God Is Queer

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[gods-favorite-queer]

24yo

He/him

Queer transman

This is where I reblog stuff regarding politics and anything else.

[paparoach]

let's hear it for rice with some bullshittttttttt

[gods-favorite-queer]

Our dog rolled his ankle and is now being kennelled til it’s better 😞

[artistformerlyknownasbutttrumpet]

i keep seeing ppl being like "just get an id, what's the big deal?" about the potential voter registration restrictions, and let me tell you a story i am actively dealing with

i work with unhoused people fleeing domestic violence, and i have a client rn whose driver's license expired in 2024, and she needs a new id to apply for apartments. ok, cool. problem is, she lost all her documents due to the domestic violence

so we call the dmv. dmv needs a birth certificate. like i said, she lost her birth certificate. she needs a new one. her birth certificate is from out of state

we look up how to get a new birth certificate. the birth certificate needs an id to order it. cool cool cool

ok then what about secondary options? well, she needs two secondary sources of identification to order a replacement birth certificate, and she only has one, because for everything else she needs an id. fishing license? need an id. fucking park pass? id. she could have her 18+ child use their birth certificate to vouch for her, except her abuser won't let her talk to her children, so that's a no go

ultimately we land on social security card. this is where we're at in the process rn. ofc she doesn't have her ss card, so we need to order that. social security also requires an id to request a new card, but they'll take a health insurance card with a picture attached (god fucking bless them). she has medicaid but doesn't have a physical copy of the card, so we have to figure out how to get that. then once we do that we have to upload it to the social security website, and if that doesn't work, we have to, god forbid, call the social security office (takes literal hours) and then make an appointment. she doesn't have transportation or cell service, so we would have to figure out a way to coordinate me getting her to the appointment in order to present the document

then we wait 10+ days for the replacement, that has to be mailed to me bc she is unhoused and doesn't have an address

then we need to submit her request for a new birth certificate, which we have to figure out how to pay for, bc it is not free. they're at least a month behind on requests, btw, so we are probably looking at may at the earliest for that to arrive

then we need to take the birth certificate to the dmv

dmv also requires two pieces of mail not from a po box. she doesn't have an address, she is unhoused. she can use the homeless shelter in town, but we will need to mail her stuff there and have her receive it first, and also then the homeless shelter address will now be on her new id, which landlords will recognize and may discriminate against her for

during all of this she is sleeping in a garage. it was negative one degrees this morning. also, forgot to mention, she is terminally ill. some days i legitimately don't know if she lived through the night. every day is a toss up

the absolute soonest she will have an id is probably late may. forget voter registration--most rentals won't let her apply without it. she won't be offered section 8 housing without it. she can't apply for ssdi without it. she is blocked at literally every corner without it, and the absolute soonest she can get it is late may. the dmv literally has her old card on file, and she knows the number by heart, but it doesn't matter. it doesn't count if it's expired, as if she's somehow become someone new

and that's all with the help of someone whose job it is to do this shit. imagine if she didn't have a caseworker. she has a ten year old donated iphone that only works on wifi, she can't even do her own research bc she doesn't have internet half the time. how the hell is she supposed to get anything done on her own?

so yeah, fuck you if you think requiring an id isn't voter discrimination. "just get an id" is privileged af thinking and it infuriates me every time i hear it. lawmakers know exactly what they're doing with that restriction, and it's absolute bullshit

[drew-booker-books]

"If a trans man wasn't a trans man, would he be a cis woman or a cis man?"

You are asking me what flavor the world would be if it was made out of pudding. This is not a serious question.

Trans men are neither cis men, nor cis women, because they are trans men, a distinct category of person with varied experiences of their own that don't often fit neatly into a cisgender framework.

This way of thinking also boils gender back down into a binary that erases other kinds of people outside the norms of "conforming pericis man" and "conforming pericis woman". If you're trying to impose "which kind of cis(privileged) person are you really" onto me, then you're almost certainly applying this line of thought to intersex and nonbinary people too, which is unkind.

Hope this helps.

[bigboypasttimes]

Word to the wise: when discussion of actual, physical violence against a specific group of people becomes mere "whining" to you, you have un-personed them.

[genderkoolaid]

i think genuinely one of the biggest political weak spots on the trans community in terms of actually pursuing liberation is people's aversion to meaningfully challenging the gender binary because it is personally gender affirming for them. so much reactionary bullshit in this community is intimately tied to exorsexism and transmedicalism/

and like. i also don't want to downplay why people would feel like that. you spend your entire life suffering because of being denied your gender. it impacts your identity and your relationships and your work and your everything. and then when there's finally a chance that you may actually be able to cross the great divide that separates the group you are forced to be to and the group you have always felt you belonged in, there is all of this talk about how we should dismantle the groups entirely, when you have barely - if at all - gotten a chance to even exist in a way that doesn't make you want to kill yourself, when the groups are still influencing everything about the world all the time.

but the thing is! we feel this way primarily because in our present culture, to be gendered as cis-binary is to be made human. it is to socially exist, to be seen, to be loved, to have existential, ontological meaning as a person. and nonbinary people do not get to pursue gender euphoria that also makes us human, you understand? nb/gq/gnc people do not have the option of pursuing being socially recognized as you truly feel you are and not wanting to kill yourself. some people can be happy on either side of the chasm and carve out space for themselves there, but too often only on the precarious edge. and the rest of us can only jump off or wait to be shoved off.

do you understand? we don't have the option. our insistence on fighting and deconstructing the binary is not an abstract political choice based on what we speculate would be the most #radical. it is as much a choice made out of trans survival as any binary trans man or woman's pursuit of a passing and stealth life. and plenty of us also do not want the concept of "man" or "woman" to be erased entirely; many of nb/gq/gnc people are men and women! sometimes both at the same time! others want to see new concepts to gain acceptance and social recognition!

but that is the problem with the community's exorsexism when it comes down to it. it is binary gender ideology which provides the foundation for patriarchal ideology and power as a whole, and so as feminists it is the binary we need to challenge (early radical feminists circled this realization, although they failed to develop it productively; intersectional feminism leads us to challenging the gender binary by challenging the related privileged oppressor/powerless oppressed binary). nb/gq/gnc people strain under a binary system and binary culture, and so tend to be more conscious of the binary and the need to challenge it, just like cis perisex women are more likely to be conscious of patriarchy than cis perisex men because they experience a lot more direct and obvious strain under it. all trans people are ultimately oppressed by gender binary ideology and exorsexism, and it goes against trans people's class interests to support it. but a lot of trans people who identify strongly with the binary have, for decades at this point, actively decided to sacrifice the pursuit of trans liberation and liberation from patriarchy as a whole, in favor of keeping the binary in place so they can experience being the ones who benefit from it and wield it against others. like lower-middle class people being fierce defenders of capitalism and taking great pride in self-sufficiency and financial sense and not relying on handouts.

[clownpervert]

i actually think there are wayyyyy more intersex people than are currently accounted for. so many people don't know what intersexuality looks like, that they might be victims of IGM, and especially what their internal reproductive organs look like! even doctors specializing in reproductive systems and external genitalia often aren't informed about intersexuality past a vague perception of "correct" vs "incorrect" genitals and reproductive organs. honestly fuck off about "1% of the world population is intersex" or whatever the figure is, the mere notion of that being true is borne of intersexism and medical ignorance. not even to mention undocumented IGM which is likely significantly more common than what is reported.

[seavilenthusiast]

I feel like people often talk about how transmisandry/transandrophobia affects transgender men and while this is by no means bad I feel like as a transmasc intersex enby I should definitely speak my mind on how I feel like people forget the nonbinary and especially intersex perspective on these kinds of things

For context + important info before I continue:

I am not medically transitioning as i am a minor and it’s illegal for minors under the age of 18 to medically transition or take cross-sex hormones in the current US state I live in. However I do naturally have naturally male and androgynous features such as a mid range voice, a smaller sized easy-to-bind chest, and am a little taller and have broad shoulders and have body hair. I also present myself masculinely. I also identify as a transmasc enby and as a demiaroace pan (-rose) and as a butch bear cub and consider my attraction to both genders to be queer. I use hy/hym/hys (pronounced like “high/hem/hes”) primarily but also use they/them. I have been out for a while now and grew up openly transgender and nonbinary, I also am perceived as masculine socially. I have a lot of experience socially with discrimination for being transmasculine still regardless of being seen as masculine.

Anyways, to the actual meat of the post:

I am know with transmasculine men they get malgendered by transandrophobes as a way to tear them down, erase/silence them from conversations , or reinforce gender roles and that is undeniably awful and I am not trying play oppression olympics about it but not only are transmasc enbies malgendered we are also maliciously misgendered as binary men by a lot of the same people who perpetuate transmisandry against binary trans men. We have our masculinity reduced to “evil man” instead of being seen as nonbinary and unique to our own whenever people want to weaponize our masculinity against us. Ive had plenty of arguments with people where they used he/him/his or with terms related to being a man despite me not liking it and knowing such with the intention of demonizing me as a some kind of threat or like I’m just this “horrible misogynistic MAN” because i want to be included in reproductive healthcare and rights conversations without having to give up my masculinity despite having a uterus, or some other bullshit and I feel like when you look at it from the perspective of “transmisandrists misgender and malgender transmasc enbies who look masc” is when you realize that every who says transandrophobic bullshit hurt the entire transgender community as a whole and don’t only hurt transgender men, they hurt transmasculine enbies by purposely and blatantly misgendering us as binary men because to them it’s justified if I “get to fuck with pooners” because none of what their saying is with good faith or honest intentions and they don’t care about trans women or cis women all:

They care about hating trans men.

[tatdritt]

”I hate trans men for being men, not for being trans!”

>pre transition, he was widely considered a woman

>if he remained “cis” he would be a woman

>trans men are men because they are trans

>trans men are trans because they are men

>if trans man was not trans, he would not be man

>if trans man was not man, he would not be trans

so yes, you do hate him for being trans actually. Because being trans is what made him a man. How is this hard to understand

[fvckw4d]

People who think Elliot page is reaping male privilege in his career are on some fucking shit he is such an obvious example of how trans men are treated completely fucking differently than cis men are.

[fvckw4d]

#Sinon is deeply femininely coded in a bad way in the original text (the Aeneid actually bc he’s not in the odyssey) #like its not even subtext he is very explicitly a failure of proper masculinity and honor #ESPECIALLY when all of the traditionally feminine traits are stripped from Odysseus and Sinon retains them

@trans-masked thanks for the insight, I honestly dont know that much about this subject.

Many news sources comment on Nolan's alterations to the role, because he removes many of those underhanded traits and makes him a figure of honor and bravery. imho these changes are still transphobic and misogynistic, because he instead makes Page's Sinoh a naive young solider eager to please and who doesnt know anything about any strategy or deceit. In that way, he's just stripped of agency and his entire role in the story, which makes it strange to choose this character for Page to play except through the lens of transphobia.

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Its not that nolan cant import crossover characters, but people's claims that Elliot Page's role in the odyssey is "the first good role nolans given him" when its a cameo of a character from a different story that a casual viewer isnt familiar with and that is clearly not a role he would have given to any cis man is just stupid to me. Elliot Page is 37 and he is cast as a young, naive recruit and described as "terrified" to play the role.

Elliot Page Explains Why He Was ‘Terrified’ to Take on the Role of Sinon in ‘The Odyssey’

Elliot Page admitted he was terrified to take on the role of Sinon in Christopher Nolan's adaptation of "The Odyssey."

This is just not how you report on a cis man over 30 playing a role or the role a cis man over 30 typically plays.

Also when people thought the role was actually going to be Achilles, who is also not in the Odyssey and is a well-known queer figure but in popular culture still associated with masculinity (and is at least a character people KNEW), he got enough online backlash it was commented on by news sources. Elon Musk was a huge part of the hate campaign against him and Lupita Nyong'o, singling them both out specifically.

Elliot Page Managing Transphobic Backlash Before The Odyssey Release

As Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey approaches its 2026 release, actor Elliot Page faces a wave of online toxicity.

[fvckw4d]

Tbc i didn't make this post to call out a specific blogger i was interacting with, I was not only frustrated by the post but then looked up Elliot Page's tag AFTER that interaction and found that a lot of people genuinely believed Nolan wrote him a better character after he transitioned.

This is transphobia, it is a specific kind of transphobia against trans men where they are very obviously treated "not like real men" and deal with misogyny and transphobia most of the time, but when people start talking gender politics theyre "one of the boys."

[gods-favorite-queer]

Also his character is killed off within the first 20 (or so) minutes which is very...kill your gay's like moment but yeah. ok.

You also have to keep in mind that Page is already a established (+ white) actor, which does come with the privilege of being more likely to be casted; most other trans people would have never be considered for the role (or any role tbh).

[transmascfeminism]

Any movement that has “people forcibly classed as female since birth can achieve the highest status of power in a hierarchy of gender oppression” as a loadbering belief is an antifeminist movement.

Any movement that has “people forcibly classed as female since birth oppress people who weren’t on the basis of their having being classed as female” as a loadbering belief is an antifeminist movement.

Any movement that has “people with natal vulvas, uteri, and ovaries do not experience any unique types of violence, medical abuse, or marginalization” as a loadbering belief is an antifeminist movement.

Any movement that has "people forcibly classed as female since birth can utilize the event of their female classification to escape from gendered violence" as a loadbering belief is an antifeminist movement.

[tokimeki-horseshoe]

[transsexualpuffin]

who wants to bet that the people who always obsessively rant about how bad tipping culture is are the customers from hell

[gods-favorite-queer]

I'll put money on that nil

[tongue-twists]

age gaps are actually not a problem in themselves (as long as both participants are adults blah blah you know the drill). the potentially harmful dynamics between two partners with a big age difference arise from other factors that are associated with age. more wealth. more stable life situation. a big gap in relationship/dating experience. this is of course worsened if you add gender and/or racial dynamics to it. age in itself doesn't create this imbalance, we just exist in a system where older people are more likely to have other forms of privilege over their younger partner.

if you're both 30 but one of you has a job and owns the apartment in which you both live, that is a lot riskier than if you're 20 and 40 but both have independent income and housing. ya know?

[jamjarblues]

im really appreciating the conversations around masc pregnancy as a trans man who wants to be a dad one day, bc unless something changes for me the most efficient and simplest way for me to be a dad is through pregnancy and childbirth. and i want to live in a world where i can freely and safely do this without compromising on my own existence. this does tie in with the conversations about how many trans masculine people with uteruses face the prospect of forced detransition through pregnancy, because ultimately we all have the same need: for pregnancy care (to both continue and end it) to be degendered, for visible pregnancy to not directly equate to femininity, and for ALL pregnant people to be treated with dignity and respect and given as much bodily autonomy as possible.

[gveleshapi]

I cannot believe degendering pregnancy is a controversial topic. idk how it is in the west, but when I went to a doctor, told her that I'm pregnant and I needed to do blood tests and many other things she laughed at me and said smth like: "you a 180cm grownass man pregnant??? honey, pregnancy is for those who are women. if you're a mentally ill trans then you can visit a psychologist instead", and I told her that I'm intersex but she was like "not pregnant, *h slurs* are sterile and can't get pregnant, especially if they're a man like you are." I saw 6 different doctors and I was mocked by all of them, until my partner somehow made one of them listen, and she saw that I really was pregnant and being intersex didn't make me "sterile." if pregnancy was degendered and was replaced with neutral language I'd have easier time accessing healthcare. and now that I did, the doctors are still confused and they're like "yeahhh, they never taught us how to treat defects like you so let us treat you like we would treat *normal pregnancy.*" first of all why are you calling a human being a defect, and secondly, do you treat EVERY pregnant woman you see the same way? there are different kinds of pregnancies. not every pregnancy is the same. different people have different complications and needs. why do you treat intersex pregnancy as something impossible that cannot be helped and monitored. especially for pregnant intersex men (or phenotypical "man", idk how to say it). the medical system makes you feel horrible for being intersex and pregnant intersex man. they'll either deny your healthcare or they'll abuse you and force you into womanhood even when you never lived it.

[khmali]

I wasn't originally planning to add anything, but I need to add more

I'm his partner. I'm also intersex. and my face looks "too feminine", so let me tell you, the medical system doesn't take any of us seriously. while he was being abused for being a pregnant man and they called him a "mentally ill trans", I was getting laughed at for having long hair and for "not looking manly enough." we had doctors telling us to abort the fetus because we would fail being parents. they said that the child needs traditional mother and father, not "mentally ill defected anomaly parents who will make the child ashamed of being born." doctors did everything to make us feel awful about ourselves, however we know how bad intersexism, transphobia and queerphobic in general is in our country and we decided to ignore them. we're getting a lot of hate from people, mainly medical system and they're trying to "fix" us so that the child can have traditional mother and father. Gatsi would become a mother and woman, and I'd be a father and a man. people find it too hard to be normal about male pregnancy, and it's even worse if you're intersex because they'll tell you to abort your baby to your face because "you're a defect who will birth a defected child like you." (and there's additional transphobia because they immediately assume you that you're a "mentally ill trans", and while we both identify as agender it's still sickening how they treat him)