#this is sanism

[this-is-transsanism]

This meme.

There’s so much disgusting about it, but I’m going to focus specifically on the inclusion of the autigender flag (the green-striped flag with the infinity symbol).

Obviously this meme is trying to imply self-diagnosis isn’t actually real and everyone who self-diagnoses with autism is actually faking to be special (which is beyond stupid but I digress).

But… like… they’re both implying that autigender is only a self-dx/“faker” thing (raises eyebrows as an autigender enby diagnosed in childhood) and that it’s only something someone faking autism would ever claim. I.e. it’s not a real legitimate experience with autism and gender.

(Once again I’m so tempted to make this-is-anti-neurogender because I have seen so much shit like this. Specifically attacking neurogenders as an illegitimate neurodivergent experience and claiming everyone who identifies with them is a faker.)

this is transsanism

[thisis--ableism]

I mention to a woman at the pet store that my service dog in training is for autism and schizophrenia.

"Can I tell you a secret?"

"Uh, sure..."

She leans in. "I think everyone's a little bit crazy sometimes."

Trip to store: ruined.

This is ableism and saneism.

[this-is-transsanism]

transphobes making up the narrative about the "transgender cult" that supposedly grooms autistic ppl into believing they're trans. this is both demonizing and just straight up making shit up about trans people and infantiling autistic people. it doesn't even matter how old you are (although children can understand whether they're trans or not too and should be believed, I'm a child who knows he's trans and yeah I know some things change with age but the dysphoria, euphoria and other things I experience with my identity have been there forever and are there currently, it's transphobic and ageist to act like I can't know I'm trans, sorry for going a bit off topic) , even if you're an autistic adult you'll get told being autistic makes you unable to understand your own identity and experiences. also the whole thing that trans people are often seen as inherently evil and malicious by transphobes and autistic people are often seen as mentally children and inherently innocent by ableists, and very often the transphobes and the ableists are the same people,so the idea of a trans autistic person existing contradicts their beliefs about both so they deny it

also a bit unrelated but I really love this blog (you can see I've sent many asks lol) , transphobia & sanism intersectionality is something we so desperately need and so rarely get omg

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mhm, being autistic has barred me out of a lot of gender affirming care because they think I can't understand myself

[this-is-transsanism]

The bill in Congress to ban X gender markers on passports is literally called the “Passport Sanity Act”.

So much exorsexism is saneism and it’s literally everywhere you look.

this is transsanism.

[thisis--ableism]

This person is ableist and saneist.

I don’t like when people tell me “have you tried X therapy” as if it’s a “cure”, I am in therapy for depression as that’s the only kind thats works for me in terms of therapy, but I have friends who are genuinely better without it due to therapy just not doing a lot for them.

[thisis--ableism]

I remember calling someone out on disrespecting people who use neo/xenopronouns by saying "if you use them you are mentally ill" and just stereotyping people who use them. And they said disabled people cant be ableist Can disabled people be ableist? And is that ableism?

That is ableism / sanism (the personal calling neopronoun users mentally ill). It is also exorsexist.

And yes, anyone can be ableist, including disabled people.

[this-is-transsanism]

I’ve submitted this to the general exorsexism blog, but I’m also submitting it here because it’s definitely also sanism.

The way that it/its enbies with PTSD get treated.

Your own opinions about why you prefer it/its pronouns do not matter whatsoever. You are not worth listening to regarding why you connect more with those pronouns than any others. You have a Disorder so it’s because of The Disorder. You would obviously only use it/its due to trauma messing with your self-perception anyway. And people should refuse to use it to “heal you”. Whether or not you want to be healed or whether repeatedly misgendering you and acting self-righteous about it would ever even heal you are not questions worth answering. We’re trying to Heal You so just let yourself be misgendered. It’s for your own good. To cure your PTSD.

People will even go so far as to armchair diagnose all it/its users with PTSD. Before I blocked everyone in that tag, one of the top posts in the #anti it/its pronouns tag was basically “I’m sorry you went through something horrible, and I’m equally sorry you internalized the resulting dehumanization and objectification to the point of actually identifying with it. But I’m not going to help you feed into that by calling you an it. “It” isn’t a valid pronoun”.

Oh, and this is when people are pretending to be nice and benevolent and see themselves as saving lost traumatized disordered souls who for some reason don’t want to be saved. As soon as the mask comes off, everything just shifts into pure vitriol and stabbing us where it hurts worst.

Signed, a they/them enby who’s really a they/it enby, but who’s genuinely scared to actually wear an it/its pin. And who feels like me being able to do it is contingent on me being able to successfully mask all my PTSD symptoms.

this is transsanism, and honestly gross that the "#anti it/its" tag even exists.

[this-is-transsanism]

The transphobes who call gender-affirming care “the modern lobotomy” and say in the future we’ll look back on using hormones and surgery to treat dysphoria the same way we looked at using lobotomies to treat mental illness. I cannot express how evil this is to say.

I say this from the perspective of someone who regrets the HRT I was prescribed. I’m not technically a “detransitioner”, or not completely. But I’m a nonbinary person who once identified as binary trans out of belief that that was the only “legitimate” option, and that transition also had to be medical to be legitimate. Basically I had a lot of transmed views. I ended up getting further dysphoria from HRT and ended up in a place where I regretted what it did to me and getting it at all. I medically detransitioned (stopped taking it and cancelled my prescription) and now I’m probably just going to stay like this (although I have also looked into more physically neutral options concerning medically transitioning). I do understand feeling like a medical treatment was a negative in the end.

I also say this as a survivor of psychiatric abuse and abuse for being mentally ill done in the name of “fixing me”.

No amount of negative feelings from regret or side effects of HRT will ever come even close to the trauma I experienced from the things they did to me in those places. I guarantee that the transphobes and the detrans grifters who say this kind of thing have never experienced that. Because it is not comparable. I can name a lot of things that I could call “the modern lobotomy”. Almost all of them are things transphobes advocate for on trans people to “cure them of the delusion of being the opposite sex”. You might regret having taken HRT. But you were not pinned down by significantly older complete strangers, restrained with straps roughly while terrified, and forcefully injected with HRT against your protests, because you were “crazy” and that’s what crazy people get. And that’s just my most extreme/shocking story. I have so, so, much more. The modern lobotomy exists. But saying it’s trans healthcare is absolutely wild.

I’m partially glad transphobic detransitioners make claims like this. Because it keeps me away from their movement despite me being the sort of person they aim to recruit. I will never give the time of day to people who dismiss my trauma like this. It is so fucking evil to survivors of this sort of thing, and doubley so to trans, nonbinary, and detrans survivors of psychiatric abuse.

This is transsanism