#equal human rights

[ashotasfireandasdeepastheocean1]

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[katsuyo66]

Friendly reminder that you are not owed information about a person’s sex, and it’s actually none of your business at all (barring very specific circumstances such as intimate physical relations). What genitals, hormone levels, or chromosomes a person has is not dependent upon how they perceive, identify, and express themselves - nor how they behave. Sex is a set of physical characteristics, psychical characteristics which have influence over our lives, but are certainly not all-powerful determiners of our internal selves nor our external behaviour. You do not need to know what a person’s hormone levels are, what kind of genitals they have, whether they are cis or trans, to go about interacting and treating them with the same basic human respect and courtesy you should be affording everyone as people.

[your-local-ina]

I swear to god tumblr I am SO fucking done with your stupid shit.

The people of Iran are protesting, fighting and dying on the streets right now. Protesting for equal human rights. Fighting for a better future. Dying for their loved ones, friends, family and their own selves. And WHAT is tumblr fucking doing about it??? Nothing. The top trending tag is "#mARio mOviE" and none of the tags below it are anything different from daily fucking shit. You threw parties and feasts for days once the queen died, but you refuse to honor and mourn for the many women suffering in Iran right now. You claim to fight for human rights, yet you are ignoring the situation in Iran. I'm utterly and completely disgusted of you, tumblr.

Look at yourself. Look at the creature you've become. Look in the mirror and tell me, do you recognize the monster staring back? I thought you were better than this.

[neokun25]

People are identified by

Race (Black/African-American, Caucasian, Hispanic or Latino, Asian, Pacific Islander, etc.)

Ethnicity

Age

Gender (Male, Female, Gender Neutral)

Sexuality (Gay, Lesbian, Bi, Trans, Pan, Ace, Aro, etc.)

Culture

Religion (Christian, Judaism, Islamism, Taoism, Buddhism, Hinduism, etc.)

Skin color

Eye color

Hair color

Everyone has a different fate. But, everyone is equal!

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[katsuyo66]

Reminder that:

Not all trans people experience gender dysphoria, and not all people who experience gender dysphoria are trans

Not all trans people undergo gender-affirming surgery, and not all people who undergo gender-affirming surgery are trans.

Not all people you may assume are trans actually are trans, and not all people you may assume are cis actually are cis.

[jodha]

Photography is the world's most widely understood language and thanks to mobile phones, perhaps the most widely practiced and democratic of art forms. My interview with India’s leading paper The Times of India on including the differently abled.

[katsuyo66]

You know that thing some people say about how anti-trans bathroom bills are to protect children and cis women, because if we had laws allowing people to use public washrooms based on gender and not sex then obviously that would just make anyone free to walk into whatever washroom they wanted and be creepy/sexually assault people, and also this stance isn’t transphobic because I never said anything about trans people being the assaulters, in fact I only specifically addressed concerns about cis people pretending/claiming to be trans, and the fact that I think the best way to address the potential crimes of these said cis people is to overturn the rights of all trans people is just the unfortunate reality if the situation, my beliefs on trans people aside (though I may or may not also openly say transphobic things like “trans people can’t be real women/men” or “trans people are all/mostly perverts who will directly or indirectly groom children into wanting to be trans”).

Well, Idk how to best say this, but anti-trans bathroom laws are not some great obstacle to creepy cis people doing pervy things in public washrooms. There are cis people who use their sex-assigned washroom and perv on other same-sex cis people, and there are cis people who just walk in to whatever gendered washroom they want when no one is looking to perv. There’s plenty of cis people who can pass as the other gender by cross dressing and use that to enter a certain gendered washroom if they wanted to (but you don’t really hear about this happening, probably because the first two options are much easier and common). There’s this idea that laws allowing trans people to use their preferred washrooms will make this more common, or even that cis pervs won’t bother crossdressing/passing to enter a whatever gendered washroom they want because simply claiming to be trans will grant them both entry and immunity to any criticism or persecution they might face from their actions.

Well, here’s some of the sources I found when I looked into trans bathroom bills:

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13178-018-0335-z

https://www.mic.com/articles/114066/statistics-show-exactly-how-many-times-trans-people-have-attacked-you-in-bathrooms

https://jaapl.org/content/46/2/232

There is no evidence that allowing trans people to use their preferred restrooms is some great enabler or catalyst for pervy cis people perving or assaulting others in washrooms by claiming or pretending to be trans, or that it will cause/increase occurrences of trans people themselves from being pervy/committing assault (and trans people are the ones actually being effected and discriminated against by these laws too). So even if you do wholeheartedly believe that laws allowing trans people to use their preferred restrooms will lead to an increase in sexual assault for whatever reason, are you really going to say that having laws which take a group of people who are already at an extremely high risk for harassment, suicide, and being sexually assaulted and have their right to use their preferred restroom overturned based on what some people might do or try to do when there is no evidence showing these laws actually prevent said potential instances of sexual assault is something we should do or allow?