a lot, but I really do feel like these reactions can lead to an accidental, or even purposeful, gaslighting.

"They didn't REALLY mean to be panphobic", "well *I* read the post and I didn't see *any* panphobia, so you're wrong", "are you going to say that EVERYTHING is panphobia?", "You don't actually know what panphobia looks like", "you're just trying to slander bi people", and so on, and so on.

I also feel like there's a sense of evil in the fact that, more times than not, the perpetuators of panphobia are bi people. Note that this is a minority in the bi community, and that, historically speaking, the bi community has largely been accepting of other mspec labels more many, many decades now. Once again, this just proves that panphobia is founded in ahistorical nonsense. Now, historically speaking, as well, bi people have a lengthy history of being excluded, ignored, erased, ostracized, slandered, and more. And I feel, in a way, that for some bi panphobes, it genuinely feels like they are punching up. Fighting back against their real oppressors - the true cause for why people are biphobic!! When, really, they are punching to the side. And, really, their true oppressors continue to stand aside and laugh.

There's a large trauma held in the bi community. And it's one that needs to be addressed and healed. However, turning to exclusionism - taking upon the same, abusive role of your own abusers - is not the way to do it. Queer people cannot oppress one another.

Ultimately, all of this panphobia eventually does turn around in a 180, and returns to biphobia. And, much like how panphobia has become much quieter, more dogwhistled, and much more covert, so has the biphobia in it.

When a bi panphobe says "bi ONLY means being attracted to all genders", they are hurting bi people who do not want nor identify with that definition. Of course, some panphobes will try to back track and try to correct themselves, saying that "well, okay, bi CAN mean being attracted to all genders.." But, more often than not, they will just keep swinging. Even if they end up hitting one of their own.

Not only that, but the argument of "pansexuality only encourages people to continue having negative ideas about bisexuality!" Such as "pan makes bi people think we're all just a bunch of heartless sluts!" Yes, this is an actual argument I have seen many times. But, this is where they end up hurting their own. Because it implies that any bi person who is sexually promiscuous and does not partake in romantic relationships (whether it be because they're arospec, loveless, or whatever reason) is the wrong type of bi - that they're going to be giving the bi community a bad rep. That the only good bi is someone who is willing to be dedicated to romance (oof that arophobia) and who doesn't sleep around a lot (oof that sex puritanism).

Another is "pan will make people think bi is binary!" When there is an issue in the bi community of fellow bi people insisting that bi is only binary. It may be a minority in the bi community, but it is still there. There are bi people who will harp about how bi should only be binary. And, besides, so what if there are only bi people are attracted to the "binary" genders? As long as they aren't transphobic or enbyphobic or anything like that, but instead only find themselves attracted to men and women, what is so wrong about that? Are they going to be sending the message that bi is binary? Are they being biphobic? Are we still arguing that bi means all and ONLY means all? And, hell, what about bi people who ARE only attracted to two genders? Not even binary ones - say, a bi person who only likes women and nonbinary people? Or a bi person who only likes nonbinary and xenogender people? Are these people going to trick non-bi people into thinking bi only means two?

“Pan people keep trying to redefine bi/rewrite our history!” Yes, there are some pan people who try to instill one and only one definition of bi. However, there are countless other people of countless other sexualities that do this. Including bi people! Once again, the push for “bi has ALWAYS and ONLY means attraction to all genders” is ahistorical and inaccurate. Bi has not always meant that. And not every bi person has described or defined themselves as such. Change in definitions is common and natural, especially as our language and world evolves around us. However, to say bi has always been so and always will be so is false. Because bisexuality is flexible and diverse and its own color spectrum - bisexuality and its definitions cannot be put into a box of “only” and “always”, because that would mean all other ways of defining bisexuality is wrong, inaccurate, and biphobic. The only thing that can be said true of an “always” within the bi community is that, historically, they have stood by the sides of fellow mspecs. And they stood strong with us, as we did with them. The bi community has always accepted other mspec labels. Any panphobe or anti-mspec individual who says so is, guess what, rewriting bi history.

Also, not only that, but panphobes are notorious for trudging up old definitions of pansexuality as a “gotcha”, and also constantly erase and ignore pansexual history. Anytime I see someone say that pansexuality was born in the 2000s/2010s as a way to make a more Woke Bi, it feels like my head is being slammed into a wall. Anytime I see a panphobe say “learn bi history!!!!! ACTUAL bi history!!!!” as a panphobe recruitment tactic, I feel my heart drop. Anytime I see people talk about how pansexuality was born out of biphobia or a misunderstanding of bisexuality or formed by transphobia, I roll my eyes.

I really could go on, but I think I’ve said what needs to be said. Panphobia is rampant and has been unchecked for a while now. Panphobes know to blow their whistles at a frequency where you have to either train yourself to hear it or be traumatized/educated enough to already know it. All claims of pansexuality’s “true nature” are not founded in any credibility, and are, more often than not, far more harmful to bi and trans people than anyone else. I’ve encountered many a radfem, terf, and more that are self admitted “panphobes”. Panphobia hurts everyone, and helps no one. Not bi people, not trans people, no one.

There is no “good” or “right” way to be panphobic. Whether you’re an outright panphobe or are one of those “I don’t hate pan people!! I just want them to know their history is Bad and Messy and that their label Makes Me Upset and is redundant and that I actually hate them but I don’t!! But I do” panphobes a.k.a “I love the sinner, and hate the sin!” 2.0., it doesn’t matter. You are still hurting a group of people who are just trying to mind their business, and MORE. If you’re panphobic, then you’re a pebble’s throw away from being biphobic and transphobic. Yes!! Even if you are bi and/or trans! If that makes you upset, then suck it up and spit out the kool-aid. And, most importantly:

Educate yourself

#Jean rants #Panphobia #Long post #Biphobia #Fuck exclusionists

[thatheathen]

TERF’s are insufferable antagonistic cyber harassers.

This type anti-trans rhetoric by these hateful fake feminists are why trans youth want to commit suicide or what increases their depression. This targeted cyber-bullying doesn’t “detransition” anyone as that population is in the 0.00 bracket which isn’t growing as like they you to believe.

Isn’t that their goal to get trans kids to de-transition? Do all you ghoulish transphobes want trans youth to harm themselves? You’re part of the problem if that’s the case. It’s not up to you in how others see or express themselves that isn’t harming anyone else. Being trans is not inherently dangerous in any way. TERF rhetoric and their hate mobs are dangerous. White Supremacists are dangerous. Conservatives and GOP members who commit more sexual assaults in bathrooms are dangerous. Proud Boys literally call for violence on trans women and TERF’s are ok with that.

And this isn’t my view here it’s just a fact; TERF’s are actively contributing to the transgender violence they believe they’re not apart of — as the transphobia, transmisogyny, transmisandry, and misogyny towards any kind of cisgender women is all violence. It leads to suicide, suicide attempts, or murder.

Bigots of all stripes are only getting more aggressive as LGBTQ rights become more established. This to TERF’s is oppression or erasing what it is to be a man or woman. Imagine that? Imagine thinking trans adults and non-binary teens have any structural power over anyone else? Wild huh?

That’s the difference between us and the TERF/Gender Critical hate groups. We’re not trying to erase anyone’s identity by using the state or harass them into self-harm online based on their gender expression. We don’t do this as much as Dave Chappelle wants you to believe. And to my mind (at least) any hate group disguised as some justifiable force of good, or legitimate movement, that targets marginalized groups do not deserve any civility.

You are not obligated to interact with hateful people or convert them. Tell them to fuck off. That doesn’t make you mean or a cruel person. I get enough threats from terfs and other transphobes to know there’s nothing I could do or say that can match a TERF’s or literal fascist’s privileged position of power. It’s just not the same. They make this evident and clear with their own words.

TERF’s are a hate group. TERF is fascist, it’s in the DNA. TERF’s perpetuate transgender violence through their cyber bullying, going onto rightwing media, and spreading misinformation about trans women specifically building fear into people who are probably genuinely curious to learn about trans people. Especially curious parents who only want what’s best for their kid. But some will stumble across PragerU anti-trans videos that are full of anti-science and meager research deliberately lying for profit and to stir up controversy in hopes policies are written amongst the culture war nonsense. TERF’s are vile bigots and are not just bigots towards queer folk. Remember that.

TERFS will NOT erase us [trans people], but we will erase and smash their toxic violent ideology enough to where all transphobes will feel unsafe to be so cruel and and spew all this hate; a projection of their insecurities. Transphobes ought to be fearful of getting charged with hate crimes or fired from their job cuz nobody wants a hateful weirdo running amok in polite society. Watch as they take “smashing TERF ideology” as “violence against cis women” binding their body and gender into transphobia as if it’s a personality trait. I see through you.

#content warning #transphobia is violence #transphobia #suicide #tw suicude #terfs are rightwing #terfs are not feminists #terfs are fascist #transgender #terfs are clowns 🤡 #fuck terfs #trans rights are human rights #trans women are women #trans men are men

[normal-thoughts-official]

This might be a weird question to ask idk but I was wondering why u write ur trans magnus without any surgery/body alterations? I guess the reason I’m asking is cause I’m wondering how to portray trans people in my writing and most people I’ve read from prefer to have their trans characters post op. I’d love to hear ur thoughts.

not a weird question! happy to help and it's always good to get trans perspectives

well there are two main reasons why i write trans magnus without any surgery or body alterations, plus one irrelevant-to-anyone-but-me one, which is projection. i don't have any body alterations and i don't want most of them so i like to write trans characters who are like me

the reasons that actually matter to other people that aren't me are:

it makes more sense for the character imo. magnus was born in 16th century java, then raised by a demon. that means he spent his formative years immersed in cultures that had nothing to do with the modern western gender binary. like you think demons even have gender? please. and while the fact that his stepfather was dutch certainly meant magnus' home wasn't as open as it could have been, being raised in java, especially the ports of jakarta, meant that he had contact with thousands of other cultures which didn't have a gender binary or the same gender divisions. so why would he develop dysphoria (which is nothing more than the internalization of the western gender/sex binary making a person hate themself because their body isn't in accordance to it)? and like, sure, ever since he's lived immersed in modern western culture, but at that point he had already solidified his idea of gender, so it's harder for it to be internalized. plus, he had access to queer subcultures (which have always existed for as long as queerphobia has existed) AND considering he has magic and can use glamors and the like, he has ways of protecting himself from the transphobic/cissexist/binarist gaze without needing to actually alter his body. so i don't see a reason why he'd want or need surgeries

political reasons. like, listen, i'm not gonna judge other trans ppl for writing trans characters post-op, especially if they are projecting their own wants/needs/daily life on them. however, i think it's important to portray trans bodies that aren't modified to be as close to cissexist ideals as possible. and again! i'm not saying that surgeries are bad or wanting them is bad. the internalization of the gender binary and subsequent dysphoria isn't on any trans person, it's a result of the violence we face by cis ppl. but when we are talking about representation in fiction, we are talking about one of the things in our culture that shape the very way we define normal. which means that representing trans bodies that aren't modified matters, because it means telling people that there's more than one way to be of a certain gender or look like a certain gender. when authors, particularly cis authors, keep portraying trans characters exclusively like people who feel the need to look as cis as they can, they imply that that's what every trans person should strive for. which implies that trans bodies aren't okay left alone, and trans people shouldn't be comfortable with their own bodies. which is, you know, exactly the kind of thing that makes trans people hate themselves, experience dysphoria, and more. one more time just in case it wasn't clear! it's not bad for a real life trans person to want surgery when that is something that we are taught is necessary for us to be who we are, MUCH LESS when passing can sometimes be the difference between surviving (getting a job, making a living, avoiding street violence) and dying. and it's also not bad to portray these struggles. what IS bad, imo, is normalizing, in the sense of making it the norm, trans people who want to be opped and marginalizing trans people who don't or can't. because by doing that, we only feed the harmful, transphobic, cissexist ideas that lead to all this violence and internalized violence and suffering therefore, i make it a point to have trans characters with all kinds of personal relationships with their bodies, and i absolutely make it a point to have trans character who don't have and don't want surgeries or body modifications and that are happy and confident in their gender expression and loved and respected for it. because while representation in fiction alone won't change transphobia, perpetuating cissexism in it definitely gets in the way of changing it. and i definitely encourage other authors, particularly cis authors, to do the same and not write only trans characters that do their best to look cis

so yeah! if you're asking me, i say it would be a great idea to portray a non-op-ed trans character. some trans ppl might be uncomfortable reading it, especially in smut, which i fully understand and don't judge them for, but i still think that it's the kind of representation that, if normalized (in the sense of making it seem normal and not an exception), can really help trans people in the long run. and nothing says it has to be one OR the other, anyway. you can have more than one trans character and have them have different relationships with their bodies. it's what i do, altho i do tend to have non-op-ed trans characters more often than not, cuz well. we get plenty of the other way around. plus, it's more realistic most of the time, cuz surgeries are crazy expensive and inaccessible, so only a very small minority of trans ppl can actually get them anyway

i hope this made sense to you? i tend to go too deep into Gender Babble™ when asked about stuff like that so if you have any questions or trouble following what i say just ask me and i can try to make myself clearer daiojdsaoidjasoj. id like to hear ur thoughts on my answer regardless, so, yeah

✨truscums don't even fucking look at this post or my fucking blog. your ideology is colonialist, cissexist nonsense and directly harms other trans people, especially native ppls. go fuck yourself✨

#ask #anonymous #magnus bane meta #lowkey #trans magnus bane #societal issues #discourse #sh #feel absolutely free to reblog #in fact i encourage that

[wheelbearrow]

lgbt discourse opinions:

Ace exclusionist. Asexual people have their own issues and experiences that are separate from the lgbt community.

Kink exclusionist. I’m not even sure why some people believe that kinks should be included in the lgbt community. I don’t think that kinky cishets need access to our resources and safe spaces.

Polyam exclusionist. I’m in support of polyamorous people and their relationships, but I don’t believe that it’s inherently lgbt. I’m pretty sure it’s a choice, so you could just choose to be monogamous.

Pro non-binary. I don’t have much of an opinion on most trans-related ‘discourse’ however, I do know that enbies exist and are completely valid.

Anti “qu—r community”. Calling the entirety of the lgbt community a slur is horrible and ignorant. Reclaiming that word personally is perfectly fine, but you shouldn’t call other people said word if they haven’t given you their permission.

Anti mspec. Mspec labels are incredibly harmful, as they perpetuate biphobic and transphobic ideas. I don’t hate all mspec people though, because most of them are just misinformed.

Anti bi-lesbian. This “identity” makes absolutely no sense. You can’t be bi and a lesbian at the same time, it’s contradictory.

Anti mogai. Most mogai labels are harmful and make it difficult for lgbt people to be taken seriously.

Anti staight-passing privilege. Almost anyone can pass as straight, so to claim that bisexuals in m/f relationships are somehow privileged is biphobic nonsense.

Anti monosexual privilege. Gay people may not experience biphobia (and may be biphobic themselves), but their sexuality doesn’t give them privilege.

Anti terf. This isn’t even really a discourse opinion, but I thought I’d mention it to be clear. Terfs are transphobic, misandrist scum. I hate them all.

#opinions

[tinkertytonkanddownwiththenazis]

K, I recently got into a keyboard battle with someone who was probably a troll, but I want to make a point about transness, dysphoria and “trenders”

CW: this post is going to reference the medicalisation of transness as well as medical transphobia.

“Transtrender” is a transphobic term. I will not debate you on this and if you disagree, I don’t want you following me. It is used to insult and deride trans people who are non-dysphoric/gnc/nonbinary/don’t want to medically transition/don’t pass and cut us out of the community because we don’t fit the narrow view of transness held by many cis people. And honestly, I can sorta understand why some binary trans people would use it. Transphobia is exhausting to deal with, I got my fair share when I came out. So if a bunch of cis people start saying “I’m fine with trans men and women who put the work in (medically transition + pass), but all this genderfluid nonsense? I mean really?” it makes excluding people outside of that narrow view seem beneficial. If you say “they’re nto with us, we don’t want anything to do with them either” it puts you on their side. So yeah, I understand that it’s presented as an easy way to assimilate and for the trans people who want that, or who just want to not get shit for existing, that would be nice. But we shouldn’t be dividing our own community for the sake of an “easy” way out. If we all band together and say “accept all of us or none of us” we can get the rights and respect we deserve.

The DSM openly acknowledges that not all trans people experience gender dysphoria. This person made a wonderful post with quotes from DSM-5 because not everyone has immediate access to it. I am truting you to click that link because they summarise it really well and I’m not just going to regurgitate everything they’ve said because I have more points to make.

The fear that “transtrenders” are a threat to trans healthcare and trans rights. The concern here is that the presense of  “fake” trans people will cause doctors to make gender conformations surgery and HRT even harder to access, something that’s a big issue in places like the UK where to get approved for surgery or hormones you have to speak to two separate psycholigists to make sure you’re really trans. *cracks knuckles* So lets break this down. First off, a number of “trenders” don’t feel the need to medically transition, so they will never try to. If you’re about to bring up detransitioners, 1) they make up anywhere between 1-5% of people who transition medically, and 2) The reasons they cite for detransitioning are lack of external support from friends and family (many of this group later re-transition once in a safer environment), not feeling like they adequetly pass, or saying that they sought medical intervention because they felt social pressure to do so (i.e. people perpetuating the idea that you have to medically transitions to be “really” trans). Stonewall wrote a really great post on the subject with links to the relevant papers and studies. The Wikipidea page on the subject is also really good. Detransitioners do not disqualify everyone else who transitions, and more people need to recognise that medically transitioning is not manditory to be trans. So those who don’t want to medically transition aren’t a threat. Next point. I am nonbinary and currently on the waiting list for a GIC in Exeter because I want top surgery. Just top surgery. Once I have my first appointment, I will be asked a bunch of questions to check if I’m really trans. For a very long time, trans healthcare was and still is extremely binary, and while changes are being made to accomodate NB people, they aren’t happening everywhere. Meaning, there is a good chance I won’t fit their criteria and I won’t be approved for surgery. Even as I write this, the though of being turned away terrifies me. So I and lots of other NB people apply for hormones or surgery that we genuinely want and get turned away. Then doctors start thinking “hmm, so many trenders are applying these days. If some of them slip through the net, they could get treatment they don’t want or need and that’s going to make life hard for them. We need to raise the bar to prevent that from happening.” We didn’t raise the bar. They did. The biggest barrier to medical transition is not nonbinary people or non-dysphoric people, or trans people who don’t pass. It is a narrow minded view of the trans experience. There are plenty of binary trans people who get turned away because they don’t meet the standards set by cis doctors. Because every trans experience is different. Just because only some people can jump over that bar doesn’t mean the rest of us can’t jump at all.

I recognise that this isn’t as well worded as it could be. I struggle to articulate myself sometimes. But please read this because we need to have a broader view of transness and trans experiences. I am not the enemy.

#transgender #transition #transtrender #nonbinary #please i am so tired of talking about this

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ok u know what i DO have the energy for transmeds/truscum i know exactly what i want to say rn

first off. sex dysphoria isnt the only kind of dysphoria. yes i have a "soft boy pussy uwu" and sorry youre bitter that im comfortable with it. that doesnt make me cis tho. wanna know why???? i know yall dont wanna take "because i identify as a boy" as an answer so im gonna play your game for a second. i have dysphoria, but not sex dysphoria. i cant stand being deadnamed or misgendered in conversation. drives me up the fucking wall.

but thats just me. and you know what? you Dont need dysphoria, of Any Kind, to be trans. literally if you identify as any gender other than the one you were born with then youre trans. idk where this bullshit gatekeeping came from

also are we just gonna leave gender euphoria out of the conversation? obviously people have a reason for identifying a certain way. if they dont have dysphoria, they probably sure as hell have euphoria!!! they enjoy being perceived as the gender they identify as!! and thats what fucking matters isnt it!!!

also i dont wanna hear any more of this fuckin "if youre female presenting then youre female" nonsense because i cannot believe actual real trans people are perpetuating this cisnormative attitude. gender expression is not gender identity. period. and who the fuck is the gender expression police anyway? who gets to decide if someone """looks female"""? i dont care where you picked up your degree in transphobic biology that shit is subjective and you know it. you just hate that people are comfortable identifying in a different way than you.

#sorry for the rant i just needed to yell #zandre rambles #discourse //

[rhyrhillian]

Journal 1-8-21

The censorship of freedom of speech and freedom of thought doesn't end with Trump. It begins with him.

Think about that.

Do you truly believe it's coincidence that is happening the exact same day DC is being overrun by a democrat majority in the house, senate, and presidency with all three branches of law making in their power? While democrats also absorb businesses to monitor and control the information you see and hear through tv networks, google, social media, hollywood, and even universities and college?

Guys?

Violence is violence. Violence is bad. Rioting is bad. This is universally valid.

And the democrats had every opportunity to expand and embrace and use that narrative to unify the country. And they didn't.

Can you honestly believe democrats are calling for unity while trying to force the blame to the terrible event that happened on capitol hill onto 74 million Americans who voted for Trump and tell them to shut up or else be canceled.

While democrats also try to promote, defend, and encourage the absurd racist acts and violence caused at Ferguson, Portland, George Floyd and other "PEACEFUL" protests (riots) through BLM and other Antifa Movements?

How stupid do you think Americans are? Do you think we've forgotten the past six months when thousands of mislead people under the name BLM were permitted to riot and loot hundreds of big cities and small towns to promote racism and violence? To spread the lie that our country should judge people based on the color of their skin and not their character. To cause mass property damage or to set flames to buildings and demolished thousands of people’s homes and businesses to disturb peoples established careers or to displace their families. All under the false narrative that all Americans, even yourself, are inherently and systematically racist. Bullshit. This is an attempt to divide and conquer by the left. And BLM did this with little to no consequence. The media praised and social networks encouraged this violent behavior. While I write this out, Facebook maintains a bookmarked link I can click on the top of my newsfeed that I cannot remove to support and perpetuate  outrageous and barbaric behavior, simply because democrats support these terrible crimes. I’d like to believe that these criminals were detained; but on a legal level, very few of these criminals were sent to prison, and then those same criminals who were guilty of their crimes were released from prison thanks to a fundraiser set by Kamala Harris. Unbelievable. 

It is profoundly clear that nobody voted for democrats because they believed in their policies. People don't care about democrat policies at all. And this is fact since every politically democratic notion contradicts themselves. So why did anybody vote for these people? Because American Big Tech Corps, Social Networks, Journalists, and media are operated by leftists who abused their power to skew information one direction.

JK Rowling was attacked and screamed at multiple times by her own fanbase when she stated that women are women and we should celebrate women and their accomplishments. This shouldn’t be a harmful thing to say, but Democrats think otherwise. Her statements are offensive and transphobic to democrats since democrats claim that gender has no limits while democrats simultaneously claim that the United States are systematically sexist against women. If that last sentence sounded like it contradicts itself, that’s because it does.

Another example of contradiction is that Democrats scream to defund the police but get ultimately confused and fear for their own safety when the capitol building was raided and overtaken so disgustingly easily. Spoiler Alert to those who haven't watched Monday's episode: The democratic mayor of DC actually ordered the officers to not retaliate too aggressively. Maybe she thought they were BLM supporters and she should've welcomed the violent rioters in for tea. What a complete moron.

CNN along with ABC and MSN are currently trying to take FOX off the air indefinitely completely due to its primarily conservative viewer base and literally nothing else. CNN claim that all republicans and conservatives are evil and if FOX supports them, they’re evil too. CNN’s goal is to eradicate any platform that doesn't support their own democratically controlled political agenda. Wow. Look at how tolerant the left truly is.

The truth is that the Democratic Party is incompatible within itself. In fact, it is it's own enemy. And so to keep people from suggesting different viewpoints within themselves, cancel culture and silence is the solution. If you want to suggest something individualize or different than the collective’s, you’re removed from the community. So you either have to agree with the collective or not speak at at all. Those are the two choices. It’s pathetic, really. The freedom of thought and freedom of speech is already being suppressed and it’s so obvious. Democrats needs to use cancel culture to control and circulate it’s own information within itself and to control itself and to control you to circulate it’s biased information to others to perpetuate their own biased ideologies. Americans were told to watch and listen to the democratic controlled mainstream media and do for what they were told to do - or else be silenced and destroyed by a twitter mob of woke SJWs and small children on every platform. The most disappointing factor of all of this is that cancel culture been embraced by Americans and weaponized for years now, and it’s used to hurt others easily and effectively.  I'd be interested in what's considered tyrannical these days because democrats told us all the lie this was an attempt to stop one person who's not a career politician from committing political tyranny in our nation. Instead, we packed the house, senate, and presidency with profitmaking politicians and granted the democrats all three branches of law making power to create an immense imbalance of power. Oh, the irony. If America's trust in institutions hasn't completely collapsed yet, it is now. And this all happened within a week of the election results being finalized. It hasn't even been a week and democrats had every chance to unify the country and they caused more harm instead. It was so simple, and they failed. My God. That's funny. So why cancel culture? Why weaponize violence to create silence? What's the goal of the Democratic Party? Easy. To cause fear. To make you afraid. To make you quiet. To make you listen to them. To obey them. It's a strategy that's worked so well for so long, ... I want this nonsense to stop That is all. Thank you.

[tumblunni]

ALSO TO FIX EXCELLUS

Because tangeants again lol

Recognise that its fuckin stupid and bigoted to expect us to believe someone is a villain INSTANTLY after seeing that they're queer, before they even do anything. Don't spend your entire damn game having the characters go "eww its that disgusting person of ambiguous gender we should kill them because gross" rather than.. Yknow.. "Excellus fuckin murdered those people". Recognise that literally doing this is gonna make your character LESS villainous and MORE sympathetic long before you finally get to goddamn showing them do anything bad except say "ohoho i wanna be a princess". And it'll make bunni REALLY PISSED OFF because nobody wants to feel sad for an asshole murderer yet THAT SADNESS IS FOREVER ENGRAINED IN MY SOUL NOW

Seriously fuckin hell it even made the heroes look less heroic! I felt like Excellus was almost justified in becoming a murdering selfish monster if she spent her entire life being treated that way by both sides in this big good or evil conflict. Why the fuck should she give a shit if she's being degraded? Like FUCKIN OBVIOUSLY murdering people and wanting to conquer a random japanese country as a mad dictator is not a remotely logical reaction to being misgendered. But like they could have changed some stuff and made a perfectly good sympathetic villain who gets manipulated by the bigger bad because of her sad past of being treated like shit and like she feels like this is her only option to be herself. And then maybe you can reignite her hope in the world and her self esteem and moral centre and help her redeem herself and team up with you to take out the real horrible fucks with no sympathetic motives. Instead she's friggin played as THE one who's evil cos she has no sympathetic motive. Like that's her whole Thing, she's supposed to just be selfish and greedy and horrid. Your damn bigotry somehow failed your own story as well as failing all trans people ever!

Or like yknow.. If you want an asshole fuckboi then actually write an asshole fuckboi. Scrubby scrub the trans = bad shit from this plotline and you do indeed have a selfish monster who murders a bunch of innocent people and gets his just desserts. You had a ready made simple character archetype and you were so preoccupied shoving your transphobic screed into your game that you fucked it up!

So yeah i think either make this goofy ohoho trans auntie a good character, make the asshole ohoho bad character a cis man, do both at once, or like even i'm not opposed to having a trans villain exist but like seriously make them a synpathetic villain. If they're the only trans character in the plot its already gonna send a bad message if theyre in the role of "worst most underhanded jerk villain", even if it WASNT also transphobic as fuck. So a sympathic trans villain or adding more LGBT characters so it doesnt seem like this one individual was designed to make a statement on your entire feelings for a minority.

ALSO

like seriously please do not do this stupid thing of mooshing every stereotype together from every LGBT identity and acting like theyre all the same thing?? Like man i fuckin HATE that anime trope that yknow.. The gay man says all this trans stuff cos he's ~just that flambouyant~ Like being a drag queen is what 100% of gay men are, 24/7, and anyone saying theyre a trans woman is just one of those drag queens who's really getting into character. Or just.. I dunno. I cant even wrap my head around what train of logic must have led to that stereotype in the first place! And its so fuckin annoying as a queer person trying to talk about why this is bad queer stereotyping, it just makes me extra sad to straight up not know what pronouns to use for the character so i feel like i'm being just as horrible to them as their creators were. Like man i've only settled on going for "she" for Excellus cos after years of looking into it it does seem like the original japanese was indeed specifically using stereotypes of trans women and not trans men or nonbinary people. Though all languages do seem to call the character male it seems pretty strongly to be a "i believe that trans women are men and can never be women" kind of thing, rathe rthan the character herself calling HERSELF male. She calls herself a woman in both english and japanese, and its just that the english has everyone else use male pronouns for her and added the non-canon "explanation" that she only acts like a trans woman because she has something wrong with her balls. (Ugh!) And in japanese on top of calling herself a woman she also uses feminine (and specifically trans/drag queen coded) variants of "I", and other common speech pattern traits used for negative stereotypes of trans women. Though again we do have other characters calling her a disgusting perverted man instead. Sigh!

Ok ok ALSO BIGGEST FUCKIN FIX! dont draw the character like a horrible distorted cariacature goblin in an entirely different art style to everyone else. Seriously its so annoying how they tried to make you agree with "excellus is disgusting just for acting queer" by LITERALLY DRAWING A DISGUSTING CHARACTER. If you take away the weirdass overdetailed horror movie monster face, there is nothing ugly or even "manly looking" about her! She's just like somebody's perfectly normal chubby aunt or something. You could go out in any street all over the world and see five of her! I hate it cos its almost like psychological manipulation or something? Like i've seen so many lets players who arent bigoted but merely oblivious still agree that excellus is ugly and disgusting and comical because of it, cos all the implications of transphobia/homophobia flew over their heads and all they saw was a character drawn to look monsterous. And just.. This is so common. Its the overwhelming japanese stereotype of trans women. Draw them looking INFINATELY MORE MANLY than the cis male characters. So manly that it really hammers home how "obvious" it is that a man in lipstick or dresses "just looks wrong" and of course there's NO way they could ever pass and ha ha look how deluded they are that they think they look pretty. It's horrid. It really is. Seriously I like to point at Tabitha from Pokemon ORAS for a good counter example, cos he's also an ambiguously transgender character from a game that came out around the same time and by some weird coincidence they look very similar. Except for the literal entire face. The literal entire exact same face, just its drawn hideous and distorted on the one who's supposed to be a negative trans stereotype, and drawn exactly like everyone else on the positive one. And there's not one example in the whole game of anyone calling Tabitha ugly because he looks trans, or even insulting his weight or anything. Same damn character design, just drawn without bias and treated like a human being. I mean seriously right down to them having the small "evil eyes" but with Tabitha he's always drawn with them in a perpetual sort of happy face and then his pose with them looking similar to Excellus is supposed to be a BADASS MOMENT of this comic relief villain showing his worth! And hw literally has red eyes on top of it! His design is even MORE "evil" yet just not drawing it as a stereotype entirely changes the player's perception and he became beloved by many. Whereas with Excellus even the trans people in the audience couldnt relate to her and just felt fuckin sad.

Oh also i guess Excellus is implied to be a trans woman and Tabitha is implied to be a trans man? But i don't think game freak was trying to say anything about trans men being more valid or whatever, cos the first canonical LGBT character of any sort was a trans woman npc in the battle maison. And tabitha being trans isnt really confirmed as clearly as she was. i hope someday theyre able to confirm an LGBT main cast member but until then i will forever hold onto the glimmer of hope that was given to me by Beauty Nova.

Also seriously Tabitha and Excellus both also look EXACTLY LIKE ME IN REAL LIFE so I kinda took Excellus extra hard and latched onto the Tabitha headcanon so much more because it was good healing after all that nonsense. Tho I also did considee nonbinary Tabitha at the time, because his japanese name is a gender neutral one that's merely like 75% female, rather than a 100% feminine one. But then his old RSE design was very masculine so i think maybe a trans man is what they were trying to imply if they did indeed do it on purpose. Anyway i probably would have translated his name as Ashley cos it has the same "technically neutral but more popular with girls" aesthetic while also keeping the same fire pun as Homura. I have no idea how on earth Tabitha is supposed to be a joke, honestly. Tho i meam maybe he's just the one type specialist on the entire poke-earth who doesnt have a joke name?

ANYWAY thank you terrible transphobic stupid manga i read today for reminding me that i love Tabitha. And also the developers love Tabitha. And also all the characters in universe love him, like seriously the only difference between the devon dialogue of him and Shelly is that they mention the other scientists nicknamed him tabitabi. And its so cute how seriously they said it too?? Its like "our boss tabitabi,the most feared and respected genius man".

Lovv dat tabb