NeonBluebell

Early-30's, trans, queer, dorky, animal loving, leftist and smutty. Fascists, antifeminists, racists and any other scum can fuck off in advance.

[ryan-sometimes]

It’s wild to me to see transvestigator conspiracy theories online that could be so easily explained by natural human variation. That woman has a deep voice? Yeah, sometimes they do. A woman has broad shoulders?? Maybe she plays rugby or hits the gym a fuckton. There’s a “bulge” in her tight pants?? Maybe her vulva is just fat. All the “markers” of trans woman that transvestigators use to harass any woman aren’t even things unique to trans women.

[ryan-sometimes]

Transphobes talk about women like they’re Barbies. Have you forgotten the existence of cameltoe? Tiny boobs? Narrow hips? Broad shoulders? Why do you think choirs have altos and not just sopranos? What do you think female athletes look like? Do you think a woman that lifts weights and plays contact sports will look like a 90s supermodel? At what point in history did we collectively forget that human bodies have natural variability???

[ryan-sometimes]

[anti-terf-posts]

official anti terf post

[princess-rosiebird]

[thyfleshc0nsumed]

I really hate the "dude" conversation cuz like it's literally such a nothingburger in and of itself but it is a great example of the ways that people--even many tme lgbt ppl--are willing to treat trans women at the drop of a hat, but then any time it gets used as an example, it's the only thing TME ppl wanna address cuz, well, the nature of micro aggressions is that they're often plausibly deniable, so then they go and say "NUH UH" and we write three paragraphs explaining "YEAH UH" and then the whole fucking thing gets derailed into this stupid bullshit that just ends up with us being the butt of the joke anyway, like the bro/dude/man shit is to the '20s as "did you just assume my gender" shit was to the '10s

[paper-mario-wiki]

transitioning is like putting on the They Live glasses and seeing that 90% of people looking at you are either jerking off or furiously sharpening a knife. or both. and i do not mean that in a sexy or fun way, and i dont like clarifying that, but i know there's a 90% chance you are thinking it, because i wrote it while being a trans woman.

[paper-mario-wiki]

to clarify:

when considering the sexual violence against trans women, it's important to remember that "people only view us sexually" does not mean the same thing as "people only find us attractive". it means "people can only conceptualize of our existence within a sexual light" because that's how the majority of our coverage in media has been tinged in the past century. as a result of the chaste and patriarchal nature of modern capitalism, gender and sexuality are inseparable in much public discourse by virtue of propaganda, and as a result, a trans woman is seen as sexual because efforts towards projecting specifically femininity is only categorized as sexual. and when paired with the uncharitable perception of "man", that propaganda can often evolve how people view us directly into "sexual threat" anywhere, for any reason. i could be in the freezer aisle of costco looking down at the ground while i push my cart and i'd still get dirty looks for wearing a dress (this has happened).

when i say "they're either jerking off or sharpening a knife", i mean we're either viewed sexually, or as sexually threatening, in almost all scenarios.

[NOTE: AS WITH ALL MATTERS OF TRANSMISOGYNY, THIS ISSUE IS 100 TIMES WORSE FOR BLACK GIRLS]

[planetarytransformation]

when i was a boy-child i had a friend who was a tomboy and i remember wondering (jealously) why there was no similar word for boy-children who preferred the company of girl-children, who wanted to play as they did, with their songs and their games and their whispered secret languages. there is in fact a word for that, of course, but i don't recall emily ever feeling quite as menaced by "tomboy" as i was by the one they reserved for me

[grimeclown]

Me: It does irk me that the relatively new phenomenon of "forcemasc" fetish literature is a blatant aping of the aesthetics of force-feminization but with none of the social baggage that makes force-feminization so interesting for so many to engage with. To be a man made a woman in a patriarchal society is to have your status stripped from you. It is a form of humiliation set to essentially strip your humanity from you by putting you in a position beneath men as a sex object. This is of course violently misogynistic and in many ways extremely harmful but it's why genuine fascination builds around this concept. And it's why "men" who are terrified of risking their status by questioning their gender are drawn to it. By fetishizing the fear of humiliation that comes with deciding to cast aside the privilege that was forced upon you at birth, it can be empowering to put yourself into that position of submission for your own gratification, instead of the gratification of others. And it bothers me that "forcemasc-kink" simply does not make sense within this framework, and only makes sense within the framework of transmascs wanting their own version of gender-affirming humiliation fetish content just like what the trannies have.

Normal people: no i get that and you're so smart can I please suck you off.

[neonbluebell]

This is why the kink that's much closer in role and content, and that I see being engaged with the same way by transmascs, is usually detrans kink; it contains that fear and humiliation via reduction into a sex object. It feels different to an uninitiated observer, because they mistake forcefem as ultimately validating and this (detrans), obviously, is not. They cannot read the cooing condescension of forcefem, the (often gentle) ways the submissive positioned below, and therefore often outside, of womanhood. Anyway, this *is* smart. Gluk gluk gluk, I guess.

[charl0ttan]

god cis people really dont even know about transgender euphoria. like they can only fathom transitioning as something you do to save your life. its so so bleak

[charl0ttan]

AND THEY STILL GET MAD!!!!!

[plaidos]

in my experience, many (if not most) people referred to by strangers as "binary trans women" are in fact non-binary trans women. it's kind of weird if you automatically assume every trans girl is has a "binary" conception of her own gender just bc she doesn't explicitly out-loud self identify as non-binary. because as it turns out, a lot of people also use our non-binary identities to exclude us from womanhood!

[boartusks]

How two trans women ran a legendary underground surgical clinic in a rural barn

The neighbours had no idea. The medical equipment came from eBay. But in a dark time for transgender people, these anarchist medics treated

extremely cool article you should read if you haven’t already

[brownbearbutch]

[s4pph0m3t]

[katjohnadams]

"That sounds unsafe."

Hmm, indeed! I wonder if safe, accessible, affordable trans-affirnative healthcare could possibly change that? I wonder if such a thing is possible?

But nay, this system is the only one.

[deepseasmetro]

look at me. listen. you need to take that six foot something transfem and you need to lay her on your chest and stroke her hair gently and rub her back and hold her tight like a beloved stuffed animal. do you understand me. you need to hold the tall girls in your life like you would anyone else. LISTEN to me

[girlnephew]

has anyone else ever nailed it so completely and succinctly

[catgirl-bartender]

I love this so much. Does anyone have a source?

[mutationgirl]

Yes!!! Infect your friends and loved ones by Torrey Peters!

You can read it at the link for free ^w^

[80slesbiab]

[recreationaldivorce]

i hate how so many trans adults treat minors' access to hrt as trivial. it is incredibly fucking isolating for a teenager to be stuck in a prepubescent state. not to mention it marks them as visibly trans if they are clearly the only 17 year old who has not been through puberty, so they can't go stealth (regardless of your opinions on that it should be an option for obvious reasons, especially given the kind of social environment of secondary/high schools).

either force all children to be on puberty blockers till theyre 16/18, or if you accept that 9-12 year olds are old enough to consent to undergo a puberty from their endogenous hormones then they are also old enough to consent to undergo a puberty from exogenous hormones. the source of the hormones doesnt change the capacity to consent to the effects, and there is very real harm done to children by denying them the right to go through puberty.

[medusadyke]

sitting w mira's words today (surprise, surprise)

[cheaphalloweencostume]

the first time i ever had an edible i was watching Jersey Shore and i thought i was having a psychic moment because the phone rang on the show and i was like “ 🗿 she is going to pick it up and say Hello 🧠” and was correct

[cheaphalloweencostume]

another edible time i really vividly recall is being off the shits on a double dose and watched Conan the Barbarian for the first time and i swear to god ive seen it a million times since and it is NOT the same movie i watched that one night. in my edibles memory the scene where he’s on deaths doorstep and wrapped in a shroud and being whipped around by wind and lightning and ghosts is a thousand times longer and more intense. i wish i could watch THAT movie again

[cheaphalloweencostume]

when i tell you im TRYING

[nudityandnerdery]

I want you to remember:

The fascists hate you too and they just will pretend otherwise until after they've killed the rest of us, before they turn on you.

[nudityandnerdery]

Thanks to whoever tried, but I knew they'd never allow it.

[library-graffiti]

Let's do it the old fashioned way. Spread it far and wide.

[cipheramnesia]

The world has lost so much because I cannot reproduce like a parasitoid wasp, by paralysing a cis person and injecting my gender larvae into their brain where they will feed on the prey's existing hormonal system and decision making processes until they are reborn as a nice compliant trans drone to add to my hive. Hold on, this got horny somehow. Okay, false alarm. Anyway, the drones would work full time using newly developed enzyme spinnerets to produce material similar to latex or rubber, and cover themselves in protective drone maid outfits- okay it's horny again isn't it

[plaidos]

glad that we’re talking about Alison Bechdel being a terf again. really hoping that fact breaks into the general cultural zeitgeist this time but not holding my breath

[plaidos]

because trans girls are starting to talk about this again, it isn’t going to be long before a bunch of TME people come in like “um, if Allison Bechdel is a terf how come she said this nice thing about trans women in the 90s? checkmate you hysterical tranny” with a few examples of Bechdel being mildly supportive of trans people’s right to exist, but make no mistake — Bechdel keeps close company with self described terfs and has done basically forever; Adrienne Rich is pretty much her idol & the basis of her understanding of feminism, and she actively attended Michfest for absolutely years and years whilst they were excluding trans women and even whilst Camp Trans protested right outside, and even in her most recent book she talks about it as this magical place that was free of men rather than the symbol of transmisogynistic hate & violence it has been recognised as for years. Some of the trans storylines in DTWOF are actively transphobic imho, and the Dykes To Watch Out For website (also Bechdel’s blog) is still to this day filled to the fucking brim with blatant terf dogwhistles including referring to the trans girl character as “trans identified” in her bio.

People have to stop falling for “but they said nice things about trans people…” stuff. Some bigots are still polite enough to refer to trans people by the correct pronouns & think we deserve some basic respects in society/to be free from violence, but still fundamentally are bigots with transphobic ideas about gender. it is desperately important that we do not let transmisogyny go unrecognised and i acknowledged within the feminism movement.

[wiigiwaamcore]

As a follow up note, in addition to the transmisogyny she has also at times blatantly misgendered trans men as well. When I was a college student, UChicago hosted an exhibit of some photography she had done around the theme of butchness. And at the end of the lineup of photos there was a note that said something like “Some of the people in these photos actually prefer he/him pronouns and identify as men, but for the sake of consistency and centering butches I am just going use she/her for them all.” This was around somewhere between 2011 and 2014. So she fails even at “calling trans ppl the right pronouns” in some cases too

[plaidos]

that’s legitimately stomach-churningly disgusting