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at this point a lot of you would cheer if terfs started pushing to relabel bathrooms as "afab" and "amab"
the arguments for "afab only" spaces are identical in both form and function to terf bathroom arguments, the language used is just "progressive"
we're abolishing gender! in the future people will just be referred to as AMAB or AFAB, no need for gender at all! 😀
this is a progressive stance, you see, because AMAB and AFAB are different words from "man" and "woman." we're leaving such outdated concepts behind!
no no no it's not "misgendering you." it doesn't refer to your gender, it refers to the sex you were assigned. that way we don't need gender anymore! you can just throw that old thing away
now there's only two categories: AMABS and AFABS! so much simpler! what? no I didn't say there's only two genders. these aren't genders they're categories. this is progress we're making progress
you want to change your assignment? because of what, your gender? no you don't need one of those, I said to get rid of it
a lot of my disillusionment with the trans "community" comes down to the fact that too many of you take "gender is different from sex" and go "ah ok, so instead of saying women are fragile and men are strong, I should say afabs are fragile and amabs are strong. to be Inclusive"
then you just treat gender like a surface level aesthetic draped over what someone "actually" is. really is indistinguishable from terf rhetoric
you all need to unpack your bioessentialism, but we also need a better theory of gender than "it's just dressup." I will pick my words carefully here, but the word "gender" itself refers to so many different phenomena that have been lumped together, and we need to un-lump them
in a feminist context, "gender" has historically referred to externally imposed categorization and the internalization and performance of said categories. in a paper I wrote on this subject, I called this sense of the word "extrinsic gender"
"intrinsic gender," on the other hand, is what I used to refer to the sense of the word "gender" that a lot of trans people are talking about when they discuss social gender dysphoria and euphoria. it's the internal sense of category that's resistant to external impositions
but then we also use the word "gender" to refer to subconscious sex, which is the term Julia Serano coins in Whipping Girl to name the phenomenon we're talking about when we talk about bodily dysphoria. it is the "gender" being "affirmed" by gender affirming healthcare like HRT and bottom surgery
so, "gender" is: a social classing system, a performance, and at least two internal phenomena as well. and I really don't know if it's doing us a service to conflate all of these things!
a lot of people lately seem to be going heavy on the "performance" use of the word, ignoring (intentionally or otherwise) social classing, intrinsic gender, and subconscious sex. this seems to have led to a lot of "progressive" people treating trans women like men "amabs" who wear womanhood as a costume, and nobody understands why that's wrong because they also think gender is just a performance
see also "why can't you just be a femboy/feminine man/etc"
furthermore, some trans people experience social dysphoria but not bodily dysphoria, and vice versa. but bodily dysphoria in particular has gained some stigma in the last few years
because we use the word "gender" to discuss both "intrinsic gender" as I termed it above, and subconscious sex, there's been a certain strain of argument from some trans people that says that medical transition reaffirms societal gender norms about bodies, and that bodily dysphoria must only result from externally imposed norms about what kind of body corresponds to what gender, and thus it would just go away if the gendered associations were unlearned
I'm strongly of the opinion, though, that our bodies are not like clothes! gender dysphoria related to clothing would generally have to do with one's intrinsic gender clashing with the gendered norms of their culture surrounding clothes, but I believe "gender" dysphoria related to the body itself is really, in large part, subconscious sex dysphoria, and this component cannot be alleviated by changing norms or associations. I strongly believe I would still seek HRT and bottom surgery if I lived my whole life in a cultureless vacuum
you cannot sidestep my dysphoria by regendering parts of my body I'm trying to change, and frankly it causes me a lot of strife that fellow trans people who flirt with me think they can talk about my body however they like as long as they gender it correctly. the word "girlcock" is not a magic dysphoria repellent, because the dysphoria doesn't just come from the gendering
people will describe their incredibly nebulous sexuality to you that they’ve never been able to define and the whole time you’re thinking that sounds like bisexuality brother
I think the "pre" and "post" parts in "preposterous" should cancel each other out but everyone else seems to find my idea completely erous
"woke" cis women like to think of transgender women as emancipated women free from the social rules imposed on women because they view those social rules as being learned during childhood or as a result of having been assigned female as birth rather than a result of ongoing patriarchal pressures women face in all aspects of their lives, for their whole lives. And its not really out of any wish to see an emancipated woman so much as it is a result of ingrained cissexism making them want to see transgender women as in some way inherently different to them while also knowing that they should not feel badly towards transgender women.
they used to make smackable technology. you used to be able to hit your tv when it didn't work good.
It just shifted to spanking your puppy’s ass, to make them take that thick knot. Like the good little play thing they are.
i don't really think it's like that at all
What you must understand is:
1. Men are systematically privileged over women.
2. Men love to take advantage of that privilege while simultaneously denying that it exists.
3. This dynamic does not change when the men and women in question are trans.
It runs directly counter to a cis worldview to say that trans women are women and trans men are men.
reminder that diy hrt is not only objectively safe, but in a deeply transphobic world, is imperative to the safety and longevity of trans people.
Second time I've heard about diy being safer, so, in what way (s) is non-diy dangerous?
a few things:
pedantic, but the claim wasnt that diy is safe, wasnt that it is "safer", but in many ways it is.
doctors are often (read: almost always) uneducated on transgender health. from Continuing Gaps in Transgender Medicine Education Among Health Care Providers "few of [the endocrinologists] (11%) rated themselves as very compotent in transgender care. Consistent with their self report, only 5% correctly answered knowledge questions. Further, only 36% reported training in transgender care during endocrinology fellowship."
because of this, trans women are often prescribed doses of estrogen so low as to have very little feminizing effect. for example, the common dosing of 2mg daily estradiol tablets with 50mg daily spironolactone is generally not enough estrogen to dominate a woman's endocrine system, but is enough to strongly weaken her testosterone, which is likely to cause harm (your body needs a dominant hormone, it doesn't care if it's estrogen or testosterone, but not having either is directly dangerous). these doses also fail to meaningfully decrease risk of depression and its symptoms (self harm, suicide, etc).
in a deeply transphobic world, where trans rights are constantly under massive threat, anything which can give care to trans women is imperative to their safety.
'Transfem DIY HRT' and 'Transmasc DIY HRT' are a pair of zines aimed at teaching transgender people how to safely self-administer DIY Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT).
Both zines are 100% free to download here from Little Mouse (who also made the zine). Print, share and distribute to those who need it!
The information contained in this zine is collated from, and openly available from, DIYHRT.info.
Heads up guys, some of the info for testosterone in the zines is incorrect.
Specifically regarding the bloodwork, you do NOT want to test your T levels right before your next injection, you want to take it approximately halfway between your injections. Trough levels (T levels immediately before your next injection, when your T is at the lowest point) are useless. It doesn't tell you what your T levels actually are, and does not provide a frame of reference for adjusting dosage if you need to. Taking your blood levels approximately halfway between dosages allows you to see what your T levels actually look like for the majority of the time, before it starts to work out of your system.
I think the confusion is caused because the zine is based on weekly T dosage, but T is generally taken every 2 weeks* and you should take your blood levels one week after your shot if you're on a 2 week schedule.
*every 2 weeks is standard for a couple of reasons:
1) injections suck and doing it every week sucks.
2) T in the US until recently could not be handed over by a pharmacy and therefore injections could not be done at home and instead had to be done at at doctor's office. The 2-week schedule allowed for less doctors visits and less expense.
3) perisex cis men also have a hormone cycle (albeit one not as visible as those of perisex cis women) and having your T high and T low be about 2 weeks apart is thought to mimic that natural cycle. This may or may not actually be true, but it was part of the prescribing basis for a long time.
4) because the half-life of cyprionate is 8 days, HALF OF IT is still in your system after 8 days. Taking a second dose at that point messes with the dosages and results in you stacking your dose on top of half of your previous dose, resulting in you taking 150% of the amount you're trying to take.
If you have severe emotional weirdness, menopausal symptoms, or other general issues the last 2-3 days before your shot consistently, you may want to switch to weekly T injections, but because of the half-life of cyprionate you may need to be moved to another type of T.
None of this "correction" is true. Testing at peak is better than nothing, because it still gives you some idea of what your levels are like, but ideally you need to be testing at trough so you can make sure your levels aren't dipping too low at the end of the week.
I have no idea where you got the idea that men's hormones should cycle on a two-week basis. Men who don't need to take TRT have a daily hormone cycle, with levels peaking in the morning/mid-day. Some men on TRT take daily injections for this reason, to mimic the natural hormone cycle they would have, but weekly or twice-a-week injections are still fine despite not being exactly the same as the natural male hormone cycle (since a lot of men would prefer to not do injections that frequently).
Injections every two weeks—with test cypionate (rather than a longer-lasting ester, which do exist but I admit I don't know as much about)—is a bad idea as the second week your levels may be much too low. The half life of cypionate is 8 days, which means you should inject with a frequency of at least that often (which is why most people do weekly/every 7 days) in order to make sure your levels are stable. Every two weeks will just get you fluctuating hormones for no reason, and make it very difficult to find a dose which gives you enough test during trough without going higher than you may want at peak.
I have no idea what you're talking about in your last point—why would you be taking 1.5 times the amount you want, just because you still have testosterone in your bloodstream? You don't want to go back to 0 test in between injections; ideally you'd keep your levels as stable as possible. If you're taking too high of a dose then you'll know as soon as you do a blood test (at trough).
I think it's interesting that when a show writer makes a misogynistic show and she's a cis woman, people go "Oh, she's a misogynistic woman", but when a show writer makes a misogynistic show and she's a trans woman, people go "Oh she probably used to be a Male Abuser, are we sure she has unlearned her Male Socialization, are we sure 'she' is even Really a woman and isn't just saying that to deflect criticism?"
Like I don't know, doesn't anyone else find it really fucking insidious? The implicit belief that trans women are more likely than cis women to be misogynistic, or that when trans women are misogynistic it's because they "used to be (or perhaps even still are) men"?
Women, all kinds of women, can be misogynistic, because we live in a misogynistic society that drills misogynistic tropes and biases into every single human beings head from birth and need to be actively unlearned, a trans woman being misogynistic doesn't 'prove' anything except that she, like many many cis women, is a misogynistic woman.
But of course, trans women always have to be held to this higher level of scrutiny, don't they?
Please read up on what terfs actually believe so you're not going around seeing actual terf rhetoric spread around like "wow, what an interesting new take on trans politics!" and then see a trans woman say "we live in a patriarchal society" and go "oh shit, trans woman terfs? 🤯🤯🤯🤯"
"oh but the amab socialisation and the oppression of afab bodies are some interesting new ideas that—" they have been saying this shit since before you were even born and it's not made progressive by saying it with a tumblr accent
since i am a trans woman who plays sports i will never find your joke about trans women in sports funny. sorry.
been said before but. allies also often throw in a “well actually when transwomen are included in sports with regular women they come nowhere near being the best so it’s fine to let them compete together.” bc like, well, i would like to think i could one day become the best. am i only allowed to play in sports because I’m not actually trying? it shows that there is actually a threshold in ability that, when reached, will cause certain groups of people who seem to support trans women in sports to reevaluate and find out they have been bioessentialists the whole time
Every time I compete I am scared I will win. Nobody should ever have to be in that situation. I got second at a competition and I saw the look on the face of the woman who got third, and I left that competition as quickly as I could because I didn't know if she would try to do something about it.
it's not like, a contradiction that anti-trans politicians watch porn fetishizing trans women. do you think misogynistic politicians aren't watching misogynistic porn?
