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I thought I made a post about this before but apparently not, and correct me of I’m wrong, but no one has a “true” gender or gender identity because gender and gender identity don’t have an essence. Gender identity is a self-determined thing dependent on the rationalization of your life experiences up until your present point. Both your life experiences and rationalization of your experiences are able to change.

illnessfaker

This means taking people’s gender identities seriously, even if they don’t make sense to you. This means believing someone when they say they occupy a certain gendered position. This means not interrogating people or making assumptions about their life experiences in order to determine what they “really” are. How someone personally identifies is something that should be self-determined, and no one knows someone’s life experiences better than their own damn self.

You’re not as against gender that you think you are if you try to force other people into gendered labels or categories they don’t want to be in.

ratliker1917

one of the wackiest transmisogynist talking points is that trans women engage in “male pattern violence”, because if you look at what the actual sources are, it always goes back to talking points about “trans woman criminality”, which go back even further to studies showing trans women may have a higher rate of conviction than cis women, studies which also show these convictions are most often for like… petty theft or sex work… non-violent crimes associated with poverty and destitution… so… what the “male pattern violence” talking point actually is saying, is that engaging in sex work or stealing a loaf of bread are acts of “male violence”, and that we’re unreasonable and evil for not accepting this supertruth of the universe.

ratliker1917

like you have posts like this which could literally be crytyped with how hard it’s trying to emotionally manipulate the reader into agreeing with the op, while also arguing with a strawman of a hysterical stupid trans woman who is too dumb to accept the completely unfounded claims of “male pattern violence”, like we just have to accept “male pattern violence is real and strong and my friend” because some cis woman who has an issue of the daily mail instead of a brain said so, we’re not allowed to look at where this person got her ideas from, because then we’re engaging in the male pattern violence, of pointing out, that sex work is not “male pattern violence”

shinvermouthea

considering how terfs are comorbid with swerfs the fact is they probably DO see engaging with sex work as trans women committing violence against women, somehow

chemicalheart-deactivated202009

Honestly yep ^ if cis women sex workers are traitors I can’t imagine what they say about trans women sex workers

daggers-drawn

I mean, what even is “male pattern violence”? Street harassment? Partner abuse? Rape? Murder?

Cause according to actual statistics from real anti-abuse orgs these are things that a worrying level of trans people are actually subject to. More so than even cis women.

Maybe we should call it “cis pattern violence”?

raven-cat

Taiwan legalized same sex marriage!!!

I am so proud of Taiwan we are the first in Asia 😆😆😆

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melodylamb

i hope all he/him lesbians have a good day!!! 🌼💕🌸💖🌈💘

i hope all they/them lesbians have a good day!!! 🌸💖🌼💕🌈💝

bigendering

remember animals don’t gender you, so they don’t misgender you. You will always be accepted by your pets

also remember the story of the trans guy whose cat started meowing deeper to match his voice as he was on hrt

spidyspence

theydies and gentlethem

gaypeopletwitter

theygender

What to say if someone asks you if you’re a boy or a girl

“I don’t know what you mean”

“I’m not familiar with the concept”

“The results are inconclusive”

“I’ll get back to you on that”

Repeat different variations of “what?” and “huh?” until they give up

Laugh hysterically until they give up

“That’s what they all say”

“Explain”

“I plead the fifth”

“I forget”

Gasp in an offended manner and walk away

“You wish”

official-spiderman-noir

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the white stripe in the trans flag

stands for nonbinary trans people

🌸 🌸 🌸 🌸 🌸 🌸

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solar-nexus-blog

A message to my fellow AMAB (Assigned Male At Birth) Nonbinary folks

Even though a lot if NB representation (which is lacking anyway) is directed towards AFAB folks, your identity is in no way less valid.

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Even if you’re outward presentation is very masculine, you’re still Nonbinary

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You are Amazing and Fantastic just how you are!

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Also AFAB nb folks, you’re just as incredible! Love to all NB people on this blog!

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mogaicore

NBLNB + NBLW for anon!

zanabism-deactivated20200529

when you support outlawing Indigenous people’s hunting practices you are LITERALLY promoting their starvation. Indigenous communities in the Arctic have to suffer from food deserts and 174963846% increase in food costs that no white vegan will ever have to face. So please. let them eat lmao.

vampireapologist-archive-deacti

Yes!!! This is so important to me as a topic in my field!!! Maintaining, supporting, and especially restoring indigenous peoples’ right to hunting is a topic of the utmost importance.

People want to cry “even the populations of concern??” but the fact is they were almost never of concern until colonizers started overhunting. The decline of the polar bear in North America (and in most of its range) is a perfect example of how in very little time, white colonizers decimated a healthy population of animals that indigenous people had been responsibly surviving on for hundreds and often thousands of years.

It doesn’t just stop at us white people letting indigenous people hunt for subsistence though. It’s extremely important that we ask for and use indigenous knowledge and ideas when we create hunting laws and treaties. We need to hand over the power.

Again, the international agreement on polar bears is a good example of indigenous hunting traditions and knowledge being used to actually make informed decisions on hunting regulations.

I’m not trying to lecture or inform OP, but to make sure white people reading this understand how important it is that moving forward, indigenous communities are included in hunting regulations and treaties, because it is not their fault their survival has been threatened by colonial overhunting, and often they have vital knowledge about species range, migration, populations, and behaviors that non-native biologists haven’t figured out yet.

Here is a read on why the largely held white idea on “saving the animals” (especially seals that advocacy groups love to claim indigenous people club constantly, all the time) is a racist, misinformed, tunnel-vision view of a much larger picture made of way bigger problems:

http://www.ppehlab.org/blogposts/2017/3/18/1y0q4mmk9vzjfe135r5cbdv0pljwox

I say it a lot, but it deserves repeating:

Always always always: wildlife conservation efforts without the consideration and voices of indigenous people is a conservation effort without a soul.

star-anise

Honestly the people I know who care the MOST about the wellbeing of animals and the environment are the people who are serious, experienced, non-recreational hunters.

And not just when it’s hunting for food. The Indigenous fur trappers up here care way the fuck more about the wild species they trap than any of the white vegans who try to ban them from earning a living. Just because it’s a White tradition to disrespect the animals you kill and hunt them to extinction, doesn’t mean that’s how everybody does it.

systlin

My sister works with some tribes in the Pacific Northwest because they know MORE about the habits and health of the local wildlife than anyone else, including the researchers (like my sister).

She’s a big proponent of just staying the hell out of indigenous people’s hunting practices, because “It was just fine until we came along and fucked it all up.”