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i think one of the worst things the left wing internet ever did was push the idea that oppression is basically a virtue, and being oppressed is a sign of your morality. it has made it like…impossible for some of you to hold the idea that most people are privileged in some ways and oppressed in others. AND a lot of you seem to have it in your mind that terrible people cannot be oppressed, and that oppressed people cannot do terrible things, which is a dangerous rhetoric to hold imo.
before I was diagnosed with “gender dysphoria” and “transsexualism” I got a hysterectomy. this was not easy— medical misogyny exists and I had to assert repeatedly that i didn’t want children and I was married with a spouse who didn’t want children and that I had tried a “less invasive” solution first. all this sucked. it was paternalistic and condescending and led to me suffering for years for zero reason.
however. if I hadn’t gotten the hysterectomy back then and was trying to get one now, it would be harder. after becoming recognized as trans in medial systems, legally I would need two separate psychiatric professionals to write letters affirming I’d been under their observation, that I was mentally stable enough to know I wanted the surgery, and that they also believed it was necessary. and I would need to find a surgeon willing to operate on trans people.
like this is the difference. the literal procedures involved in medical transition are not exclusive to trans people. the difference is that these procedures are gatekept from us.
that’s why all the laws banning trans healthcare (in the US, I haven’t read legislation elsewhere) are framing it as only banned when someone has a “gender dysphoria” diagnosis. the point isn’t to stop performing the actual procedures, the point is to deny trans people healthcare because we are trans.
saying “trans people don’t need surgery” is like saying “cis people don’t need surgery.” like obviously not every cis person needs every surgery. but cis people have the right to surgery. and trans people deserve the same right.
for pride month i need yall to remember that not every lgbtq/queer person considers themselves/their relationships to be gay and to please not just indiscriminately call every queer couple gay because that can be really disrespectful and invalidating at best to a lot of queer/trans people who dont identify as gay
like i know yall dont care about straight trans men but theres a lot of other people in the lgbtq community who also dont identify as gay. some bi people and lesbians dont identify as gay, some aspec people dont identify as gay, some non-straight trans people dont identify as gay and a lot of trans women don't identify as gay. my wife is pansexual and transfem and we can be gay SOMETIMES AS A TREAT but any other time/if it comes from literally anyone besides us its fightin words, she doesnt identify as gay/being in a gay relationship because theyre not a man and i am. my wife and i have literally had issues with people calling us gay and then getting upset when we ask them not to do that. one of my ex friends (i stopped being friends with him because he was a fucking asshole to me for other reasons as well) kept calling us gay and when my wife and i told him off he apologized TO HER SPECIFICALLY for misgendering them and didnt even say anything TO ME FOR INVALIDATING MY SEXUALITY
in my personal experience as a straight trans man, i think a lot of people dont really understand that my sexuality is also queer in nature and it isnt the "default". trans people are not cis people any applying things that are true for cis people might not be true for us. i had comphet like crazy, i forced myself to date and fuck men because i felt like i had to. i experienced lesphobia growing up along with transphobia and i felt the need to conform and be with men. it was harder for me to accept myself for only liking women than being transgender, i didnt stop dating men until i was 20 years old, a year after i started hormones. being straight is something that i had to fight for as a trans man. when people are being transphobic to me and my wife they call us a gay couple. or they call me a lesbian or accuse me of liking men. and then other queer/trans people who are not straight and did not struggle to find themselves in the same way that i did (not that they didnt at all, but there was/is an extra layer due to my transness and also being straight) just dont recognize that
queer is not just another word for gay, or vice versa. you have a cisnormative view of queerness. gay is not an umbrella term for queer. if you mean queer, say queer. if someone doesnt want to be called queer, ask them what they prefer
for the record, the words my wife and i use to describe our relationship are:
-straight
-queer
-some combination of straight and queer (queerhet, transhet, ect)
-t4t/st4t
we might call our relationship gay PRIVATELY BETWEEN OURSELVES, however, thats not something we really appreciate from even our friends, let alone strangers on the internet
idk like. i know a lot of people dont really care about straight trans people and especially straight trans men but like. we are also queer and we are straight because we are queer. some straight trans people also dont consider their relationships queer and thats important to accommodate, but my wife and i do. my straightness is queer, my attraction to women is both straight and queer, and my relationships are both straight and queer, on account of my transness
idk like. not to get all "straight pride" in here but a lot of yall either arent straight and trans or donr know straight trans people and you think that you understand our experiences and you dont, so please listen to us sometimes
Is that group of transmascs and trans men a misogynistic, women-hating echo chamber, or do you just consider their transition away from feminity for themselves to be inherently women-hating and misogynistic?
Is that trans man saying "trans people" not referring to trans women, or are you just assuming that because it's coming from a trans man, and you'd otherwise expect someone using that phrase to only mean enben and trans women, so you're projecting your own bias for exclusion onto him?
When transmascs and trans men talk about the struggles they face, are they bragging, or are you refusing to recognize that assigned gender is a prison for all trans people no matter which side they were placed on?
Are transmascs and trans men facing no pushback from transitioning, or are you not acknowledging when they're assaulted, raped, and excluded because you don't think it counts? Are they whining about things that don't hurt them, or are you plugging your ears when they begin to scream?
I don’t care how they’re marketed, these things are not wheelchair accessible, especially for large power chairs.
ID: a yellow and black plastic cable cover which is approximately 5-10cm tall with steep sides and looks like a small speed bump /end ID
Every time I go over one I need someone to help hold my chair and get me over it. Even with that support it hurts like Hell and has caused whiplash injuries for me in the past. It’s also very unsafe for others because even with support I cannot 100% control the angle my chair will end up lurching over it (and my chair weighs over 150kg without me in it so it’s not something you want to collide with). It’s also terrifying and makes noises that make me very concerned for my chair’s structural integrity.
If you want your event to actually be accessible to wheelchair users then consider using something more like this:
ID: the same kind of cable cover but it’s fitted with a much shallower ramp with the international symbol of access embossed on the black plastic. The ramps are about a foot long on either side of the cover /end ID
I've gone. Not one for goodbyes, I thought it best to slip out quietly. Love to you all, Giles.
Rest in peace, Anthony Stewart Head (1954 – 2026)
Real and growing possibility of him dying live on tv and nobody in the room noticing for minutes on end.
Likes charge, reblogs cast.
every time a young gay person quits smoking or makes the decision that they want to quit, the sun shines on us all with the promise of happiness and beauty.
i appreciate everybody that’s sharing the sentiment that it’s good for anyone to quit smoking (it is) but i very specifically wanted to highlight and encourage LGBTQ youth because lesbian, gay, and bisexual people are about 1.5 to 2.5 times more likely to smoke cigarettes than heterosexual people, and the statistics for transgender people are even higher than cisgender people. this is due to tobacco companies marketing heavily and aggressively to LGBTQ communities and exploiting the higher rates of mental health struggles prevalent in our communities.
i want and hope to see all my LGTBQ people live long, healthy, fulfilled lives despite how predatory and punishing this world can be. you should stay around as long as you can to make it a little better in your own way.
I wanna specifically shoutout trans men here because back in the day (I don’t know if it’s still prevalent) there was quite a common rumour going around that smoking could make your voice deeper, which meant a huge upstick in young trans men taking up smoking.
So, if any trans men are being told about this, it’s not true!! Smoking will not change your voice, at least not until you’re about forty years down the line and you’ve already irreparably destroyed your lungs and throat and mouth and pretty much every other organ in your body. When you hear heavy smokers with deeper, scratchier voices it is literally because their vocal cords have been ruined. This is not a passive effect of smoking, it is a very very damaging one!
It’s simply not worth it! There will be no meaningful changes except terrible ones. Voice training will do a lot more for you than cigarettes will, I promise that the people urging you to start smoking as a voice training method do not have your best interests at heart!
(And you know what, this also goes for not eating due to the idea that starving yourself will decrease your chest size. Like with smoking, there will be no meaningful changes except terrible ones. Your body is worth so much more than that and there will always be healthier alternatives!)
I wanna see trans people thrive, and one day when things get better and you’re able to start your transition, you’ll want a body that will last as long as possible so you can enjoy every little moment of your life. Please take care of yourself!!
As for trans women and other trans people taking estrogen HRT, smoking has been proven to reduce or even cancel out the effects of estrogen on the body. If you quit smoking, your transition will be faster, fuller, and smoother. I know that it's hard, but your boobs will thank you!
(Btw, afaik smoking only has this effect on estrogen from HRT. Estrogen that AFAB bodies produce naturally is not affected, so smoking is still bad for trans men)
In addition (and this applies to all trans people), smoking increases risks of complications during surgery, so doctors might refuse to let you get whatever surgeries you want if you smoke. They'll at least tell you to quit for a while beforehand, which will be easier to do if you'd already quit to begin with.
“Freedom always has a price.”
― Persepolis (2007) dir. Marjane Satrapi, Vincent Paronnaud
French-Iranian author and illustrator Marjane Satrapi, best known for the book and film “Persopolis”, has died of "sadness", members of her
This one hurt, her work had such a profound effect on my life, thoughts, and politics.
May her memory be a blessing
really losing my patience for any 'feminist' statement to the tune of 'we need feminism because women fill a fundamentally different and necessary role than men and will be better at doing x y or z'. like actually i think we need feminism because it is an unbearable death of the spirit by inches to exist in a world where you are not seen as a fully realized human being because of a single cultural determination, and because a world that enshrines such things creates systems that are fundamentally sick to the core
ughh i hate trans men because they’re men! never mind that i treat them completely differently to cis men or that i casually infantilize them and insult them using specifically very stereotypically gendered insults like bitch or cunt. sigh, men ammiright
i've been phasing the phrase 'google it' out of my vocabulary and going back to 'look it up'. fuck you youve lost your generic trademark privileges
month starting on a monday we have no excuse guys lets get to work and lock the fuck in
yk its actually very chic and avant garde to start on tuesday the second
many claim theres nothing more subversive and revolutionary than starting on wednesday the third
Jonathan Joss was an Indigenous, gay man who was murdered on the first day of Pride month as well as Indigenous History Month. He died protecting his trans husband. Homophobia and racism aren’t marks of the past, and this is a heart breaking reminder of that.
Praying for a safe journey back to the spirit world, Uncle ❤️‍🩹🦅
Today is the anniversary of the death of Jonathan Joss (King of the Hill, Parks and Rec). Jonathan Joss was an Indigenous, gay man who died protecting his transgender husband, on the first day of Pride month. Today we remember him and how he protected his family.
when a government bans young people from using social media, and then categorises messenger apps like Signal and WhatsApp as "social media", they are pushing those young people toward using text messages, a fundamentally insecure form of communication. texts are not encrypted in transit and can be read by both the sender's mobile carrier and the recipient's. that also means they can be leaked in data breaches, subpoenaed, or just handed over willingly to law enforcement at the carriers' discretion.
hmm. I wonder why governments might want this
Something I don’t see talked about much is how predatorjacketing is a very common experience for trans men and mascs, especially from within our own community.
Our proximity to manhood and/or maleness is seen as a de facto link to predatory behavior, and in fact, is seen as somehow affirming to be called as such because man = predator. We are constantly told we must be held to account for the actions of (overwhelmingly and primarily) cis men, because otherwise we’re saying we’re not really men (ignoring that many of us aren’t, but that’s an exorsexist tangent for another day) because that’s what masculinity is. If we don’t identify with and apologize for it, we’re accused of not really being trans. It quickly becomes clear that a lot of these supposedly “woke” and “gender liberationist” people still subscribe to the idea that men will always be the predator and women the prey, so in their eyes when a trans man says he is a victim he is basically calling himself a woman, and when a trans woman is accused of assault people are basically calling her a man. This outdated view of gender dynamics being transposed onto trans people isn’t altogether surprising, but it’s incredibly frustrating how often it’s used to categorize people with the insistence that it’s just the way things are.
