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Hey transmasculine and gender-variant folx! If you wear a chest binder, I made an Android app that you can use! It reminds you to take off your binder at the end of the day and also to stretch out your back during the day. You can find it in the Google Play store here.
If you’re having issues with it, or have any feedback for me, I’d love if you could email me at [email protected]. And if you like it, feel free to rate and review it!
“coercively assigned” is not for any trans person to use, it’s for intersex people who had their sex and gender decided for them through traumatic surgery, please respect that lived experience
Voice Deepening Stretches
Lean your head back until you feel a light stretch in your neck tendons.
Hold for fifteen seconds.
Lightly hum, and gradually bring it down lower as you go.
Center your head.
Now lean your head to the left until you feel a light stretch.
Hold for fifteen seconds.
Center your head.
Repeat this process leaning your head to the right.
Lower your head down and put your hands behind your head.
Try to push your head against your hands upwards, while providing resistance from your hands.
I need this as a man with an abnormally high voice… literally… I can sing alto
No word on the motive or how patients could be affected.
This is really frustrating and scary. Obviously, thank god that no one was injured. Something really frustrating is that the wait times are already so long and that clinic is so over-worked and now wait times are going to be extended and surgeries will probably have to be re-scheduled.
TDOV: historical trans men
For literal CENTURIES there have been records of men who had jobs, property, and wives–and then who were discovered upon death to be “biologically female.” Despite the fact that most of them lived full-time as men, historians tend to assume they were simply lesbians who wanted to safely be with women.
Trans women throughout history are simply easier to spot. A “man” wanting to present as feminine has always been much more against the status quo, meanwhile there have always been plenty of objectively useful things about “pretending” to be a man in most societies. So trans men slip under the radar, assumed to either be lesbians or just women who wanted to be respected like men, and many cis people today ONLY know that trans women exist. But we’ve always existed, too.
So here are five trans men, all born no later than 1900–as proof that not only have we existed, but we’ve thrived in the background long before we even had a community–whom you may have never heard of.
1. Alan Hart (1890 - 1962)
Alan likely knew that he was, in fact, a man, as early as 5 years old. While his mother believed his “desire to be a boy” was foolish, his grandparents were both extremely supportive and in fact referred to him as their grandson around the time that they died in 1921. He attended the Stanford school of Medicine and went on to become a doctor, at the time being forced to present as female. However, in 1917 he became the first transgender man in the U.S. to undergo SRS–which at the time was a mere hysterectomy and gonadectomy–and legally changed his name.
Alan spent the following decades in research and postgraduate work, obtaining masters degrees in radiology and public health, even becoming Directors at multiple hospitals and a medical adviser in WWII. Much of his career was dedicated to tuberculosis research, and he helped pioneer the use of x-rays in screening for TB. He was an extremely notable doctor in the field. Alongside his medical journals, he also published a number of fictional short stories and novels.
He died of heart failure, and his ashes were spread over Puget Sound as per his will.
2. Karl M. Baer (1885 - 1956)
Coincidentally a precedent to Alan Hart’s transition surgeries in Germany, Karl was one of the first trans people to ever undergo SRS and even gain full legal recognition of his true gender. As a Jewish man he was also part of the Zionist movement, and before officially transitioning in 1906 he was a social worker and sufragette, campaigning heavily for women’s rights.
Karl became well known as a reformist author and in the Jewish community. He also co-wrote a semi-autobiographical novel about the struggles of growing up transgender and/or intersex in a binarist society called “Memoirs of a Man’s Maiden Years.” While originally published in 1907 in German, an English translation exists today, having been published in 2005.
Karl spent one of the last decades of his life as an accountant until going blind, and nothing is documented for about the last 6 years of his life. He was buried in the Kiryat-Shaul cemetery in Tel Aviv.
3. Albert Cashier (1843 - 1915)
Born in Ireland, Albert began presenting as male at a relatively young age under encouragement of his step-father in order to find work. Around 1862, he had moved to the U.S. and joined the Union army for the Civil War. His regiment, the 95th Illinois, fought in about 40 battles before being mustered out.
He of couse continued to live as a man after the war, spending over 40 years living in the same house in Saunemin, Illinois, and working several jobs. In 1910 he was hit by a car that broke his leg, and was soon moved to a Soldier and Sailors home. He lived there for 3 years before his mind deteriorated and was then moved to a hospital, where he died two years later at the ripe old age of 71. He was buried wearing his uniform from the Civil War.
4. Victor Barker (1895 - 1960)
Victor began presenting as a man around age 28, after already having had 2 husbands and 2 children. Beforehand he’d also joined the Women’s Royal Air Force in Britain. He left his second husband and began a relationship with a woman named Elfrida Haward, whom he married in Brixton.
Later while living in London, he was accidentally invited to join the National Fasciti (the letter was meant to reach a different Colonel Barker), and joined because of its macho reputation. He stayed for a year before facing a trial on the charge of a forged firearms certificate, and then owned a restaurant under the name Leslie Ivor Victor Gauntlett Bligh Barker. Another year later, he went bankrupt, and was then arrested for failing to appear in court.
After spending time in a women’s prison and eventually being released, Victor went under the alias John Hill. In 1934 he was arrested again, this time for theft. And again in 1937. The name Colonel Barker seems to be recurring throughout his life of crime and pseudonyms, so it’s evident that’s his chosen identity.
However, he died while using the alias Geoffrey Norton, and was buried in an unmarked grave in a Kessingland churchyard.
5. Charley Parkhurst (1812 - 1879)
Charley lived in an orphanage almost from infancy, and ran away at age 12, already taking his chosen name and presenting as a boy. He soon began working as a stable hand and stayed there for several years, and in that time learned how to drive a stagecoach as well.
Soon after the Gold Rush, Charley traveled to California by boat to seek wealth. He began working for the California Stage Company and became known as one of the finest stagecoach drivers on the West Coast–and with that, along with having been kicked in the eye by a horse, gained the nicknames “One-eyed Charley” and “Six-Horse Charley.”
When railroads started cutting into the stagecoach business, Charley retired and spent the next 15 years doing farmwork. Not very much is known about his personal/romantic life other than that he gave birth at some point. Only after he died of tongue cancer was this–or even his biological sex–discovered by anyone in his community.
I couldn’t make this shit up even if I tried. A white man named “Daphne Shaed,” who identifies as a “tranny cyborg Hindu woman” is on staff at the University of Victoria Women’s Centre.
I clicked around a bit and discovered this charming stand-up comedy routine where he claims to be “asexual” and then spends the rest of the skit talking about how much porn he watches and tells the story of when he gave anal sex to someone who continuously said “ow.”
It is rather ironic that he claims to be an activist for women’s rights and anti-racism while actively harming women and appropriating the traditional clothing of Hindu women. This racist, misogynist man is being supported by the University of Victoria Women’s Centre.
It’s completely unbelievable that university women’s centres have become safe spaces for narcissistic MRAs and unsafe spaces for feminists. My only hope is that this guy brings more women to peak trans.
OP is a terf, if you couldn’t already tell. Get the fuck out of OUR safe spaces by avoiding tagging your shit as “transgender”
The dude says he’s a trans woman–what else do you suggest we tag it as?
Or do you support a white male claiming to be a Hindu woman?
So as described in his skit, this man had his dick shoved in some poor woman’s ass while she repeatedly said ow and gently sobbed… So instead of stopping, he laughs about it in his head and continues to rape her… Typical female behaviour right ? He needs to be put down.
White males have had a long, *long* history of colonializing and degrading–*raping*–the bodies of WoC and “third-world”/Global South women and girls, while simultaneously destroying and usurping their cultures for their own machinations, so why should this “trans Hindu woman” bullshit come as a surprise to anyone? Transgenderism and transracial/cultural appropriation are two sides of the same coin…it’s the usurpation of the bodies, existences and cultures of the disenfranchised– ie: the female sex, PoC and people of/from the “third-world”/Global South– at the hands of the oppressor/privileged classes, i.e.: the male sex, white people and the “first-world”. We’ve definitely reached peak transgender/queer-shit fuckery, with a dash of transracial, culture-stealing, white entitlement nonsense here.
Jesus fucking Christ why is there TERF shit on my dash
she’s wrong as fuck for appropriating Hindu culture but you literally have people on this post equating being trans to cultural appropriation I’m going to vomit
Agreed.
Being a rapist and appropriating another culture doesn’t make this woman not a woman??
thats a dude. this dude is a giant fucking racist pretending to be a hindu woman and making jokes about raping women, and you’re going to but in on the post with “but she’s still a woman!!!” lol fuck off. he’s a typical dude. calling himself a hindu woman doesn’t make him a hindu woman. why are you so dedicated to prioritizing the worst kind of man’s feelings
I cannot believe the idiots on this post who are literally defending human garbage just because he’s a trans woman
What makes this person a woman, exactly?
What makes it wrong to appropriate Hinduism, and more broadly Indian culture, but not womanhood? It’s still a person socialised in a position of privilege (white and male) choosing to appropriate the aesthetic of an oppressed class (Hindu and women). What makes one abhorrent and the other acceptable?
If the argument is that this person experiences an ‘inner sense’ of womanhood (and I’ve never had a clear explanation of what that entailed, exactly, beyond offensive gender stereotypes) then how is that any more valid than claiming an ‘inner sense’ of race? How can you know what it ‘feels’ like to be an Hindu/Indian if you are, and have always been, white? How can you claim to know what it ‘feels’ like to be female if you were born male? It’s clearly insulting and appropriative for a person who benefits from privilege to craft an identity around a less-privileged group of people, so why is race protected but sex not?
Why is brown-face wrong, but woman-face okay? Why?
Whatever you feel about her is irrelevant if you sink low enough to miss-gender her. She is a SHE NOT a he. There is no reason to miss-gender her.
As much as this makes me cringe as a trans person (and I mean CRINGE HARD because I don’t want anything to do with people like this), I have to say that the radfems on this post are missing the point.
Trans people are not ”imitating” our genders to explicitly insult you. That’s your personal insecurities at work. There’s this little thing called sex dysphoria that actual trans people have. Trans women “feel” female because their brain is wired to expect breasts and a vulva when there is none. The opposite is true for trans men- expecting a flat chest and a penis/testicles when there are none. (Although in this particular case my bullshit radar is going off like crazy- mainly because they call themselves a “tranny”, points out their dick, and also claims to be a cyborg and a Hindu. This person needs therapy and not transition, IMHO.)
Also this is what happens when “progressive” non-trans people look for trans people who live up to their really gross stereotypes about what trans people should be like. They basically end up with a non-op, non-hormones, non-passing trans woman who would be at home in a porno because she agrees to be reduced to her anatomy/”differences” from your average woman, and for whom every other decent trans person in the room (who are actually dysphoric and medically transitioning and aiming to pass 100% of the time) would cringe at and stay far, far away from. (And if this were the 1990′s, this person would definitely be on Springer.)
TL;DR: Radfems, we’re not all like this. Hell, many of us don’t even want to be lumped in with these people who like calling a metric fuckton of (negative) attention to themselves. (And also the dysphoric ones among us aren’t “denying reality” as you put it. We know what our biological sex is, we know it all too well because of the dysphoria. If there were some kind of technology available to make me completely indistinguishable from a regular old dude, even on a chromosomal level (having XY instead of presumably XX), I would use it. But since technology hasn’t caught up yet, I’m left with just hormones and surgery.)
Can I also point out that a white maab person can easily be a Hindu woman?? Yes this person appears to be taking trans as a joke and if so that’s disgusting and appropriative, and its also equally appropriative and disgusting towards Hindu communities. Religious groups are rarely all of one ethnicity and its erasing to ignore that. Also conversion exists?? I’m sure I read somewhere that trans people are more likely to be spiritual than cis people, so this could happen (and probably has many times).
That’s true, but from my understanding, for many traditional Hindus, you can’t just convert to Hinduism, you have to be born into it. Not only that, but many Hindus see other faiths as paths to the Divine,and so conversion for them is not necessary. (And funny you mention that, I almost converted to Judaism myself before I gave up on religion entirely. And I know several other trans men who were Jewish converts. Orthodox sects would have turned me away three times, so ironically my would-be conversion would have been in the same boat as more traditional Hindus acknowledging this person.)
Aw that's quite interesting! I thought id heard of people converting but the source probably lumped Hindus in with Sikhs and maybe Muslims since white Scottish people tend to regard these groups as all looking and dressing the same and living in the same areas lol I knew that about you nearly becoming Jewish haha, if anything I'm the opposite: gave up on religion then wants to convert to Judaism. It's never gonna happen unless I move country though cos of the whole gender thing. I just really hate how much lgbti people are excluded from religious spaces given that we clearly want to be part of them as much as if not more than our straight/cis/dyadic counterparts :/
I couldn’t make this shit up even if I tried. A white man named “Daphne Shaed,” who identifies as a “tranny cyborg Hindu woman” is on staff at the University of Victoria Women’s Centre.
I clicked around a bit and discovered this charming stand-up comedy routine where he claims to be “asexual” and then spends the rest of the skit talking about how much porn he watches and tells the story of when he gave anal sex to someone who continuously said “ow.”
It is rather ironic that he claims to be an activist for women’s rights and anti-racism while actively harming women and appropriating the traditional clothing of Hindu women. This racist, misogynist man is being supported by the University of Victoria Women’s Centre.
It’s completely unbelievable that university women’s centres have become safe spaces for narcissistic MRAs and unsafe spaces for feminists. My only hope is that this guy brings more women to peak trans.
OP is a terf, if you couldn’t already tell. Get the fuck out of OUR safe spaces by avoiding tagging your shit as “transgender”
The dude says he’s a trans woman–what else do you suggest we tag it as?
Or do you support a white male claiming to be a Hindu woman?
So as described in his skit, this man had his dick shoved in some poor woman’s ass while she repeatedly said ow and gently sobbed… So instead of stopping, he laughs about it in his head and continues to rape her… Typical female behaviour right ? He needs to be put down.
White males have had a long, *long* history of colonializing and degrading–*raping*–the bodies of WoC and “third-world”/Global South women and girls, while simultaneously destroying and usurping their cultures for their own machinations, so why should this “trans Hindu woman” bullshit come as a surprise to anyone? Transgenderism and transracial/cultural appropriation are two sides of the same coin…it’s the usurpation of the bodies, existences and cultures of the disenfranchised– ie: the female sex, PoC and people of/from the “third-world”/Global South– at the hands of the oppressor/privileged classes, i.e.: the male sex, white people and the “first-world”. We’ve definitely reached peak transgender/queer-shit fuckery, with a dash of transracial, culture-stealing, white entitlement nonsense here.
Jesus fucking Christ why is there TERF shit on my dash
she’s wrong as fuck for appropriating Hindu culture but you literally have people on this post equating being trans to cultural appropriation I’m going to vomit
Agreed.
Being a rapist and appropriating another culture doesn’t make this woman not a woman??
thats a dude. this dude is a giant fucking racist pretending to be a hindu woman and making jokes about raping women, and you’re going to but in on the post with “but she’s still a woman!!!” lol fuck off. he’s a typical dude. calling himself a hindu woman doesn’t make him a hindu woman. why are you so dedicated to prioritizing the worst kind of man’s feelings
I cannot believe the idiots on this post who are literally defending human garbage just because he’s a trans woman
What makes this person a woman, exactly?
What makes it wrong to appropriate Hinduism, and more broadly Indian culture, but not womanhood? It’s still a person socialised in a position of privilege (white and male) choosing to appropriate the aesthetic of an oppressed class (Hindu and women). What makes one abhorrent and the other acceptable?
If the argument is that this person experiences an ‘inner sense’ of womanhood (and I’ve never had a clear explanation of what that entailed, exactly, beyond offensive gender stereotypes) then how is that any more valid than claiming an ‘inner sense’ of race? How can you know what it ‘feels’ like to be an Hindu/Indian if you are, and have always been, white? How can you claim to know what it ‘feels’ like to be female if you were born male? It’s clearly insulting and appropriative for a person who benefits from privilege to craft an identity around a less-privileged group of people, so why is race protected but sex not?
Why is brown-face wrong, but woman-face okay? Why?
Whatever you feel about her is irrelevant if you sink low enough to miss-gender her. She is a SHE NOT a he. There is no reason to miss-gender her.
As much as this makes me cringe as a trans person (and I mean CRINGE HARD because I don’t want anything to do with people like this), I have to say that the radfems on this post are missing the point.
Trans people are not ”imitating” our genders to explicitly insult you. That’s your personal insecurities at work. There’s this little thing called sex dysphoria that actual trans people have. Trans women “feel” female because their brain is wired to expect breasts and a vulva when there is none. The opposite is true for trans men- expecting a flat chest and a penis/testicles when there are none. (Although in this particular case my bullshit radar is going off like crazy- mainly because they call themselves a “tranny”, points out their dick, and also claims to be a cyborg and a Hindu. This person needs therapy and not transition, IMHO.)
Also this is what happens when “progressive” non-trans people look for trans people who live up to their really gross stereotypes about what trans people should be like. They basically end up with a non-op, non-hormones, non-passing trans woman who would be at home in a porno because she agrees to be reduced to her anatomy/”differences” from your average woman, and for whom every other decent trans person in the room (who are actually dysphoric and medically transitioning and aiming to pass 100% of the time) would cringe at and stay far, far away from. (And if this were the 1990′s, this person would definitely be on Springer.)
TL;DR: Radfems, we’re not all like this. Hell, many of us don’t even want to be lumped in with these people who like calling a metric fuckton of (negative) attention to themselves. (And also the dysphoric ones among us aren’t “denying reality” as you put it. We know what our biological sex is, we know it all too well because of the dysphoria. If there were some kind of technology available to make me completely indistinguishable from a regular old dude, even on a chromosomal level (having XY instead of presumably XX), I would use it. But since technology hasn’t caught up yet, I’m left with just hormones and surgery.)
Can I also point out that a white maab person can easily be a Hindu woman?? Yes this person appears to be taking trans as a joke and if so that's disgusting and appropriative, and its also equally appropriative and disgusting towards Hindu communities. Religious groups are rarely all of one ethnicity and its erasing to ignore that. Also conversion exists?? I'm sure I read somewhere that trans people are more likely to be spiritual than cis people, so this could happen (and probably has many times).
Actually, it is possible for ftms to go through something similar to menopause, though it's more often triggered by an oophorectomy than going on T. That said, the hormone changes induced by going on T can trigger hot flashes and night sweats. Further, ob/gyns will usually require ftms to have been on T for a while before performing an oophorectomy to eliminate or at least reduce the severity of the medically induced menopause experienced.
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I agree that pressuring trans people into gender conformity and heterosexuality, especially when in the form of gatekeeping, is bullshit and a huge issue, and Izzard is not helping it. But the flip side is LGBT activism excluding people like drag queens, who may genuinely be experiencing transphobic violence, on the grounds of them being not Truly Transgender. c.f. excluding bi people for being insufficiently queer. Maybe not "transgender", but we need a word for "people experiencing transphobia
I think what we actually need is the acknowledgement that “privilege” is more of a generalization for the sake of simplifying a broader concept than a magical barrier that protects from all discrimination.
Drag queens can experience violence motivated by transphobic sentiment… so can GNC women, feminine gay men, GNC children, etc. It doesn’t mean that all these people are now somehow “trans”, it means that prejudiced assholes don’t really check if you are Truly a Member of X Minority before attacking you.
It’s like how straight people can experience homophobic violence under some circumstances. It’s not because they are somehow Honorary Queer, it’s because homophobic assholes don’t stop to check if you are truly gay, and don’t go “my bad, good sir, it appears you are indeed a heterosexual, sorry for trying to assault you uwu”.
I think the way hate crime legislation covers it (in Scotland) is pretty decent. Hate crimes can be direct, indirect, by association and by perception. Regardless of if a person in themself experiences sex dysphoria, being assaulted due to being perceived to be trans is still being assaulted due to being perceived to be trans (and etc for indirect and by association). A person doesn't need to be X to suffer from hatred of X people. There should be a word for this, the only one I can think of is GNC for gender. Unfortunately the tucute dilution of the meaning of the word trans has a knock on effect onto issues of who is included in trans spaces and what trans means.
Let’s be real
people will accept you saying the word they in the singular form up until they know you’re talking about someone who’s trans or nb or intersex. Like the number of times I’ve said they to my parents that I’m hanging out with someone and refer to them as them (I basically use it for most cases now) with them not raising an eye is incredible and I thought that they’d just accepted it.
But nah, I’m going out with my translady friend and I call them they and THAT’S when the jokes and the purposeful misunderstanding come in.
And I’ve seen this in dozens of other cases. So let’s be honest: opposition to they/them pronouns has shit to do with grammar. It’s entirely about policing people’s pronouns.
I remember there’s a post going around tumblr where some American was trying to get on disability payment on the basis of being transgender and having anxiety and people were getting riled up about it like saying “that’s not how disability payment works you aren’t disabled for being trans” and it was just so funny to me coz nearly every trans person I know in Ireland, including myself, has been or is currently on disability benefits and was given it on the basis of the distress of transition and the stress of trying to maintain a job while going through transition. Being depressed and anxious might have helped your cause but being transgender was what really cinched the deal.
oh wow, that’s interesting. that’s great that trans people in ireland can get disability for their condition. i wish all places would do that, i mean with all the evidence there is that transsexualism is an actual medical condition that can cause the patient great distress and the aforementioned problems that can cause with keeping work and stuff so it’d only make sense to allow us the same benefits as those who have other medical conditions. i guess in most places it’s not provided either due to doubts about transsexualism being a thing, or due to the limited physical manifestations since problems that are physical in nature are more likely to be seen as “actual” disabilities.
It’s extremely difficult to be rewarded disability, for me it took a year and a half but I know somebody who was fighting for it for 3 years before they decided he was eligible. It’s less that they see “transgender” on the application they give you disability right off the bat and more explaining to a welfare officer face to face (when you finally get to that stage) the difficulties of transition and winning their sympathies.
That's cool! I was a bit worried that self declaration would remove some medical protections of trans people in Ireland (this being the only one I'm aware exists lol) so that's pretty awesome that both can exist!!
choosing to call yourself trans because you don’t fit into societal gender conventions only reinforces the idea that to be a certain gender, you have to act/look a certain way.
if you want to send a big “fuck you” to gender roles, go ahead and rebel against them, be gender-nonconforming. you don’t have to appropriate trans terminology to express yourself or make a political statement.
Cis people identifying as trans is the opposite of radical. It's saying that gender roles are so structured and rigid that in order to oppose them you have to be a different gender. It's sexist, binarist bullshit
I always feel alienated when people refer to nonbinary people as not transgender.
Like: “I love all non-cis people, trans or NB!”
Why do people think NB people aren’t trans? We’re not the gender we were assigned at birth. That is transgender.
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if an anti-truscum can give me a solid, convincing definition of gender that isnt sexist, vague, or involve circular reasoning, I will drink ketchup straight from the bottle on camera
Can I be non-binary and still take testosterone??
Yes, you can!
-Luke
You might have to lie to your therapist to get on it though. A gender therapist told me that in Scotland a panel of five doctors decide if you're suitable to be "diagnosed as non-binary" before they'd consider treating your dysphoria but who knows if this is true since an nb person has said otherwise
-stop the idea that trans men are “transitioning so they can gain social status”
-stop the idea that male privilege somehow erases or “balances out” being trans for trans men
-stop the idea that trans men do not deal with transphobia equally as much as the rest of the trans community does
-stop treating trans men as a necessary evil
-stop making trans men feel uncomfortable and/or guilty while in trans spaces
-stop the lie that society somehow accepts trans men because they are men
-trans men are trans
-acknowledge that trans men have to deal with being trans just as much as all other trans people
-support trans men and trans people in general
Pre-Everything Trans Problem
Me: Woah dude I feel so good today, so at home, so much like my gender. Ah this is nice
Me: *looks in mirror*
Me: Ohhhhkay nevermind
