#venusintransit

[sauronscontactlens]

@venusintransit​ re: the whole amount of social capital and choosing what to say thing

yeah, I get you. Specifically, I get wanting to keep some status on here so that you can reach out to other mtfs, maybe even to keep a level of interest in the ideas you’re putting out, etc. It makes sense, especially if you’re someone who wants to try to do good among other mtfs who are pulling some bs.

Personally, my entire thing is really just that I gave up caring who gets pissed with off what I write, or keeping tumblr social capital, arond the time that my views fell out of tumblr-favor.

Like, if I was going to be hated by almost all my supposed friends, who had been in tumblr-style popular viewpoint, queer blogosphere with me, if they were all going to ~call me out~ and turn their back on me for it, then why give a damn what anyone thinks?

I had been trying to maintain social capital the way we all had been - by posting in fear of losing your friends and reputation on here (which for a lot of people was their only lgbt support system, period) - and then I realized when by views started changing that I had already basically lost all that, and wouldn’t have it as soon as I stood up for myself and against what I had learned to think.

So it was like...why try to join some other group, yet again (radfems, Truscum v.2: The Nicer Non!-2012-extreme-harassment-of-teen-ftms Version), and learn all their rules, and be a good little [insert whatever labels their framework uses for someone who’s socially like you - "trans****,” “Real dysphoric transsexual(TM),” “gnc female,” whatever - here]? Why join someone else, and copy them and use all their language/framework, and then feel afraid to leave lockstep with their ideas, when I had already been fucked up by one group? That would have felt like Ultimate “~sheeple” status (fedora_athetits.jpg)

so just...lmao. yeah. Different strokes for different folks.

[benotdefeated-blog]

@venusintransit So blue represents sex characteristics. We know that the vast majority of males look a certain way and a vast majority of females look another way. So dark = male, light = female. The purple line represents the differentiation between sexes. The light lines from that one represent the trans/intersex/wibbly-wobbly area. This is probably way wrong, but from what I was reading there are those who are attracted to a persons sex (which includes secondary characteristics), with a person’s sex as an element of that sexuality, and those who’s sexuality rely on visual cues more so. So if someone is attracted to trans men and cis men, they would fall firmly on the black line. And if someone was attracted to females, they would fall on purple. And bisexual would cover all of it. etc etc It’s messy, and I think that the black liners would be minority sub-sexualities, but maybe? I also feel like it’s important to state that just because the purple line crosses into ‘male/female looking females/males’ it doesn’t mean you are attracted to them. Imagine a dot on the line to your preference.

[sauronscontactlens]

did venusintransit delete?

I was away for a few weeks and just saw this. What happened?

[snowflakeespecial]

venusintransit sorry but I’m not taking the bait. You can rage at me as much as you want. But you are not intersex, and I’m not arguing with you about intersex issues any more. Period. If you wrote your own article giving the gender-critical community a blueprint on how to more respectfully think about intersex issues, I would love to read it! But no thanks on this reactionary raging. You should go outside and get some sunshine! You’ll feel better. I mean that. I’m sick at home today but I’m about to go to the gym yay!

Dear readers: though I have been absent the last few weeks, I’m still here. If you, dear reader, are intersex or have experience with the intersex community, and would like to let me know where I have misstepped on intersex issues on my blog in the past (or just share your perspective), I would love to hear it.

For the record, in response to a pleasant exchange I had with a trans woman who also has Klinefelter, I no longer agree with the statement I previously made that Klinefelter is not an intersex condition. I originally thought that way because I was using a (historically-outmoded) definition of intersex that focused on ambiguous genitalia at birth.

[snowflakeespecial]

to venusintransit

Sorry you decided to delete. Feel free to get in touch. Best wishes.

[everythingisdaleks-blog]

Dalek in Transit.

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