Iām autistic. Iām a narcissist. Iām a system. Unless I know you, I donāt care about you. I am also profiction. I am heavily anti-censorship and anti-harassment. Please donāt make assumptions about me, or put words in my mouth.
Send me asks about whatever. Yap in there, ask for AU stuff (please ask about my AU itās so cool) (itās called The Light Within The Clouds), send me analyses or ask me to talk about something, really I just want people to send me stuff.
People who censor words on tumblr make me laugh cuz wdym youāre writing Zionist as āZ10n1stā or proship as āpr0sh1pā. Brochacho just write the word out! Thereās no reason to be writing your DNI and censoring the words within on tumblr.
If you want to support intersex people, stop using the TMA/TME binary.
Iām saying this as an intersex person.
The general consensus (from what Iāve seen) is that TMA means ātransmisogyny affectedā and TME means ātransmisogyny exemptā. At first it sounds like a good binary, but quickly falls apart once you see its flaws.
In usage, TMA refers exclusively to transfeminine or āAMABā people. It does not acknowledge the transmisogyny faced by those who would be exempt from it.
For example, a gender-nonforming cis woman would face transmisogyny for looking like a transgender woman. Would she still be TME, despite being a target?
An intersex man would be considered TME, but if he goes through an estrogenising puberty that makes him look feminine and become a target of transmisogyny, would he become TMA or stay TME?
Is a non-binary person TME or TMA? I know it depends on their assigned gender at birth, which makes the whole point of this flawed system completely moot.
And ignoring all those said flaws, what is the point of inventing entirely new binaries just to show who is āexemptā from bigotry, when everyone can face it one way or another?
What about the entire intersex community, who canāt neatly fit into every single binary you make? What about those who canāt be categorised as āTMEā, nor āTMAā?
It is simply intersexist in almost every way. There is no point of showing who can be and canāt be affected by transmisogyny when you refuse to acknowledge the millions of people who donāt neatly fit in a binary.
And if your first thought is some form of āI donāt careā or ātheyāre TME by defaultā then you are the problem. This sort of binary is actively harming the community and only putting everybody in a divide.
Stop making useless binaries and actually focus on the real problems that plague the world!
Focus on the transgender men who are being silenced because of their assigned sex at birth!
Focus on the intersex babies being forcibly mutilated before they can even crawl!
Focus on the transgender people facing execution, possibly being stoned or flogged for the mere act of being transgender!
Focus on SOMETHING ELSE! Do a change in the world! Advocate for your community! Protest transphobic laws, regulations and policies!
Stop focusing on the West where you are (rightly) valued and help the people who are being actively kicked out of their homes, killed, and mutilated against their will for being queer!
And most importantly, stop referring to yourself as āTMEā or āTMAā. It helps no one and only signals to the wrong people. It actively divides the community and harms everybody.
My own country has me banned from a normal life for being queer. I face a potential death penalty for being gay. I wonāt even be able to go on Hajj if anyone finds out Iām transgender. I wonāt even be able to practice my culture!
I am forced to stay in a shell that isnāt mine.
And Iām supposed to care about being āTMEā and respecting every single order from radfems who live on the opposite side of the globe, who have never faced the possibility of being murdered by their own parents.
I am supposed to respect the same people who hate my mere existence, who want me dead for the mistake of being a man, while my parents actively talk about the ādiseaseā that is queerness and how they want to protect me from it.
I am supposed to shut my mouth and let the people who mutter ātheyfabā, ātransandrobroā, and every single other slur under the sun at me speak for the entire community.
While my own people are ACTIVELY being shunned out of society for acting gay. For crossdressing. For having a face that looks even slightly feminine.
While my own people are being forced to āget fixedā. To undergo genital surgery for being intersex. While they are being actively murdered for having ambiguous genitalia.
And you care about me not being your model view of a good trans man?
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Might not have been coined to be but definitely used as such, you can even see people from 2016 calling it āmore accurate because they mostly target trans womenā itās the biggest reason we had to start identifying the groomers ourselves mostly by the ones who self identified as twerf and later tirfs, bioessentialism has been a parasite in the trans community for decades and it gives me a sense of pride to watch it be called out as hard as it is now despite the pushback from people who donāt wanna feel guilty and psyops
Thank you for more explanation!!!! ^^^^^^ I donāt have much to add tbh
it was never a written rule but when we found people that exclusively talked about trans women in a terfy way they were usually talking about trans men as if they were poor wittle victims of the ātrasā and would often try to talk to trans kids venting about being trans, twerf fell out of use I think for about 3-5 years until people started using it against trans men
Ah thank you for the explanation! I feel like the original use of the term TWERF is another way in which trans men experience erasure, but feel free to correct me if Iām wrong.
I have considered for a long time how to best and most simply explain the critical elements of intersectionality, because I think it is among the most critical of ideas and so many people get it wrong. So here we go.
Intersectionality, at it's core, asserts that identities can not be broken into what we see as their individual parts, in particular when discussing the oppression and prejudice a person faces. Identities are more than just the sum of their parts.
The theory was originally laid out by a black woman to explain her own oppression. In short, she claimed that her oppression as a black woman could not be simply explained as black oppression + woman oppression. She also experienced black woman oppression.
Now, the nuances of the situation are much more complex, but this is the very basic idea. You always have to account for a person's identity as a whole, and not just the individual parts.
Black women are not just "black" + "women"
Black men are not just "black" + "men"
Trans women are not just "trans" + "women"
Trans men are not just "trans" + "men"
You always have to consider the identity as a whole, which may mean there are non obvious aspects of the whole identity that are not readily explained by the sum of the individual parts.
That is the basic explanation. Now let's get into one particular application I think is very important, at least on Tumblr, because on tumblr it has become extremely controversial.
A consequence of intersectionality is that specific kinds of oppression cannot be divorced from maleness. A black man's oppression cannot be explained as "black" + "male" oppression. There are aspects of the oppression black men face that cannot be separated from their identity as a whole. Even if you believe "men" suffer no unique oppression, intersectionality means you can't deny the possibility that "black men" suffer oppression that cannot be divorced from them being men.
This application of intersectionality is fundamental and the application of intersectionality to black men has been accepted for basically as long as intersectionality has been around.
A similar application can be made to trans men.
Now if you don't agree with this model, sure. Im not going to say it is fine because I think you are wrong, but no social model is above criticism. What you can't do is claim that intersectionality is anything else. You either accept that aspects of oppression can be tied to maleness, or you do not accept intersectionality. There is no secret third thing. This is a fundamental consequence of intersectionality as a model.
I think it is important to note that intersectionality did not start as queer theory. The roots of the model are in the study of sexism and racism. This is black feminist theory. And to put a point on it, trans feminist theory has no business trying to warp intersectionality to fit preconceived ideas about how queer identities and queer oppression works.
I believe that twisting well established black feminist theory into an unrecognizable form and then stealing the credibility of that well established black feminist theory by labeling your new theory "intersectional" is racist. We do not get to borrow their credibility while spitting on their work.
Again, if you do not believe intersectionality is correct, or that it does not apply to queer identities, that is an argument you can make. I would recommend you have a lot of very well sourced data backing up a radical claim like that, but no model is above criticism. But don't try to trade on the credibility of black feminists while disregarding their work.
Disgust has absolutely no ethical weight. If you are basing your ethical positions on the emotion of disgust you should stop, it is entirely unjustified and leads to a huge amount of harm.
