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Simon, he/him, trans, I have no clue what I'm doing

[kaylmao]

it's so fucking sickening seeing the amount of vitriolic hate that Black trans women get for pointing out that white privilege applies to trans people too. there is no trans community and there never will be until Black trans women are listened to and not fucking harassed off of the internet for daring to suggest that white trans people are privileged over trans people of color. i don't want to be in a community with any of you racist pieces of shit.

[doberbutts]

This is also what frustrates me about the "do trans men have privilege" conversation- because I do not think a discussion of privilege is ever as easy as a "has" and "has not"- but especially so with something as changeable as gender presentation and transness.

I find it inarguable that I have some access to male privilege. I do. I think those saying that I don't are being completely absurd and disingenuous when they deny it. I am, in fact, materially treated differently and at times even better than many of the women within my social sphere. It is plain as day when I no longer need to be spending my money on period products, when male clients defer to me despite being the newest on the team, when interacting with other men who do not know that I am transgender.

This, to me, is the white passing privilege argument. It is equally inarguable to me that my mother and my nephew who are completely white passing have some access to white privilege. They are treated materially differently than the rest of our family- including my nephew's own little sister who while being light skinned is clearly of color somehow, including my mother's somewhat darker brother who has since passed away. While the rest of us must deal with the more overt and violent racism that comes with being native and black, they are spared this experience, watching from the outside, knowing that if they speak up it will be their heads next on the chopping block.

However, like my mother and my nephew, I still am affected by laws that this conditional access to privilege do not protect me from. Any laws that is designed to hurt cis women will inevitably hurt me, someone with an "F" marker. Any laws designed to hurt intersex people with hurt me, someone with an intersex variation and extensive medical history of such. Any laws designed to hurt transgender people will hurt me, as I am someone that is transgender.

Often when we talk about male privilege, we talk about freedom from laws restricting reproductive rights, body autonomy, and social movement. This is why arguing if trans women have male privilege is also a moot point- as they are also not free from these laws and on fact are directly targeted by them much the same. Thus an "M" marker is not a guaranteer of privilege *either*, as more and more nations impose tighter restrictions on trans women specifically.

Often when trans men point out how we are affected by things, there is a sense that this implies that trans women intrinsically aren't affected- but they are. We are hardly mirror images of each other in anything except presentation goals, and even there we find common ground frequently outside of primary or secondary sex characteristics. This is what I mean when I say that I truly don't think there is anything that one type of trans people experience that other types of trans people don't in a similar manner- and what is there as a stark difference usually has an answering stark difference elsewhere.

As I begin to take steps towards bottom surgery and everything it implies, as I am accepted by those who don't know me and don't see my legal or medical documents more and more as a cis man, as I continue this walk through life as a cis-passing trans man, I do see more and more the social privileges I am afforded as a result of my transition.

It's just, as the leader of my country is poised to end all gender transition for all transgender people and specifically cites my presumed fertility as a reason to save me from myself, as I race against the clock to at least remove my uterus before he stops that from happening too, I realize that this privilege stops at "social". And that I have a very narrow window to be able to hold onto what transition I've already done, if I don't want a single signature to completely undo everything I've worked for over the past 20 years.

And that doesn't really sound like freedom from laws restricting reproductive rights, or body autonomy, or social movement, to me. It's nice to be treated nicely at work. I would like to not have to worry about someone forcibly impregnating me because the president has degreed the only thing I'm good for is breeding, whether I want to or not.

[brainscrems]

There is also another aspect which wasn’t quite mentioned explicitly that I want to make explicit. The male privilege gained from passing as a trans man isn’t the type of privilege that gives one the power to engage in abusive behaviors and expect the system to protect you. It’s the privilege where, when they don’t realize you’re trans, they’ll treat you like a full human being. The type of privilege that everyone should have by default by being a person, not the type that grants huge amounts of power over others that no one should have.

[hotcrossedfangs]

He listened to her ❤️

[evilwizard]

just a heads up. im gonna do a big curse soon

[evilwizard]

okay so honestly i wasn’t expecting they’d be able to hide the body for this long

[evilwizard]

LINDSEY GRAHAM ?

[sen-thebootbimbo]

[luxwing]

[wooteena]

crazy how there are only 2 hours of doing things every day before you keel over and die. if this werent normal id be worried

[status-quo-hater]

I go to school board & city council meetings regarding trans rights, and something I noticed is that almost every single transfem student who has gone up to defend their right to use the women's lockers & bathrooms has reported being sexually assaulted in school, often multiple times, by cis men & boys.

And yet, what is taken more seriously is the single cisgender girl who went up to speak about her discomfort with trans girls in the lockers & bathrooms. Not danger. Not harm. Not trauma. Discomfort.

The cisgender girl spoke about how she was not comfortable, wheras the transgender girls spoke of how they were not safe. I am somehow supposed to believe these are of equal severity? Eat a fucking brick.

[aroacexuemeng]

not the twitter migrants putting "reblog heavy" in their bios on here... like yeah. that's what we do here

[doggirlhen]

reblog heavy

[haunted-skitty-doll]

Honestly I would be allosexual if cum tasted like root beer instead of cum

[raviolimochi]

🏳️‍⚧️⭐️ pipsqueak says HAPPY PRIDE MONTH! ⭐️🏳️‍⚧️

[raviolimochi]

🛸👽 photos printed? 👽🛸

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⭐️ about my inspiration! cloudy is one of my partner and I’s two lovely cats, she has the most interesting body proportions of cat i have ever seen! she’s oddly slender and chonky at the same time, kinda big and long 😭😭 (she’s due for a routine vet visit soon, so hopefully we find out if she needs to be put on a diet or if she just looks like that!!) she’s such a cute little gremlin to draw :D

[0v9]

Well, you know what they say; Rome was built in a day, and if you're going any slower than that, you're basically fucked with no hope at all

[raviolimochi]

⭐️ it’s a sog party ⭐️

[raviolimochi]

🦐 shrimps teto 🦐

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this started out as a doodle and spiralled into much more, happy accidental all-nighter to me 😵‍💫

[oysters-aint-for-me]

do me a favor and plz reblog with your five most recently used non-face, non-hand, non-heart emojis

[basileater]

ive always been willing to die on the hill of cis women being able to beat cis men in sports so nobody will ever ever make me concerned about trans women in womens sports even if i was delusional enough to believe that was a comparable situation. do i think a cis woman could beat a trans woman in fucking pickleball or whatever? Buddy I think a cis woman could beat a cis male bodybuilder in sports. You will not get me

[basileater]

many people in these notes are revealing how they truly don't believe afab people are capable of beating amab people at Any sports due to their fragile bird bones delicate skin and and trying to make it seem like i'm feeding afab people to lions in the coliseum. you people are not only wrong but more importantly you are Stupidt

[elsiebrayisgay]

on the subject of britta curl-salemme's active participation in trans exclusion in sports, i want to reiterate from this post: britta curl-salemme could probably compete solidly against NHL players, if they let her and she wanted to.

women's sports exist largely because of sexism. even very recently there have been cultural ideas and jokes about things like the WNBA essentially boiling down to "who would care about that." i want to look through the lens of esports for a moment because i think that shift in perspective crystallizes something traditional athletics might be able to obscure.

on the subject of the lack of women in extremely high-end professional world of warcraft, the leader of the current reigning champions (liquid max/maximum if you wanna look him up) said on his podcast that the reason there are not more (or currently really any, though there have been a couple notable players in the past) women competing in the game is men. men in the game treat women poorly, do not understand that they need to be respectful, etc. women get filtered out if they want to join because they just are not treated well, and over time this has created an actively exclusionary culture. and that's in this century on the internet.

there are actual women's esports teams. women's chess organizations. there is no fucking shot anyone can justify to me that there is any "biological advantage" in fucking chess. like, okay, hormonal composition does affect the way certain body systems function, but the most notable example i can call to mind is depth perception, not overall strength or whatever. the reason for women's esports and women's chess tournaments is because of systematic exclusion from the "main" stage.

going back to what max said, i think it shows us exactly why so many people can hold onto this myth that women (read: people running on primary-E endocrine systems) are "weaker" or "slower" or "more fragile" than men (read: primary-T etc) is because the money and resources and support are not there for women to reach the potential that men do. the badgers (a powerhouse NCAA women's hockey team) have existed since 1999. i am older than the wisconsin badgers women's hockey team. (ofc other sports, men's sports, etc have had wisconsin badgers teams a lot longer than that.)

this ties into salaries as well, which the pwhl anonymous player survey this year showed was the biggest issue players in the league are dealing with. marie-philip poulin, arguably the greatest player in the league, took a pay cut this year so that her team's budget had more room at the lower end for player pay. there are still players in the pwhl working second jobs during the off-season, according to commentary from that survey.

do you think ANY nhl players have to do that shit? fuck no! men's game players have all the best practice schedules for ice time at their rinks, they have all the best trainers, they make enough to never think about anything but hockey. across every sport, every game, and so on. men are "better" at what they do because as a society we want them to be, so we do not entertain the necessary mechanisms to raise women to that level. the difference between the men's game and the women's game isn't fucking. body chemistry or some shit. it's time and effort and MONEY. you cannot rise to your fullest potential on $36k/year.

if britta curl-salemme is truly worried about fairness in women's sports, i want to hear her talk about THAT.

[cad-comic]

[ivy-michaels]