Hello! We're a bordergenic plural system that contains a median system. We post a lot about transandrophobia and about trans and non-binary issues in general. We're anti-racist, anti-ableist, and anti-saneist.
We also post about our health -- we're chronically ill, mentally ill, and in the process of being diagnosed with a more acute serious medical illness.
About our median system: Call us Dove or 🕊. We're mourning dove kin with mourning doves as a spirit animal. We're Indigenous chronological adults who are intersex and disabled. We collectively identify as a bi lesbian due to having different sexual orientations among ourselves.
1. Mischa (🎀), fictionkin of Mischa from the Hannibal universe/s. Teenage girl. Friendly and kind. Loves pastel pink and has a kawaii aesthetic. Bisexual. She/her
(credit: @sysrole-boxes)
2. Fern (🥭). They were the main fronter for years until Mischa appeared and became the main fronter. Adult nerdy genderfluid lesbian. They/them, ze/hir, she/her
3. Unknown
4. Lisbet (🐝), fictive of Lisbeth Salander from The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. Adult goth non-binary woman into computer science. She/her or they/them
The rest of our plural system:
1. Will @proudfictive (🌊), 40-something bisexual man, Will Graham fictive from Hannibal NBC. He/it
2. 🔥 Hux, fictive of the Star Wars general. He'll probably make his own tumblr soon!
We're so excited to be figuring this all out! Bear with us as we go through the process of understanding our system better.
We have a fandom sideblog at @piteousness ! We're planning to post our writing there eventually.
The US is detransitioning prisoners and just announced that ICE can detain trans people on suspicion of visa fraud. The UK just banned all care for trans kids and is now conducting an "evidence review" into HRT for trans adults and now the biggest DIY HRT web resource just went down.
Trans people need to learn solidarity yesterday, we need to be ready to organise together and set aside anything that we need to in order to get our shit sorted out. Cis people need to take it seriously that the fascists are trying to completely extinguish transess from existence
Crazy thing to say when it was immigrant trans men & masculine queer people perceived female who were the targets of a forced labor program and sexual violence in ICE detention.
At the South Louisiana Ice Processing Center in Basile, detainees say they were forced into hard labor – and sexually assaulted and stalked
Three current and former detainees who spoke to the Guardian said that, between 2023 and 2025, they endured months of abuse from an assistant warden named Manuel Reyes and his associates. In their complaints to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice), the detainees also said that they faced retaliation for reporting the abuse to authorities, alleging that Reyes and other staff beat them and denied them medical treatment.
“I was treated worse than an animal,” said Mario Garcia-Valenzuela, one of the detainees. “We don’t deserve to be treated like this.”
Garcia-Valenzuela, a trans man detained at SLIPC, has alleged that, as part of the unsanctioned work program, Reyes forced him to move heavy cabinets and cinder blocks, and to clean using industrial-strength chemicals without gloves or protective gear. When Garcia-Valenzuela complained of injuries from the work program, he said, Reyes and his associates forcefully stripped him naked and mocked him.
Kenia Campos-Flores, who is trans and non-binary, told the Guardian that they suffered from persistent migraines and chest pain after exposure to cleaning chemicals they were made to use during unofficial, overnight work shifts. Campos-Flores also alleged in a complaint they were persistently sexually harassed by Reyes, who entered their dorm and stole possessions including their boxers.
Another trans detainee, Monica Renteria-Gonzalez, complained that a stripper chemical he was told to use to clean the facility floors seeped through his fabric shoes and burned the skin of his feet. On more than one occasion, while Renteria-Gonzalez was bent over cleaning, he said, Reyes came up from behind and inappropriately touched him. The assistant warden also told Renteria-Gonzalez he was watching the detainee through security cameras, including while he was showering.
A fourth detainee, identified by the pseudonym Jane Doe, is a cisgender, queer woman who said that Reyes forced her to perform oral sex on him on a “near daily basis” between February and May 2024, threatening to kill her if she refused, according to her complaint. [...]
“This was a sadistic late-night work program,” said Sarah Decker, a senior staff attorney with RFK Human Rights. “It was designed to target vulnerable trans men or masculine-presenting LGBTQ people, who [Reyes] coerced into participating.” [...]
Garcia-Valenzuela had fled to the US in 2014 from Mexico, where he was tortured by members of a drug cartel. “I have no choice, that’s why I’m fighting,” he said. “Because I know that as soon as they deport me, I’m going to be handed over to the cartels and I’m going to be tortured and killed – ripped into pieces.”
But in SLIPC he faced a new kind of horror. He alleged that on more than one occasion he was told to move heavy metal filing cabinets back and forth across a room. When he struggled to lift the furniture, Reyes would taunt him, he said, saying: “If you think you are a man, I’m going to treat you like a man.”
And no one in the community seems to be interested in bringing it the fuck up. Even a post which starts off by talking about forced detransitioning under ICE! You'd think this would be the perfect example of this kind of violence in action, but for some reason people don't seem to think these people make good enough victims for the cause. Why is that?
At a time where reproductive rights are also being drained away, where there is very clear targeting of people's ability to control if they are pregnant, is it really so much to ask that we don't start talking about trans men's ability to "financially and socially defend themselves" as if that means jack shit to the brown undocumented trans men being used as slaves and sexually assaulted by federal employees specifically because they are trans men.
"Focus their energies on protecting the most vulnerable" the majority of people I see who talk about reproductive justice forget trans men. The majority of people I see talk about 99% of social issues forget trans men, much less nonbinary people in general. When exactly are we allowed to focus our energies a population that has a 51% lifetime rate of sexual assault across races, and which goes up to 71% for Native trans men? A population that, no matter what study you look at, is paid less than cis women (also see here)?
"Relatively privileged"? Are you fucking kidding me? Do you have any idea how insanely hurtful and straight up misinformative that is to say, in these circumstances?
The callousness this shows towards trans men is just unconscionable, and is highly suggestive of a lack of knowledge about the violence trans men face as well as a lack of openness to questioning ingrained ideas about transmasculine people. I don't mean this as an attack but this is a very clear example of how people internalize transmasculine erasure and repeat it uncritically as fact. We cannot tolerate this rhetoric. I'd like to once again highlight this HRW report, specifically the section “"Butches Get Punched”: Violence Against Masculine-Presenting LBQ+ People” in “This Is Why We Become Activists”:
"Unless they present hyperfeminine, butches don’t have access to the job market. You will not be considered if you don’t wear nice women’s clothes. If you set up catering, you will get told, “I am disgusted; a woman who thinks she’s a man is cooking for me.” So butch lesbians normally have an assistant, or their femme partner if they have one, who is more feminine-looking to run the front so customers don’t know a masculine-presenting person is cooking behind the curtains. Many of us become sex workers [due to lack of job opportunities].… But then when police raid brothels and homes, the masculine lesbians get treated “like men.” This means more forceful handcuffing, kneeling, and stripping their shirts off."
– Rosa, lesbian and sex worker rights defender El Salvador
[...] While gender expression is thus less explicitly criminalized than sexual orientation—the same project reports 66 countries that criminalize same-sex relations between consenting adults —LBQ+ people interviewed for this report repeatedly named gendered discrimination against masculine gender expressions[238] in particular as the catalyst for a lifetime of economic marginalization, discrimination and harassment at work, psychological abuse, and physical and sexual violence.
Their accounts point to the need for deeper research and analysis of how masculine gender expression by LBQ+ people increases their risk of exposure to various human rights violations and abuses. Some reports on violence against LBQ+ people (explored below) have treated gender expression as a signifier of sexual orientation or gender identity, limiting knowledge production on how presentations of masculinity are themselves policed and violated.
This kind of attitude gets trans men is exactly what is described by this report as "limiting knowledge production on how presentations of masculinity are themselves policed and violated." It's just not right and its not remotely accurate. It can and does get trans men detransitioned and killed, and then those victims ignored and forgotten by the very people who claim to be acting purely out of a desire to focus on the most affected. The insistence that trans men don't need specific, focused attention and concern is exactly what creates the circumstances for their vulnerability!
If anyone wants to know more I'd recommend starting here and here.
I've just seen a TV show review describe teen pregnancy as an "adult theme" and I'm sorry but what are we even doing. how is that. how is that a. like it says in the name of the thing that it's
The intersex erasure here is wild. There are intersex people who have a vulva and don't have a clitoris. That is very much a body type that happens.
All people who have vulvas have something important to say about their own anatomy and shouldn't be banned from posting somewhere focused on vulvas just because they don't also have a clitoris.
“AMABs can’t have endometriosis because they don’t have uterine tissue.”
Says who? The doctors who assigned the baby a boy only used external things to make that determination.
So many intersex people don’t know they’re intersex because people don’t tend to have the entirety of their internals checked. Intersex development often creates types of tissue that “shouldn’t” be there.
Trying to make a claim that only “AFAB bodies”, even when we include intersex people, can get endometriosis is intersexist because of the way it doesn’t actually include intersex people. By name, sure it does, but it doesn’t actually recon with intersexism and what that is and why that can cause things outside of the sex binary determination.
I feel like we need to post a disclaimer saying that there's no such thing as a truly "safe space," but that we intend this tumblr to be somewhere free of bigotry.
That said, we're not always the most informed about all forms of bigotry and how people express them. We've had it pointed out before that we've reblogged posts that include some kind of bigotry that we're not even aware of.
If you notice us do this, please know that it's okay to come forward about it. We always have anon on -- usually we just get terfs in our inbox trying to start drama, but if you make it clear that you're in good faith and not a terf, we will listen to you!
We're also a collective and don't agree 100% with everything we post here. Sometimes we reblog posts because we agree with the general idea, even if there's one sentence in particular that we hate. Basically, it's never our intention to hurt anyone with the content we reblog!
One thing I hear a lot about is that trans women and transfems who support the ideas of transunity do not have a space to discuss transmisogyny, since the main transmisogyny tag is overtaken by users who engage in lateral transphobia and are often hostile to these trans women and transfems.
Does anyone have any ideas what to do about that? Perhaps a more specialized tag? I would like to hear suggestions, primarily from those who feel personally affected.
Being both trans and middle eastern is simply not a good combination on this godforsaken site, where I am constantly being split into a Trans Half and a Half Of Colour, and expected to fight myself to the death.
Like, I'll see a fantastic anti-racism post, and it's also from a vicious radfem.
I'll see a great trans right post, and it's also from a vicious racist.
@penelope-plural the problem is that people are using a Jewish last name to denote that. They're not calling it "Trump class" or something like that. That is what connects it to ethnicity. What's the problem with just calling it "rich sex traffickers"?
Something that I hate about dealing with chronic illness and mental illness simultaneously is that I never have a stable sense of what my future is going to be like.
I'm bipolar and go through long periods where I'm really depressed and am convinced that I don't have a future because I'll end up killing myself.
Once I start feeling better, though, then I have to worry about whatever chronic illness I'm in the midst of being diagnosed with and how fatal that could be. I've been sick enough already this year that I could have died.
I feel like everyone else gets to plan this life for themselves and I'm just here living my life day by day because my future is always up in the air
Perhaps I should make a list of things I didn’t know that are useful to know
Detergent companies are misleading you about how much to use
Fabric softener is just bad all around. Makes your clothes dirtier, bad for the environment, irritating, and can also make your clothes more flammable
You need to clean your dishwasher filter
Also, if you have it, the filter above your stove
Generally speaking, powdered laundry detergent is more economical. Same with solid dish soap. and bar soap. Because otherwise you’re also paying for water, which you’re already going to use in the process of using said soap. They’re also concentrates, so oftentimes you’re getting more usage
You know, I really hate jokes about "how fast Demi Lovato dropped they/them pronouns" because like. A) they didn't. Demi has they/she listed on her social media pages. They still use they/them, and B) the reason they added she/her back and the reason you think Demi "dropped they/them" is because people are transphobic and exorsexist and never used their pronouns in the first place! It's literally because people were exorsexist to them.
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