My name is Mandarine/Tangerine, you can call me both I don't really care 🍊
I'm a radical feminist and I'm French, be free to hate either of those fact, I also don't really care. As a radfem, my two main focuses are :
Abolishing sex trafficking/prostitution/surrogacy/pornography, which are just the exploitation of women for men's sexual pleasure or for rich people's baby wants
Abolishing gender and recognising the importance of biological sex in womens lives, which right now means fighting the far right because we're not naturally submissive and the left because being submissive doesn't a woman make
🍊 About me 🍊
I'm a student, and I do a LOT of personnal research, so I know a thing or two about human biology, genetics, psychology, sociology and the history of homosexuality. I'm not (yet) a professionnal in either of those fields tho.
I don't ever post personnal stuff here so you'll never see photos of myself, my cats, my fishes or my plants. Yes I'm afraid of being doxxed. No I don't think it's irrational.
🏳️⚧️ About trans activism 🏳️⚧️
I don't hate trans people. I think trans activism is anti-feminist (erases women, has sexist beliefs, is violent towards women), homophobic (doesn't recognise same sex attraction, pushes conversion, hates lesbians), racist (compares men to black women, use black oppression to justify it's actions) and anti-science (practice denialism, censor research, publish biased studies).
✨️ About anything else ✨️
Feel free to send ask and anons related to anything. I don't post hate anons. I try to answer the best I can. Don't assume you know enough about me ! If we're mutuals, hi, I love you and am very normal.
I mostly reblog other people's posts because I used to blog but I'm too tired to do it now. Also I'm writing a book about feminism but it is in French so sorry, you'll have to learn baguette language to read it I guess.
what do you think about biochemical dysphoria? i am not claiming it’s scientifically validated, but as a ‘detrans’ woman i do think it has some merit. while i was on testosterone gel for a few months i felt zero anxiety and all the depression related issues i had disappeared. i wasn’t even passing or trying to, and no one knew because i wanted to wait until i had some physical results to talk about it. ultimately, i had to stop less than 8 months in because i was getting the medication from a friend who was being overprescribed and she moved away. pursuing it myself back then would have been impossible due to muslim family and 2+ year waiting list.
nowadays i have lost my interest in transitioning due to being too old to start over again. and i never really believed it could turn me male, just wanted relief from dysphoria. my views are also basically all radfem aligned, save for thinking people should be allowed to pursue a surgery or medicine like this. but very often i still think back of how normal i felt in my head. i had more energy, no anxiety, no depressive feelings, no brainfog or dissociation anymore and was able to function much better. i miss that feeling and have considered going on a low dose in the future, if they make it easier to get.
i’ve seen both detrans and trans people talk about it before, and apparently that’s biochemical dysphoria. so i’d like to see if anyone here has any more insights?
It's too risky. I was on a low dose and felt the same. It was helpful, I felt my mood increase and less brain fog, more energy. But I had to come off it because I had too much blood (it gave me a dangerously high red blood cell count) as well as high cholesterol. Nowadays I just find other things to invest my time in and take care of myself and I still feel more stable than I ever did on them. I get why it's tempting, but hrt has no proven long term health benefits for the average person that would be worth the risks involved, and so I don't think its an ethical treatment for anything. It shouldn't be encouraged as a blanket solution for 50 different mental health and medical issues we can treat individually with care. I don't agree with "dysphoria" as a term to describe these issues. It obfuscates the problem. The more we lean into this as a viable treatment, the more we avoid looking for better, personalized care with fewer risks.
Holy crap I’ve never heard of the blood thing, that’s so scary!
I agree that the blanket concept of “dysphoria” seriously harms the treatment of various conditions… I had breast ‘dysphoria’ from my teens to my mid twenties. It was a bizarre disembodied creeping feeling. I hated to see them, hated to touch them, it felt like they didn’t belong on my body… but one day it went away on its own. My theory is that it was some sort of neurological problem that resolved itself when my brain matured. Imagine if I tried to solve it with medications or surgeries instead!
And I have to say, what did my discomfort with my breasts have to do with maleness??? Seriously. That conclusion is completely ideologically driven. I do not have a mysterious Y chromosome floating
around that my body can use to tell what maleness feels like and that I should have it. Even if there was some sort of weird genetic memory thing going on (lol) how would a tube made out of arm skin fit onto my supposed destined male neurological map? What if it’s supposed to be an inch higher or shorter? How is that supposed to solve a true biological problem?
Yes, males do not have breasts, but guess who else doesn’t that our bodies have actual knowledge of? GIRLS. I firmly believe that much of “gender dysphoria” is actually a failure to acclimate to the adult body.
I'm searching for the cockslinger docs but I will NOT be searching it in the search bar. Why did I let the blog who made it slip when I could have sub ?? Mystery.
Imagine a conservative “peaking” on liberal ideas and they start unironically identifying themselves as a libtard. that’s what you sound like if you call yourself a terf for real lmao
I mean not really. TERF stands for something it's Trans Exclusive Radical Feminist. Calling myself a terf is just an easy way to label my beliefs. Conservatives call liberals libtards as an insult
Doing an experiment. Reblog this if you say any of the following:
blorbo, moid, handmaiden (not in reference to the lesbian movie), bihet, gendie, terf (in reference to yourself, other radfems, or ironically), troon, tranny, terves, terven, woke (and you're not Black), retard
If you don't say any of this reblog this one instead
on psychologytoday.com if you search for therapists and select "female" in the filter then there's a little blurb at the bottom of the page politely chastising you for preferring a female therapist, and even suggesting you need to unpack some things if you prefer a woman. they use phrasing like "believe", "imagine", and "adhering too rigidly to a gender preference".
if you search for male therapists, the blurb totally changes and encourages prospective clients to start with a therapist they feel comfortable with. sexism is baked into e v e r y t h i n g
In the blurb on male therapists, it says "Some women have prior negative experiences with women that predispose them to prefer working with a male in therapy"
But zero comment made about the many, many reasons a woman may not want to work with a male therapist. Because it's okay for women to distrust other women (those gossipy hags!), but god forbid a woman have a single hesitation over sharing her deepest trauma with a man (our reliable and steadfast protectors).
Every aspect of society wants women to hate other women. We need to do everything we can to prevent that.
Xhat's interesting is that right now, the American blurb has changed, probably because of backlash. But the french blurb is an EXACT translation of the american version screenshoted by OP. Like I think they have automatic translation and they didn't change the blurb in every language.
some of my beliefs get described as anti-kink, but this is inaccurate. i'm fine with kink. really, i'm anti-"all the shit i've already expressed finding immoral and abhorent" and i refuse to make exceptions just because it turns some people on.
Discover insights into Identity Formation with psychFORM. Explore how LGBTQ umbrellas affect gay identities.
Abstract
This study examined developmental outcomes among gay male undergraduates within contemporary LGBTQ coalition structures on university campuses. A mixed-methods design was used to assess identity formation, perceived belonging, and psychological safety among N = 49 students (38 gay-identifying males; 11 transgender-identifying female-to-male students) at the University of Michigan across Winter and Spring 2024. Structured interviews and survey measures evaluated agency, authenticity, and relational security within coalition-based campus environments. Although LGBTQ discourse groups sexual and gender minorities under a unified sociopolitical umbrella, developmental theory suggests that sexual orientation and gender identity emerge from distinct psychological pathways with different mechanisms of consolidation (Erikson, 1968; McWilliams, 2011)
Findings indicate that gay male students experience conditional belonging when situated within a trans-centered LGBTQ identity hierarchy. 86% reported feeling pressured to align with trans political or ideological frameworks to maintain social acceptance, while 0% of transgender participants perceived such alignment as optional for coalition cohesion. Gay students additionally reported reduced perceived freedom to differentiate (84%) and anticipated social exclusion if they did not maintain visible alignment (78%). By contrast, transgender respondents reported no perceived threat of displacement and identified their identity category as central to coalition legitimacy.
The data show that this conditional structure results in agency erosion and premature foreclosure of identity development among gay students. Belonging is experienced as contingent on alignment, producing chronic self-monitoring and limiting conditions for autonomous selfauthorship. These results suggest that the current model of LGBTQ inclusion functions as a system of conditional belonging that impedes independent identity consolidation among gay men in university settings.
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Balanced question pair:
1A: “Do you believe trans students have a shared right to define the meaning of ‘LGBTQ identity’ for the community as a whole?”
1B: “Do you believe individual subgroups (e.g., gay men) should independently define their own identity without trans mediation?”
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Conclusion
The findings of this study establish that the current structure of LGBTQ coalition identity on university campuses produces a measurable developmental cost for gay male students. The pressure to align with a trans-centered identity framework functions not as affirmation but as a mechanism of conditional belonging, resulting in agency erosion, chronic vigilance, and identity foreclosure.
The climate of enforced ideological alignment does not promote safety; it substitutes compliance for autonomy. Gay students are not permitted to form identity through self-authorship, but instead adopt externally scripted identity roles in order to retain access to community. This foreclosure is relationally enforced and persists because the institution misinterprets the absence of dissent as evidence of support.
The harm is internal rather than discursive: developmental conditions required for individuation are suspended, and identity consolidation is replaced with role adherence. Belonging is contingent on ideological conformity, and the resulting silence is structurally rewarded as proof of inclusion. Gay identity, as a distinct developmental category, is displaced within a coalition architecture that centers trans identity as the sole source of legitimacy.
Therefore, the study demonstrates that the current model of LGBTQ inclusion on campus operates as a system of conditional belonging that is incompatible with autonomous identity development. Integrity fatigue is the clinical consequence of this structure: a state in which authenticity is chronically suppressed because the only available pathway to belonging requires its forfeiture.
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The crux of this is that:
Gay male identity is not contingent upon external validation. Homosexuality is real. While "trans" identity is contingent upon external validation. That's why they're so militant about force-teaming: without the legitimacy of gay and bisexual men and women, "trans" identity evaporates.
Gay men feel socially pressured to endorse "trans" support that they don't believe in, and the result for them is a forfeiture of identity, especially as "trans" narcissism always takes centre stage. When was the last time you saw anything from the "LGBTQWERTY community" that didn't degenerate into into "trans" gobbledygook?
This is why LGB✂️QT+. You cannot destroy yourself or your identity for someone else. Especially when they openly hate you.
to any tifs/tims/tras who may see this: us, actual gay people, DO NOT WANT YOUR COERCIVE, HETERO ASSES IN OUR SPACES. unequivocally. and if you’re labouring under the misapprehension that ‘most gay people’ agree with you and your position, let these finding disabuse you of that notion. at the absolute most, we are pretending because we don’t want to lose our jobs and livelihoods.
Trans people who have hobbies/interests outside of the kweer community are the most interesting hypocrites. The ones who are interested in biology understand sexual dimorphism in birds but fly off the handle if you think trans women are men. They're all for disability advocacy, people who were screwed over by misdiagnosis, people who are talked over and ignored unless it's a detrans person. Ppl who are into history but somehow think trans people are backbone of the LGB community all around the world
In the end, I'd rather a TiF teenager go to the doctor if she needs to because he calls her a he or they than her not getting medical help and not getting support outside her family. I think pronouns are bullshit and regressive and no one should be forced to use them ; however when dealing with a vulnerable population it is more important to create genuine connection and help them navigate safely their situation than to be right.
I have trans friends, believe it or not. And saying that "trans identifying female" is a slur is one hell of a reach, it's a descriptive that's inclusive of all gender identities.
so let me get this straight.... Ethel Cain can post a picture of her entire dick and balls on the internet and Instagram has left it up for 2 days and counting, but a woman-centered sex education and resource page got permabanned for TALKING about vaginas and arousal. Tell me again who the censored and silenced ones are? Tell me again who's bodies are being discriminated against?
and while I'm at it, don't forget that Ethel Cain is a racist piece of shit who's hiding from responsibility behind her transness and Appalachian upbringing.
Ethel cain isnt Appalachian lmao, he's from Tallahassee, the capital city of FL. He didn't grow up in some poor and "backwards" place where a kid might not be exposed to enough of the word to know right from wrong if they were raised wrong. His family is progressive and supported his music when he was a flamboyant gay man and now that he is an adult they support his transition.
Re: the racial remarks, he was just a standard white teenage boy. He also based his ethel cain persona - a character who gets sexually assaulted, killed, and eaten- on (aside from skinwalking nicole dollanganger and lana del rey, two women who he now treats like trash) a girl he had a crush on on middleschool iirc? And has a history of writing incestual, violent erotica and songs... and drew and posted on instagram a drawing of a boy chained up naked and battered in a church basement "loving" how the priests go down to rape him. Oh, and said that anyone who claimed to be against adults dating highschoolers is just mad that they were too fat/ugly to get any action like that. And does weird suggestive photoshoots with his sister.
All okay for a moid, obviously, yeah. You're probably just transphobic if you don't like him.
some of you are painfully unaware that part of the whole reason many kinksters are like "what happens in my or someone else's bedroom is no one else's business"
is because people have been arrested and put in fucking PRISON just for having gay sex in the privacy of their own homes. in the United States. this millennium.
if you think i'm joking, look up Lawrence v. Texas (2003). 14 out of the 50 US States STILL had laws on the books criminalizing sodomy--and yes, you could be imprisoned for multiple years and sometimes even life for repeat offenses.
in the years directly leading up to the landmark case, enforcement even in those 14 states varied, but it was absolutely weaponized against queer people, especially when stacked on top of other offenses to make up a longer sentence.
um so anyway, what happens between two or more consenting adults in the privacy of their own homes is none of my OR YOUR business, and i'm not fucking kidding!
the reason leftists and feminists started rejecting the "what happens in my or someone else's bedroom is no one else's business" line of thinking is because it was used to dismiss acts of domestic violence, spousal rape, or generally acts of sexual / domestic abuse carried between two married people or within the family. that's what "the personal is political" was all about. how you treat your partner in the privacy of your home is not separated from the larger dynamics you'll find in general society, that's why we need restrictions and legislation on what you can and can't do to your partner even in your bedroom. this goes for kinksters but also for people who are "only" into vanilla sex; both are capable of rape and abuse and regardless of sexual subculture we need regulations anyway. but putting aside overt cases of sexual violence in kink spaces, retraumatization and traumatic arousal are real phenomena. for women in kink communities that means many of them can and do seek out dynamics to reenact their sexual trauma without addressing the psychological impact it had on their sense of self and the way they view sex; even if they agree to certain acts doesn't mean we shouldn't have some critical thinking. consent doesn't necessarily mean the sex is desired or the dynamic is healthy and not (re)traumatizing.
comparing this to homosexuality doesn't work because gay or lesbian sex that is desired by the two people involved doesn't necessarily involve physical or sexual violence. if anything it's homophobic to pretend that because we tolerate gays we should also let men beat up women or reenact rape scenarios
watching porn, especially violent porn, is immoral. there's not nuance. you are destroying your brain, setting back society, and giving money to an industry that brutalizes and trafficks vulnerable people, especially women and children. i'm not willing to debate this.
i just blocked 4 people who have ddlg, cnc, etc, in their bio, and then lost 2 followers by clearly stating one of my uncompromisable moral beliefs. do you think could have achieved this by putting a list of dnis in the second page of a cardd linked in a pinned post? no. my system works. 👍
For Black History Month, Total Woman Victory is highlighting essays from our archive that center Black women’s decisive contributions to the struggle against imperialist patriarchy. For each feature, we have produced a printable zine for collective study and feminist political education.
Our feminist politics begin from the material reality that the yankee empire and the imperialist world system it dominates were forged through the trafficking, enslavement, rape, and reproductive terror of Black women as the primitive (and subsequent) accumulation of blood-soaked capital. For this reason, Black women have been both primary subjects of imperialist male violence and among its most revolutionary antagonists. Through national consciousness that emerges from the material conditions of sex, labor, and national subjugation, Black women have developed some of the most advanced and principled feminist strategies against imperialist male domination.
The dominating empire that calls itself the “United States” cannot survive the loss of its most revolutionary subjects: the internally colonized New Afrikan nation. This is why we study New Afrikan nationalism as a feminist and anti-imperialist strategy, particularly as articulated and led by New Afrikan women: we are politically committed to dismantling yankee control and exploitation of the global proletariat. This orientation, grounded in Marxist analysis, national liberation, and the sex contradiction, will be a central focus of our upcoming TORCH Conference.
This week, we feature “Are Black Women Racists For Wanting To Be Free?” by Vas. This essay can be read on our Substack (https://totalwomanvictory.substack.com/p/are-black-women-racists-for-wanting) and printed as a zine from our website (totalwomanvictory.com/zines).
Vas’s essay will be collectively studied by anti-imperialist radical feminists around the country and world at the TWV TORCH Conference, as part of our commitment to the total defeat of imperialist patriarchy.
fighting the patriarchy by attacking one of the most vulnerable minorities (trans women) who face way more oppression than trans men just for being women is incredibly stupid
wrong. very, objectively wrong, actually.
Sexual Assault
source (note also: trans women, besides crossdressing men, were least likely out of ALL gender identities to face sexual assault)
Of all transgender people, 47% have ever been sexually assaulted: 362 (50%) of transmasculine individuals, and 72 (37%) of transfeminine individuals.
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Past-year sexual violence was reported by 23 transgender men (42%), 11 transgender women (14%),
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Of those that have been assaulted, 362 (46%) were transmasculine and 72 (34%) were transfeminine
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Intimate Partner Violence
Nearly half (47%) of transgender men in our study reported experiencing at least 1 form of IPV in the past year. This was over 40% higher than cisgender women and nearly 30% higher than transgender women.
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General Violence
Past-year physical violence was reported by 22 transgender men (43%), 9 transgender women (24%)
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you wonder why lesbians and GNC women are detransitioning and turning into “TERFs”. you should give some credit to the suffocating misogynistic lies your movement spreads constantly. some credit to the fact that your “community” routinely and entirely neglects the suffering of all female people.
fucking endlessly “protect the dolls!! protect the dolls!! DNI if you’re TME! you must put in bio if you’re TME! protect the dolls! a girl without girlcock is an angel without wings! protect the dolls!”
your movement is male supremacist. i will never not believe your baeddelism is a million times worse than the worst of my feminism. your ideology is overrun with hatred and neglect for every female person involved. they objectively suffer more, but you see no “protect the transmascs” happening. instead, you see this same lie propagated everywhere, and you see “protect the dolls” at music festivals and on the side of buildings and on the shirts of the female partners to these misogynists.
if you wanted to prove this is a bug, not a feature, i’d think your movement would care the slightest bit more about this blatant bigotry and misogyny.
