Just ordered this difficulty modifier for being in public
Proof
If they're trying to divide the trans community, they're a troll. No exception. No buts about it.
•Trans men who say sexist things about trans woman are trolls.
•Trans women who complain day in and day out about trans men are trolls.
•Trans men who harass trans women or other trans men are trolls.
•Trans women who harass trans men or other trans women are trolls.
•Nonbinary people who attack neogenders are trolls.
•Binary trans people who attack nonbinary genders are trolls.
•Anyone who attacks or harasses intersex people are trolls.
•Trans people who refuse to use neopronouns for someone are trolls.
•Fixed gender people who say gender fluid people aren't real are trolls.
There are many more examples.
If you find yourself as a trans person thinking "Why is this other trans group so toxic?" Instead of starting discourse, you need to start calling them trolls and blocking them on sight.
This isn't to say you shouldn't call out transphobia where you see it. It's to remind you that you all seem to have forgotten the existence of trolls. You feed them and feed them and feed them and they get full off your hair pulling and angry rants. You solve nothing by screenshotting their posts to show you followers. You just your followers upset.
it’s so wild that trumps executive order has that bit about sex being assigned at conception.
I assume this is the anti-abortion position being encoded into the anti-trans legislation. no one is testing what gametes their embryo has— such a thing isn’t possible (embryos don’t produce them yet; there are primordial germ cells, but they aren’t differentiated as sperm or egg cells).
it just goes to show that gender/sex policing is never based on any science— there is no "scientific" definition to what “female sex” or "male sex" is. It doesn’t exist as a material reality. It is a legal construct that is assigned with the first legal documentation assigned to a subject—the birth certificate.
and that isn’t based on chromosomes or gametes. it’s a decision based on whether a doctor thinks the infant will be mostly likely to be capable of penetrative heterosexual sex as “female” or “male.” because penetrative heterosexual sex is the point, the determination is based on whether the clitoris is long enough to penetrate (in which case “it’s a boy”) and if not whether there is a vaginal canal deep enough for penetration (in which case “it’s a girl”) and if neither or both are true the child’s body is forcibly surgically altered.
they can't define sex "biologically" because it is not a "biological" reality. it will be determined, as always, punitively, on a case by case basis on varying traits and legal documentation, to enforce patriarchal economic systems that depend on misogyny and transmisogyny.
one of the most telling parts from the executive order, to me, was this (emphasis mine):
"The erasure of sex in language and policy has a corrosive impact not just on women but on the validity of the entire American system. Basing Federal policy on truth is critical to scientific inquiry, public safety, morale, and trust in government itself."
this bit gives the game away with how important the institution and enforcement of sex assignment is to capitalism, the united states economy, the carceral/legal system, and the ideological buy-in to us-american hegemony.
Bro is uhhhhhh funny as hell
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They/Them/Theirs Mid-20s, Trans Girl Masshole Anti-Social girlie, I’m really bad at being a person
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