The Witch trans takes

Just a Trans woman who wants to do trans takes but X isn't a good place and I don't want to fill my bluesky homepage with it only goes by She/her

[witchytakes]

The real "trans lobby"

Honestly I've seen plenty of TERFs, GC's and far right people saying that there's a whole "Trans lobby" of doctors who profit out of "rush transitioning" (specially when trans people are younger)

And they couldn't be more stupid, there's more profit doctors can made by gatekeeping HRT and that "living as your gender" shit to allow transition just to start, also for the whole disphoria shit tho

Just to get clear here's a hypotetical example of a late transition trans woman into the "correct way to transition" by a GC standard (minus the erradicating thing) would need to be over 18 (sometimes even 25), be a trans het woman (AGP's aren't acceptable only the HSTS's), live as a woman for 2 years (buying the whole closet, shave everyday), pay a whole package of laser shaving or electrolisys and be at the standard of the doctor so after this they are allowed to transition, lowballing a cost average of 10k USD

Then there's the HRT and the mind of the said trans woman filled with disphoria, which she's a late transitioner and would want to do a lot of surgeries to fit, lowballing here is about 100k USD

many sectors would profit out of the late transitioner trans woman which didn't want to suffer transphobia

Now into the so scary trans lobby logic, the same trans woman, she's just goes into HRT before she even make 18 just regular exams and stuff, she didn't even needed to pass the gatekeep stuff and the disphoria brainworms woudn't even consume her, the whole cost would be highballing 5k USD for a period of 10 years

yeah transitioning early is actually less profitable than transitioning late hence why there's no "trans lobby" over younger trans people, they just want to not be disphoric

the actual medical scandal would be when people find out that early transitioners can have a happier life (there's nothing wrong about late transitioning tho) and there's a profit out making trans people lifes miserable just to allow them do their own treatment

[radiofreederry]

Like in the first place imagine trying to whip outrage over a sign that says “these exploited workers should have labor protections.” Swerfs are happy to get incensed over the existence of the sex industry, but chafe at any efforts to extend protections to workers who operate within the industry. They accept no solution to issues within the industry short of its immediate and unconditional abolition, which anyone with a brain could realize would cause immense harm to workers in it. And then they have the gall to accuse others of not caring about women!

[transfemgabriellamontez]

The legacy of Exclusionary “Radical Feminism” everyone! A load of tedious, impossible, Sisyphean wank that makes all Feminists look bad because of word association with, let’s be frank here, actual fascists! Piss off Julie Bindel!

[transfemgabriellamontez]

Repost

[terf-apparently]

so.

the trans community speak out ALL the time about "coming out", how terrifying it is and how much they live under crushing fear and societal oppression

and alright,, a few of them may live in unwelcoming/abusive homes that are unsafe- but overall nowadays, they're being praised and celebrated just for being trans. being trans is seen as practically a badge of honour, a free pass to "coolness".

...but compare this to the genuine consequences that so many of us feel as radfems going publicly mask-off.

this anonymised side-blog is the only way i can talk openly about my opinions without the very real possibility of losing all my closest friends... and a good chunk of family. we are worse than trash to them, called nazis and bigots without a single word we said ever being really heard. our lives are threatened on a daily basis just for speaking out.

so where is the silencing, the fear, the bitter societal rejection they claim to suffer under?

...oh wait.

[witchytakes]

"..but compare this to the genuine consequences that so many of us feel as radfems going publicly mask-off." The consequences Front page of BBC Front page of The Guardian Get your own donation grift Support from a Billionare if your grift get so much attention Could get a job on a new right wing think tank Support from the whole right wing Wouldn't even get any law restriction Could be abbusive and will be justified

"a few of them may live in unwelcoming/abusive homes that are unsafe- but overall nowadays, they're being praised and celebrated just for being trans." Source My ass

[witchytakes]

the truth is that most trans people faces the unwelcoming/abbusive homes, even if they aren't there, they face in the workplace and neighboorhood

The average trans person faces Doxxing from transphobic sites if they find "worthy it" and funny Could get kicked from their jobs if they come out Couldn't do anything bad or they risk the whole reputation of the community Couldn't be sexual otherwise they are gross paraphilic fetishists Have their sexuality controlled by doctors and society and should fit only on the heterosexuality if they want to be themselves The church is constantly trying to detransition them The Right wing literally uses trans people as the main target Had to prove themselves "worthy" of being trans Could be kicked out from home Could be beaten up by parents Could be beaten up by anyone in the streets Is a frequently laughing stock for everyone if they don't pass When pass they had to face the same shit cis women face Had to fight tooth and nail aganst the medical industry Had to fight tooth and nail against the government Their recognition could be revoked by a signature of a pen Had to be stealth in order to at least be free from any violence We are seen as trash frequently they literally hates us more than nazis

And you are complaining that you can't be a transphobe? You are the person allowing this to happen

[terf-apparently]

so.

the trans community speak out ALL the time about "coming out", how terrifying it is and how much they live under crushing fear and societal oppression

and alright,, a few of them may live in unwelcoming/abusive homes that are unsafe- but overall nowadays, they're being praised and celebrated just for being trans. being trans is seen as practically a badge of honour, a free pass to "coolness".

...but compare this to the genuine consequences that so many of us feel as radfems going publicly mask-off.

this anonymised side-blog is the only way i can talk openly about my opinions without the very real possibility of losing all my closest friends... and a good chunk of family. we are worse than trash to them, called nazis and bigots without a single word we said ever being really heard. our lives are threatened on a daily basis just for speaking out.

so where is the silencing, the fear, the bitter societal rejection they claim to suffer under?

...oh wait.

[witchytakes]

"..but compare this to the genuine consequences that so many of us feel as radfems going publicly mask-off." The consequences Front page of BBC Front page of The Guardian Get your own donation grift Support from a Billionare if your grift get so much attention Could get a job on a new right wing think tank Support from the whole right wing Wouldn't even get any law restriction Could be abbusive and will be justified

"a few of them may live in unwelcoming/abusive homes that are unsafe- but overall nowadays, they're being praised and celebrated just for being trans." Source My ass

[tra-brainrot]

Gross

[witchytakes]

notice how they always pick from MTF reddit which is already known for being cringe

BTW, I don't think it's groos or bad at all, it's just a trans woman happy with her body, should all women become purists and never be happy about their body parts ?

[themeaningsofcolors]

cis girl going through female puberty celebrating her new boobs she’s excited to have: cool! inspiring! normal part of development! empowering!

trans girl going through female puberty celebrating her new boobs she’s excited to have: gross! perverted! agp! misogynist! disgusting!

[soup-mother]

if you wanna talk about complex lesbian identities how about "I don't feel allowed to call myself a lesbian as a trans woman on account of all the transmisogyny from literally everyone but I also have to constantly assert that I am or everyone acts even more like I'm incapable of being one, not to mention sexual harassment from guys pulling their own "complicated relationship to lesbianism" card to justify harassing transfem lesbians on the internet in a way that paints the women being harassed as transphobic somehow"

[soup-mother]

like it's all "complicated relationship to lesbianism" until a trans woman exists and likes other women and calls herself a lesbian (and god forbid she be bigender or non-binary or plays with her gender in a way that doesn't fit people's derogatory view of "binary trans woman") and then everyone gets fucking weird.

(because it's an unspoken "complicated afab relationship to lesbianism" that everyone suddenly seems fine with)

and then of course extra god forbid she say something about the historical and ongoing transmisogyny in the "community" she's part of because then suddenly she's an "outside male invader attacking lesbians for no reason" and not literally just a girl wanting to be treated better.

[soup-mother]

Like I literally do not care who gets to call themselves a lesbian, acceptance is great and i laugh at the idea that it's some sacred innate identity, but holy shit can some of that accepting energy extend to trans women please???? Hi we've also always been here too! we're trans people who have a long connection to lesbianism too! it's just that we keep being excluded from it. can we please extend some of that acceptance to literally women please?

[a-griffin-in-the-clouds]

I don’t gotta agree with all radfems. We’re not a hive mind, and that’s what makes us us. We can disagree, argue, even clash because we think, we question, we don’t just repeat what we’re told.

The trans community? It’s like a cult. One wrong opinion and bam, you’re out. It’s all about conformity.(ironic ain't it)

But us? Radfems? We stand on the same soil with different roots. The core is clear, we’re here to expose and uproot the system that oppresses the female sex. We’re not here to agree on everything. We’re here to fight for the truth, even if we have to do it in different ways.

I love you all, even if some of you drive me absolutely nuts sometimes. 😘 But hey, that’s what makes us strong, right? We fight, we argue, but at the end of the day, we’ve got each other’s backs. Keep being fierce, keep questioning, and keep kicking ass. 💪

[vollesroah]

Having read rad fem posts for a few years the two things that all agree on are: (1) trans is the Nr 1 enemy, even above rape and fgm - just on the number of posts alone and (2) the cult like always saying "we" and never "I" as though individual opinions are forbidden.

Personally, I have never found trans to be a cult but rad fem has a lot of similarities.

Remember Terry Pratchett's Auditors who only ever said "we" ? - You just said "I" twice and you know what that means.

[vintage-bentley]

“How are you going to enforce female only spaces? Genital checks at the door?!”

No, we were hoping that males would respect women enough to not enter our spaces. But thanks for being honest and admitting that you don’t think they’re capable of such respect.

[witchytakes]

The cis guy who wouldn't need to crossdress in order to pretend to be a trans guy and get even easier access

[rdthoughtdaughter-deactivated20]

‘TERFs are not real feminists, all they do is bring down trans people, instead of actually addressing the female problems, in Afghanistan, etc.’

We do speak about these matters, you just don’t know because you are not a part of the radical feminist community. The thing is, you are not interested in it. The only thing that sparks your interest is the ‘dolls’.

Hence why you are showed with radical feminist’s posts with gender critique.

If you knew anything about radical feminism, you would hear conversations about skin- selling business in Nepal that targets the sex workers, you would know of the conversations about how surrogates were treated in India by the agencies, you would hear us talking about the patterns of misogyny in the global media.

But you are not interested. You have no desire to actually look into radical feminism, and understand what it is about. You have your agenda that you have to feed with hatred for ‘terf bitches’

[theangryman]

i have not seen a TERF post anything like this

women in Afghanistan only really exist as gotchas for yall - literally the only thing i see them come up is “you can’t identify your way out of privilege in Afghanistan lol”

Transgender Afghans escape Taliban persecution only to find "a worse situation" as refugees in Pakistan

Two transgender Afghan refugees who managed to escape Taliban rule say they're no better off as refugees in Pakistan.

i am also not seeing a lot of TERFs concerned with the fact that at least 5 women have died due to state abortion bans in the US (or Adriana Smith being used as an incubator)

i see some anti surrogacy stuff occasionally, but usually with a lot of homophobic dog whistles lol

[rdthoughtdaughter-deactivated20]

It’s your problem if you haven’t seen any of the posts with the discussions about the problems that women face around the world.

Perhaps women in Afghanistan or in other periphery countries are used as gotcha because it is a clear evidence of women being oppressed on the basis of their sex? Because it is a clear evidence that sex determines women’s and men’s life?

You send some article about two transgender people from Afghanistan. Broadly this article referred to 50 people. Do you think it’s comparable to the fate of 14.2 million of females in Afghanistan as we speak right now? It’s disgusting how you try to put your trans agenda in a situation like that. Just to prove that ‘ahm ☝️🤓 actually trans people suffer in Afghanistan too! Yes, there is an article about whole two people who find it worse as refugees than in literal Taliban regime.’

Do you think women that are not even allowed to talk in public in Afghanistan would say the same thing? I doubt it.

You haven’t seen TERFs talking about abortion bans? Are you joking right now? There were plenty of posts like that, especially with the elections. Posts about personal stories that some women experienced. Again, it’s problem that you haven’t seen it.

Guess you have seen posts about surrogacy, oh but it was not to your liking 😥

Deepest apologies.

[theangryman]

looking through your blog - I don’t see posts on abortion or surrogacy. thanks for calling out colored-canvas, it’s great that at least some TERFs think that calling for violence against trans people is wrong

some others you might want to talk to

yeah, women in Afghanistan are oppressed. it is fucked up. i don’t disagree that cis women are oppressed on the basis of their sex

but - literally the only time i see radfems on here mention women in afghanistan is for that “trans women aren’t really oppressed.” it’s a club and shield, not anything that indicates actual care for the welfare of these women, other than as a faceless mass of victims

and societies that oppress cis women tend to oppress trans people. you notice that right?

[rdthoughtdaughter-deactivated20]

Who do you think I am? Or who do you think you are?

‘Some others you might want to talk to’ 🤦🏽‍♀️

I’m not taking recommendations from you, and I’m not some kind of police for radical feminists.

I didn’t talk with coloured canvas for you, or for trans people specifically. I am expressing my generalised stance against violence, it encompasses all people. See the difference?

If you didn’t see my posts/reblogs on those topics that’s probably because you didn’t look at all of my posts. I’m not even making you, to be honest, there are more than 500 posts I have. My point is that it’s impossible to say and generalise what radical feminists don’t talk about.

Personally I supported the discourse about the Nepalese women who are sexually exploited and used for skin business. I also supported the discourse about Afghan women, more than once.

I personally started the discourse about surrogacy, it was one of my first posts I think. There I talked about kinds of surrogacy: altruistic and profitable.

To summarise it, in India the surrogacy (commercial if I remember correctly) was banned, because it was discovered that there are houses where surrogates are kept and treated as cattle, broodmares, in inhumane conditions.

Altruistic surrogacy is often a sham, it was discovered that in the U.S and the U.K people might use the narrative of ‘altruistic surrogacy’, but would exchange money under the table. All this leads to commodification of women and children. I still remember it, and my post is still out there somewhere. I think you even interacted with it, although I’m not sure.

Trans people, or ideology is not up to the traditional ideology, that’s why it’s bashed, aye.

I’m not saying that they are not oppressed.

My primary incentive is women. And considering that they are oppressed on the basis of their sex, which even you acknowledge, then it tells you something. They cannot choose not to identify as women to escape this oppression. Sex is real.

[theangryman]

okay - so if your primary incentive is women - why does this need to be anti trans?

trans women are not the people forcing poor Indian women to sell their bodies. trans women are not the purity police heckling passersby about seeing a bit of hair poke out of their chador. trans women are not the reason that Roe v Wade was overturned

[nansheonearth]

We post about other topics all the time, we just have you blocked for lack of good faith arguments

[theangryman]

lol - “bad faith” arguments

i just got blocked by a TERF for pointing out that Jordan Peterson is a misogynist

check your movement and stop carrying water for fascists

[rdthoughtdaughter-deactivated20]

Congrats?…

By the way, radfems are probably blocking you because you are on a troll list. Why would they want you in their spaces, lol

[theangryman]

”trolling” = “hey why are y’all some comfy with alt right fascists like Jordan Peterson and literal death threats against trans people”

[rdthoughtdaughter-deactivated20]

Trolling refers to your overall engagement with radical feminists

[womenarehuman]

@theangryman Um, hate to break it to ya, but Jordan Peterson is an MRA/incel favorite, not exactly the type we RadFems tend to bother with, let alone like. In fact, we rarely bother with the opinions or writings of men at all, let alone misogynist weirdos like Peterson. I think you got your wires crossed.

Why is it so hard for y'all to grasp even the most BASICS of radfem culture? Andrea Dworkin, yes. Jordan Peterson, no.

[theangryman]

i literally called out a “radfem” for sharing Jordan Peterson in comments yesterday

TERF “radfems” don’t bother with him? is Helen Joyce not one of yours?

i love Dworkin! let’s see what she had to say about trans people!

hell yes - i’d love if my community had helped me get top surgery instead of having to go into helldebt

[rdthoughtdaughter-deactivated20]

Genuine question, why would you get rid of your top? Did your breast part caused you any physical pain? Is it redundant?

Or is it not applicable to male gender? Do all men not have breasts? Are those who do lesser men?

Do you have to not have breasts to be more male?

Is it about body? Are your feelings and convictions not enough?

[theangryman]

i was a man when i had breasts; i am a man now

i love my body. story i heard was that when i was still mostly unconscious from the anesthesia - i woke up enough to look down and smiled

i didn’t need the surgery or hormones to “validate” me, but they helped me form my body in a way that i love. that makes me happy. it feels me with joy

i love my bushy beard. i love the way t changed the way my fat and muscles form. i look at my body. i wear shorts and a-tops and delight in my deeper voice and thicker body hair (god i love having chest hair)

it’s a feeling of harmony. being in the right shape. i don’t feel dysphoria anymore - i’m free. it’s resonance. it’s joy

idk why y’all are so bothered by that

[fisewalafel]

i’m so done with feminist slogans being appropriated by everyone who isn’t too lazy.

“my body my choice” is about abortion. women are being forced to give birth to their rapists babies, underage girls are dying because they have no access to abortions. but yeah they cut off a useless piece of skin from your smelly dick so that’s basically the same thing.

[moniquill]

“my body my choice” is about, specifically, bodily autonomy.

The fact that the only bodily autonomy issue that you've personally had awareness of is reproductive freedom does not change that fact.

The right to abortion is a bodily autonomy issue, yes.

So is the right for people to not have surgery forced on them without their consent.

So is the genital mutilation of infants and children.

So is the right of people to access surgery that they DO want to have, for whatever reason they want to have it.

So is the right to choose or refuse medical care.

Bodily autonomy is relevant to anyone who has a body.

[an-awkward-tangerine]

Instead of asking people "do you support trans rights", we should ask if they supports actual demands of trans activists. Because it's easy to support a popular label. The real test is to see if people are actually in favor of what lies behind it (just like instead of asking if people support feminism, we must ask if they're in favor of various womens rights).

A few examples of questions :

Do you support the right of male people to legally identify as women ?

Are you in favor of mixed-sex prisons ? Changing rooms ? Public toilets ? Support groups ?

Do you think medical treatment should be tested for a specific use before it's available for that use ?

How do you feel about taxpayers moey going to non-medically essential procedures for trans people who wants them ?

Do you think biological sex should be legally erased ?

Are you in favor of medical treatment preventing fertility for minor patients without medical problems ?

Do you think people should be able to dress however they want as long as it's not sexual in public spaces ?

Don't hesitate to propose your own questions. Doesn't have to be about harmful practices of the trans activists. Just has to be clear and objective points of trans rights.

The original idea for this post comes from @stumblngrumbl

[witchytakes]

now to Terf logic on this too

Some questions we should use for them

Are you in favor of deadname trans people? Are you in favor in gatekeep their best treatment for disphoria? Are you in favor of V-coding? Are you in favor of parental abbuse if the kid is trans? Are you in favor of outing trans people at their workplace? Are you in favor of the right wing using trans people as a Scapegoat? How do you feel about all the trans research being controlled by anti trans groups? Are you in favor of cis men pretending to be trans guys if we use sex as a base for toilets? How do you feel about all the trans students that are frequently bullied? How do you feel about all the trans people who are constantly doxxed and harassed to suicide by the sites you support?

Don't hesitate to propose your own questions. Doesn't have to be about harmful practices of the gender critical movement. Just has to be clear and objective points of TERFism

[very-big-dove]

[theangryman]

[witchytakes]

"All trans women are perverts" Source: Redduxx r/FTM cherrypicked posts Kiwi Farms British press Right wing orgs

[tra-brainrot]

Gross

[witchytakes]

notice how they always pick from MTF reddit which is already known for being cringe

BTW, I don't think it's groos or bad at all, it's just a trans woman happy with her body, should all women become purists and never be happy about their body parts ?

[tra-brainrot]

trans identified males aren't women mate 🙄 it's not puritan to dislike pornsick freaks pretending to be us

[witchytakes]

she is happy by having boobs, something she doesn't have until she took HRT and now her body finally give what she want, even if you don't consider them women Why is bad for them to feel happy about that?

[tra-brainrot]

he's happy because he's sexually aroused. he wanted to look female because he gets off on it. it's bad for him to be sexually aroused by it because it's sexualising a completely non sexual body part that only females develop naturally.

I wouldn't expect you to understand women's discomfort with autogynephilia considering you are an autogynephilic male yourself.

[witchytakes]

everything for you have to be sexual, also breasts tend to be an erogenous zone of the body, even if the person feel aroused it's just natural to feel, you're just trying to make something to feel angry about

It's not AGP, also AGP it's a pseudoscience, did you read at all anything about AGP? Do you know it's a heavy sexist quack science?

[hypersensationalism]

[tra-brainrot]

Gross

[witchytakes]

notice how they always pick from MTF reddit which is already known for being cringe

BTW, I don't think it's groos or bad at all, it's just a trans woman happy with her body, should all women become purists and never be happy about their body parts ?

[tra-brainrot]

trans identified males aren't women mate 🙄 it's not puritan to dislike pornsick freaks pretending to be us

[witchytakes]

she is happy by having boobs, something she doesn't have until she took HRT and now her body finally give what she want, even if you don't consider them women Why is bad for them to feel happy about that?

[tra-brainrot]

Gross

[witchytakes]

notice how they always pick from MTF reddit which is already known for being cringe

BTW, I don't think it's groos or bad at all, it's just a trans woman happy with her body, should all women become purists and never be happy about their body parts ?