#scientificinqueery

[socialjusticefail]

I really do not consent to having my post on this blog and would appreciate if you could respect this. I am not okay with my words being decontextualized and co-opted.

If you don’t want something reblogged, don’t post it.

[socialjusticefail]

Hello again, I looked through some more posts while less tired, and I would still prefer you delete your reblog. While our opinions converge in some places, there are significant enough of differences that I don't feel comfortable with how your followers will interpret me still. Thank you!

No. This is blog will never delete a post that was intentionally reblog to here.

[socialjusticefail]

Hello, can you please delete your reblog of my post about identities not being like pokemon. It was not supposed to mean what you/your followers probably think it means. Thank you.

unless i am just tired and misreading/misinterpreting. but i am a social justice community organizer and am not anti social justice. i was just presenting a critique of how tumblr does social justice, and it's important to me for people to be interpreting me as i intended.

Read the tags that I added. It explains why I reblog it. This blog runs on queue.

[genderfluidity]

I don't think it's helpful to oversimplify things in such a way that things must be relearned later. We teach /children/ simple chemistry that they can get their heads around, but we're talking to adults here. I think we can assume they have better reading comprehension and critical thinking skills. For that matter, actual trans* people have compiled gender/sex 101 posts that haven't taken out so much detail as to be inaccurate. Please look for them and post those instead.

I actually agree. I take a lot of issue with the post in question. Sex is a social and biological construct, too.

People get ASSIGNED a sex at birth. Framing it this way casts doubt on the assignment process and not on someone's identity. "If you are born with a vagina, your sex is female" is very reductionist. If you are born with genitalia that conform to medical standards of "vagina", the doctor assigns you the sex Female at birth.

Someone can be FAAB, and have genitals that would be medically assigned as a vagina/vulva/clitoris at first, but want their genitals to be referred to as a penis. To say that such a person's sex is female still reduces them to what's in their pants, often times assuming what's down there. If that person goes on testosterone, also, their genitals will change and will begin to look more like male-assigned genitals, and they might also want to get genital reconstruction surgery. Sex is also a legal construct, and that person might have gotten their marker legally changed to sex=male. Not everyone who is FAAB wants people to refer to their sex as female, not everyone who is FAAB has/wants their genitals to be referred to as a vagina, and I agree that that post is oversimplifying and problematic. I don't feel like it gives my experience voice because it relies on a whole lot of cissexist language that makes me uncomfortable, some of which is kind of triggering to me still.

~scientificinqueery

[genderfluidity]

To the most resent post about people using the terms "Biological female and male" sometimes I have to use those when explaining Trans* to my mother, sometimes when people are really closed minded it's the only thing you can really say. Like I'll be talking to a trans* guy friend on IM and she will ask why he looks like a girl and I will have to explain to her that he is trans* that he was born female(Faab but my mom wouldn't understand that term) but doesn't identify as such.

I definitely get that. My mom is a Korean immigrant, so given her cultural background, there is both a language and a cultural barrier when I try to talk about these things with her. I definitely do need to simplify it down. It sucks that we have to adapt to a cissexist society. But among our own community here, I agree that we should try to make it as comfortable as possible for our community members when it comes to the terms we use, which does mean being mindful about using terms like FAAB and MAAB amongst ourselves.

~scientificinqueery

[genderfluidity]

do you think you could encourage people to stop using the terms "biologically male" or "biologically female" bc it's kind of cissexist and it upsets me. people have every right to use whatever words they want to describe their bodies but I get the feeling these same people would be calling my genderfluid body "bio-female" or something gross. if ppl won't could you tag it with something because I'm really really tired of it.

I really appreciate this submission. I have huge issues with "biologically male/female", "born a woman/man", and "female/male bodied". All of these terms essentialize gender and reduce it to certain parts of anatomy. Not everyone who was assigned female is comfortable citing just these few certain parts (namely what would be medically assigned as a vagina) as being a reference point for their identity now. Especially for those with dysphoria, this can even be triggering, and it definitely is a lot of (internalized) cissexism using deterministic language like this. 

For those of you who aren't familiar, female-assigned at birth (FAAB) and male-assigned at birth (MAAB) or designated female/male at birth (DFAB/DMAB) are the more appropriate terms. 

These are preferred because they don't essentialize people's bodies/identities, and instead of casting doubt on the person (like saying they "feel as though they were born in the wrong body"), it casts doubt on the assignment process in which the doctor uses certain markers, ie: chromosomes, genitals, etc, to assign each person a sex at birth. I know I definitely have a very masculine way of relating to my body so I'm not comfortable when people use female-bodied for me; I always refer to myself as FAAB, and would appreciate if others did the same, and many others feel the same way too for themselves.

Let's all try to use these more!

~scientificinqueery