#transmisogyny:tw

[lisaquestions]

One of the telltales of transmisogyny is that many people - even some trans women - are willing to view transmisogyny as "just business as usual and thus not a problem." This despite the fact that transmisogyny being business as usual is precisely the problem.

[lisaquestions]

Petition: Uncensor the Prefix Trans- From Diablo III Clan Making

Trigger Warning: This article contains instances of transphobia and violent threats.

(If you are reading this article just for the petition, you can find it here.)

For many, gaming is an escape from the “real world” and a way to relieve stress. It can be almost therapeutic to insert yourself into a fantasy world in which you don’t normally belong. Unfortunately, modern-day bigotry has seeped into online communities so that for many marginalized people, even gaming can’t be an escape and they still truly do not belong. At least, that’s what bigots would like them to believe. I, myself, am not welcome in many communities because I am queer and I am a woman, but this story isn’t about me; it’s about the countless trans individuals who are being persecuted and excluded from Blizzard’s private Diablo III clans.

[lisaquestions]

Op-ed: It's Time to Stop With The T Word

When someone is no longer treated as though they have a shred of humanity in them, they become easier to attack. It’s the same reason people often use the phrase “born a man” to describe trans women. When someone has a baby, finding “It’s a boy!” and “It’s a girl!” cards is no problem. I ask you to try to find a card that reads, “It’s a man!” You can’t. It’s for this reason that trans people are treated as though they never had the innocence brought on by childhood: it’s easier to attack someone if you don’t view them as ever having been “pure.” When it comes to morally justifying emotional and even physical attack, a man will always be easier to attack than a boy; a woman will always be easier to attack than a girl; a t slur will always be easier to attack than a human being.

I'd never considered that implication of "born a man" before.

[lisaquestions]

Every time

Every time I see that Germaine Greer quote from Pantomime Dames:

"Governments that consist of very few women have hurried to recognize as women men who believe that they are women and have had themselves castrated to prove it, because they see women not as another sex but as a non-sex. No so-called sex-change has ever begged for a uterus-and-ovaries transplant; if uterus-and-ovaries transplants were made mandatory for wannabe women they would disappear overnight."

I think of why Lili Elbe died.

Also why the hell does Tumblr insist on putting text I do not select into quotes when I try to select text and put only that text in a quote?