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Help two autistic trans women get access to healthcare!
Me and my wife are trying to raise some money to do a little dysphoria alleviation, please boost and throw us some pocket change if you can afford to!
Hello! My name is Nizana. Me and my wife Lucy need financial help… Nizana Hurst needs your support for Help two autistic trans women get acc
you have to get that when someone calls a woman mannish as an insult, that's uncomplicatedly just misogyny
punishing women for perceived failures to perform patriarchal femininity is not remotely "misandry," because it's not about a hatred of men or masculinity. it's about punishing women for not performing our roles. men don't get punished for being men
furthermore, I think a lot of people, trans women included, lose the capacity to understand this when the target is a trans woman. transphobia doesn't cancel out misogyny just because it misgenders trans women. the transphobia provides cover for the misogyny
transphobia is an excellent trojan horse for misogyny, because it suggests its target could not be a target of misogyny in the same breath that it, you know, targets its targets with misogyny. your shooter is arguing that you're biologically immune to bullets while shooting you
if I tell you that women are being put in men's prisons and subjected to sex slavery in which they are called the "wives" of male inmates they become the property of, does it change anything that these women are trans? does that make it not misogyny? look at who benefits from misogyny and who is bound by it
hi im a 19yo trans girl in southern michigan. i was kicked out a month ago by my transphobic grandparents and now im living out of my car with my fiancée. she has been in the er four times in the last three weeks and we need money to survive.
pls donate
Hi, I'm a 19 year old homeless lesbian trans woman in souther… scarlet lovelace needs your support for help homeless trans woman and her fia
please help my friend stay safe!
one of the upsides of being a professional house cleaner in a queer owned business is that you get the vindictive satisfaction of seeing in person again and again just how many tme trans people still happily display their harry potter books and merch around their place. And it’s far more than you would think. Even the ones with the stickers going on about owning banned (trans) books. Honestly maybe especially those ones if we’re being honest. Nobody’s got any principles
Tumblrites will see you talk about transmisogyny and tell you to go outside and then you get to go back to work cleaning a they/he’s house who has 3 different hufflepuff scarves split across the rooms of their place by their gay art
Basically my primary frustration with a lot of mainstream left-ish framings of trans issues is the treatment of trans rights as a concession they're making to be nice, rather than a principled stance grounded in a real, material understanding of the world.
It leads to this attitude of being vaguely embarrassed to support trans people, which crumbles when Right Wing Dipshit Pundit #33145 starts going on about "harsh truths" that a competent advocate could call out for being incorrect.
"You are transphobic" as an argument by itself is a lot weaker than "You are demonstrably, unambiguously wrong about this issue. You have reached an incorrect conclusion despite having all the information needed to be correct, because you'd rather be transphobic than right."
detrans grift in t minus six months, no pun intended
online transfem spaces are sometimes kind of bad at distinguishing whether something's a Transfem Experience or a Traumatized Women In General experience, but all in all that's still better than the general public's attitude of "well if it's not a Normative Cishetero White Woman Experience it's not a real Woman Experience at all"
"there are a lot of similarities between trans women's behavioral tendencies and those of traumatized cis women" isn't some random idea i'm pulling out of the ether btw it's. a pretty standard transfeminist observation. like. if you find that idea strange and unfamiliar it's time to touch book instead of just digging yourself deeper into discourse
"I feel dehumanised, objectified and sexualised in such an extreme way that it truly feels like people treat even some animals better than me"
Right, so womanhood.
Please read up on what terfs actually believe so you're not going around seeing actual terf rhetoric spread around like "wow, what an interesting new take on trans politics!" and then see a trans woman say "we live in a patriarchal society" and go "oh shit, trans woman terfs? 🤯🤯🤯🤯"
"oh but the amab socialisation and the oppression of afab bodies are some interesting new ideas that—" they have been saying this shit since before you were even born and it's not made progressive by saying it with a tumblr accent
It's really quite bizarre how much work in trans healthcare bases itself on the idea that a patient who deliberately seeks out the Penis Removal Doctor and says "Yes, Penis Removal Doctor, I am certain that I would like to have my penis removed" might be lying to the Penis Removal Doctor, so that they can have their penis removed without actually wanting that.
What's even more bizarre is that the most common "solution" to this is a months-to-years long hazing ritual that has nothing to do with ensuring the patient knows what they're doing, and if you complain about how ridiculously abnormal this is for any kind of healthcare you summon a legion of "um actually" types who insist you're fighting against basic pre-surgical consultations.
I do think "literally zero evidence indicates that gatekeeping medical transition does anything to prevent regret, but the harm done by gatekeeping is extensively documented" is a much stronger argument than "regret isn't real" cause there's always going to be some anecdote that puts you in a weak-looking rhetorical position for the latter, but the former is pretty unassailable.
my work campaigning for NHS reform for trans people has gotten me nominated for Amnesty's People's Human Rights Champion
it's a major honour just to be on this list - MICHAEL ROSEN???! HELL YEAH??!
it's public vote, you can vote from anywhere, and ngl winning it would really help with some future projects I've got going on. BUT there are some very deserving names on the list so, I guess vote your conscience?
do vote though, it takes 10 seconds on the link below
The Amnesty Media Awards honours those who use their platform to shine a light on human rights stories. Vote for who you think should win it
WE WON.
Amnesty named me People’s Human Rights Champion for exposing a scandal in British healthcare. My team and I found abuse, neglect, conversion therapy, and deaths, all ignored by NHS managers.
This was a group effort. Thanks to the crew, fact-checkers, lawyers, journalists, and the team at Nebula who helped bring this scandal to light. And to my friend Jess O'Thompson from the Good Law Project for collecting the award on my behalf!
See the story here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_S5w18sjYLk
Support our work: https://www.patreon.com/c/PhilosophyTube
Hopefully this builds pressure for NHS reform. We need an informed consent system, a public inquiry led by trans people, + the managers who presided over this abuse must be punished.
Sometimes "estrogen would save her" means literally just going on HRT would resolve her issues, but other times it means "a radical act of self-determination would reframe so much of how she views herself and the world around her, she'd come out of it a changed, better person. But also she's a girl and needs to realize that."
Sometimes a trans girl who's already on estrogen backslides on the radical self-determination and ends up falling into passivity again. In those cases estrogen would save her (metaphorically) even though she's literally on estrogen.
No, I think I will read any “[biological] sex is real” statement as a transphobic dog whistle, actually, especially since iirc, it’s how Joanne started signaling her descent into TERF/transphobic politics, specifically by tweeting out “sex is real.”
Context: Just read “Of Course Biological Sex Is Real” by Sam Killermann. I can’t find the date on the article. Maybe I’m digging up years old discourse. I guess even if he’s moved past this himself, it’s still relevant to our world today.
Not to get too ✨radical ✨with it, but I’m starting to think “sex is real” as a concession is how we backslid into the current cesspit today, where people want to act like trans women have every single possible advantage ever in sport because of testosterone is, like, the juice that ascends you to godhood or some shit (with of course the in-built assumption that a trans woman’s T levels will automatically be the same as a cis man’s. nevermind either the fact that cis women do, indeed, have T in their veins…). Like, the idea that “sex” as a barrier is just too hard for anyone to ever overcome thus pigeonholing us back into “silly rabbit, girls are inherently fragile!” They’re gonna start saying that “girl math” is biologically true next by using some poor trans woman mathematician as the vehicle for “proof” that only someone with “biological advantage” could be talented at math, I swear.
Apparently this has been on my mind this past week because apparently we’re on some kind of new character arc but I just … yes, okay, my flesh exists (unless you’re having an existential crisis), my meatsuit is real, but the thing about the meatsuit is that it is actively mutable and changeable. The human being is not so easily categorized into two distinct sexes that can never cross. If this was the case, medical transition wouldn’t do anything to the meat, except oh wait, it does. It literally does.
It’s just — sex is a social construct. My appendix exists, sure, but I could easily take it out, and also, being an appendix-haver does not make me inherently biologically stronger and more advantaged at every single task in existence. Being born with an appendix and then having it removed would not somehow mean that my appendix-having status never changed. I literally would not have an appendix. No one on the street would be calling me an appendix-haver unless they had a vested interest in assigning an inherent value to the appendix and had decided they could Tell that I used to have one.
If sex was “real,” you wouldn’t have to alter a percentage of people at birth to fit the binary that allegedly is “inherent” to human beings.
Fun fact: Sam Killermann is the Genderbread Person/Unicorn (one of those) guy lmfaoooo
it’s all beginning to make sense now
there's a massive, underreported subculture on this site that i can only describe as secular mormonism if mormons voted democrat
zero moral nuance
queer-inclusive but still misogynist
don't have to be from the US, do have to act like you are
ostensibly welcoming to everybody, mysteriously white as hell
terrified of the idea that sex could be enjoyable for anyone
absolutely incapable of structural critique, everything is individual moral choices
enforcement through public humiliation and isolation accountability :)
fear of infiltration by a corrupting outside influence - asserting a right to privacy or failing to publicly demonstrate moral in-group status is treated as a confession
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If you see the quote "I refuse to share my body with a man who wouldn't defend it politically" or any variation of it floating around the internet — it was Kat Blaque who originally said it and she would really appreciate it if people gave her proper credit for it but it's gone viral on a lot of different platforms and most of the people sharing it don't know it's from her or choose not to credit her on purpose.
she’s specifically a Black, transgender woman too which is the context of the quote — here are her captions about it (IDs needed)! she also posted two short form vids on insta + tiktok about the quote and people divorcing her from it when it is specifically talking about how Black transgender women are lusted after and pursued by extremely conservative men
