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[He/Him]|| Trans FTM || Gay || 24

[somepomegranatetea]

Grace tries copying the tones using the keyboard.

Rocky hums. “Close. Skip first note.”

“Why? You always include that.”

“This means… of Rocky, possessive. Of the speaker.”

“My.”

“Correct. But only for names.”

“So you’re calling me…?”

Rocky repeats the word: “My Grace. Yes.” 

“Are there other Graces? Why do you need to specify?”

Rocky considers this, tapping his xenonite-encased claws idly against the floor. 

“No other Grace,” Rocky says. “We just do this.”

“Like an honorific,” Grace guesses. “It goes before everyone’s name? Everyone you know?”

Rocky whirs in surprise. “No, no, no. Not at all.”

“Okay, then who? What makes me qualify?”

Rocky is silent for a moment.

“...Does this offend Grace?” he asks, voice lower. 

Grace blinks. “No! I don’t think so. Is there a reason to be offended?”

“Good,” Rocky says, relieved. Grace is starting to recognize what Eridian relief sounds like. “No, no reason.”

“Who else do you call that?”

“You don’t have this on Earth?”

Grace considers. What for, friends? He couldn’t call Marissa “my Marissa.” That would be weird.

“I still don’t know what it means,” he settles on. “So I couldn’t tell you.”

Rocky groans in frustration. He’s a very impatient tutor. “We just say it.”

“Are you my Rocky?” Grace asks. He hits the two keys to make the my note. 

“I don’t know!” Rocky says. “You decide this.” 

“I decide? Who do you use it for?” 

“You. Adrian. I will use it for my pebbles.” 

Grace blinks. “So few?”

Rocky shifts. “I am… you do not have the word yet. Eridian who works alone often, not close to many other Eridians.”

“What, mechanical engineer?”

Rocky chitters. “Acceptable.”

“Is Adrian your only friend?” 

Rocky draws back, like he’s taken offense. “I have friends. Coworkers. But different.”

So just Adrian. And him. 

“This worries you,” Rocky says.

“Adrian is your mate,” Grace points out. “I’m not your mate.”

“Correct. You are not. You do not like to be a mate.”

Grace isn’t sure how to respond to that, so he ignores it.

“I’m your friend,” Grace says. 

Rocky hesitates, for a second. “...Correct.”

“Like your coworkers.”

“No.”

Grace sighs, rubbing his hand across his face. Okay, maybe that’s fair. It’s not like he felt about any of his coworkers like he feels about Rocky.

“Best friend,” Grace amends. “You’re my best friend, too.”

Rocky hums. “Acceptable.”

“Just acceptable? Now you are offending me. Can you just explain?”

This makes Rocky fall silent for a minute longer than usual. Grace is half-ready to apologize and to say let’s move on and to retype his own name without the superfluous my. 

“The Earth ‘best friend’ is not strong enough,” Rocky says finally. “It does not translate this way.”

Grace runs his fingers through his hair, a little nervous, for some reason. “Okay.”

“It is…” Rocky pauses. He has to pause more often, now that they’re not using the translator, to simplify his language. “It means that I am not Rocky without my Grace. You are part of… of the whole. When I wake up, I think of you. When I work. When I eat. When I think I am going to die.”

Rocky speaks slowly, but it’s still a lot of Eridian for Grace to grasp all at once. Even as he works out the sentences in his head, he can feel hot tears rising in his eyes.

“It means that when you are sick, I am sick,” Rocky continues. “And it means I will take care of you, because taking care of you is taking care of myself.”

Grace bunches up his sleeve, wiping it across his face, blinking furiously.

Rocky’s voice is soft. “So Grace is part of Rocky. Grace is like a cell. You see? My Grace.” 

Grace is quiet, for a moment, trying to get himself together. When he speaks, his voice is shaky.

“...Oh.”

Rocky hums, pressing his carapace gently against Grace’s arm. “You are leaking. Does this make you sad?”

Grace shakes his head, sniffing, crossing his arms across his knees and resting his chin on his sleeves. “Not at all.”

“Good, good.”

“I feel like that,” Grace mumbles. “Just like that. Just exactly—exactly like that.”

“About your old mate?”

“Don’t act stupid. You know I’m talking about you.”

Rocky hums, burrowing closer. Grace curls one arm around his carapace. That’s not enough, so he leans over, dropping his head down so his forehead presses against the xenonite. 

“My Rocky,” Grace whispers in English. 

“My Grace,” Rocky echoes in Eridian. Grace can recognize the note at the start. He will add it when he plays Rocky’s name. 

“How long have you called me that?” Grace asks. “Must’ve been a while. I didn’t notice it change.”

“Long time,” Rocky agrees. “Long, long time.”

[taigacryptid]

decentralize and clean up your life!!!

use overdrive, libby, hoopla, cloudlibrary, and kanopy instead of amazon and audible.

use firefox instead of chrome or opera (both are made with chromium, which blocks functionality for ad-blockers. firefox isn't based on chromium).

use mega or proton drive instead of google drive.

get rid of bloatware

use libreoffice instead of microsoft office suite

use vetted sites on r/FREEMEDIAHECKYEAH for free movies, books, games, etc.

use trakt or letterboxd instead of imdb.

use storygraph instead of goodreads.

use darkpatterns to find mobile game with no ads or microtransactions

use ground news to read unbiased news and find blind spots in news stories.

use mediahuman or cobalt to download music, or support your favorite artists directly through bandcamp

make youtube bearable by using mtube, newpipe, or the unhook extension on chrome, firefox, or microsoft edge

use search for a cause or ecosia to support the environment instead of google

use thriftbooks to buy new or used books (they also have manga, textbooks, home goods, CDs, DVDs, and blurays)

use flashpoint to play archived online flash games

find books, movies, games, etc. on the internet archive! for starters, here's a bunch of David Attenborough documentaries and all of the Animorphs books

burn your music onto cds

use pdf24 (available online or as a desktop app) instead of adobe

use unroll.me to clean your email inboxes

use thunderbird, mailfence, countermail, edison mail, tuta, or proton mail instead of gmail

remove bloatware on windows PC, macOS, and iOS X

remove bloatware on samsung X

use pixelfed instead of instagram or meta

use NCH suite for free software like a file converter, image editor, video editors, pdf editor, etc.

feel free to add more alternatives, resources or advice in the reblogs or replies, and i'll add them to the main post <3

last updated: march 18th 2025

[genderkoolaid]

Transgender men faced the greatest risk of IPV in the past year. This study expands upon existing research documenting the elevated prevalence of experiencing violence within TGD communities to look at a broad range of violence experiences and documenting differences within TGD subgroups. Our work shows that the association between gender identity and violence was in many instances greatest among transgender men, a demographic group that has often been excluded from GBV research. Nearly half (47%) of transgender men in our study reported experiencing at least 1 form of IPV in the past year. This was over 40% higher than cisgender women and nearly 30% higher than transgender women. These results are in line with previous research that has documented the critically high levels of IPV facing transgender communities. Much of the literature on IPV among transgender communities has centered on transgender women. This is likely because much of the transgender and violence research has come from HIV funding, studying populations at disproportionately high risk of acquiring HIV through penile-anal sexual intercourse. While important, given that transgender men were much more likely to experience IPV in our study, more attention to transgender men and their risk for violence is needed. As such, our results add to the limited body of literature exploring differences in experiences of violence within the transgender community. When we explored these experiences by the type of IPV experienced, transgender men were more likely to report both emotional, controlling, or threatening IPV as well as physical or sexual IPV, with 31% of transgender men reporting experiencing physical or sexual IPV in the past year, compared with only 3% of the total sample. Given these stark numbers, it is essential that IPV screening and services are expanded to ensure they are accessible and safe for transgender men. Current IPV services are often framed as violence against women services and thus may not feel welcoming or accessible for transgender men.

— Physical, Sexual, and Intimate Partner Violence Among Transgender and Gender-Diverse Individuals

now think about every ""joke"" post about trans men being kept in the closet or detransitioned by their abusive cis boyfriend. that blames the trans man and makes it seem like an embarrassment on his part. this is why the trans community needs the word transandrophobia because we have so much shit we need to discuss and unwork

[twoblondesmaybemore]

Trans men are affected by transphobia and misogyny, and if you fucking kids could talk about it without inventing a word that implies we’re oppressed for being men that would be great. Thanks.

[genderkoolaid]

Other words do exist. Many people, including myself, use anti-transmasculinity (ATM) to discuss the overarching issue of violence and discrimination against transmasculinized people. Regardless of which term is used, people broadly agree that this is an intersectional form of discrimination, in which misogyny plays a major role. But the misogyny we experience is undeniably shaped in many ways by patriarchal notions of masculinity & deviant masculinity, which is what "androphobia" is really meant to signify.

I would highly recommend you read the writing of the man who coined the term, if you haven't. This post provides a lot of crucial context. He is also a grown man, as are many people who use and discuss ATM using this term, and being condescendingly ageist helps no one.

Ultimately, the conversation has gone best when we focus less on which word is best, and more on the actual oppression being faced and what can be done about it. After nearly five years of being involved in the transandrophobia discussion, it has only made more committed to feminism and being anti-misogynistic, and overall there has been a lot of good, nuanced, intersectional discussion of how masculinity and manhood play a complex role in oppression. There are a lot of people who did not have the language to describe the interpersonal and systemic abuse and trauma they'd experienced before reading people talking about transandrophobia. Policing the use of this word only serves to shut down already vulnerable and silenced people.

[twoblondesmaybemore]

And using it paints the violence that trans men face for deviating from their assigned gender as something predicated on our masculinity or transmasculinity, rather than our deviation from our assigned gender. They don’t hate us for being men in the wrong way, they don’t hate us for being masculine, they hate us for being transgender and they’ll do the exact same to trans women given half the chance. You’re hammering a “no girls allowed” sign into your discussion of transphobia. You think trans women are protected from domestic violence in a way that we’re not? You think they’re considered a less acceptable target for abuse? Like? What are you trying to say by implying the struggles we face are unique to trans men? That’s my problem with the label- it implies that other trans people don’t have these experiences. You’re not losing anything by talking about transphobia and oppositional sexism using those terms, except solidarity with women.

But hey, when they polled about 50 trans men and 30 trans women, they found trans men were more likely to have experienced intimate partner violence recently, so clearly this is incontrovertible evidence that we’re targeted for being men as well as being trans! This is surely generalisable to the entirety of gender politics.

[genderkoolaid]

If you read the first link, it is a Human Rights Watch report on violence against queer people assigned female, with a section going into violence against masculine-presenting people in particular and quite literally saying:

LBQ+ people interviewed for this report repeatedly named gendered discrimination against masculine gender expressions 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.

They even call for specifically including "gender expression" into anti-discrimination laws specifically so that violence done against to people for presenting as masculine can be more recognized and dealt with. & if "you can't use a word that implies that masculinity in any way is a part of your oppression!" isn't "limiting knowledge production on how presentations of masculinity are themselves policed and violated," what is?

That's the Human Rights Watch saying that, to remind you, not just "fucking kids" online.

Additionally, no one is saying we shouldn't use transphobia, and people who talk about transandrophobia frequently discuss oppositional sexism by name! I would even go as far as to say that we really love that concept, and it's extremely valuable in talking about how patriarchy (and transandrophobia) functions. In fact, I first heard of the term from people who talk about transandrophobia discussing Serano's work.

While this particular study was rather small, it is only adding to existing data. The U.S Transgender Survey—the largest survey of trans people in the United States—while not collecting data about IPV in general, did find that trans men had the second highest rates of sexual assault at 51%, behind nonbinary people with female on their birth certificate at 58%, with transgender women at 37%.

The USTS 2015 also found that:

Trans men experienced the highest lifetime suicide rate (45%)

Trans men experienced the highest rate of having a negative experience while seeking medical care (42%)

Trans men experienced the highest rate of avoiding seeing a doctor when needed due to fear of mistreatment (31%)

Trans men had the second highest rate (behind nonbinary people AFAB) of being denied coverage for hormones (32% and 36%)

Trans men experienced the highest rate of avoiding public bathrooms due to fear of problems or confrontations (75%)

Were the second most likely (behind nonbinary people, regardless of AGAB) to never or only sometimes be treated with respect when interacting with an officer who knew or thought they were transgender

And the 2022 report they published on Health & Well-being found that:

Trans men were the most likely to avoid care due to mistreatment concerns (32%)

Trans men had the second greatest proportions (behind nonbinary people AFAB) of negative experiences with healthcare providers (53% and 55%)

None of this is meant to imply that trans women are not profoundly oppressed, or that the forms of oppression are shared. The goal is not competition. This data illustrates that clearly, there are ways in which trans men are especially affected by things even amongst other trans people. And it makes sense to talk about what that means and how that looks in practice. And necessarily that conversation will involve manhood because it really makes no sense to try to separate transness from the particular expression it has in individual people. Trans men are trans because they are men, and men because they are trans.

I only ever emphasize trans men being more affected by an issue than trans women as a response to others constantly insisting that this never happens and that trans women are categorically more oppressed than trans men every meaningful way. Transandrophobia has always been intended as a response to oppression olympics, and I have consistently seen people who use the term actively try to avoid recreating that perspective. Not always successfully, but overwhelming there is a strongly held belief by people who discuss transandrophobia that all trans people are equally oppressed and that transphobia can only be combated through all of us having an equal voice. And people lie about this constantly, the arguments against the term look much weaker when they aren't fighting strawmen.

It's crucial to understand that there is a severe misunderstanding widespread on Tumblr about what exactly "transandrophobia truthers" believe, and it actually stems directly from oppositional sexism.

People believe that trans men are less oppressed than trans women, are a less acceptable target of transphobic & misogynistic violence than them, they believe that if trans women frequently experience a form of violence that means trans men can't, and even that trans men oppress trans women. And so they also think that, since transandrophobia is the "opposite" of transmisogyny, that people who discuss transandrophobia must think all those things about trans women. And while some people, generally out of pain and frustration (which trans women also experience, no one has to be the villain here), can lean into that, overwhelmingly that is a terribly inaccurate understanding of what is actually being discussed.

I'd also recommend to talk to some trans women involved in this discussion. Particularly shout out to @velvetvexations and @transfemme-shelterdog, both of whom have faced a lot of vile transmisogynistic harassment because they talk about transandrophobia. There is a lot to be said about how understanding queerphobic anti-masculinity helps broaden and deepen one's understanding of anti-transfeminine violence, but I will leave that conversation up to transfems assigned male for right now, as I think it is more persuasive to hear from them.

Funny enough, I quite literally just finished writing a paper on this topic (specifically anti-transmasculine violence as a global phenomenon) a few days ago. So you caught me at a great moment! And I didn't even get to cite the individual examples of anti-transmasculine violence I've collected in this archive, which you may also find compelling (it also includes further links to research & writing on the topic). I'll also tag this with my tags for collecting instances transandrophobia so you can scroll through those.

And if you haven't heard of the horrific acts of forced labor and sexual violence done to immigrant trans men at the New Orleans ICE facility, I suggest you consider checking it out if you are in a headspace to do so. It is a very direct example of the convergence of both misogyny and violence against masculine presenting queer people.

[hachinana87]

Your face is leaking

[annabelle--cane]

steven universe has this thing going on where textually he was 100% assigned male at birth but is also narratively/allegorically transmasculine. he's mtm transgender, somehow.

[ssopimir]

oh okay

[koymadis]

never post again

[raviolireptile]

Grace’s Closure (short comic thing?) part 1

Part 2

Or see the whole thing on TikTok

[wolfythewitch]

Phm doodle requests from twt

[elwensa]

Happy 7th birthday, Outer Wilds!

I also really enjoyed the Gameoverse pilot. Can you tell?

[skelerangart]

You Know Who You Are

[solanumwarrior]

The Outer Wilds Ventures Experience

[dalishious]

Mages Are Not Guns

Before I even read the actual contents of Rhiannon Bevan’s interview with David Gaider, I just knew there would be some bullshit. I’m too familiar with his brand of white liberalism by now not to expect it. And yet, somehow, it still caught me off guard to hear this part in particular:

Despite all of this, Gaider doesn’t regret having the mage and templar conflict put forward. “You can make lots of arguments as to how well we supported either side of that argument; however, we knew going in that there was an argument to be made about the mages and templars, freedom versus security,” he says. “I know people wanted to keep tying this to real-world arguments, but real people don't walk around and explode. “It feels dehumanizing to do it, but in some ways, the argument had more in common with gun control than the right to self-determination of the mages,” he continues.

As I said, I am familiar with this kind of disavowing from Gaider – he’s done the same thing many times before. The man loves to take credit when someone praises his work for nuance, but then retract everything the moment someone else questions anything about it. He has incredibly thin skin and only wants fans to count whatever is most convenient for him to say in the present. I don’t need a crystal ball to predict that if ever asked again, he’ll find another new way of denying anything of sociopolitical substance in the Dragon Age franchise he’s been a part of.

This particular example though, the claim that the Mage-Templar conflict is a metaphor for gun control? This is his flimsiest attempt to derail the actual messages pulled from the text yet. The interview speaks of Dragon Age II (DA2) specifically, so I will stick to confine my own sources against his statement to the game as well. Even still, it is easy enough to show just how pathetic a claim gun control is as metaphor, and worse yet, to insinuate that fans are simply delusional to see real-world arguments at work. If Gaider did not want the Mage-Templar conflict to be tied to real-world arguments, perhaps he should have, as the lead writer of DA2, kept the team from including observably robust real-world parallels.

Freedom vs. Security

Part of Gaider’s claim is that the Mage-Templar conflict is about “freedom versus security”. The immediate problem with this statement is that he is neglecting to include the context of, freedom for who and security for who? When people talk about freedom vs. security in real life, it is usually in reference to things like government surveillance and police presence. In such cases, there is an important difference in context that separates these real arguments and whatever the hell Gaider thinks he’s saying: the people in question are the same. In real life, it is the same group of people suffering from lack of freedom in favour their own so-called security. In Dragon Age, it is the mages that suffer from lack of freedom, for the sake of other people’s so-called security. This means it is not actually an argument of freedom vs. security—it is an argument of freedom vs. oppression. One group (non-mages) is solely benefiting in security through the oppression of another group (mages).

Some may attempt to justify it by saying that the Circles are in place to protect mages from outsiders, too. My rebuttal is quite simple: who teaches the average person to hate and fear mages in the first place? The very same Chantry that seeks to maintain control over their arsenal of mages! Of course they want to “protect” mages and non-mages from each other; it is a way of keeping the mages isolated and biddable.

Arguments in favour of security are of course, very often and easily used as a front for arguments in favour of oppression, don’t get me wrong. This is especially commonplace when colonial governments claim they are here to help, because they know better. But let us not help misconstrue these two connections further by contributing the problem, acting like they are actually the same thing.

Real-World Arguments

There are only two conclusions I can draw from Gaider saying that it is just the fans “wanting” to see real-world arguments, within the Mage-Templar conflict: Either he has forgotten the contents of a game he was the lead writer for, or he is desperate for fans to forget ourselves. Because you do not have to dig to find the real-world arguments already laying on the surface.

What is the Mage Underground, if not a real-world metaphor for escaping enslavement?

The Mage Underground is a network of people helping mages escape the Gallows into freedom. The quest introducing this faction is literally called “The Underground Railroad” – a clear reference to the real life Underground Railroad; the network that assisted Black people escape enslavement in the United States. As the real life railroad was mostly led by free and enslaved Black people with the help of abolitionists, the mage’s railroad is mostly led by mages with the help of sympathetic non-mages.

The Gallows itself was a former gateway for enslaved people when controlled by the Tevinter Imperium, and the Chantry even chose to keep the statues meant to intimidate the slaves. Cullen himself will draw a parallel to Kirkwall’s history of slavery and the current mages held captive in the Gallows. “The image of the poor, chained apprentice is a powerful one. And one the mages are more than willing to exploit,” he says, while the camera hovers over said statues.

What is the Tranquil Solution, if not a real-world metaphor for the “Final Solution”?

In the quest “Dissent”, Anders shares with Hawke that a templar named Ser Alrik has penned what he refers to as “The Tranquil Solution” – a plan to turn every mage Tranquil. “The Tranquil Solution” is a clear reference to “The Final Solution”; a euphemism used by Nazis to mean the genocidal murder of Jewish people. While Tranquility is not outright murder, the plan of turning every single mage Tranquil would qualify as an act of genocide as well. The definition of genocide does, after all, include causing serious bodily or mental harm with intent to destroy a whole group of people. The Tranquil are mages who are not just stripped of magic, but of all emotion and partial mental capacity. They are depicted as helpless servants to the Chantry. They are routinely raped and abused by Templars like Alrik, who outright alludes to this himself, saying when he makes a mage girl Tranquil, she will be forced to do whatever he wants.

Further complementing this allegory are the “Templar Death Squads” in the quest “A Noble Agenda”.

These death squads, described as hand-picked zealots to “purge mage-sympathizers”, are likely referencing the Einsatzgruppen; the Nazi Death Squads that held an integral role in the “Final Solution”.

What is forced sedation, if not a real-world metaphor for involuntary treatment?

During the quest “Best Served Cold,” Hawke has the opportunity to convince Cullen to be merciful on those who were part of the conspiracy to oust Meredith as Knight-Commander. Later, Cullen says that the mages have been “confined to their quarters and sedated”. Essentially, they are treated like detained patients against their will.

My own brother has been a victim of involuntary treatment, where he was kept in a psych ward for two months and drugged so heavily he was walking into walls. It is a very real contemporary occurrence just as much as in the past, especially for racialized populations who are diagnosed with “dangerous” conditions—bipolar disorder, in my brother’s case.

Just how conditions like bipolar disorder for example, are often misunderstood as walking around with a bomb inside, mages in Dragon Age are treated like they are an inherent hazard to everyone around them. Arguments in favour of imprisoning mages, or even outright murdering them all, most frequently come down to seeing them as weapons rather than people. When Cullen himself says this, it is unquestionably presented as a cruel, dehumanizing, immoral position to take. Being able to use magic does not make a person less of a person, just like having a disability does not make a person less of a person! No matter the scale of how impacting disabilities are, or magic is.

Gun Control

I wish I could tell Gaider that if he has to start a sentence with, “it feels dehumanising to do it,” perhaps the rest of that sentence should stop. Perhaps instead you should question why you actually believe it is ever a solid argument to dehumanize a person. Mages are not real, but their real-world parallels are. BioWare went out of its way to draw those parallels; the writers, including Gaider, made active choices to illustrate everything above and more. To be clear, I am not saying they shouldn’t have—I believe these choices add a distinct flavour to the world-building of Dragon Age that separates it from many other fantasy settings. And while the writing does not always land well, at least an attempt was made to say something impactful. I will always favour that over choosing to take the easy-way out by scrubbing your work of anything that could be interpretable as day I say, politically progressive.

Measures to prevent gun violence usually involve firearms laws to limit misuse. These laws are of course incapable of being 100% iron-clad, because there will always be outliers to any situation. However, it is proven to overall limit the amount of gun violence in countries with strict firearms laws compared to, well, the United States. (The US gun homicide rate is 26 times that of other high-income countries.)

What firearms laws do not do, is require anyone with a gun to be abducted from their family and locked up in a prison for the rest of their life. That is what the Chantry does to mages in Dragon Age, and they do not even have a choice in the matter. Mages are not guns. Mages are people who just happen to have magic, and it does not even take magic to cause mass harm, as proven time and again across the franchise and even specifically just in DA2. For example, in the quest “Blackpowder Courtesy” an angry elf is able to kill off an entire area of Lowtown with stolen Qunari poison.

The only characters who want to compare the Mage-Templar conflict to something like gun control, are the characters who are part of the actual problem of mage self-determination; the ones like Cullen who advocate against treating mages as people. By trying to say that this line of thinking is valid, Gaider is only showing that he has a complete lack of understanding of what makes the argument so villainous. He just sounds like certain fans of a show like The Boys, who unironically idolize fascist characters like Homelander. (Sidenote: I have never personally seen The Boys. I am just familiar with the main villain and how real-life fascists sympathize with him through internet osmosis.)

In a roleplaying sense, there is of course nothing wrong with having a characters side with the Templar Order. I am not advocating for treating roleplaying decisions as if they represent real life morals. However, this is a specific case where Gaider is not speaking in terms of in-universe; he is genuinely saying that the argument against mages is a virtuous one. Except it’s not! It is so unmistakeably not.

“You have a sword. Why aren't you killing someone right now?” —Bethany Hawke

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SOURCES:

Codex entry: Kirkwall - The Gallows

Quest: “The Underground Railroad”

Quest: “Dissent”

Quest: “A Noble Agenda”

Quest: “Blackpowder Courtesy”

Dialogue: Cullen during and after completing the quest “Enemies Among Us”

Dialogue: Cullen after completing the quest “Best Served Cold”

[venice-1987]

Maybe the real transemasculation is the people who say "I don't like this other word that you -As the marginalized people targeted by this type of oppression- coined because of my fundamental misunderstanding of intersectionality, so I'm going to instead bulldoze your voices about your own oppression, and just call it this other word that is no where near as encompassing of your actual experiences, or of the pervasiveness and systemic weight of your type of oppression, and makes it just sound like your man feelings got hurt a little bit."

[thefriendlypigeon]

❤️💙💛GRACEFUL💛💙❤️

⭐[my social media links]

[assorted-aesthetics]

thus always to tyrants is crazy btw. there's a wind alive in the valley. through the deep dark valley preceding album. four winds ep's the next body of work. it will fill your lungs if you'll have it.

[dogletantte]

Today, the UK government accepted guidance which excludes trans people from single sex spaces.

This is a change to the interpretation and implementation of the equalities act which legally prevents any trans person from using the correct changing rooms, toilets, or even attending gym classes.

It’s more than a bathroom ban. It’s something that will prevent us living our lives.

And, as it stands, the guidance is markedly worse for trans men than it is for trans women.

Taken from page 268 of the pdf linked above:

This guidance sets out, in a legally binding code, that trans men can be barred from both men’s and women’s facilities.

While it does go on to say that preventing us from accessing any services might be grounds for a discrimination claim, that’s in direct contradiction to the paragraphs shown above, and right now is purely hypothetical until tested in a court of law.

As the news of the government’s decision to enforce this guidance spreads, a lot is going to be said about the impact on trans women. That’s good, a lot needs to be said.

I doubt, though, that as much will be said about the impact on trans men. I doubt it because when this guidance was first released as a draft I saw dozens of not hundreds of comments talking about how the only impact was to trans women, joking that trans men should use the women’s toilets to make transphobes uncomfortable.

Please don’t fall into that pattern this time, not now this is really happening.

Protect trans women, please, but I am begging you, protect trans men, too.

This guidance systematically erases us from public life. It is deliberate. We are not collateral damage, we are the target.

Think of us in your anger.

[evil-tboys]

"Transmascs aren't being targeted in this specific way transfemmes currently are! This is proof of their privilage!" (Implication we are somehow responsible/shouldn't complain/are inherently transphobic/misogynistic)

Looks inside.

Trans men and mascs have already been affected by this for decades.