tbh I think making "transgender" synonymous with "MTF/FTM/sometimes nb person" instead of having it be a term for gender diversity in general was a mistake. same with dropping trans* as a term to signify the diversity of the trans community as including transsexuals transgenders transvestites. it feels like our culture is so aggressively "EVERYTHING needs to be clearly categorized nuance and grey areas are the devil" that everything we come up with (including "nonbinary") to be a purposefully vague umbrella term ends up being associated with One Single Identity. like I prefer the way Leslie Feinberg uses "transgender" & I think it makes so much more sense!!! To group trans men & women and also nonbinary people and crossdressers and gender deviants of all kinds in one community rather than drawing a sharp line between trans people as people who completely reject their AGAB & people who had a queer relationship with gender.
Happy #TransDayOfVisibility! It is important, today more than ever, to repeat the message loud and clear so that it echoes worldwide: Trans rights are human rights. All of us have a beating heart, all of us matter. We need to protect each other fiercely.
If it's true that transition inherently carries the risk for detransitioning people who regret transition, the solution isn't to ban transition.
The solutions that would help trans people and detrans people would be:
1. Not tying transness or somebody's gender/sexuality to their transition status
2. Not pressuring people to transition to "prove themselves" or to "go all the way" if they were really dedicated to being their gender
3. Reaffirming that you don't have to be "right," just happy
4. Not ridiculing people who regret transition, making them feel stupid, worthless, or that they can't "really" be their gender because they have transitioned in the past
5. Recognizing that detransition ≠ being cisgender, or otherwise not being trans
6. Educating people about the effects of transition in an accurate, compassionate manner and - equally important - letting them decide if that part of transition care is right for them.
my definition that I generally use is someone who temporarily or permanently stops or undoes their transition, meaning social, physical or medical transition.
this can mean part of their transition or all of it, as I've seen trans people refer to being temporarily forced off hrt as detransitioning, but while still maintaining the same social gender presentation. so it's up to the individual if they want to use the word detrans for their identity or transition experience.
now, there is a difference between core and non core detransition. core is described in this proposed typology as "In core or primary detransitions, the decision to detransition is primarily motivated by the cessa- tion of a transgender identity."
(important note that some still identify as transgender and a core detransitioner, either because they still feel that they're not entirely binary and count themselves as under the trans umbrella or because they still identify as transgender because of their journey or connection to the community, among other reasons)
non core is described as "In non-core or secondary detransitions, the decision to detransition is influenced by reasons other than the cessation of a transgender identity."
this is usually in cases of non supportive environments, money problems, or medical conditions that prevent transitioning. forced detransitioning is also included under this definition.
I hope this helps give a brief overview of what detransitioning means! if you have any questions please feel free to send another ask :)
misgendering cis people is still misgendering. many intersex, detrans, and gender noncomforming cis people are misgendered due to transphobia and misogyny, and it's not funny to misgender people who may already be regularly misgendered and experience gender dysphoria bc of it
people need to realize that dissolving the lines between gender also means dissolving the lines between sexuality. you cannot say gender is fake and then say sexuality is strict and rigid.
there are multigender/genderfluid people who are lesbians and gay men at the same time. there are mspec lesbians/gays/straights who have a complex relationship with gender and their sexuality. there are gay men who are women and lesbians who are men because male isn't the opposite of female.
"conflicting" labels are a part of many people's queer experience, because the human experience isnt simple enough to be put into neat perfect categories. if you truly support trans/genderqueer people, you need to accept the fact that gender and sexuality is complex and there will be people whose identities you don't understand
This often happens with feral cats! Meowing into adulthood is something cats learn for interacting with humans. If they don’t know any humans until they’re already adults, they just make whatever noises spring to their throat and you get… *gestures*
Adult realization: you will make mistakes, you will act irrationally. You will commit some wrongs that cannot be fully righted. People will dislike you and misunderstand you for all sorts of reasons. None of these make you a bad person. All you can do is try your best to be kind and just to people, grow and learn.
I'm so extremely serious when I say doctors should be put through an extremely extensive reliscensing process every 10 years. Doctors should have their knowledge scrutinized against current medical research and be de-barred at even the tiniest discrepancy. Too many old doctors absolutely refuse to stay up to date on research and dismiss patients because of their personal experiences. Too many people die every year because doctors don't take us seriously and refuse to listen to people who KNOW something is wrong. Too many people are told their problems are nothing and come back in a year or more with serious illnesses and doctors are just like "lol everyone makes mistakes" but doctors mistakes routinely cost people their lives! I'm tired of medical malpractice being swept away under the guise of "mistakes were made."
If lawyers have to take 20-30 hours of continuing law education classes every single year, doctors should have to go through a reliscencing process every 10.
And not just high risk specialty surgeons or medical personnel over a certain age - ALL OF THEM.
A sloppy phlebotomist can cause pain and suffering or even medical complications. A cocky pediatrician can induce malnutrition if they mistake a thyroid or adrenal condition for simple obesity and insist on a diet plan wiithout doing some blood tests.
There are literally staff at hospitals who refuse to acknowledge allergic reactions and/or don't know what they look like (I know someone whose violent shrimp reaction was recorded as a heart attack despite persistent and repeated explanations of her medical history and she basically barely escaped the hospital alive because on top of not efficiently getting the medication she really needed, a cardiac test they wanted to perform on her that night involved USING COLOR DYE EXTRACTED FROM SHRIMP).
Elon told that they removed all "shadowbans" on alt right accounts but they don't get more impressions because they were never banned in the first place, so someone convinced them the algorithm will prioritize their tweets on feed if they go private which successfully blocks their content from being shared or seen by anyone not following them, successfully killing their engagement. Even "genius" Elon Musk fell for it
For decades, the medical community has ignored mountains of evidence to wage a cruel and futile war on fat people, poisoning public percepti
"For 60 years, doctors and researchers have known two things that could have improved, or even saved, millions of lives. The first is that diets do not work. Not just paleo or Atkins or Weight Watchers or Goop, but all diets. Since 1959, research has shown that 95 to 98 percent of attempts to lose weight fail and that two-thirds of dieters gain back more than they lost. The reasons are biological and irreversible. As early as 1969, research showed that losing just 3 percent of your body weight resulted in a 17 percent slowdown in your metabolism—a body-wide starvation response that blasts you with hunger hormones and drops your internal temperature until you rise back to your highest weight. Keeping weight off means fighting your body’s energy-regulation system and battling hunger all day, every day, for the rest of your life.
The second big lesson the medical establishment has learned and rejected over and over again is that weight and health are not perfect synonyms. Yes, nearly every population-level study finds that fat people have worse cardiovascular health than thin people. But individuals are not averages: Studies have found that anywhere from one-third to three-quarters of people classified as obese are metabolically healthy. They show no signs of elevated blood pressure, insulin resistance or high cholesterol. Meanwhile, about a quarter of non-overweight people are what epidemiologists call “the lean unhealthy.” A 2016 study that followed participants for an average of 19 years found that unfit skinny people were twice as likely to get diabetes as fit fat people."
A surprising article to find on the Huffington post. I think, especially towards the end, there's still a saturation of healthism and diet talk (just of the "clean eating" variety), but the information about weight discrimination is absolutely on point, especially within the medical field ignoring decades of research.
Not only do we know that weight loss isn't sustainable or possible, we also know that weight discrimination kills, in a myriad of ways. If you actually care about "health" then start unlearning your weight bias NOW and realize that fat people are just people who are a different shape.
And this article doesn't even touch on "the obesity paradox"(the fact that fat people survive heart attacks and injuries BETTER THAN thin people) or the fact that dieting, especially "yo-yo dieting," is a better predictor for heart disease than weight, and that many of the fat people who have cardiovascular diseases have a long history of dieting that (understandably) didn't work.
encouraged to rb but fatphobes will just be blocked.
hi. if your analysis of gender holds "male" and "female" and "nonbinary" as distinct identities with no overlap, and it does not include room for the fact that some men are also women and some women are also men and some men and women are also nonbinary and some people are all three, it's bad analysis and not inclusive of multigender people.
let me ask you this:
does your discourse about who is "allowed" in lesbian spaces make room for women who also identify as men, or do you say that a lesbian must be a "non-man"? does your wlw tumblr blog add "men dni" at the bottom of every post with no regard for the wlw who are also men? does your discourse about who is "allowed" in gay male spaces make room for men who also identify as women? does your discourse about who is "allowed" in nonbinary spaces make room for people who are also men and/or women in addition to being nonbinary?
when you talk about acceptance for trans people, are you including multigender people who still identify with their AGAB, including people who don't want to medically transition or change their presentation? are you including AMAB people whose identities still include "male" and who use he/him pronouns and present masculinely, or are you going to call them "predatory males" and kick them out of trans spaces? are you including AFAB people whose identities still include "female" and who use she/her pronouns and present femininely, or are you going to call them "theyfabs trying to feel special" and kick them out of trans spaces?
if your answer to any of those was "i hadn't even considered that", this is your sign that you need to listen to multigender people more, because we've been talking about these issues for a very long time
I know what OP is trying to say, but the man who wrote Alien used the xenomorph as a metaphor for his crippling and debilitating Crohn’s pain. He went undiagnosed and ignored for years and used the Alien script as both an outlet and a cathartic example of what the digestion process felt like with his illness.
Don’t erase disabled people’s stories or ignore their intentions. And don’t ever put words in their mouths.
I recently got an anon hate about my comment, stating that I was lying and that I was taking away from women’s issues. But this is the problem disabled people face every day: even when we tell our truth, other people bend it to their will. While it is true that Dan O'Bannon wanted the men of the audience to feel the fear that women live with everyday when it comes to sexual violence, the chestbuster itself was the result of his debilitating experience with Crohn’s. Both of his intentions can co-exist. And in fact, they do – Alien was written, and produced, and is still alive and well, even if its imageries and meanings are known only to those who look beyond the surface. But unfortunately, most people don’t want to hear additional perspectives, even if those perspectives come from additionally marginalized people. They just want to be right.
Trans people do have fears and hatred of detransitioners that dont stem from media representation imo. They’re scared and disgusted by the thought of being us the same way cis people are. They don’t deserve to treat us like shit just because some media sometimes gives misrepresents us as a whole. That doesn’t explain all of their behaviors
like I said to the other anon, trans ppl are individuals, and not a monolith. one or two trans ppl who don't understand detransition and are assholes about it doesn't mean anything bc the vast majority of trans ppl are much more open to understanding detransition than cis ppl are.
