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[princeofsparkles]

Ummm both my wife and I were super hot when we went out for her birthday last night 💖

[lichenhaunt]

Couldn't get a v good photo of this fit but I felt kinda badass (they/them)

[lumberjackloverboy-moved]

you don’t need to tuck or bind to be trans. you don’t need to take hormones to be trans, or to go through surgery. the only thing you need to be trans is to be trans

[speciose2]

[Tweet from @/fozmeadows: "human gender and sexuality are very much like animal taxonomy, in that both look structured and simple on the surface, but once you start investigating, it turns out there's actually no such thing as a fish despite the fact that we all know what a fish is, and that's okay"]

[fcxhole]

people with she/her pronouns do not owe you femininity. people with they/them pronouns do not owe you androgyny. people with he/him pronouns do not owe you masculinity.

[butchfagminotaur]

if your sexuality feels constricting or like a set of rules you HAVE follow then maybe you just… aren’t that sexuality pal

[butchfagminotaur]

like this literally goes for everyone not just lesbians like if you’re straight but wish you weren’t so you could fuck someone then i have good news for you!

[genasi-jedi]

Same goes for gender!

[butchfagminotaur]

yeah exactly like if being a man or woman feels constricting you may be nonbinary/trans like you can always just try stuff on y’know? see what fits!

[libertineangel]

And if all those feel constricting or otherwise not right in their own way you don't have to be anything in particular, you can just say you're queer and let that mean whatever you want it to.

[malicious-code-103]

Happy Hagfish Day everyone 🦈

[yharnamsnewslug]

hey i just don’t understand: how are trans men bodies male?

i 100% know trans men are men. (leaving out intersex ppl just to make question easier to ask/answer.) to me, male and female are referring to the biological sex of a body, not the gender. so like a trans woman wouldn’t have to go to the gynecologist because she’s not female. a trans man wouldn’t get a prostate exam because he’s not male.

in your post, were you meaning male as a gender rather than a sex? if so, yeah definitely trans men’s bodies are male.

Asking good-faith questions and wondering about gender vs sex and asking what exactly entails as radical feminist bioessentialism doesn’t mean you’re a terf, just means that you’re uninformed. It’s okay to be, it’s completely fine. And I’m glad you asked.

My body is male. It is male whether I transition MEDICALLY or not. It’s male because I am male. That’s the whole point. I was assigned female at birth, my genitalia is what it is, but I could have surgery, I could not have Perfectly Working and Functional genitalia, either. I could be intersex. I could be perisex. But if my gender is male, then my body is male.

Gender and sex are two different things. Just because my sex doesn’t correlate with my gender, which, most of the time that’s what it means to be transgender, doesn’t mean that my body is not male.

If my gender is male, my body is male. Because it’s mine.

If my gender is female, then my body is female. Because it’s mine.

If my gender is bigender, then my body is bigender. Because it’s mine.

That’s it. That’s the whole thing.

It’s infinitely funny when cryptoterfs try and impersonate trans men and keep calling themselves by the most medical, sterilized, impersonal language there is, because they out themselves as never seeing transgender people as people.

I dont live in a fantasy where I don’t acknowledge what’s between my legs or what hangs on my chest or how the world perceives me, I’m plenty fucking aware. But I also know who I am, what my gender is, what I’m transitioning towards. And I don’t ask for people to pretend I’m cis, because I’m not, and I’ve never been.

My goal as a medically transitioning transgender man is not to be cis. It is to be me. And be comfortable in my skin.

That’s what cis people never get. And what terfs will never understand in their life.

Thank you for asking in good faith and I hope this answered some of your questions! I am male, I’m a man! My body is male and I’m infinitely happier as a trans man than I ever was as a woman! I’m proud to be transgender, I’m proud of the scars, stretch marks, acne, body hair that I have, because it’s mine!!

And I love that I’m making my body somewhere I finally want to live in :) and that’s the whole point of life. Like tattoos, like piercings, like the clothes you wear and the color you dye your hair with!

To make your body the one you want.

The one you can smile at for the rest of your life.

[ancientson]

I’d also like to add that transitioning does change your biological sex. Your sex isn’t just your genitalia. It’s a mix between your genitalia, your secondary sex characteristics (e.g. breasts, facial hair, Adam’s apple, etc), your reproductive organs (such as a uterus), your DNA, and your hormones. Because of this, biological sex isn’t a binary; it’s a spectrum. One of the top scholars in the field of biological sex, Anne Fausto-Sterling, actually describes six sexes, not two, in humans (I recommend reading her work if you want to understand biological sex better and understand why TERFs are fundamentally incorrect and have a very basic, outdated, and elementary understanding of how human biology works).

There are a number of things that can make your sex more complex than TERFs believe. For example, a person with androgen insensitivity syndrome (AIS) is born with XY chromosomes. But their cells can’t process “male” hormones (either partially or entirely), and they develop as “female,” with breasts and a vagina. Someone with PCOS might have much higher levels of testosterone than a “typical” biological “female,” as well as facial hair, despite having the chromosomes and body structures typically associated with the female sex. That doesn’t mean they’re necessarily intersex (although some people with PCOS consider themselves intersex; that’s not a debate I’m going to weigh in on, since I’m not intersex myself and am not an expert, nor are my options relevant).

When it comes to infant genitalia, if the phallus (which can refer to a clitoris, penis, or something that’s a bit more ambiguous) is above a certain length, it’s considered a penis and therefore “male.” If it’s below a certain length, it’s considered a clitoris, and therefore “female.” If it’s in between, regardless of whether the health of the infant is actually in any way at risk (which it usually isn’t), doctors will usually perform a surgery, often without giving the parents a chance to better understand what they’re agreeing to before pressuring them into agreeing, and sometimes without actually asking the parents. A lot of intersex activism focuses on this, because both anecdotal evidence and studies demonstrate that these unnecessary surgeries that force intersex bodies to conform to societal expectations of only two sexes create trauma for the victims and often do damage that can’t be reversed, which affects the victims all through their lives. Since these surgeries are done on infants and children who don’t know what the surgeries are for, they can’t consent to these procedures, and many intersex people wish they hadn’t been subjected to them.

This is all to maintain the social expectation that there are only two sexes, but in reality, intersex people are as common as redheads. Most intersex bodies are made “female” because it’s an easier procedure, and then the parents are instructed to raise the children as female, whether the children actually identify as female or not.

When a trans person transitions, they can change any aspect of their sex except their chromosomes; because of that, a trans person who chooses to transition is no longer biologically their assigned sex. They may not be 100% biologically the sex they’ve transitioned to, either, but functionally and for all intents and purposes, they can be close enough that it doesn’t make much difference, or they can become something in between. That’s only a problem if society makes it a problem. But that’s for people who choose to transition, or who can. Some trans people can’t, or choose not to. OP described why that’s not the important thing here perfectly; If I’m male, my body is male, because it’s mine, so it belongs to a male person. This is true regardless of the complexity of my sex. It would be true even if I hadn’t taken any steps at all to transition. No one is more aware of the biological realities of trans people’s sexes than trans people; we don’t need anyone reminding us that our bodies are not cis, because we’re perfectly aware. But that’s not the point.

The point is that biological sex is a lot more complicated than the over-simplified version you were fed in middle school biology, and the social pressure to enforce the myth that there are only two biological sexes is incredibly damaging to both trans and intersex people because our bodies have a way of proving that myth false, and society views that as a threat because it’s structured itself in such a way that doesn’t account for us, and that relies on there being exactly two distinct sexes which are always tied to gender. The very existence of trans and intersex people is a challenge to the patriarchy and to gender roles everywhere, and that’s why people who are invested in enforcing those gender roles for one reason or another are so threatened by our existence that they seek to erase us or force us to conform (or get rid of us if they can’t), often with violence.

[theorangedead]

With regards to medical transitioning, there are absolutely trans women who need to go to the gynecologist. Assuming a medically transitioned trans person is still their ASAB can be actively dangerous. Medically transitioned trans people can have different medical needs and risks than they would have had, that needs to be recognized medically.

[bureau-of-state-ecology]

If you try fucking w/ gender and it just confirms that you are in fact cis, that still gives you like an upgrade because now you’re approaching your sense of self with Intent™.

[jumpingjacktrash]

self-knowlege is never wasted.

[medusasstory]

#you get to unlock cis+#cis prime#cis exclusive content for subscribers#cis new game plus

[the-blackbirdd]

It's frikkin' Halloween 🪦

[newpurse]

Marine Serre, Spring 2022 Ready to Wear

[tatecrime]

O shit btw I got new hair!!

[tyrannuspitch]

something i feel like queer ppl have been steadily forgetting over the last ten years or so is that “genderqueer” isn’t a specific nonbinary term, or even a synonym for nonbinary - it’s an umbrella term that encompasses nonbinariness and more. 

any flavour of trans (yes including “binary trans”)? you can call yourself genderqueer. fem, butch, androgynous, drag artist, crossdresser, or in any other way gnc? you can also use genderqueer. detrans but not in a radfem death cult kind of way? you too can be genderqueer. “i guess i’m basically cis but my other queer identity impacts my gender in a way that’s hard to put into words-” genderqueer!

it’s entirely acceptable and normal to be genderqueer but not nonbinary or genderqueer but not trans. it means literally nothing but “i’ve got a gender that’s queer” and it fucking rules we should use it so much more

[mad-dyspunktional]

This!  There was a period of time where this was well known and understood and then suddenly the genderqueer umbrella was closed up into a word synonymous with nonbinary. I’d just about given up fighting to get that umbrella back open, or at least remind people that it was once much more open.

[0racle-0nline]

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[unnonexistence]

hot take maybe but i hate when people use afab/amab as shorthand for anything to do with someone's body, or thoughtlessly uses it as a replacement for gendered language.

like for example if you have a scientific study that says "we found women are at higher risk for xyz than men" you CANNOT just turn around and say "hey guys this study says afab people are at higher risk for xyz than amab people" because you DON'T KNOW!

like, did the study include trans participants? no? then it doesn't tell you SHIT ALL about how someone's assigned gender affects things, because it's not comparing afab people and amab people of various genders, it's comparing cis men and cis women.

oh, and even if it's a medical study you STILL can't jump to conclusions! "cis women are at higher risk for xyz" does not translate to "afab people are at higher risk for xyz" because there are afab and amab people with all sorts of bodies. for example, if cis women are at higher risk for whatever because of estrogen levels, a trans man on testosterone might have a risk level more comparable to cis men, and a trans woman on estrogen might have a risk level more comparable to cis women.

if the study doesn't conclude anything about WHY cis women were at higher risk, or you're not sure if trans participants were included, you might have to say something like "it is unclear how this applies to trans people."

TLDR if you want to replace gendered language with something more inclusive you HAVE to think about what it is you're actually talking about and what assumptions you're making.

[lgbt-tiktoks]

Caption: [So, you're nonbinary. You've got your nouns figured out, you got your pronouns figured out. What could possibly go wrong? Until, there's a formal setting. You have to use a title. You don't have a doctorate! So you go online, you look "what are gender neutral titles", "nonbinary titles" and everything everywhere says "mx". It's fine. You just don't feel like its right for you. So what do you do?

Hi I'm Tuse, I'm nonbinary and I'm a huge linguistics and history nerd. And I want to share some alternate options for nonbinary titles. Let's start with what we already know. Mister and Missus. Those are the base gendered titles in English. Mrs. comes from Mistress. So, mister and mistress. The ending of those "-ter" and "-tress", those are the modern English forms of the Latin tor and trix.

So one great option is just removing the gendered ending. So just "Mist". I really like this because its simply, to the point. I like to shorten it with "M". But my favorite option is- Latin didn't have two grammatical genders. Latin had a neuter gender. And so, the neuter equivalent of "tor" and "trix", is "trum". So "Mistrum".

I really like this, I use it for myself. I like to shorten it as "Mm". And I really like it because it is unambiguous. It is very clearly not mister, not mistress, not missus, and not miss. That's what I like to use for myself. I love exploring other options for nongendered titles and nongendered language in general.

We have a tendency to come up with one option and then expect everyone who doesn't fit into the two binary options to use that third option. And we don't have to do that. If you have other options for what you like to use as your title as a nonbinary person, I would love to hear it. Please share!]

Note: Because this was being commented a lot on the original video, of course these work in English and not necessarily other languages. That doesn't mean that they can't be helpful, just that they might only be helpful in English.

[chapst1ckmcdyke]

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