Feathers

Adult, FtM, writing gay poly romance // see a full list of my novels at jackbirdlee.com

[dollfat]

seriously why do i see people say stuff like

"trans and nonbinary people"?

at the most generous guess i can see that people think you have to 'transition' to be trans. so if you dont take hormones or change your name and just keep living ur life with a different label, then you dont consider yourself trans?

but at a less generous interpretation, you think nonbinary genders are less valid than binary genders. being boy or girl is default while agender or genderfluid are other.

or do you think people were raised as nonbinary by their parents?? do you think when they filled out medical forms they chose the "no" gender and used exclusively gender neutral bathrooms in school?

i seriously dont get it. especially when its coming from people who seem to be trans allies.

[stag-bi]

remember when ppl kept saying trans* where the asterisk was put in to include nonbinary genders, but then everyone was like wait this is obsolete since being transgender INHERENTLY includes nb's, and then it took like 2 days for the entire world to completely forget why they stopped using the asterisk and now its "transgender and nonbinary" again lmao

even worse is the way that recently its become more and more mainstream for binary trans ppl to fully exclude nonbinary people from their movements and groups. like ive seen popular hot takes from well known binary trans folks saying its transphobic to use "they" as a default neutral pronoun, and that everyone should ASSUME other peoples gender and use she or he depending on what they look like 🙃

it sure is fun having "trans allies" tell us we're dramatic for thinking its a big deal to be trampled on and that we should be happy that at least binary trans ppl get taken seriously. its extra fun when we bring this shit up and get called transphobic and callout culture and whatnot. as if our gender identities are less concrete and less monumental and less important

[hi-im-jackbird]

The reason 'trans and nonbinary' is traditionally separated (more completely, 'trans, nonbinary, and agender') is because not all nonbinary people identify as trans. Not all agender people identify as trans.

And it is kind of wild to see that idea mocked here so cruelly, as if it's a concept made up by, idk, transphobes? I don't think anyone who identified outside the gender binary but doesn't identify as transgender should feel the need to justify their identity to you, but since you asked (so very aggressively), yes, I do think there are people who do not have an 'M' or an 'F' on their birth certificate - because there are. I do think there are people who were raised outside the gender binary - because there are. I know some of these people. They were trans/nonbinary community elders to me when I was young.

The fact that you, personally, have only interacted with nonbinary people who consider themselves to be trans does not mean you can kick the rest out of the nonbinary community.

[dollfat]

"trans" refers to anyone who is not cis.

"cis" refers to anyone who is not trans.

it really doesn't matter if a nonbinary person doesnt identity as trans. they are trans. thats what the word means.

there is not some third option between cis and trans.

again, i think people get hung up on the transition part, and think because they dont want surgery or hormones, they can't call themselves trans. either that or the trans label seems unappealing the same way "bisexual" became associated with transphobia or shallowness by biphobes.

also, agender is nonbinary? why are referring to it as if its separate from trans and nonbinary when its both.

[hi-im-jackbird]

"It doesn't matter if an AFAB person identifies as a man. They're female. That's what the word means."

"There is not some third option between man and woman."

I'm not really responding for your benefit because at this point it's obvious you're either trolling or caught up in some kind of TIRF/transmedicalist nonsense, but there are a lot of people uncritically reblogging this post who I want to hear your words openly.

Yes, there are many, many options between (and beyond, and unrelated to) 'cis' and 'trans' and those options have existed for much longer than you've been alive. If you're viewing the world on a cis vs. trans binary, you're going to have a rough time interacting with the intersex community, both in the spaces where we intersect with traditional trans definitions and where we do not. You're going to have a really rough time if you venture outside of the white, western lgbt community. Especially if you insist on treating people who come from outside your personal experience as if they are too ignorant to know what their labels 'really' mean or what they, themselves 'really' are.

Anyway - I'm deleting this app, so you can successfully chalk up one, I guess, nonbinary-phobic nonbinary person that you've excised from your personal community.

[hi-im-jackbird]

Anyway in light of that post I'm quitting tumblr for real this time! Since apparently no matter how well I prune my follow list I end up with BS like that on my dash.

FYI if you want to keep following me and you're on PillowFort, I'm just Jackbird there.

[dykecostanza-deactivated2024112]

[xxxdragonfucker69xxx]

[dollfat]

seriously why do i see people say stuff like

"trans and nonbinary people"?

at the most generous guess i can see that people think you have to 'transition' to be trans. so if you dont take hormones or change your name and just keep living ur life with a different label, then you dont consider yourself trans?

but at a less generous interpretation, you think nonbinary genders are less valid than binary genders. being boy or girl is default while agender or genderfluid are other.

or do you think people were raised as nonbinary by their parents?? do you think when they filled out medical forms they chose the "no" gender and used exclusively gender neutral bathrooms in school?

i seriously dont get it. especially when its coming from people who seem to be trans allies.

[stag-bi]

remember when ppl kept saying trans* where the asterisk was put in to include nonbinary genders, but then everyone was like wait this is obsolete since being transgender INHERENTLY includes nb's, and then it took like 2 days for the entire world to completely forget why they stopped using the asterisk and now its "transgender and nonbinary" again lmao

even worse is the way that recently its become more and more mainstream for binary trans ppl to fully exclude nonbinary people from their movements and groups. like ive seen popular hot takes from well known binary trans folks saying its transphobic to use "they" as a default neutral pronoun, and that everyone should ASSUME other peoples gender and use she or he depending on what they look like 🙃

it sure is fun having "trans allies" tell us we're dramatic for thinking its a big deal to be trampled on and that we should be happy that at least binary trans ppl get taken seriously. its extra fun when we bring this shit up and get called transphobic and callout culture and whatnot. as if our gender identities are less concrete and less monumental and less important

[hi-im-jackbird]

The reason 'trans and nonbinary' is traditionally separated (more completely, 'trans, nonbinary, and agender') is because not all nonbinary people identify as trans. Not all agender people identify as trans.

And it is kind of wild to see that idea mocked here so cruelly, as if it's a concept made up by, idk, transphobes? I don't think anyone who identified outside the gender binary but doesn't identify as transgender should feel the need to justify their identity to you, but since you asked (so very aggressively), yes, I do think there are people who do not have an 'M' or an 'F' on their birth certificate - because there are. I do think there are people who were raised outside the gender binary - because there are. I know some of these people. They were trans/nonbinary community elders to me when I was young.

The fact that you, personally, have only interacted with nonbinary people who consider themselves to be trans does not mean you can kick the rest out of the nonbinary community.

[kt--extinction]

May I introduce you to the Greater Hog Badger?

He is one of the most animals for sure

[roach-works]

i love animals and i’ve loved animals for three decades and it continues to delight and astound me that i can just be confronted with a totally fucking new animal any day of the week

THEY COME IN TINY SIZE TOO

[myturtlespeedy]

I literally spit water all over my screen.

[thesevenumbrellas]

For context

[facelessoldgargoyle]

Is it lost? Is it trapped? Is it home? Is it innocent? Is it hunting you? Can you feel it watching you? Is it the house?

[fangnominous-deactivated2025101]

accidentally liked a post from someone with a DNI list that said "do not interact if you let just anyone reblog from you" before I clikced on their blog. and I've been sitting here for ten minutes pondering the sort of person who demands their audience to, idk, use psychic precognition or something to detect and preemptively block total strangers from reblogging their posts before they ever show up in notifications

[fangnominous-deactivated2025101]

little known fact but DNI actually stands for Disintegration and Nullification Interface. interacting with a post by someone with a DNI list will trigger this secret protocol that scans your whole brain remotely to check for forbidden criteria. if you're in violation of the list a giant government spy satellite will fire a laser beam from space and instantly vaporize you into a pile of cartoon dust like wile e coyote. it actually happens a lot. you just never hear about it because the laser can fire backwards through time and erase your whole existence. ever see one of those posts with thousands of notes and no url at the top? they got back to the futured because they didn't check for a DNI list first. the little gray anon icon is all that's left

[royalteafox]

Do you what's weird? That I'm so used to the flora and fauna around me that I sometimes forget that not everyone can experience it like I do. So here one that I like to share: blue whiptail lizards

[funnytwittertweets]

[gay-irl]

gay irl

[rookdaw]

[jensreuter-deactivated20221211]

[F]ascism is more plausibly linked to a set of “mobilizing passions” that shape fascist action than to a consistent and fully articulated philosophy. At bottom is a passionate nationalism. Allied to it is a conspiratorial and Manichean view of history as a battle between the good and evil camps, between the pure and the corrupt, in which one’s own community or nation has been the victim. In this Darwinian narrative, the chosen people have been weakened by political parties, social classes, unassimilable minorities, spoiled rentiers, and rationalist thinkers who lack the necessary sense of community. These “mobilizing passions,” mostly taken for granted and not always overtly argued as intellectual propositions, form the emotional lava that set fascism’s foundations:

• a sense of overwhelming crisis beyond the reach of any traditional solutions; • the primacy of the group, toward which one has duties superior to every right, whether individual or universal, and the subordination of the individual to it; • the belief that one’s group is a victim, a sentiment that justifies any action, without legal or moral limits, against its enemies, both internal and external; • dread of the group’s decline under the corrosive effects of individualistic liberalism, class conflict, and alien influences; • the need for closer integration of a purer community, by consent if possible, or by exclusionary violence if necessary; • the need for authority by natural leaders (always male), culminating in a national chief who alone is capable of incarnating the group’s destiny; • the superiority of the leader’s instincts over abstract and universal reason; • the beauty of violence and the efficacy of will, when they are devoted to the group’s success; • the right of the chosen people to dominate others without restraint from any kind of human or divine law, right being decided by the sole criterion of the group’s prowess within a Darwinian struggle.

Robert O. Paxton, The Anatomy of Fascism

[littlealienproducts]

Apple Teapot by nivagcollectables

[panphobicproinsias]

You lot see a woman dating a camp or "effeminate" man and go "haha does she know she's a beard" as if bi men don't exist and don't have cause to subvert gender norms/have a complicated relationship with masculinity, regardless of who they're dating.

[incidentally-its-nonsense]

There’s also this implication that these women who date “effeminate” men can’t be genuinely attracted to them and are naive and oblivious towards their effeminacy. It a complete refusal to acknowledge that not only do gnc bi men exist, but women can be and are actually attracted to them. There doesn’t have to be settling or smoke screens in the relationship for it to work.

[lucarioguy15]

The "opposite" is also true! You see men dating "masculine" or butch women and people be like "lmao we know who wears the pants in that relationship" like Let women date "feminine" men and let men date "masculine" women. It's none of your business. Leave them alone. No one's lying to anyone.

[panphobicproinsias]

Both of the points are so *chef kiss* perfecto. Thank you!

[puttingherinhistory]

Also straight people absolutely can be gender non-conforming. We really need to normalize that gender non-conformity isn’t just for same gender attracted people, nobody of any sexuality has to adhere to any gender norms. Gender non-conformity is for everybody.

Sexuality and gender expression are two separate things.

[kiwisoap]

Hiiii I finally remembered that you can post original works on Ao3 so if yall want to read 3.9k words about an android who is bad at self care and a human who is a shithead just hop on over

[kiwisoap]

HELLO THIS NOW HAS A VERY NSFW SEQUEL

We got a nonbinary robot, trans male disaster, emotional repression, praise kink, the whole 9 yards. [clanging dinner bell] Come get y’alls SMUT

[funnelcloudd]

Fandom ppl are annoying af when they can’t think critically or separate fiction from reality and when they derail serious conversations with blorbo from their shows bullshit. But equally annoying is this new trend of people on here who act they’re so above it all. Like I just saw a post on here that said good media should make you stare at a wall for two hours afterward not write coffee shop AUs or whatever, like okay buddy sorry you don’t consume anything that brings you joy. That mentality is equally as untenable as sinking your entire life into dumb fandom bullshit. You can absorb challenging media as well as watch a dumb show that’s just fun, it’s not a zero sum game.

[prole-log]