#queer transphobia

[haleyhalcyon]

Ah yes, Pride Month, also known as “try to shield yourself in vain from people throwing around the Q-slur more than usual for 30 days”

[clockheartdoll]

What do you think about transmedicalism

“transmedicalism” is a word that means “knowing that cisgender transsexuals (a subset of trans people) suffer (or did at some point) from gender dysphoria, and needs transition to feel whole”.

i do not understand the visceral hatred that this hellsite has for transmedicalism, or the existence of binary trans people in general.

rejecting transmedicalism also opens the door wide open for transspecies, transage, transrace, “nonbinary women”, “nonbinary men”, “afab trans women”, “amab trans men”, and other bullshit.

transmedicalism is not only necessary but good for trans people to be understood, get rights, and fight transphobic laws. and yet, it’s so vilified and misunderstood by people for whom gender is just a game.

TL;DR: transmedicalism is the golden ticket to trans rights and tumblr hates it because it’s not q***r enough

[roguesynapses]

queer people who say that trans people/non binary people are mentally ill/"buying into capitalism" are eating their own, as are queer people who say we shouldn't be using the label queer. work to educate these people about the history of gender as a construct and the fundamental contributions of trans and nonbinary people to queer history and prevent them from controlling the narrative of the movement.

[haleyhalcyon]

I find it perverse and queer (neither word meant in any good way) that so many people, including so-called allies and so-called other trans people, fetishize trans women by our penises, something that literally causes most if not all of us deep psychological anguish.

Looking at you, y'all who say shit like "gock".

[haleyhalcyon]

⚠️ CW: The Q-slur, used uncensored. ⚠️

The whole fervor around the Q-slur is so incomprehensible to me because it’s backwards from every other epithet for an oppressed and alienated minority.

For comparison, if you say “illegal aliens” you get a flurry of angry corrections that rightfully point out that you’re abnormalizing them. “Illegal” strips these people of the legitimacy to exist, despite that “no human is illegal”. “Alien” means “abnormal”, “foreign”, and “weird”, despite that many of these undocumented immigrants pay into the US’s tax and Social Security system (like any other American) and get nothing in return (unlike documented Americans).

Just recently, the White House published an ICE Deportation Tracker themed around the movie Alien, and all of you rightfully got outraged that these people—We say “undocumented immigrants”, excuse you very much!—are not “alien” invaders that “walk among us”.

We say “undocumented immigrants” to normalize them; we say “illegal aliens” to abnormalize them.

But here’s what grinds my goddamn gears: Why do so many of you love that abnormalizing slur for sexual minorities?!

“Queer” means “odd”, “weird”, “abnormal”, “alien”. Even before it first referred to gay people, it had many negative meanings in slang, like “fake” and “shoddy”. By all accounts, it should be as sternly frowned upon to call LGBT people “queer people” as it is to call undocumented immigrants “aliens”.

And yet. And yet! For some incomprehensible reason, the very people who should be championing sexual minorities’ right to exist as a normal part of any society are instead also calling us “queer”, and meaning it! We are already abnormalized by cis-hetero-patriarchical society stabbing us with “smear the queer”, and now our supposed “allies” and “community members” are backstabbing us with “WE’RE here, WE’RE queer”! Instead of pushing back against that crushing oppression, they decided to become the other arm of the vise grip!

Make it make sense! Why is it not cool to call someone an “alien”, while it’s totally hunky-dory to call someone “a queer person”?! They should be both unacceptable in any reasonable society.

No group of people should be abnormalized, no matter how “progressively” or “inclusively” you think you’re doing it.

[haleyhalcyon]

This user proceeded to claim that slurs don’t exist and any word can be as insulting as any other in order to justify saying shit like “q***rtember”, then to block me.

What does that tell us about their inclusivity and decency towards sexual minorities who are denied who they naturally are by both cishet bigots and q***rnormative LGBT-phobes?

What does it tell us that this person’s supposed strategy for freeing LGBT people from society abnormalizing us is “being annoying as shit”?

most LGBT-friendly self-identified q***r

[haleyhalcyon]

this is your Pride Month reminder that war is 20% battles, 80% diplomacy

too many of you have romanticized the Stonewall Riots so much, that it seems like you have internalized the bigotry that LGBT people didn’t exist before them, and that being LGBT is, or necessitates, antagonizing random strangers instead of criticizing power structures.

LGBT pride should necessitate neither cishet shame nor compulsory q***rness.

[haleyhalcyon]