#transmisogyny maybe

[wallnoises]

petty shit dont r3bl0gg

so i was working this talent show/gala type thing tonight with a good amount of drag performers in it mixed in with the female performers and like. okay i’m gonna start off with saying that i’m totally cool with drag as a thingy that people do, and i know it has its place in the lgbt community as a means of expression and shit, but god the way these performers were treated and respected made me wanna slam my fucking head into the wall repeatedly. they were all as a group referred to as “ladies” and were called their proper stage names and stage pronouns and everything and like, that’s not what bothered me. what bothered me was how it suddenly dawned on me: it didn’t feel like they were forcing themselves to do it to just be polite. it was like they earnestly saw the drag queens as equal to the cis female performers. 

like wow dude i’m so fuckin glad that your goddamn stage persona that you get to take off at the end of the night is getting treated with more tact and compassion than my 24/7 one that i don’t get to put away or reserve for performance like you do. great to know that a cis man impersonating me deserves more respect than the real thing who has to deal with the transmisogyny that he propagates with his goddamn stage presence.

god i’m just.... so, so fucking tired of people giving drag a free pass at freedom of expression while blatantly ignoring the real consequences that it has on trans women, whether that’s its goal or not, and accusing the people who have the nerve to criticize it intolerant or queerphobic or whatever

like. i’m not suggesting we put an end to drag altogether, just... maybe re-examine it??? and be more wary about the actions and stereotypes that we perform while doing it??? cuz like. literally everyone who belongs to some kind of community owes itself to that kind of self-analyzation, especially if it aims to be a positive and fun experience.

[pajarx]

the Thailand thing isn't a "joke", it's very hard to transition in Japan, and by the way it's written, it seems to be a nod to a trans woman manga author who once wrote "I was a man, then I went to Thailand"

mhm, no offense but even taking what you (a random anonymous person on tumblr) are telling me with no sources at face value, there’s still the fact that the character was introduced as a man in a dress joke iirc so that doesnt mean the character isn’t (or wasn’t used for) a transmisogynistic joke.

now, idrc abt the topic that much, if u consider there was no transmisogynistic jokes relating to the character or whatever do as u consider, but i personally think that the way the character was introduced especially considering the character is trans could’ve been a bit more sensitive at the very least, i’ll still read bnha though bc its a fun story anyway

[pajarx]

WHY DOES EVERY INTERVIEW TO A TRANS GIRL IN 2015 I FIND HAS A QUESTION THAT IS ABOUT CAITLYN JENNER

[exotic-neurotic-blog]

that klezzie person and all the weird interactions shes engaging yall in are giving me the creeps honestly. given shes a white cis woman, not even half of what shes been saying is at all appropriate for her to even talk about in the first place, much less to a woc and regarding trans women, and thats without all her added aggression aimed at brown women thrown in the mix. it immensely reeks of racist harassment/cis savior complex for the most part

yeah i mean i think it’s important for us non trans women to check each other on the transmisogyny but like, she could have done it without the racism? 

also she (klezzie) ~conveniently~ stoppedd responding to my post as soon as i called her out on the racism, which is also extremely suspicious to me. 

also sorry idk if you’re a trans woman or not and i’m hesitant to trust anyone but trans women on all of this. 

[imperatorsapphiosa]

Honestly, I feel a little ashamed of myself, because I am one of the “good” trans women. I’ve known (or... should have, really) since I was five, when I started wondering that I should have a vagina not a penis. My major transition goal, long-term, is to pass and go stealth and sort of forget forever that I was ever fucking male-assigned. I feel so attached to the binary you could program a computer with me. 

And I don’t.... I don’t have it in me to fight about it. I don’t feel the same burning drive that everyone around me does to tear down the system, to fight the good fight for all the other trans people. I just want to get my hormones, and get my surgery(ies), and move on with my life. Hell, if Harry Benjamin was my physician, i’d probably fit perfectly into his model.

I dunno, I just feel like a... well, a collaborator. I feel like I’m stepping on all the people who don’t fit the mold. I’m one of the trans women that doesn’t challenge anyone’s ideas, except that I like to kiss girls and play video games.

[lesbianmichelmishina]

*gets new outfit set*

*Teddie’s puts him in drag*

God fucking damn it.

[kibumkim]

highkey mad at this dude for callin my friend the t slur i already didnt like him but now ill never like him

[houndsofbalthazar]

house of anubis series 2 does not feel the same :c

there's all this relationship drama that was really absent from the first series except as a minor kind of boring plot and also there was a weird thing about a boy in a dress being made fun of that idk how to articulate my feelings about and whether it was transmisogynistic or not?

i was grinning from ear to ear for the first episode but... hmmm idk :c