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[cosmicbunne]

Happy Pride Month!

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Bam!

Animation Meme (3/3) I've made, be cautious watching cause there's warnings such as:

- Hints of Abuse

- Hints of poisoning of lots of people (or mas murder)

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Alkifeather

Kill my self

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[mafiamono]

i really have to write my own switch-couple fanfiction because bl-series could never ... :/

[shartgod420]

hey for reasons can everyone reblog this and in the tags put your sexuality and your favorite cryptid

I'm bisexual and mine's Bigfoot

[crossdreamers]

The Washington Post writes about Bette Midler, gender language, trans people and TERFs

The Washington Post has published a pretty decent article about the TERF attacks on transgender people.

The article was instigated by the panicked attacks on trans women from Macy Gray and Bette Midler.

Bette Midler parroted TERF propaganda in her tweet:

WOMEN OF THE WORLD! We are being stripped of our rights over our bodies, our lives and even of our name! They don’t call us “women” anymore; they call us “birthing people” or “menstruators”, and even “people with vaginas”!  Don’t let them erase you! Every human on earth owes you!

These are the talking points of right wing extremists, too. Apparently a few attempts to develop a more inclusive language in some selected arenas (mainly in health services) is presented as a ban of the word “woman” in general. For both religious fundamentalists and “gender critical” this is seen as a threat against imaginary natural and social orders.

This kind of propaganda is effective, too, as shown in Midler’s uninformed tweet.

I personally know of no transgender person who has argued that people should not use the word “woman”. Indeed, many of them are transgender women who want to be respected and accepted as women, so why on earth would they want to ban the word?

Anne Branigin of the Washington Post follows up the debate on inclusive language, talking to Jules Gill-Peterson, an associate professor of history at Johns Hopkins University (photo above).

According to [Gill-Peterson], Midler’s tweet — and the New York Times opinion piece that inspired it — are rooted in a panic over language. But that focus actually diminishes the concerns of trans people at large, Gill-Peterson said.

“My reading on the panic around gender-neutral or gender-inclusive language is that it’s basically disingenuous,” Gill-Peterson said. “I don’t think any trans organizers, advocates or trans people would name gender-inclusive language as the No. 1 most urgent issue trans people are facing in the United States.”

In recent years, many U.S. medical and governmental institutions, advocacy groups and media organizations, including The Washington Post, have moved to adopt more gender-neutral language — part of a larger, worldwide trend of making gendered language more inclusive of transgender, nonbinary and gender-nonconforming people. The fight over abortion rights has magnified this effort — as well as criticism of it.

While LGBTQ advocates and allies have noted that trans men and nonbinary people also seek abortions — and often encounter systemic barriers and discrimination along the way — these same individuals and organizations have often reiterated the importance of recognizing cis women in these conversations.

In recent guidance shared on Twitter, the Trans Journalists Association wrote: “It is unnecessary to avoid the word ‘women’ by substituting phrases like ‘birthing people,’ ‘people with uteruses,’ and the like. This language can offend both transgender and cisgender people.”

Read the whole article here. It seems to be outside the paywall.

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[thingsthatdestroyme]

My straight friends tease me because all my best friends are my ex loves, but a wise heart told me it's the most tender part of queerness-how we've all lost so much family when we find people we call family, we'll do almost anything to not let go.