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Gender troubles? I don't know if i'm Cis, genderfluid, demiguy or something else.

I've always known I was bisexual but I started identifying with that when I was 11. When I look back even beyond 11yrs old I can see traces of myself acting as bisexual unknowingly, ever since I was a little kid.

So, bisexual is something I'm 100% certain I am. Even then I'm tired of being told that it's not real or to just 'pick one'

Now, for gender this is what I'm afraid of. I've been confused about gender for a while and I wasn't sure if I was female or male or something else. I'm always afraid because I know the stigma around gender is even stronger than bisexual (at least where I live) For example if I even considered 'trying out' the label of my (potential) genderfluid or demiguy idenity then I'm scared I'll get bombarded with 'youre just tomboy' or 'you're confused', 'pick one' all over again. Yet this is even stronger because at least bisexuality is more familiar than gender identity these days. Hell, I dont even know what I am.

Gender has always been something confusing. I was a major tomboy growing up and fluctuated during my teens. Some days I felt more girly than others, other days I felt male then 90% of the time I just felt like I didn't exist. This sounds like the potential definition to genderfluid but I never felt -right- nothing feels correct. I didn't want to come forward or say I was genderfluid because I always felt the need to 'pick one' so I stayed with identifying as female back then but I never felt comfortable.

I don't know if this is a gender issue or a dissociative issue.

I'm scared because what if I am genderfluid? What then? Sure I dress mostly in jeans and t-shirts but the way I dress doesn't tie me to an identity thats just how I'm comfortable.

I'm scared I'm just confused and fucking things up but I dont know for certian. I'm paranoid that ill mess up trying out an idenity or make myself more confused by trying a label out.

I guess its just really confusing right now. I feel like being genderfluid or demiguy could make sense but I feel like that would confuse people even more paired with my bisexuality. I'll just be invalidated all over again even though I still have to fight for my validation for my bisexuality to begin with.

I have days where I feel just- female but very tone down. I dont wear make up or act that feminine, on a regular basis I wear jeans, tshirts and hoodies. Very rarley i'll feel more femine which I mostly express by wearing eyeshadow and eyeliner, I dont wear skirts or dresses but super rarley ill get a desire too.

Then, sometimes ill feel more masculine, I wanna cover my chest and have shorter hair; i want to be perceived as a guy but im too afraid to express that desire openly. I hate wearing low cut shirts and only prefer wearing male shirts anyway, regardless of what I 'feel' that day.

I know gender isn't tied down to clothing and its not all that. Some days ill be fine with my body, other days ill love my chest but some times I dislike it. My chest is rather large and I have bigger hips and thicker thighs. I am disgusted with my thighs in particular, I feel my shape is too feminine for comfort.

This is just- confusing. Sexulaity I am certain in but gender is just so confusing right now. I wish i knew for certain what I was. Am I cis going through a hormonal phase? I've been tomboy as long as I remember- or am i genderfluid, demiguy or even something else.

I want to experiment but I'm afraid too. I "cross-dressed" once in secret at the start of the year and had so much fun but didn't have the right supplies. I feel like genderfluid doesn't feel.. validating but im not sure what does feel validating. I dont know what feels right.

Sometimes I can go months being like 'yeah im female' and in those days ill either feel super confident as female or just 'eh whatever' then sometimes I just get hit with a bus of this gender confusion. I don't know if this gender confusion is simply caused by my sexuality and nothing more or if it's because half of the time I don't feel real.

Other days I'll try being more masculine and I'll feel super comfortable but then a few weeks later I'll look back and think 'that can't be right' and feel grossed out with myself? But In the moment it feels so right- like I feel comfortable. Then this feeling loops. I feel constricted between the two but I don't know.

I'm just so lost.

Im 17yrs old, female sex and bisexual but what is my gender at this point?

I dont feel valid.

allwomensrights

youre afraid of gender because the movement is purposefully vague and confusing and if you dont agree with them then you are evil, thats where the fear may be stemming from, at least it was for me.

i see you are defining the words of gender and identity according to genderism and trans ideology like “girly” this is why you are SO confused.

gender is not biological sex, but gender only exists because of the biological sex they are assigned to. biological sex is the bodies humans are born with, male, female and the intersex conditions that can occur in between, gender is the STEREOTYPES and ROLES assigned to your sex, things like “girly” and “tomboy””masculine” they are assigned to us by SEXISM, these gender roles have NOTHING to do with your actual personality. these roles of “girly” and “masculine” are BOXES made to control the population via peoples biological sex, female people face a specific type of oppression and negative gender roles at the hand of this system.

now we get to the split in how to deal with gender: there are two ways: the way you are currently doing it via trans ideology where a female= girly and man=masculine, this is leading to confusion because this is not the way to deal with gender, you should not accept the roles and make new roles and names, the goal must be to eliminate gender from how you want to live altogether and simply be you: a woman (which is simply the name for female people) is NOT girly and stepping into “masculine roles” DOES NOT make her less female because female doesnt mean “girly” and male doesnt mean “masculine. male and female are only the medical terms for our bodies and have nothing to do with how we are supposed to act.

once you start seeing the way you view gender as the CAGE it is your confusion might start to clear.

I wasn't sure if I was female or male or something else.

there is no “something else” intersex conditions still fall under male and female and ALL “third gender categories” across cultures are ALWAYS about gender roles and how those who dont follow them are “something else” there is no something else, there is no scientific examples of new sexes. From your post im inferring your afab, not liking the gender roles assigned to you isnt an indicator that you are another sex

a lot of female people feel “masculine” because the gender roles assigned to males is LIBERATING, their clothes are comfortable and the perception around men isnt sexist, this doesnt mean youre half male, it means youre human. like youre already valid by existing as you are, labels are only going to trap you more

I have days where I feel just- female but very tone down. I dont wear make up or act that feminine

female isnt a feeling though, there is no proof or evidence for this statement, once you get to the point where you arent forcing your brain to associate femininity with femaleness you might feel better?

you dont feel real cause youre forcing youre brain to disconect from your body to agree with gender and trans ideology, i really hope youre able to see that there is no feelings because there isnt supposed to be any!! you arent supposed to have to behave any type of way, you arent supposed to have to find labels to adjust with how you dress or how you want to act. the discomfort with a feminine body is maybe because of how feminine bodies are perceived and treated by society when you pair that up with thinking im a woman when im “girly” of course disassociation happens, at least thats how it was for me

nothing is ever going to be valid enough, im sure youve figured it out by now theres always a new label a new gender a cage, a million ways to chase a fleeting “gender euphoria” to be validated on gender performance, but its never enough because its not real or healthy and it goes away too soon, all it takes is people missing the pronoun pin or not caring that youre dressing masculine for the good feelings of validation to fly out the window

because validation on gender roles is just a new form of sexism, you are literally already valid as a female person who lives how they want and embraces their bisexulaity, you already are there!....BUT not really, cause your so focused on gender roles and feelings you cant enjoy your life and sexuality

im sorry if i offended you at any point with my reply, i just remember being your age and feeling the exact same way in your post, i also looped around and wondered if i was just a confused cis person or genderfluid/nonbinary etc etc and it never got better until i realized i dont have to follow that ideology or rules and neither do you

phantomtobii-blog

Gender troubles? I don’t know if i’m Cis, genderfluid, demiguy or something else.

I’ve always known I was bisexual but I started identifying with that when I was 11. When I look back even beyond 11yrs old I can see traces of myself acting as bisexual unknowingly, ever since I was a little kid.

So, bisexual is something I’m 100% certain I am. Even then I’m tired of being told that it’s not real or to just ‘pick one’

Now, for gender this is what I’m afraid of. I’ve been confused about gender for a while and I wasn’t sure if I was female or male or something else. I’m always afraid because I know the stigma around gender is even stronger than bisexual (at least where I live) For example if I even considered 'trying out’ the label of my (potential) genderfluid or demiguy idenity then I’m scared I’ll get bombarded with 'youre just tomboy’ or 'you’re confused’, 'pick one’ all over again. Yet this is even stronger because at least bisexuality is more familiar than gender identity these days. Hell, I dont even know what I am.

Gender has always been something confusing. I was a major tomboy growing up and fluctuated during my teens. Some days I felt more girly than others, other days I felt male then 90% of the time I just felt like I didn’t exist. This sounds like the potential definition to genderfluid but I never felt -right- nothing feels correct. I didn’t want to come forward or say I was genderfluid because I always felt the need to 'pick one’ so I stayed with identifying as female back then but I never felt comfortable.

I don’t know if this is a gender issue or a dissociative issue.

I’m scared because what if I am genderfluid? What then? Sure I dress mostly in jeans and t-shirts but the way I dress doesn’t tie me to an identity thats just how I’m comfortable.

I’m scared I’m just confused and fucking things up but I dont know for certian. I’m paranoid that ill mess up trying out an idenity or make myself more confused by trying a label out.

I guess its just really confusing right now. I feel like being genderfluid or demiguy could make sense but I feel like that would confuse people even more paired with my bisexuality. I’ll just be invalidated all over again even though I still have to fight for my validation for my bisexuality to begin with.

I have days where I feel just- female but very tone down. I dont wear make up or act that feminine, on a regular basis I wear jeans, tshirts and hoodies. Very rarley i’ll feel more femine which I mostly express by wearing eyeshadow and eyeliner, I dont wear skirts or dresses but super rarley ill get a desire too.

I know gender isn’t tied down to clothing and its not all that. Some days ill be fine with my body, other days ill love my chest but some times I dislike it. My chest is rather large and I have bigger hips and thicker thighs. I am disgusted with my thighs in particular, I feel my shape is too feminine for comfort.

This is just- confusing. Sexulaity I am certain in but gender is just so confusing right now. I wish i knew for certain what I was. Am I cis going through a hormonal phase? I’ve been tomboy as long as I remember- or am i genderfluid, demiguy or even something else.

I want to experiment but I’m afraid too. I “cross-dressed” once in secret at the start of the year and had so much fun but didn’t have the right supplies. I feel like genderfluid doesn’t feel.. validating but im not sure what does feel validating. I dont know what feels right.

Sometimes I can go months being like 'yeah im female’ and in those days ill either feel super confident as female or just 'eh whatever’ then sometimes I just get hit with a bus of this gender confusion. I don’t know if this gender confusion is simply caused by my sexuality and nothing more or if it’s because half of the time I don’t feel real.

Other days I’ll try being more masculine and I’ll feel super comfortable but then a few weeks later I’ll look back and think 'that can’t be right’ and feel grossed out with myself? But In the moment it feels so right- like I feel comfortable. Then this feeling loops. I feel constricted between the two but I don’t know.

I’m just so lost.

Im 17yrs old, female sex and bisexual but what is my gender at this point?

I dont feel valid.

allwomensrights

youre afraid of gender because the movement is purposefully vague and confusing and if you dont agree with them then you are evil, thats where the fear may be stemming from, at least it was for me.

i see you are defining the words of gender and identity according to genderism and trans ideology like “girly” this is why you are SO confused.

once you start seeing the way you view gender as the CAGE it is your confusion might start to clear.

I wasn’t sure if I was female or male or something else.

I have days where I feel just- female but very tone down. I dont wear make up or act that feminine

because validation on gender roles is just a new form of sexism, you are literally already valid as a female person who lives how they want and embraces their bisexulaity, you already are there!….BUT not really, cause your so focused on gender roles and feelings you cant enjoy your life and sexuality

mikarchive-deactivated20250714

i am a girlboss i am a war criminal i am a lunatic . i am clinically insane & the next virgin mary & i am never going to die

#im sorry #feminism #ww3 #radfem #radical feminism #liberal feminism #intersectionalism #patriarchy #gender #war #russia #Ukraine #world war three #aaaaahhhh #ahhhhhh #aaaaahhhhhh #radblr #human rights

hustleinatrap

In honor of 19-year-old Simone Biles being named Woman Of The Year by ESPN.

She won a record four gold medals at the Olympics. She’s untouchable!

Congratulations!

scinerds

The idea that millions of sperm are on an Olympian race to reach the egg is yet another male fantasy of human reproduction

Before science was able to shed light on human reproduction, most people thought new life arose through spontaneous generation from non-living matter. That changed a smidgen in the middle of the 17th century, when natural philosophers were able (barely) to see the female ovum, or egg, with the naked eye. They theorised that all life was spawned at the moment of divine creation; one person existed inside the other within a woman’s eggs, like Russian nesting dolls. This view of reproduction, called preformation, suited the ruling class well. ‘By putting lineages inside each other,’ notes the Portuguese developmental biologist and writer Clara Pinto-Correia in The Ovary of Eve (1997), ‘preformation could function as a “politically correct” antidemocratic doctrine, implicitly legitimising the dynastic system – and of course, the leading natural philosophers of the Scientific Revolution certainly were not servants.’

One might think that, as science progressed, it would crush the Russian-doll theory through its lucid biological lens. But that’s not precisely what occurred – instead, when the microscope finally enabled researchers to see not just eggs but sperm, the preformation theory morphed into a new, even more patriarchal political conceit: now, held philosophers and some students of reproduction, the egg was merely a passive receptacle waiting for vigorous sperm to arrive to trigger development. And sperm? The head of each contained a tiny preformed human being – a homunculus, to be exact. The Dutch mathematician and physicist Nicolaas Hartsoeker, inventor of the screw-barrel microscope, drew his image of the homunculus when sperm became visible for the first time in 1695. He did not actually see a homunculus in the sperm head, Hartsoeker conceded at the time, but he convinced himself that it was there.

More powerful microscopes eventually relegated the homunculus to the dustbin of history – but in some ways not much has changed. Most notably, the legacy of the homunculus survives in the stubbornly persistent notion of the egg as a passive participant in fertilisation, awaiting the active sperm to swim through a hailstorm of challenges to perpetuate life. It’s understandable – though unfortunate – that a lay public might adopt these erroneous, sexist paradigms and metaphors. But biologists and physicians are guilty as well.

It was in the relatively recent year of 1991, long after much of the real science had been set in stone, that the American anthropologist Emily Martin, now at New York University, described what she called a ‘scientific fairy tale’ – a picture of egg and sperm that suggests that ‘female biological processes are less worthy than their male counter-parts’ and that ‘women are less worthy than men’. The ovary, for instance, is depicted with a limited stock of starter eggs depleted over a lifetime whereas the testes are said to produce new sperm throughout life. Human egg production is commonly described as ‘wasteful’ because, from 300,000 egg starter cells present at puberty, only 400 mature eggs will ever be released; yet that adjective is rarely used to describe a man’s lifetime production of more than 2 trillion sperm. Whether in the popular or scientific press, human mating is commonly portrayed as a gigantic marathon swimming event in which the fastest, fittest sperm wins the prize of fertilising the egg. If this narrative was just a prejudicial holdover from our sexist past – an offensive male fantasy based on incorrect science – that would be bad enough, but continued buy-in to biased information impedes crucial fertility treatments for men and women alike.

rad-itzel

“Human egg production is commonly described as ‘wasteful’ because, from 300,000 egg starter cells present at puberty, only 400 mature eggs will ever be released; yet that adjective is rarely used to describe a man’s lifetime production of more than 2 trillion sperm.”

blackswallowtailbutterfly

The entire article is worth reading, but I highlighted some parts (article is long):

powerful microscopes revealed that an average human ejaculate, with a volume of about half a teaspoon, contains some 250 million sperm. But a key question remains unanswered: ‘Why so many?’ In fact, studies show that pregnancy rates tend to decline once a man’s ejaculate contains less than 100 million sperm.

most mammalian sperm do not in fact swim up the entire female tract but are passively transported part or most of the way by pumping and wafting motions of the womb and oviducts. Astoundingly, sperm of smaller mammals tend to be longer on average than sperm of larger mammals – a mouse sperm is longer than the sperm of a whale. But even if these were equivalent in size, swimming up to an egg becomes more of a stretch the larger a species gets. […] Convincing evidence has instead revealed that human sperm are passively transported over considerable distances while travelling through the womb and up the oviducts. So much for Olympic-style racing sperm!

Sperm passage up the female tract is more like an extremely challenging military obstacle course than a standard sprint-style swimming race. Sperm numbers are progressively whittled down as they migrate up the female tract, so that less than one in a million from the original ejaculate will surround the egg at the time of fertilisation. Any sperm with physical abnormalities are progressively eliminated along the way, but survivors surrounding the egg are a random sample of intact sperm.

Many sperm do not even make it into the neck of the womb (cervix). Acid conditions in the vagina are hostile and sperm do not survive there for long. Passing through the cervix, many sperm that escape the vagina become ensnared in mucus. Any with physical deformities are trapped. Moreover, hundreds of thousands of sperm migrate into side-channels, called crypts, where they can be stored for several days. Relatively few sperm travel directly though the womb cavity, and numbers are further reduced during entry into the oviduct. Once in the oviduct, sperm are temporarily bound to the inner surface, and only some are released and allowed to approach the egg.

Pushing the notion that the fertilising sperm is some kind of Olympic champion has obscured the fact that an ejaculate can contain too many sperm. If sperm surround the egg in excessive numbers, the danger of fertilisation by more than one (polyspermy) arises with catastrophic results. Polyspermy occasionally occurs in humans, especially when fathers have very high sperm counts. In the commonest outcome in which two sperm fertilise an egg, cells of the resulting embryo contain 69 chromosomes instead of the usual 46. This is always fatal, usually resulting in miscarriage. Although some individuals survive as far as birth, they always expire shortly afterwards. Because polyspermy typically has a fatal outcome, evolution has evidently led to a series of obstacles in the female reproductive tract that strictly limit the number of sperm allowed to surround an egg.

Another dangerous misconception is the myth that men retain full fertility into old age, starkly contrasting with the abrupt cessation of fertility seen in women at menopause. Abundant evidence shows that, in men, sperm numbers and quality decline with increasing age. Moreover, it has recently emerged that mutations accumulate about four times faster in sperm than in eggs, so semen from old men is actually risk-laden.

allwomensrights

Any religious or religious adjacent, spiritual, witch, radfems/gendercrit feminists I can follow? I need more feminist women on my actual blog pls

erasureofwomenslanguage

Women are ‘individuals with a cervix’ but men are still men.

it-is-the-female-federal

It is always our language that gets erased. Men are so entitled

ophelias-revenge

Mmm sexism

theresagooseinthemainframe

Our language, our bathrooms, our female focused placement groups and shortlists, never theirs. Men lose nothing and we lose everything.

caps-boo-bear

Trans men may still have a cervix. NBs may have a cervix. That’s why they didn’t say women.

criticalcrone

Trans women may still produce semen. NBs may produce semen. Why didn’t they say individuals with prostates? It would be fair.

fizziewizzie

Cishet ppl really be like I refuse to open my mind about different things bc in 7th grade i learned about chromosomes

allwomensrights

No it's because no amount of "mind opening' can make us ignore that biological sex is real and sex based oppression exsists lmao wtf are y'all smoking

It's 7 grade because biology and reproduction is that simple and y'all aren't clownfish or other animals that can change their sex

fizziewizzie

All women's rights? Funny bc you're a literal transphobe. You can't be a real feminist until you support ALL women. Fuck off terf.

allwomensrights

I do support all women! I support all female people! Even though all female people don't identify as women all women are born female.

Biological sex isnt transphobic, sorry you feel that way about life

fizziewizzie

Thats literally how transphobia works. They've actually done brain scans and found that individual transgendered brains match what they identify as. But you wouldn't do that bc u don't do any independent research outside of a 7th grade biology book 🤡 You just hate people who you perceive as weaker than you. But guess what? They're stronger than you could ever imagine. And you're just a coward 🙃

allwomensrights

No babe, biological sex isn't transphobic!

Your brain scans have been debunked! There is no such thing as brain sex or gendered brains, this is a sexist concept !

I've been asking the same things for years! Believe me I used to think like you, but I'm not stupid and if your telling me I'm close minded" for knowing that sex is real and not believing in debunked science then that's a red flag

I don't think trans people are weak? I'm just saying humans can't change their sex and women are female !

fizziewizzie

Alright.

So we're talking about chromosomes here, yeah? There's actually 5 common sexes and several other very rare ones.

People that have different chromosomal variantions than XX and XY are known as intersex people.

So if people can have different chromosomes therefore different sexes, then why can't people change their gender identity? And why can't you just accept that? Its basic human decency and respect.

"But!!! But science!!" I hear you say. Yes DNA says otherwise but let me give you an example.

This women shown here is going to use the restroom. But she was born as a male. So based on that information, as someone who looks (and is!) Physically a woman, are u going to tell her to use the men's? Even when she's completely transitioned and has female anatomy, that she should use the men's just bc she has XY chromosomes?

If she steps even ONE FOOT into the men's, she will get verbally, physically, and even sexually abused. Please tell me you think there's something wrong with that. When a innocent human being is assaulted like that.

(BTW, real trans women don't go through their transition, spend millions of dollars to look how they want, just to rape someone in a fucking public restroom. Those are actual predators so please don't mix the two bc they're not one in the same. THAT kind of mindset makes u an actual close minded bigot)

allwomensrights

“5 common sexes” lmao what? please stop appropriating intersex conditions, intersex people are still male or female and prove the existence of a binary, not disprove it

the bathroom thing isn't about policing who goes in an out, that pic is a poor representation of transwomen, you know most dont pass that well, and even then like i said, its not about policing who goes in an out, its about keeping female spaces, if that person passes, then no one would even know or notice them, so that is obviously not the problem, even if they didnt pass women are nice enough to keep quiet unless made uncomfortable , the problem is the trans movements insistence on eliminating female only spaces, which puts both cis and transwomen at risk of male violence.

and please dont ignore the lengths males will go through, to access women, theyve pulled men out of septic tanks and toilets cause they wanted to spy on women, cis men have repeatedly crossdressed to get close to women, transwomen have raped cis women when put in female prisons and actively rape with their penises at the same rates cis men do. transwomen perpetuate male violence at the same rate cis men do. does that makes all transwomen predators? no, but since they are still male, they are not exempt from being a part of a group that can perpetuate male violence against women, all of these facts are very easy to find online, knowing this doesnt make me a bigot.

laexploradoraaa

Radical feminists are neither radical nor feminist. Adhering to cis hetero patriarchy and white supremacist notions of sex and gender aren't radical positions. That's the status quo. If I'm talking about women, that will always include trans women and people who can relate to the struggles of being seen as a woman even though they may fall outside the gender binary.

allwomensrights

sweety.....biological sex is not white construct....poc know how babies are made and woc have suffered from sexism and heteropatriarchy LONG before white colonizers introduced their white version of gender roles.

women arent “people who relate to the struggles of being seen as a woman” women are female, with shared realities based off our bodies, that remains the same throughout time and cultures, because its based off our female bodies and not some made up vague concept males can identify into

The root (radical) of radical feminism is acknowledging that the key factor in sexism, patriarchy and heteronormativity is biological sex, in which males as a class have used to dominate and oppress females as a class. this is basic feminism and if you cant compute that you arent being groundbreaking, just going along with the same misogyny that has always existed

#ignoring biological sex doesnt make sexism go away #it doesnt make males less sexist #and it doesnt erase male privlege

your-sweetest-nightmares-blog

So sick and tired of this ignorance we have to put up with every minute

TW: Transphobia.

Terfs are the textbook definition of hypocrisy. One of the main points of feminism is to fight against how society intentionally reduces its view of women to just their bodies, sexual organs, whether they can have children, etc. When trans women just try to live a happy life as who they truly are, the terfs turn around and proceed to reinforce those same sexist beliefs by telling trans women that they aren’t real women because their bodies don’t have certain parts and can’t perform certain functions. By being transphobic, the terfs reinforce the exact patriarchal beliefs that they’ve been trying to fight against and destroy this entire time. The things terfs say are hurting both cis women and trans women. They are are unknowingly tearing down the progress that has been made and the literal point of feminism. Why? Because they choose to discriminate against a certain group of people instead of giving them the equality and positive recognition they deserve. Besides, women aren’t all the same. There are chubby women, thin women, curvy women, muscular women, short women, tall women, feminine women, masculine women, androgynous women, white women, women of color, cisgender/straight women, queer women, women with disorders/disabilities, women of different religions, women who fight for our country, etc. Keeping this in mind, trans women are just another one of the many different types of women who walk the earth. All women are equal and deserve love, respect, and rights. That includes trans women, no matter what anyone tries to say. All trans people in general are valid as heck. Nobody has the right to label a body that isn’t theirs and whatever's in your pants is nobody else's business or concern. In the end, it just goes to show that if a feminist mocks or excludes any type of woman, especially if she’s trans, then she’s not a feminist at all.

Reblog if you agree.

allwomensrights

. One of the main points of feminism is to fight against how society intentionally reduces its view of women to just their bodies, sexual organs, whether they can have children, etc.

yes, feminists fight to been seen as more than just our female bodies, we are all still femae because biological sex exists, we fight against standards being set around our bodies, not the concept of our bodies lol

trans women just try to live a happy life as who they truly are, the terfs turn around and proceed to reinforce those same sexist beliefs by telling trans women that they aren’t real women because their bodies don’t have certain parts and can’t perform certain functions

no dear, being told you arent female when you literally arent, isnt reinforcing any standards, its simply reminding you sex is real and cannot be changed, transwomen arent real women because women are female, and transwomen are and remain male.

no one is discriminating against you for knowing youre male. its not womens job to cater to amabs, ever. All woment arent the same, but ALL women are female. transwomen arent another type of “female” youre just male.

transwomen deserve human rights and to live free of violence but feminism is and will always be for female rights and liberation, not males.

radicalgraff

“We don’t forgive, we don’t forget”

On September 6, 2020 feminist activists broke into the office of the director of the national commission on human rights in Mexico City. The action was taken in protest against a state that does nothing to prevent the killing and rape of girls and women in Mexico

radicalurbanista

even better, they declared the building will be for female victims of violence (x)

swedepea

Angry women will change the world

kazkit

Just curious but have radfems/terfs ever actually caused any tangible harm to trans women or what?

snakesonhighbranches-deactivate

Are…. are you actually kidding please tell me you are trying to be funny

kazkit

It’s a legitimate question. I don’t at all support the trans exclusionary parts of radical feminism but from looking through a lot of radfem blogs I have really yet to see anywhere near the same amount of vitriol coming from them as I see coming from other trans people. To be honest I’ve seen more support then anything.

snakesonhighbranches-deactivate

Look, I’m not having this fucking discussion. You should fucking know better.

depressingegocentric

Heya, can I help here a bit? The harm that terfs do to trans women is very much real. Terfs pretty much say that trans women are not women. A lot of times I have seen them condone abuse and murder of trans women, I have seen instances where they themselves have tried to do horrible things to trans women.

bloodyredbougiegold

Yes we say transwomen aren’t women (b/c transwomen are male not female and woman = adult human female). But, no we absolutely DO NOT condone the abuse and murder of transwomen. Where are your reciepts proving that we have tried to do terrible things to transwomen?

oceanicsteam

Well for starters health care actually generally covered trans needs up until 1980, until Janice Raymond and company helped write the report which ended trans healthcare(sure, of course there were plenty of other people who were in agreement, namely social conservatives. But a report by a leftist academic feminist with the support of some like minded friends gave a great deal of credence to the policy change) This is far more destructive than violence against any one individual and it’s something that is now only starting to change. Then you have more modern ones, most notably Shelia Jefferys and Cathy Brenan who have even teamed up with hardcore conservative groups to oppose trans protection bills and in a few instances even harassed people in real life. Then you have your standard hate posts on twitter and shit. I’d say that’d be irrelevant but some people on here scrounge social media to find any awful post by a trans person among tens of thousands to prove that trans people are awful. But my favorite one actually goes back to the 70s(and Janice Raymond again), and notably this situation at the Olivia Records recording collective http://www.transadvocate.com/terf-violence-and-sandy-stone_n_14360.htm What I love is the fact that this is pre internet. These people didn’t write a stupid post on twitter, they actually sat down and took the time to write death threat letters

appropriately-inappropriate

Oh, this is just silly now.

health care actually generally covered trans needs up until 1980, until Janice Raymond and company helped write the report which ended trans healthcare

Raymond was asked for salient quotes on her study; the actual research was done by Johns Hopkins.

Let’s see who was actually responsible for this decision. His name is Paul McHugh, former Psychiatrist in Chief at Johns Hopkins. He says:

We at Johns Hopkins University—which in the 1960s was the first American medical center to venture into “sex-reassignment surgery"—launched a study in the 1970s comparing the outcomes of transgendered people who had the surgery with the outcomes of those who did not. Most of the surgically treated patients described themselves as “satisfied” by the results, but their subsequent psycho-social adjustments were no better than those who didn’t have the surgery. And so at Hopkins we stopped doing sex-reassignment surgery, since producing a “satisfied” but still troubled patient seemed an inadequate reason for surgically amputating normal organs.

Oh, well. So you mean to tell me they stopped doing a medical procedure because they found that it didn’t improve quality of life for their patients?

Well, then. That’s a little different.

And what’s this tasty factoid here?

A 2011 study at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden produced the most illuminating results yet regarding the transgendered, evidence that should give advocates pause. The long-term study—up to 30 years—followed 324 people who had sex-reassignment surgery. The study revealed that beginning about 10 years after having the surgery, the transgendered began to experience increasing mental difficulties. Most shockingly, their suicide mortality rose almost 20-fold above the comparable nontransgender population. The high suicide rate certainly challenges the surgery prescription.

Oh, well, fuck! It’s almost like changing the physical appearance does nothing to treat the underlying disorder, and could, in fact, exacerbate it leading to a 20% increase in POST-transition suicidality.

Oops.

Moving along:

a report by a leftist academic feminist with the support of some like minded friends gave a great deal of credence to the policy change

Really? Are you unfamiliar with the political climate in the 80s?

The decade was marked by one of the hardest shifts to the right in modern history. Reagan was content to let hundreds of thousands of gay men literally die in the streets before he paid a single iota of attention to the fact that AIDS wasn’t a plague sent by an angry God but an epidemiological clusterfuck.

I really don’t think that the political climate in the Reagan-era New Right were really paying a lot of attention to radical feminist scholars like Raymond.

But nice try.

As for TERF Hate, that’s an article by Cristan Williams for the TransAdvocate, and you don’t think that’s a little biased?

Please, spare me. Olivia Records was an all-female collective that took money from the lesbian-feminist community to put on shows and create a lesbian record label.

The fact that Stone was male and then used that same male privilege to access training which made them essential to the collective isn’t something to be brushed under the rug, and Stone did occupy a spot that a female–in the mandate of the group, keep in mind–could have occupied just as effectively.

But here’s a fun quote from Williams:

Sandy: The Gorgons was a group of women who wore cammo gear, shaved their heads and carried live weapons. We were told that when we got to town, they were going to kill me. Cristan: Wait, they said that they were going to KILL you if you came to Seattle? Sandy: Yes, but we kind of laughed about it. … Cristan: The sheer oppressive weight of this impending violence that was hanging over your head, that’s ready to drop upon you and the people you work with and care about at any moment… That had to feel like terrorism; it’s terror inducing.

You know, it’s so funny they should talk about aggressive people carrying live weapons and paramilitary gear.

Gee. Funny Williams should bring it up.

And then Williams says:

Wait, they said that they were going to KILL you

Like this is some big horrific event, and not something violent receipts gets every damn day from trans women aimed against feminists. I, for one, just delete them, but I once had a nationally ranked trans activist tell me they were going to put a bullet in me, and I’ve had trans women threaten to rape me, and threaten to kill me.

So, unless Williams is willing to clutch her pearls on my account, I’m calling bullshit.

Cristan: The sheer oppressive weight of this impending violence that was hanging over your head, that’s ready to drop upon you and the people you work with and care about at any moment… That had to feel like terrorism; it’s terror inducing.

violenttransmalewitness and violent receipts are full of examples of the terror-inducing, “feels like terrorism” levels of hate and harassment trans women dish out online and in person.

So, good to know Williams agrees that what trans activists are doing to radical feminists is terrorism.

scrounge social media to find any awful post by a trans person among tens of thousands to prove that trans people are awful.

Yeah, I didn’t really need to look that hard. There was no scrounging. It’s like looking for grubs–kick any rock and you’ll find em.

Then you say this:

they actually sat down and took the time to write death threat letters

(Note: Below, Ms. Brennan is posting a letter she received in the mail)

So there’s that.

Then again, there was also the time where a trans woman tried to shut down a Vancouver Rape Crisis shelter serving disenfranchised First Nations women in the Downtown East Side at the same time that they were all being killed by a serial killer…

That’s worse than a death threat, since women actually did end up dead and abused as a result.

Then there was the time trans activists picketed a memorial for Missing, Murdered and Massacred Women…

Natalie Reed 11/19/2013

So… VANCOUVER TRANS PEEPS (and allies)… as many of you know Vancouver Rape Relief has invited Janice Raymond to speak at the Vancouver Public Library (presumably the downtown location) on November 30th, as an event memorializing the massacre at L’Ecole Polytechnique. Given VRR’s trans-exclusionist policies, history of trans-misogyny, ongoing support of transphobic feminism, dismissal of Kimberly Nixon, subsequent legal defense, and role in setting legal precedent that permits anti-trans discrimination in Canada, and Janice Raymond’s own history of extraordinary trans-misogyny and central role in the development of transphobia within feminism, we can’t really consider this coincidental or benign, nor can we assume the talk will simply be about L’Ecole Polytechnique, misogynistic violence or women in STEM fields.

In all likelihood, it will almost certainly be an openly cissexist, trans-misogynistic talk, probably based around arguing for trans-exclusionist policy to “protect” the “safety” of “womyn-born-womyn”.

Many folks are trying to prevent VPL from hosting the event, especially given that VPL’s own policies insist upon events being inclusive and respectful towards marginalized groups and identities (and IIRC, gender identity is specifically mentioned). *Hopefully* the talk being prevented from taking place at VPL is what will happen, or at least VPL inviting members of the trans community to respond / debate. BUT IF THE VRR / JANICE RAYMOND TALK PROCEEDS AS PLANNED… I would very much like if we could organize a counter-event to take place at VPL the same day (with or without explicit approval from VPL… library square’s status as public space should permit us to gather there regardless of prior approval- at least long enough to stage the response event- as long as we aren’t being destructive or harassing anyone or anything).

I was thinking of organizing speakers to talk on four topics that would serve as a useful counter-point to the trans-misogyny of Vancouver Rape Relief and Janice Raymond:

1) The consequences of trans-exclusionist policy, and/or trans people being unable to safely access services like rape/abuse/DV support services, homeless and emergency shelters, sexual health services, police services, medical care, etc. …with a definite focus on the rape/abuse/DV stuff (I could take this up as a topic myself, if needed, based on my experiences as a trans rape survivor and my ongoing inability to find any suitable support or resources).

2) The consequences of transphobic, cissexist and trans-misogynistic feminism, as exemplified by writers like Janice Raymond, Sheila Jeffries, Mary Daly, etc., and the consequences of exclusion of or unwelcoming attitudes towards trans women in women’s spaces, organizations, communities, etc. (perhaps tilted towards trans women’s exclusion from feminist space and queer women’s space).

3) Trans-misogynistic violence (which can tie into TDoR and recent events).

4) How trans women are impacted by misogyny and misogynistic violence, like that of the L’Ecole Polytechnique shooting, and how trans-misogyny, transphobia, cissexism, etc interrelates with misogyny, patriarchy, etc.

I think these topics will make a compelling point (ideally to ppl who are there for the Raymond talk, or who have uncritically supported VRR in the past, or who are associated w/ VPL, or who are simply unaware of these issues)… particularly if our event manages to round up better attendance than the Raymond talk itself.

If interested in helping organize this event, or interested in speaking, or interested in helping out in any way at all, please please comment or message me or e-mail me at [email protected] Also, even just expressing interest in ATTENDING could help give a good idea of whether this works as an idea.

Hopefully none of this will be necessary, but given that it’s less than two weeks away, we should start organizing ASAP.

and that the organizer of said picket, Natalie Reed

was also banned from the University of Toronto for making violent threats against students and staff there.

So, I see your “letter writing boohoo” and raise you the fucking picket of a memorial march for missing and murdered women.

Unlike your buddies up there reblogging hearsay and “I heard a TERF said something mean about a puppy this one time”, I’m happy to provide the evidence to back my words up.

Try doing the same next time.

terven-hooves

Absolutely smashed holy shit

trista-bella-got-revenge

Someone got schooled HARD!

#receipts #trans violence

afriblaq

June 5, 1993 - March 13, 2020

#neverforget

#this is so sad

eligantly

reblog if you have ever experienced/witnessed any level of sexual harassment or unwanted attention from a male. I’ve never met a girl who hasn’t been harassed in some form and I wanna prove that girls don’t chuck that shocking figure around for fun.

keraleda

“Lighten Up” by Ronald Wimberly

Beautifuly written- and drawn.

brittlife

Damn. Really powerful and beautifully drawn.

tockthewatchdog

It’s crazy that every female you meet will agree like yeah i get sexually harassed all the time, yeah i’ve been assaulted, yeah i’m afraid walking in the dark, yeah i check under my car and in my backseats, yeah i look over my shoulder when i’m alone, yeah men have said creepy things to me since i was 13, yeah men get aggressive with me, yeah strange men touch me in public without my permission, yeah i’ve been called a bitch or a cunt or a whore, yeah i’m afraid of being raped and forcibly impregnated, yeah i am afraid of not being able to access an abortion, yeah i am luxury taxed on period stuff even though i have no choice in the matter, and men will agree this happens and exists, yet anytime anyone is like, “Women are an oppressed group, which means they act like oppressed people, have rage and stressors specific to their oppression, fantasize about escaping oppression, and are still oppressed even if they’re privileged in every other single way,” everyone is like NOOOOOO!!! NOOOOOO EVIL BITCH

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