#transfemininity

[youlookkindadead]

if you're a transfeminist surely you wouldn't mind cashapping a measly 5$ to a homeless disabled 18 year old transgirl of color stuck in a homeless youth shelter with very little food

[get-more-transfem]

I love you transfems who realize they are lesbians

I love you transfems who realize they are still gay men

I love you transfems who still can't quite figure out their sexuality

I love you transfems with contradicting and confusing sexualities

I love you transfems with ever-changing sexualities

I love you transfems who are aromantic and aren't attracted to anyone

I love you transfems who don't care about romance

I love you transfems who love other transfems & trans women

I love you transfems who love transmascs & trans men

I love you transfems who are gaybian or sapphilean

I love you transfems who are sapphic

I love you transfems who are achillean

[rosey-thorns]

being asexual in transfem spaces is so hard because our communities are built around being a specific kind of hypersexual kinky (white) girl and like

okay so tme people will get mad at me for not being sexually available to them and then when i go to transfems they find me incredibly weird for me to not want them to be outwardly sexual towards me

transfeminity is treated as automatic consent for sexual advance by literally everyone and i'm sick of it

[she-who-is-two-sizes-too-big]

Hey, non-transfem people in fandoms. Have you ever seen a trans woman sharing an interpretation of a character from a piece of fiction as in some way transfeminine? Have you ever felt the need to butt into the conversation and start talking about how you don't see the character that way? To dismiss all of the actual textual analysis in favor of bringing up how much you "headcanon" them as a trans man? As a transmasc genderfluid or nonbinary person? As some "radically subversive" genderfuck secret third thing? Or even as just a GNC cis "femboy" (read: sexualized transmisogynistic caricature)?

Well here's a piece of advice for you: Fucking Don't. Let us trans women have one thing for once in your lives you Transmisogynistic Fucks. And especially don't do it if transfemininity is the only reasonable interpretation of the text when analyzing from a trans lens, which is the case a solid 80-90% of the time.

If you feel you absolutely have to loudly proclaim how not transfem your fav character is at the sight of basic analysis of their story - even when that contradicts canon or basically everything established by the character's story - go make your own post and leave us the hell alone.

[transfem-issues]

Hi, I wrote up a little letter for people to send to staff in response to their recent statement about the most recent transfem ban wave to ask more of staff concerning this issue. If that's something it's appropriate to share on this blog I've included it below as well as steps for submitting feedback below if anyone hasn't done it before or needs clear instructions. If you (or anyone else) have suggestions for me or want to make alterations/additions feel free. If this isn't the right place for it, no worries and have a wonderful day

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Dear Staff,

I appreciate that staff has reinstated some accounts that were banned in the last wave and I think the current "goal of responding to mistaken suspension appeals within 24 hours" is a good step in moving forward.

However, today I was made aware of the banning of a blog which criticized staff's well recorded actions against trans bloggers only hours after staff's apology went out. See here: https://www.tumblr.com/turbro/814174690287484929/this-blog-being-deleted-by-staff-less-than-3-hours?

The fact that this occurred indicates to me that knowledge about the issue is still being suppressed by punishing bloggers who draw attention to it, and implies that staff may not be planning to follow through on its promises to the LGBTQ+ community.

With this in mind, by the beginning of June (pride month) I would like to hear a plan for staff to:

1) Address the transphobia in their ranks by identifying which moderators, procedures and/or site features are causing transwomen and their posts to be disproportionately surveilled and banned,

2) Make both the banning and appeals processes more rigorous and transparent in general and when it comes to transwomen- especially transwomen of color- in particular,

When this plan is laid out, I want to see monthly updates detailing how and when each step of the plan is implemented.

Apologies are not sufficient redress for the material harm done to people caught in ban waves like the most recent one. People rely on social media like Tumblr as part of their social networks, for mutual aid, and even for their careers. As @husbanddaughter said before they were banned, "the normal number of people to have their accounts removed from your platform, without being given any warning or an opportunity after the fact to request any kind of appeal, based solely off of the false reports being made by open and proud bigots and serial harassers, is none…it certainly shouldn't be happening almost exclusively to an extremely vulnerable minority demographic."

I hope that Tumblr is willing to take these steps to become a site which is safe for trans people.

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Steps for anyone who hasn't sent feedback to staff before:

Go to this link: https://help.tumblr.com/

Click the light blue "Contact Support" button in the top right corner

From the Category drop-down, select "Feedback"

Write your message in the text box below (or copy and paste the letter above)

Complete the reCAPTCHA and click "Next" at the bottom of the screen

Next a "Does any of this help?" page will come up. Click the light blue "No, send my thing" button.

Pawesome! I will post this:)

[sirenium]

transphobes calling trans people confused for their gender is just a cover up for the fact that the transphobe is confused. I know you cannot fathom the complexities of my gender, but that's not my issue lmfao.

[tgirl-tamag0tchi]

I both wanna be a binary woman, and just wanna be a vaguely woman shaped creature.

Such is the conflictions of transfeminine gender… especially when plural.