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Saw a post that said "if you call yourself a misandrist then I know you're weird about trans women who don't pass" and like. Those are women. Like if someone is a piece of shit to non passing trans women that's transphobia. Not some made up oppression for the men. Trans women are women. Stop trying to claim otherwise.
By saying trans women who don't pass are affected by misandry you have become the one being "weird" about trans women who don't pass
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its official, my gf lost her job. please help us surrvive until she gets a new one
v3nmo c@shapp k0fi
trying to get at least 100 today.
$15/100
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Female shadow the hedgehog is the girl i want to be.
SHES EVERYTHING I WANNA BE
HELP!!
its official, my gf lost her job. please help us surrvive until she gets a new one
v3nmo c@shapp k0fi
trying to get at least 100 today.
$15/100
anything helps
HELP!!
its official, my gf lost her job. please help us surrvive until she gets a new one
v3nmo c@shapp k0fi
trying to get at least 100 today.
$15/100
anything helps
I recently read this post by Devon Price which details its experience of coming off testosterone, and found various aspects of it quite grating. I have admired Price for several years, after reading its book Unmasking Autism which totally reframed the way I understood myself, and also occasionally reading its posts which I found comforting, since in those days I wasn't on Tumblr and encountering reasonable takes on transmisogyny from (what I then considered to be) a transmasculine perspective was rare and valuable to me. So I was surprised to read this article and feel so negative about it. (The post is 6 months old now, so I expect I may be rehashing old ground by bringing it up, but I've only been on Tumblr a few weeks and I never saw it brought up in the various other online or irl trans spaces I was in at the time so I thought I'd put my thoughts down anyway.)
The post discusses how Price had been on T for around 7 years, and fully passed as a man in public, only to to realise that it felt dysphoric from both its physical appearance and social position. It is now undergoing what it describes as a "transition/detransition/retransition/whatever the fuck you want to call it," by reverting to endogenous estrogen augmented with estrogen cream, it/its pronouns, and being "whatever the fuck I am from moment to moment, and accepting that it won’t be instantly recognizable". That's great.
My eyebrows were raised, though, by Price's saying "I think my transition has some real commonalities with those of trans women and trans feminine people," such as, "feeling joyful at being freed from the expectations of masculinity, even as it means encountering sexism a lot more," and, "though I will never be targeted by transmisogyny in the ways that my trans sisters are, I will never disavow you or my proximity to you, and I will use my new position to speak over sexist trans men and smack down other ignorant TMEs even louder." Hmm.
One has to wonder what "new position" Price is referring to here? It describes in the post itself how coming off testosterone and identifying away from manhood has reduced its social status, resulting in being treated less seriously in social situations. How could a lowering in social position empower Price to speak louder against sexist trans men? Surely another trans man is better placed to do that than any kind of non-man. The only way this statement makes sense is if Price is referring to an increased proximity to trans womanhood by virtue of the change in identity and hormone profile. I think this is reinforced by "I will never be targeted by transmisogyny in the ways that my trans sisters are," having the unspoken corollary "but I am targeted by transmisogyny all the same."
One has to read the rest of the post to find where these supposed commonalities with the transfeminine experience lie. Much space is devoted to physiological changes like skin-softening or muscle-loss (both relatable to transfems, but not really The Point) or else to improvements in vaginal health and the regaining of fertility. Talking about these could, I suppose, be construed as in poor taste given the assertion that it is a similar experience to transfems, but I am inclined to give Price the benefit of the doubt here given that it is principally a post about changes coming off T, and these are important changes, albeit ones which if anything demonstrate how different Price's "retransition" is to a transfeminine transition.
The only particular change mentioned in the post that mapped onto transfemininity was that of increasingly facing misogynystic street harassment and harassment born of the intersection between misogyny and racism, although it's hard to see how these are transfeminine experiences rather than generic experiences of those-perceived-as-women.
The real meaning, I guess, of Price's "I think my transition has some real commonalities with those of trans women and trans feminine people," comes in the list of things that haven't changed. Thicker body hair, facial hair, a lower voice, and some facial masculinisation stand out as examples that might be relatable to trans women. But whatever "commonalities" these could represent are rather hampered by the assertion that these changes are "lifelong or long-lasting, and thank god for that; I would not be as content in my funny little de-man-sition if I wasn’t holding onto some of my most coveted changes." So it is similar to a transfeminine transition in that there is e.g. facial hair, but Price does not find that facial hair distressing nor particularly want to get rid of it, nor apparently does it need to get rid of it (beyond shaving) to be read as cis female in public. As a trans woman who wants to get rid of her facial hair, who feels intense dysphoria whenever she sees it, but whose facial hair is so thick that it looks like a 5-o'clock-shadow even immediately after shaving plus a layer of concealer, I cannot say I see any commonality between Price's experience and my own.
I think, if anything, Price's post demonstrates how unlike a transfeminine transition its experience has been. One part of the post which stood out was a paragraph about Price's apparently frequent hours-long masturbation sessions. And while I think it's great that people can talk about this, and have no issues at all with Price doing so, I think if a trans woman was employed as a Professor at a prestigious educational institution like Loyola University there is no way she would risk writing something like that on her public blog. (And incidentally, I did check to see if there were any trans women employed at Loyola and could not find any, but cannot ofc be sure of that as a fact.)
Other similar examples crop up throughout the post. While living as a man, Price states that, "most hookups were surprised that I didn’t have a penis when they brought me home." Again, that's amazing, it would be great if we could all live in this world where we didn't feel that we might be murdered or imprisoned for bringing a hook-up home without disclosing our genital configurations, but some of us don't live in that world.
On another occasion Price refers to feeling free to behave again how it did as a child. "My friends and I behaved exactly like this when we were growing up. I have missed it. Being a swaying, fidgety, thousand-yard-staring girlie who eloped through public space like she owned it," it says, followed by, "as a man, I felt this kind of behavior was completely inaccessible." Given the context of this coming after Price's claim that its "retransition" gave it insight into the transfeminine experience, I find this reference to girlhood (plus the understanding that those given the social role of "man" are punished for behaving this way) to be somewhat unpleasant. "Walking down the street, I sing along to my music at full volume and feel more okay being seen," it adds. That's great, when I was 4 months into my transition I would wear a hoodie with the hood up no matter the temperature and speak as quietly as possible to avoid drawing attention to the very masculine features that Price is so proud of retaining.
A particularly odd paragraph is used to explain the increase in sexism faced by Price after no-longer identifying as a man. Price states that it had been using the term "detransition" when presenting as a man, and no-one objected. But as soon as it underwent its own "detransition" it started to get backlash from transfeminists calling it a "grifter". Price characterises this as a non-man being criticised for something a man can do with impunity, and therefore sexism. But this characterisation of transfeminists' behaviour hardly makes any sense. The idea that transfeminists are more lenient to men than they are to non-men (even those who do not face transmisogyny) is totally absurd and bears no resemblance to reality. Is it not much more likely transfeminists consider statements about "detransition" from a trans person to be far less notable or worthy of critique than statements made on that topic by a "detransitioner"? Price's framing of its "fellow trans feminists" as misogynistic is also a more-than-a-little concerning in light of everything else.
But really, all of these things I've mentioned were not the main source of my discomfort with this post. That came when Price said this:
After many years of trying, it seems to me that ‘manhood’ amounts to mostly this: harnessing the power that one holds over other people, particularly women, and repressing one’s weakness so that societal power does not go away.
And yeah, there's a lot of truth in that, but how did Price not know this already? To fully succeed at being a man requires you to oppress. Many an uncracked egg was transmisogynised in her youth because of her failure to oppress. I am one of those. Even well before puberty, I was telling off other boys for making sexist jokes or comments, the result of which was bullying, social exclusion and early-onset transmisogyny. I failed to be a man before I could even get started, because you are not allowed to fully be a man if you don't partake in the oppression of women.
Price says, "I was centered, uplifted, listened to, and respected when I was on T," but I was also "on T" (endogenously) and would've publicly referred to myself as a man for two decades and I was never centered, uplifted, listened to, or respected. Being "centered" is a two-way street: people give you the opportunity to take up space that could have been taken by someone else, and you take it. But in the taking of it you are centering yourself, you are a collaborator in your own centering. Testosterone doesn't magically give you "male privilege", it gives you the option of taking that privilege. And if you take that option rather than refusing it, even if you relent after some years, it says something about your character. To be clear, it is possible to be a man and be a good person, but that involves actively refusing to be centered and uplifted above women, it involves actively making yourself smaller so that women can be uplifted instead. And it seems it took Price a surprising amount of time to come to this realisation for a self-described transfeminist.
Devon Price is not a man, but all the same it was able to be a much better man than I ever was. It was able to reap the rewards of male privilege that I was never allowed to access. Devon Price is not a woman, but it is treated as a woman in society, and specifically treated as a cis woman, something I will also never be allowed to access. Price's article purports to demonstrate commonalities with the experiences of trans women, but what it actually shows is that society allows people like Price to choose between being treated as a man or as a woman, but society allows transfeminine people neither of those options.
Price states that after having experienced the social role of 'woman' and the social role of 'man' it now feels like neither, rather it feels like "a living object or eternal fantastical creature existing beyond the human inventions of species, sex, or age". And here is revealed what is really meant by being exempt from transmisogyny: it is the freedom to exist beyond the human invention of sex. Some of us aren't allowed to exist there: we want to, but we're banned. This post is written from the place we're banned from entering, while also telling us it knows how we feel and shares in our struggle. Thanks, Devon, that really means a lot...
the recent puppygirl discourse aside for a moment, you may find this post interesting (archive for posterity) some segments of the post: -------
------- these are all from the same post devon reblogged, please click the link for full context but i wanted to include a couple screencaps to give an idea what we're dealing with here.
I hate to be inflammatory but i was SHOCKED to see it had reblogged something like this nobody seemingly said... anything? until someone mentioned it to me in private when i was talking about some of its writings. (well not really that shocked, its hard to be surprised by this stuff anymore, but the overtness coming from someone whos written on transmisogyny, and the total lack of reaction, is upsetting)
I find myself wondering if its blog should even be marked green at this point. Maybe im misunderstanding its reasons for reblogging this post but it looks like pretty explicit transmisogynist fearmongering to me :(
That post makes for some really grim reading. I don't know anything about Tumblr history, but it seems kontext maschine was a legendary blogger who died in 2023, one who Devon Price seemingly admired a lot.
His post amounts to saying that he socially transitioned briefly in the 90s, but stopped because he wouldn't be able to have the life of cis girl, and it is implied that his quality of life would be reduced by transition. And later he describes how he loves his male body in a way that has "nothing to do with orgasm".
It's hard to tell if he has considered that there are women whose quality of life is improved by transition (in spite of the transmisogyny he seems to be loosely aware of) because their pre-transition life was so awful. Seeing him say he realised transition "wouldn't bring [him] anything like the experiences of [his] female classmates" seemed a really odd framing to me, until I realised that it suggests he was having a normal cis guy childhood at the time and was just interested in trying out womanhood, but realised it was inaccessible. That's why his life would get worse with transition: it was already fine.
Rationally I know this is how a lot of transphobes think trans women's lives are, but it seems so odd to see it written down like this, it's so alien to any transfem experience I've ever heard. All he has realised is that he is a cis guy and not a trans woman 🤷. The jibe about orgasm is clearly just a bigoted reference to autogynephelia doesn't even deserve to be addressed.
The post by rame tarin that he's replying to is even stupider. The idea that "eggers" are not aware that some people are cis is absurd, just assuming a total incapability for rational thought on behalf of your ideological opponents. Maybe encouraging many people to transition is a rational strategic move in response to a cisnormative society that encourages everyone not to transition? Maybe they are already aware that some people who are just cis guys might be caught up in it. Maybe they don't care, because they're cis guys, and the wellbeing of cis guys does not need to be prioritised by trans women. Just the arrogance of these posters to post about things they barely understand at all, and which they talk about with a tone of great authority.
The fact that Price reblogged this, and more generally that it seems to greatly admire a blogger who made jibes about autogynephelia, is honestly more concerning than anything I've read on its Substack. I'm inclined to be be much less charitable to Price after seeing this, thanks for bringing it to my attention🙏
alright 50. if anyone has 50 dollars they could send us, i can cover rent but nothing else, we'll be fucked this whole week but if someone donates 50 i can pay rent.
v3nmo c@shapp k0fi
happy pride month
heyyyy we're out of food still and also rent is due and we owe 500 on that still...
please help or reblog, even 5 dollars helps!
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my gf might be getting fired and she makes half the money in the household. this is really fucking bad. no amount of donations can make up for the loss of her paycheck. this could be the start of the end for us. if you want to help keep us alive, please share and donate
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so they won't let her know if theyre going to fire her until theres an investigation done so in the meantime she still has to go to work. we're gonna talk to her union tomorrow and she's applying for other jobs. we're still under a lot of stress while theres so much uncertainty so please donate if you can, even 2 dollars helps!
she's on a week suspension and wont find out until its over if she's going back to work or not. her portion of rent is 600 so any help covering that would be appreciated.
RENT IS DUE TODAYY!! HELP!
heyyyy we're out of food still and also rent is due and we owe 500 on that still...
please help or reblog, even 5 dollars helps!
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please help me (transmasc) and my transfem gf, both disabled and COVID conscious, eat
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we are out of money on two accounts (spent the last today) and we need to eat. our EBT has not been approved. reblogs appreciated
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i know it's not fun to see these kinds of posts over and over but we still have to eat and pay rent. we rely on donations to get basic needs met, we're working on getting other forms of support but for now we are heavily reliant on donations to keep ourselves alive. any reblogs and any donations, even $1, are extremely appreciated
setting a goal to be able to pay june rent and eat, so:
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rent is due today and our situation is becoming more and more dire. Please send help if you have literally even one dollar to spare and please reblog
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my gf might be getting fired and she makes half the money in the household. this is really fucking bad. no amount of donations can make up for the loss of her paycheck. this could be the start of the end for us. if you want to help keep us alive, please share and donate
ca$happ venmo ko-fi
so they won't let her know if theyre going to fire her until theres an investigation done so in the meantime she still has to go to work. we're gonna talk to her union tomorrow and she's applying for other jobs. we're still under a lot of stress while theres so much uncertainty so please donate if you can, even 2 dollars helps!
she's on a week suspension and wont find out until its over if she's going back to work or not. her portion of rent is 600 so any help covering that would be appreciated.
RENT IS DUE TODAYY!! HELP!
Generational conflict is stupid and uh a distraction from class conflict probably.
*gets reminded that not everyone knows who Bailey Jay is*
The new people are WRONG for not liking what I liked!!!
i will say that devon price this month reblogging a post about how bad egg culture is form three years ago is really fucking funny when you consider the post includes this bit
"covid made me bisexual" guy is, if nothing else, hilarious. not even a "the pandemic lockdown lead me to exploring parts of myself" but claiming long covid made you bisexual. though the post ends with this
so fuck price and fuck long covid bisexual guy.
most of you are (reasonably) skimming over that post or just looking at the screenshots but its somehow so much worse than it already seems.
learning that long covid bisexual guy was a well respected and well known blogger on here is an experience. maybe he was otherwise smart but his thoughts on gender and sexuality do no paint a good picture of him or people who took him seriously.
okay so going through all of the blogs on the post and they're all at best centrist libs and at worst blatant reactionaries. dont even need to go far either. the first post for all of these blogs is "centrism is good actually," ranting about communists, or zionism. so long covid bisexual guy is in good company, but its near impossible to give devon price the benefit of the doubt for reblogging this three year old post with barely over a hundred notes. thats not a post which comes back on your dash every once in a while. thats one that if you want to reblog it years later you need to go out of your way to look for, which is notoriously hard to do on this site. what precisely makes you decide to go searching for a post that starts out complaining about egg culture, already not great, and ends with rants about "transggendereds" and someone citing the fucking kinsey scale other than anti trans politics? not giving a shit? i doubt theres an answer that doesnt reflect poorly on price.
hi. my gf is currently suspended from work without pay as punishment for disagreeing with a manager. her portion of rent is 600 usd. we need help covering that. anything helps. im disabled and can't work. but she and i both do commissions if you would like some artwork.
v3nmo c@shapp k0fi
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help a displaced black trans woman with housing
new month, new post. saige is facing housing instability after moving to another city. her roommate didn't read the lease agreement and was evicted, as a result she's currently stuck in san diego with no connections or safety net. she doesnt get her paycheck until the 17th and needs to find shelter until then. her roommate wants her out on the first day of june. she has no savings and needs to get on food stamps and medi-cal. gfm goal is $1100.
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her paylink is here and her new crwdfund is here. reblogging this post and donating even $1 helps.
