#i had changed their mind

[falled-over]

this one is abt me personally and i dont want to impose my ideals onto other people but i feel like my ally ship to communities i support and am not a part of does and should not include ex-communicating their detractors, but rather engaging with them in attempts to change their mind. it should not be the job of people within those communities to educate people who violently oppose them, and those violent opposers should not go without someone stepping in to speak to them compassionately. 

#like if someone is being racist literally whos job to change their mind #the people theyre being racist towards? absolutely not. #idk if this reads how i want it to #deciding to cut people off because they disagree with you on moral politics is your own choice ig #a few years back i talked to someone on here who was gender critical on the fast track to becoming a terf #but in their personal posts they talked abt gender in a way i remember talking abt it before i was as comfortable in it as i am now #so i dm'd them and we had a seperate discord conversation for abt 2 weeks off and on that ended in them thanking me for my time and saying #i had changed their mind #and like it wasn't exactly easy. of course it was emotionally distressing or whatever the fuck. but better me than no one at all right #they weren't a raging trans ally. i think they said they were still gender critical. but i had humanised trans women to them #and like its one person #but you never know #i do think that educating others is overlooked in ally ship these days and thats very selfish #actually i think abt that in the case of jk rowling. #i do think if twitter were less volatile it could have gone differently.

[endusviolence]

Rowling isn't denying holocaust. She just pointed out that burning of transgender health books is a lie as that form of cosmetic surgery didn't exist. But of course you knew that already, didn't you?

I was thinking I'd probably see one of you! You're wrong :) Let's review the history a bit, shall we?

In this case, what we're talking about is the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft, or in English, The Institute of Sexology. This Institute was founded and headed by a gay Jewish sexologist named Magnus Hirschfeld. It was founded in July of 1919 as the first sexology research clinic in the world, and was run as a private, non-profit clinic. Hirschfeld and the researchers who worked there would give out consultations, medical advice, and even treatments for free to their poorer clientele, as well as give thousands of lectures and build a unique library full of books on gender, sexuality, and eroticism. Of course, being a gay man, Hirschfeld focused a lot on the gay community and proving that homosexuality was natural and could not be "cured".

Hirschfeld was unique in his time because he believed that nobody's gender was either one or the other. Rather, he contended that everyone is a mixture of both male and female, with every individual having their own unique mix of traits.

This leads into the Institute's work with transgender patients. Hirschfeld was actually the one to coin the term "transsexual" in 1923, though this word didn't become popular phrasing until 30 years later when Harry Benjamin began expanding his research (I'll just be shortening it to trans for this brief overview.) For the Institute, their revolutionary work with gay men eventually began to attract other members of the LGBTA+, including of course trans people.

Contrary to what Anon says, sex reassignment surgery was first tested in 1912. It'd already being used on humans throughout Europe during the 1920's by the time a doctor at the Institute named Ludwig Levy-Lenz began performing it on patients in 1931. Hirschfeld was at first opposed, but he came around quickly because it lowered the rate of suicide among their trans patients. Not only was reassignment performed at the Institute, but both facial feminization and facial masculization surgery were also done.

The Institute employed some of these patients, gave them therapy to help with other issues, even gave some of the mentioned surgeries for free to this who could not afford it! They spoke out on their behalf to the public, even getting Berlin police to help them create "transvestite passes" to allow people to dress however they wanted without the threat of being arrested. They worked together to fight the law, including trying to strike down Paragraph 175, which made it illegal to be homosexual. The picture below is from their holiday party, Magnus Hirschfeld being the gentleman on the right with the fabulous mustache. Many of the other people in this photo are transgender.

[Image ID: A black and white photo of a group of people. Some are smiling at the camera, others have serious expressions. Either way, they all seem to be happy. On the right side, an older gentleman in glasses- Magnus Hirschfeld- is sitting. He has short hair and a bushy mustache. He is resting one hand on the shoulder of the person in front of him. His other hand is being held by a person to his left. Another person to his right is holding his shoulder.]

There was always push back against the Institute, especially from conservatives who saw all of this as a bad thing. But conservatism can't stop progress without destroying it. They weren't willing to go that far for a good while. It all ended in March of 1933, when a new Chancellor was elected. The Nazis did not like homosexuals for several reasons. Chief among them, we break the boundaries of "normal" society. Shortly after the election, on May 6th, the book burnings began. The Jewish, gay, and obviously liberal Magnus Hirschfeld and his library of boundary-breaking literature was one of the very first targets. Thankfully, Hirschfeld was spared by virtue of being in Paris at the time (he would die in 1935, before the Nazis were able to invade France). His library wasn't so lucky.

This famous picture of the book burnings was taken after the Institute of Sexology had been raided. That's their books. Literature on so much about sexuality, eroticism, and gender, yes including their new work on trans people. This is the trans community's Alexandria. We're incredibly lucky that enough of it survived for Harry Benjamin and everyone who came after him was able to build on the Institute's work.

[Image ID: A black and white photo of the May Nazi book burning of the Institute of Sexology's library. A soldier, back facing the camera, is throwing a stack of books into the fire. In the background of the right side, a crowd is watching.]

As the Holocaust went on, the homosexuals of Germany became a targeted group. This did include transgender people, no matter what you say. To deny this reality is Holocaust denial. JK Rowling and everyone else who tries to pretend like this isn't reality is participating in that evil. You're agreeing with the Nazis.

But of course, you knew that already, didn't you?

Edit: Added image IDs. I apologize to those using screen readers for forgetting them. Please reblog this version instead.

#transgender #trans history #transsexual #transphobia #Magnus Hirschfeld #holocaust #holocaust denial #book burning #j.k. rowling #jk rowling #just in case you missed what i mean by all this: go fuck yourself anon :) #trans people have always existed #and we will always exist #if you really wanna pick a fight with me over well-documented history then you better bring in some sources to back your shit #queer history #queer #lgbt+ #lgbta+ #lgbt #lgbt history #edit: i finally got around to those damn image IDs. i am so very sorry for totally forgetting that's my bimbo moment of the month #also real quick i thought about adding an image of the actual building but the only one i can find has a Nazi parade in front of it #it was taken the day of the book burning raid and honestly if i were to include it then i'd add it to the first few paragraphs #and i think the story's better told when you uphold the hope Magnus Hirschfeld and all the researchers he worked with had #also keeps being brought up: yes Hirschfeld was a eugenicist. it was a popular belief set that was only discredited after WW2 #Hirschfeld died in 1935. he literally didn't live long enough to see science turn against those beliefs and practices #considering how he changed his mind on transitions i like to think he would've changed his mind on eugenics too if he'd lived

[isjasz]

☀️⭐🌙👁️👑

This is the way you are supposed to play this game.

#dddaily4sherin #day 172!! #grian #smajor1995 #pearlescentmoon #itlwart #goodtimeswithscar #trafficblr #traffic smp #secret life #secret life smp #secret life spoilers #life series #my art #cw blood #i had so many thoughts about this but itll be too complicated to explain it #so ill let u guys analyze it and take it how u want💥💥💥💥 #(maybe ill change my mind and ramble about it later maybeeeeee idk BHASDAHW) #explodes. cant believe we can draw scar with all the winners now it still feels like a fucking hallucination

[cleric4vampire]

wyll.y.am ravengard, I love you so

everyone loves to put him in gold (rightly so) but my personal style is lots of silver jewelry + heavy eyeliner so that's what I gave him. also roses because he's so damn venusian

#wyll #wyll ravengard #bg3 fanart #bg3 #three color versions because I'm so damn indecisive. I'm experimenting with a more sketchy style and had a lot of fun with it #I have so many thoughts about wyll and his venusian qualities; how he embodies some of the truest and starkest aspects of venus #as well as its most painful and burdensome weaknesses #I could write an essay on it but I don't know how many people live in the intersection between bg3 and classical astrology. so I won't #also - I've had this sitting in my drafts for way too long and it was in danger of entering the ''I changed my mind I don't want this to #see the light of day'' phase so Im pressing the damn button #my art

[lucabyte]

i feel like people are sleeping on the occam's razor situation of how buckwild it is to outright accuse a guy of being a clone of your friend even if you DO have a lot of circumstantial evidence. there's other options is what im saying. they could just be like. a guy. that's a sensible deduction. you should explore that deduction. ignore my shirt that reads I <3 RED HERRINGS.

i still think odile has the correct theory on lock but she's smart enough to know it needs like... a real smoking gun to be able to bring it up without sounding insane.

anyway. (mirabelle voice) i know its rude to speculate but has anyone else noticed the grieving? they seem to be grieving. does anyone have any thoughts on the grieving? i have some thoughts on the grieving.

#[isabeau voice] am i insane or does sometimes loop talk like they might have killed their whole family. is that just me? just checking. #nille design highly inspired by @kiwibrain's since its the one that imprinted in my mind. liberties taken since i didnt look @ reference #anyway i have a lot more thoughts on this? i guess ill hide them in the tags...? scroll down i suppose. #isat #in stars and time #isat spoilers #in stars and time spoilers #isat act 6 spoilers #isat loop #isat siffrin #isat bonnie #isat nille #isat fanart #in stars and time fanart #doodlebyte #---------------------------------------------------------------------- #anyway the extra thoughts. are literally just my general thoughts on postcanon. (and thus are the context for all of my postcanon doodles!) #which is i think nille joins the party before loop reappears for a start (either from a period of nonexistence or just wandering around) #and that like. i think the party should be able to integrate loop as a completely new person. because they are! the secrecy isn't great but #They and Siffrin shuffle into different ecological niches in the party (eg. i think sif is more squeamish after it all but loop isnt) #and while it's not *exactly* what Loop wanted they get that beggars can't be choosers. and its pretty good #(i am glossing over how i think loop's reappearence drags both them and siffrin into a massive behavioural backslide and is likely a bit #distressing to watch go down. cycle of argument -> lovebombing -> normalcy -> repeat. etc etc. but since they are no longer literally #stewing in the worst pressure cooker of all time they do resolve it via productive conversation on their own time. its fine) #the party well-meaningly tries to deduce things from loop's vagueries and are able to pin down the DEAD FAMILY vibe pretty quickly. #but eventually the question of their prior identity falls by the wayside because well! they're just their friend loop! (also change belief) #as for how The Truth Come Out... this is what i mean by The Isabeau Torment Nexus(tm). which is that i think... isiloop should almost occur #BEFORE isabeau knows who loop is. he's just genuinely charmed by them eventually and tries to close the open end of the polycule #which FREAKS LOOP THE FUCK OUT because thats just too genuinely sick and wrong. and obviously w emotions high its not a great confrontation #ANYWAY told u i had more thoughts. if i were normal itd be a text post but.

[afterartist]

IVE DONE IT!! (not exactly sure what it is in this situation but it sure is done)

Rumble n Frenzy would bully screamer any chance they get

Soundwave on the other hand needs payed vacation because that man has to put up with so much crap

#seekers have talons and I will not change my mind on this #I was one of th people cheering on SW in Skybound because honestly he deserves to snap #as a little treat to himself #decepticons #cassetticons #transformers #transformers g1 #transformers idw #i ship soundstar in an old toxic married couple kind of way #rumble and frenzy #with cassettes like you who needs autobots #I still have absolutely no clue how to tag for the TF fandom yet #art #my art #fanart #animation #animatic #I never know what these count as #my dumbass had to search up how to spell chauffeur correctly 3 times while making this #sorry to all of my followers that know nothing about Transformers #decepticons are my toxic found family and I hold them like precious stones #I also put them in my mouth and crunch them like precious stones

[zazrichor]

a reminder of you (and me)

#bbcmorgana #bbc guinevere #morgwen #merlinart #merlin fanart #that was my second prompt for the rvbb #obviously heavily inspired by love’s shadow by sandys & ellen terry ‘choosing’ by watts #it got claimed but alas #this was my last year’s masterstudy lmao #gwen’s dress underwent so many changes istg #EDIT: i WILL paint what i had in mind as a second prompt incentive #just don’t know when #zazrichart #procreate

[wispscribbles]

Pretty boy Riley ✨✨

#simon ghost riley #cod fanart #my art #cod #call of duty #unmasked ghost #cod ghost #this one is a redraw of my first drawing of ghosts face #didn’t like the old one and also wanted to see how much my art had changed in a year #feel like I nearly got him looking like he does in mind with this one #never quite manage it but this is close #sry for spamming all at once I just get these little bursts of energy #gotta go fast when they’re here

[medicalunprofessional]

sorry guys they finally showed me peak fiction . Its called “phantom of the paradise”

#phantom of the paradise #potp #winslow leach #swan potp #nightmaretheater #these were all done on the same canvas and i spent over 20 hours on it. Its just that good you know #Sorry this movie is making me VICIOUSLY IRREGULAR. its just that good. You have to watch it Now #i hope you dont mind the billion belts i have gifted winslow. she deserves them #lalalalal i love redesigning characters a little teeny weeny bit #Honestly. I want to draw swan more. I hate him so much but hes like really interesting. Im going to put him in situations #I miiight have changed a few details . giggle #…:i just had to give him a cool mark & blonde eyelashes Giggles #anyways i love ur shiny metal teeth winslow *thinks about the metaphorical implications and dehumanization for 10 hours* #So hard to draw her helmet sometimes… But i will willingly struggle . It is Okay! #anyways. Watch this movie now or suffer my curse

[ezdotjpg]

realized I never posted these! more bonus zeldas ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ might still make some tweaks to all these as I go

#lord knows i changed my mind for the links 1 million times #st zeldas armor alone has had like 3 variations lol #also #prince zel he/him thank u <3 #bonus links #bonuslinks #bonuslinksdotjpg #bonus oot zel #bonus hw zelda #bonus albw zelda #bonus st zelda

[s1mpl3sp0ng3]

this would not leave my head until i drew it. those aren't even the only things she has with faggot on it

#dumb ocs #BEFORE ANYONE SAYS IT. i had this word hurled at me all throughout middle and high school. i grew up in the most homophobic part of alabama #i have not been able to reclaim it for myself until very recently #that being said i have changed my mind and am going to tag for it #f slur #doodles

[evercelle]

merry merry christmas!!

#danganronpa v3 #ouma kokichi #saihara shuichi #saiouma #ever makes art #ever gifts #i wasnt originally gonna send holiday cards this year but i changed my mind last minute and had to paint this quickly... #happy holidays!! i hope everyone got their cards (or will soon!) #btw my mama saw the cards while i was writing them and instantly thought ouma was really suspicious. lmao #shes never seen a danganronpa in her life but its nice to know ouma instinctively incites suspicious. thats character

[magpie-trinkets]

continuing that "maya tries to contact claire" post, i present you the post-Spirit of Justice follow-up

#post that caters to ME specifically #let me first tag #ghost trick spoilers #lost future spoilers #now that that's out of the way. you know who's on that suitcase ;) #also claire is fucked up by time travel shenanigans so it's possible let's just say #also ghost powers grow and change with time sooooo. let's play with canon #layton “i have a dead girlfriend” and yomiel “i had a dead girlfriend” bisexuals #also yes the whole gang traveled to london they're just strolling around #maya had unfinished business and now that she's more powerful she's BACK #this would take place 7-or-so years after lost future/plvspw so layton is in his mid-forties here. i had to look it so correct me if im not #also yes this is a crossover AU i have rotating in my mind i love the source material and layton's and claire whole thing no shade to that #powerful narrative that made me cry #but with aa and gt magic fuckery we have the technology #also about the jail bit. that's a fic i am writing (one sentence every month) #ghost trick #professor layton #ace attorney #my art #ms paint #GOD. that wall of text is surely something

[reunitedinterlude]

lofi phantasy: the album

tracks 1-4 (x)

#will this be a daily series. likely not sjdfs #esp considering how many times i change my mind for each gif cause like. the songs are bangers but the titles are getting vaguer sdjjgs #like had to make this series a lot simpler cause. how do i gif 'virtual fields' or 'pixels in the wind' 😭 #dan and phil #daniel howell #danisnotonfire #amazingphil #phil lester #danandphilbeats #dpgdaily #phan #dnp gifs #my gifs #compilation #lofiphantasygifs #Internet Takeover Big Weekend Special 2015 #DAN AND PHIL JAPAN HAUL! #dnp instagram stories #A Festive Day in the Life of Dan and Phil!

[thylacines-toybox]

Magenta Sparkle Moon Heart got an essential sparkledog upgrade: angel and devil wings!

I was originally going to make her wings as a wearable harness type thing, but decided to just sew them on instead. She also got a few new accessories!

#wolf #sparkledog #nature planet #plushie #toys #modded toy #bright colour #pink #purple #toy with accessories #Magenta Sparkle Moon Heart #also she had some brain surgery i guess. that unicorn horn shes wearing was tried out on her head first but i changed my mind.

[kyurochurro]

GOOD AFTERNOON!! TODAYS UNI SKETCH IS : a redraw/study/doodle/whateva you wanna call it of this very dapper image of Picard and Data!! first time drawing Picard so I struggled a lil but otherwise I had so much fun drawing Data! :Pc og pic under the cut!

picard you smoke too tough... your swag too different ...

#churro art #my art #digital art #illustration #fanart #star trek #star trek the next generation #star trek tng #jean luc picard #captain picard #picard #data soong #YKNOW FOR THE FIRST TIME DRAIWNG PICARD I ACTUALLY DONT HATE HOW HE LOOKS!!! AHAHA #granted ill prob change my mind when i draw him again and look back on this but SSHSHHS FRO NOW ITS GOOD #AGHHHH i worked on this all throughout my classes bro LOLLL #from 7 am till 2 pm these two were being sketched away at... #no not really this probably took like 2 hours elapsed time i just had a heavy day today so. thats why HSHJASHJKAS #so many homeworks... so little time to take little naps and watch silly space show... #ALSO its my second time drawing Data and even though this is just a doodle im so happy with how his face came out!!!! GRAH 😭😭😭 #the best way to draw a smile that didnt look too ooc was to just mimic the rankin bass smiles #u know the ones the little :3 #ANYWAYS I GTG GOODBYE MORE CLASSES AGH #gotta draw more data