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what annoys me about explaining evolution to people who donāt think itās real is that everyoneās idea of how it works seems to be from this
Whereas the reality is far more like
Was not expecting this many of you to resonate with Millennium Death Plinko
One of these days the horse is gonna come out of pinko with opposable thumbs, and then we're all in trouble.
In France if you suffer from hair loss as a teenage girl and cannot afford a real hair wig the school will try and force you to go to class bald. The school will make you buy a chemotherapy turban, you will buy two different so that the school can choose which one they prefer and you will prove that they are chemotherapy turban and not hijab but once you wear it they will change their mind and say it looks too much like a hijab and insist on you going bald or buying a real hair wig that you cannot afford.
If your doctor makes multiple documents confirming that you suffer from alopecia because of stress and the medicine you have to take for your epilepsy and that wearing a bonnet or something is recommended for your mental health as youāre not ready to go out bald in high school as a teenage girl, instead of admitting they are wrong the school will accuse the doctor of lying and report him to the Ordre des MĆ©decins (equivalent of the General Medical council). Your doctor will find himself asking you for a document stating that you are not Muslim in order to defend himself and prove that no he wasnāt colluding with you so you could wear a substitute for hijab.
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In France if you are a North African nurse at a public hospital and wear a fabric surgical cap they will try to make you remove it because apparently itās a hidden hijab. They will accuse you of going against secularism and when youāll argue that they are discriminating you by assuming youāre Muslim for a surgical cap on your head they will change their angle and claim that you should wear nothing on your hair because you wear the same surgical cap in multiple bedroom which is unhygienic apparently (which is a bullshit argument cause you wear the same scrub/uniform in different bedrooms as well). They will go as far as claiming that disposable scrub caps (you know the thin papery ones?) are not okay to wear in a hospital even if you change it regularly. And then they will fire you for a lack of hygiene because you wear a surgical cap.
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All of that will be done in the name of secularism and womenās right despite having nothing do with either quite the opposite.
The teenage girlās story is also not just about racism and Islamophobia itās also about ableism as the girl is convinced that the real reason the school is trying to push her out is because she had an epilepsy crisis in class and nobody knew what to do and the school nurse was absent. It could have ended badly had her best friend not known what to do to help. Apparently it was bad enough to cancel class for the rest of the day and the teacher was shocked to the point of ending on sick leave.
oh and don't forget that many parts of France mandate by law how much skin women must show in swimsuits, which they claim is about not getting street dirt in public pools but which is disproportionately enforced on Muslim or even just Middle Eastern/North African women
(and of course is also some forced nudity misogynistic bullshit in general, to boot)
The rule for loose shorts for men has been a thing for decades and itās because some men wear them outside as well and because men would use actual shorts as swimsuits.
As for the rules not being about banning Muslim women from swimming I donāt know your age but Iām old enough to remember when going to a public swimming pool with a hijab on to keep an eye on your kids and without getting in the water was okay. Iām old enough to remember when wearing a short and T-shirt over your swimsuit at the border of the water when you werenāt swimming was perfectly okay as well. I remember when swimsuits with skirts or shorts attached to them were allowed.
All the extra rules you mentioned started being put in place AFTER the āburkiniā ban when they realized that the majority of Muslim women who were going in public swimming pools were not hijabi but still liked to be more modest and wear swimming skirts or shorts and stuff like that.
Yāall donāt realize the actual level of Franceās Islamophobia and anti Algerian racism and how it color everyday laws and rules that seems to have nothing to do with Muslims and/or Algerian.
IDK it pisses me off the way people act like murderers are some sort of great puzzle to be solved when 90% of the time its literally just a boring freak that hates women
op disabled reblogs but I think the point still stands
growing up as a cis girl the patriarchy told meĀ āyouāre a girl because of the way you were born, there is nothing you can do about this, you have no say in your genderā and i hated being a girl because it wasnāt my choice it was a prison and the trans community told meĀ āyouāre a girl because you say so, your view of yourself is the most important thing, if you change your mind that would be okā and it made me proud to be a girl and feel empowered in my gender and i wasnāt trapped anymore and then terfs come along and tell meĀ āyouāre a girl because of the way you were born, there is nothing you can do about this, you have no say in your gender (but like in a woke way)ā and they somehow expect me to be on their side?
if you respond with some terf shit im blocking you lmao
Iām so happy someone wrote this because I feel the same was as a cis girl. I felt pressured to be feminine and went full nlog because I felt too ugly and fat to be āfeminineā and I was in an academic setting where itās a nono. Then the trans community was so proud of their femininity it made me feel gratitude for being born a woman. Trans youtubers empowered me to buy my first skirts and dresses and I no longer felt āstupidā for doing it. I took another colleague that felt āstupidā for being feminine dress-shopping once and weāve been friends ever since and she now dresses up all the time and tries to feel cute and feminine and Iām so happy to see her like that. The trans community destigmatized being feminine for cis women more than any girlboss feminism Iāve seen and we owe it to trans women.
A trans woman was the one to make me realize I was a trans man. Iād always thought all girls hated being girls, that being born female was a terrible curse we all just had to endure. And then I met a trans women who was so, so fucking excited to be able to wear skirts and cute tops and makeup at last, after years of fighting for the right to get on HRT. I saw the pure joy she felt as she did a little twirl in a skirt and I realised being female isnāt bad. Itās not bad at all. Iām just not female. And I can experience that joy, too. And then I got my HRT and my voice dropped and I got hairy and I learned what it was to be happy with your gender. It took seeing a joyful trans woman twirling in a skirt for that to happen for me.
Thank you trans women.
I feel like this also might be relevant.
Iām trans but there is a special joy I experience when cis people experience what gender euphoria feels like, how fun it is to adjust your expession even if you identify with the gender you were assigned at birth. Cis people unlocking gender+ is so good because it shows how the trans experience can enrich lives and justā¦ spread joy and happiness <3. Stuff like this makes me happy
And in a great mobius double reacharound in return cis people dressing/expressing themselves by not confirming to gender stereotypes also helps trans people who canāt pass or donāt want to including butch/masc trans lesbians and femme/girly trans men <3
[ID: A screenshot of a twitter thread by @/JoCat105 which reads: āthe understanding of ātrans people donāt need to āpassā to be considered the gender they areā made me realize that wait a minute if trans people donāt need to pass, cis people donāt either right? and that has helped me explore myself so much without fear of not being a ārealā man
i guess what Iām saying is kind of thank you for all the trans folks who encourage being who you are in spite of what society tells you. I know itās not the same with cis people, but itās at least helped me feel more comfortable in my own skin. yall are good role modelsā /End ID]
It makes me deeply sad when cis people put their resentment at their own gender onto trans people who experience euphoria for having the same gender. I love getting to see cis people doing the exact opposite of that. I think everyone benefits from examining their gender and finding what makes them euphoric, from realizing there are no rules and seeing that not as a destruction of their experiences but as an oppurtunity to construct a more healthy self conception. If being a woman doesnt require resenting being a woman, is that not permission to free yourself from the resentment, a freedom to love yourself and your gender with reckless abandon? I hope more cis people can learn this lesson. I know its one I have imparted to people in my life, and benefitted from when I received it.
I cannot begin to express how beneficial it has been to my comfort and happiness in my own gender to know and speak to and see and hear and be in the presence of trans people.
Nobody showed me how to love or enjoy my masculinity until trans men did. I didnāt even know that āenjoyingā it was an option! *gestures at gender* You mean this fucking thing is more than just a set of imposed requirements I get to feel bad about failing to live up to? I didnāt realize until later how fucking lonely it had felt to be a man who had been assigned his gender without being taught how to think about it.
I owe a debt of gratitude to trans people, to trans writers, to trans artists and activists, because their experiences helped me finally see myself as a man for more than just the amino acid accidents in my cells.
Trans people and trans thought has helped liberate me from oppression in my own gender, I donāt know a world where I donāt have a moral duty to push for their liberation in kind.
trans women:
center yourself in language that includes you. if it includes women like you, it includes you. it's not "them" it's "us". women are your peers. when someone says ladies that means you. keep reminding yourself. don't forget. it is a fact. treat it like one. you HAVE to treat yourself like a woman. keep reminding yourself. keep reminding yourself.
this this this this.
that song is about you. that advertisement applies to you. when someone tries to lift women's self esteem it's supposed to be lifting YOUR self esteem. how many songs come on the radio telling women they're beautiful??? that's YOU. you're beautiful. take it seriously. take yourself seriously. you ARE a girl and you HAVE to act like it. if you don't treat yourself like a woman, and you ARE one, then you're not treating yourself like a person, and THAT IS SELF HARM. you HAVE to treat yourself like a girl. it isn't optional.
Only one thing yāall can take from trans women. Notes.
i hope all of these girls have a great day and i love the girl who forgot her wig but the sis with the hijabi damn near made me cry sob i love this <3333333
Another thing abt this video: nearly every beauty involved is Indigenous or Black, the two minority groups of trans women that frequently get left out of discussions when it comes to highlighting trans women and their beauty, and the two groups at the highest risk of violence while trans. These women deserve love and praise just like yāallās favorite white women do. Show up for Black and Indigenous trans women.
so the other day a castmate of mine was talking about having once been a little girl (at this point, i all but short-circuited because said castmate is a man in his mid-sixties and my brain had its little moment of ā!!!!! trans person!!! and heās OLD!!!!ā) and being asked if there was a famous person he looked up to or wanted to look or be more like. and he saidā again, as a little girl at this pointā āsanta claus!ā and everyone thought he was weird for it.
and this story doesnāt read as well over text because you really have to see the guy. but he looks just like santa claus. heās got the long white hair and the beard and the belly and everything. and i just. the amount of secondhand trans joy i experienced is truly insane. iām gonna get old! iām gonna get old the way i wanna get old! hey everybody youāre gonna get old; weāve been doing it for years!
anyway shoutout to the santa claus of my cast and to every older trans person we love you so fucking much
to all the trans girls reading this: the world is a better place because you exist
some people like to get mad at disability benefits because they think its unfair people who dont work get a payout from the government while they have to work 50 hours at the human suffering factory every week. but if you tell them "yeah that sucks i think you should also get a universal allowance and not have to work 50 hours at the human suffering factory every week" thats apparently the wrong answer.
What really gets me about a lot of the transandrophobia on this website is the fact that people love to ignore that tons of trans men are also barred from sports, except for us its silently, theres almost no fight about it and no support for us.
Do any of you know who he is?
This is Mack Beggs, a southern trans man. Mack is a wrestler who was forced to fight in the girls state championship which he had to fight tooth and nail to be included in at all. Even now when Mack fights on a mens team he engages in activism for mental health of trans youth and for other trans athletes and yet people have the audacity to come on here and say that transmasculine people contribute nothing to the movement. Have you ever heard of him? Or was it such a quiet modest celebration that you didnāt even know he existed.
And thats how it is with trans men. It is not better to be publicly shamed and harassed but being voiceless comes with its own struggles. When weāre allowed to compete in women's sports, something we shouldnāt be forced to do in the first place, itās almost always under the condition that we are not taking testosterone. When we are competing in mens sports, if weāre not turned away at the gate for being a āwomanā we face the physical danger of assault, sexual or otherwise, in the locker room. How can you call that privilege?
This post comes with no intention to invalidate anyone elseās experiences, only to uplift those of transmascs.
Bloopers are movie aftercare and itās fucked up that we got rid of them
more than anything i want a world where a trans girl realizing she is a trans girl faces zero fear from that realization and subsequent coming out. Where she can say "Oh sweet, I can just be a girl? Sign me up!", no worrying if shes girl enough, no worrying if society will accept her, no worrying if she'll be an attractive girl as she transitions, no worrying at all in any way shape or form.
if i made a video game where you get to pick the gender of the player character i'd make both the options be nonbinary and you can either have they/them or it/its pronouns. those are your only options
Tiktok post by @ topfreakdaddy666 (he/him).
oh god
I just remembered the time in college when I sang the opening to Death Note to a bunch of Japanese foreign exchange students
