#trans theory

[ramenheim]

Emi Koyama has passed. 🥀

[biblicallyaccuratemoth]

One subconscious perception that eggs can have which I don’t think is talked about enough is that their perception of their body, and by extension bodies like theirs (read: their cis peers of the same AGAB) as being missing things— or, to phrase another way, as being the plain or the unceremonious default, whereas the other sex has the more exciting or desirable traits (even cultural ones)

Growing up as a boy, I thought a lot about the differences between men and women. But I didn’t view them as two different, equal things. My perception of a masculinized body was that it was lacking breasts, lacking female reproductive organs, missing the ability to have long hair and more varied and interesting clothing. It felt like it was incomplete— the base ‘template’ configuration, whereas a female body was the ‘upgraded’ version.

And I knew this wasn’t scientifically true— that’s not the point. I knew that all bodies began with an AFAB configuration and that the Y chromosome activates later in fetal development, but that’s not how it felt.

I was not looking at the differences between boys and girls as a boy, but instead as a girl who never had the chance to grow into herself, and was locked in a half-formed state as a result. And since I lacked the vocabulary to identify what that meant, I assigned that same feeling to the men around me, too.

To me, we were all girls who were simply denied the privilege of becoming

[intersexcat-tboy]

Saw this on Twitter and figured it would be enjoyed here

Pic does have alt text but post it here too:

Lots of trans women clearly hate and resent trans men for simply wanting to be men when they didn't and its odd / You project the disgust you have towards your own self perceived masculinity onto them and punish them for it / It brings me soo much happiness to see my husband get to find joy in something I never did

[castlepunk1077]

Ranking the commonly referred-to pieces of Transfem Jax evidence by how actually convincing they are:

1 - Jax's arc already being guaranteed to be AT LEAST readable as a Transfem allegory.

2 - The Movie being banned in the Middle East for refusing to censor Episode 9, which officials from the region dubbed as an "agenda".

3 - The room colours/pattern/aesthetic and Jax's abstraction eyes being the Transfem flag.

4 - The "Chicken Foetus in an Egg" line.

5 - The skinning scene.

6 - The progesterone drawing (if we counted all the Goose hints as one, it'd probably be in 3rd.)

...

9,755 - The maid dress scene.

[greens-your-color]

🍵 diss work 6.12.26

Wow I Love My Job (which is apparently reading articles that are tangential to my diss at best). (But your honor I love them.)

🎧 - “brutalist,” kim petras

[kkoffin]

I’m ngl I do prefer the pregnant sonic radblr spam over the current radblr spam which consists of reblogging radfems’ posts and saying “your rapist was saving you from being virgin ur whole life, unfuckable bitch” and a variety of other rape-related threats and insults.

This isn’t rly laughable anymore, it’s actually sorta fucking evil on behalf of everyone who encouraged and wished for this. You are so fucking obviously not on the ‘right side of history’ you care so much about.

Even if you wanna say “oh it’s bad that they’re doing that. I wouldn’t do that” you can’t continue to turn a blind eye to the misogynistic and sexually violent behaviour within your community. You can’t continue to pretend 0% of trans identifying people hold those sexually violent and degrading thoughts. You can’t continue to pretend there aren’t men identifying as trans so their outdated “feminazi” and “SJW” hatred can turn into popular “TERF” hatred. You can’t pretend there aren’t men who identify as trans so their “i could make a lesbian straight for me” ideology can be disguised as “lesbians need to unlearn their genital preference” ideology.

To anyone who doesn’t bootlick every single thing these people do, there’s a chance they become be sexually violent and degrading. And reminder: If you think we deserve it because of our beliefs, you are one “hot take” away from being labeled a “TERF”. I’m almost certain there’s something you believe that you wouldn’t say in front of these people.

My issue with trans ideology is one thing, but my issue with the online trans community is another; inability to acknowledge literally any trans woman (because let’s be real, you’ll rip a trans man to shreds for the slightest thing, it’s just trans women that get this immunity) as being a sexual threat to others, protecting them from every fucking thing ever. Obviously this applies into the real world too. These people sending violent rape threats should not be in prisons with women. They should not be in changing rooms with women. They are very fucking obviously not safe to be around: They’ve proven enough that even they see their penis as a weapon to be used against disobedient women and “afabs”.

[trans-unity]

If your transfeminist theory only has room for certain types of trans people at the exclusion of others, then your theory is by nature incomplete and inaccurate. All trans people regardless of their specific gender are impacted by various feminist issues, and to act as if trans men and nonbinary trans people who don't meet some arbitrary standard of "woman-adjacent" enough don't belong is to willfully water down your feminism. What is the point of a transfeminism that uses gender-based divides to determine which trans voices are worthy of listening to, and which ones need to sit down, shut up, and listen? We all deserve to be heard, and we all deserve to be listened to. There is more than enough room in transfeminism for every kind of trans person, and we are only made stronger for it. Excluding certain trans voices from transfeminism for being the "wrong kind" of trans makes your activism weak and your theory biased and incompatible with the lived experiences of the trans people you choose to ignore.

[transguyarchive]

Do Clothes Make the Man? FTM crossdressing in the 18th-19th c. Anglo-American world

Is gender something that is innate or put on? Are all men born with an inner manhood, or do men achieve satisfactory manhood through repeate

For those who have been following this account for a while, you've likely seen me mentioning the rather long thesis I was working on in grad school. Well, it's finally published and available for everyone to read on the Trans Guy Archive! I'm excited to know what you think! :-)

Blurb:

Is gender something that is innate or put on? Are all men born with an inner manhood (and vice versa), or do men achieve satisfactory manhood through repeated instances of complex social and cultural interactions? Furthermore, can the privilege of having gender be "revoked" once an individual has been confirmed to not fit into what society deems the "correct" version of Man? Using the United States and England during the 18/19th centuries as a backdrop, this thesis seeks to ponder these questions using chronologically topical examples of real people who were assigned-female-at-birth but were able to live successfully as men for extended periods of time.