Behind Every Evil Gay Person There's A More Evil, Gayer Person

Just for the record this is a real problem I'm having. What does one do with a possibly cursed mystery door in the blackberry patch. Besides ignore it and keep eating blackberries...

Being inclusive to autistics as an autistic is recognising and accepting that we all have conflicting wants or needs.

You may hate bright lights but another autistic may love them.

You may hate being in crowds but another autistic might love that.

You may hate tags on your shirt but another autistic may actually like having tags on their shirt.

You may love bland foods but another autistic may love rich or extreme flavours.

You may love infodumping to people but it may be too overwhelming for another autistic.

A spectrum includes all ends of extremes. And all of it deserves to be accepted and accommodated for.

Being transgender is more than just "not identifying with your AGAB."

^This definition is very limiting, and has little room for intersex perspectives. In fact, it also doesn't align with many perisex non-binary/genderqueer experiences (Example: Perisex multigender people who fully identify with their assigned gender, while simultaneously aligning with other genders.)

And sure, some intersex people have a consistent assigned gender, depending on their variation, and how it affects their body. But many intersex people have a COMPLICATED experience with how they were assigned and viewed growing up.

Intersex people can be given a coercively assigned gender at birth (CAGAB), which may not align with their future puberty, or how they are viewed socially. [Example: A person born with ambiguous genitalia, who is given unneeded non-consensual surgery to make the genitalia more "binary", and assigns a gender based on that non-consensual procedure.]

Intersex people can be given an assigned gender at birth, but a reassigned gender after birth (RGAB.) [Example: An AMAB intersex person, born with a penis/penis-like genitalia, however later they are discovered to have more "feminine" physically traits, and are reassigned female and raised female because because its "easier" or "more fitting"]

Intersex people can be given a socially imposed gender (SIG) [Example: A person who is "female" in every way, but during puberty is discovered to have hyperandrogenism, and develops a more masculine-associated body because of it - oftentimes, that person will be mistaken as a male by society, or treated as AMAB by those around them.] Some people even experience multiple SIGs at the same time, depending on the scenario [Example: being expected to behave as 'male' by some people, and 'female' by others, depending on how they are dressed or what events they attend.]

Are you going to tell someone who was given a CAGAB the opinion of the doctor who mutilated them is more important than theirs? That a person who was CAMAB, but originally had a vulva, that they cannot identify as transmasculine?

Are you going to tell someone who was AFAB, but RMAB that they can't identify as a trans-woman because of their "original assignment", which is no longer relevant to how they were raised?

Or, on the flip side - are you going to tell someone who was AMAB, but treated as 'female' from their SIG, that they can't identify as transfem, because even though they are AMAB, they weren't "treated as AMAB"?

And what about intersex trans people who were AXAB (assigned X at birth?) What about people who were UAB (unassigned at birth?) Are you going to deny or affirm their transness based on your view of them?

Transgender and cisgender aren't mutually exclusive terms.

Personally, we think transgender should be defined as "people who identify against [eurocentric] historically-imposed expectations of gender."

Never gonna be normal about I-Spy books <3

This is literally so iconic

Some of you ""transfeminists"" on here are white feminists I'm afraid, and borderline allergic to criticism.

Hey, maybe if you made a ""feminist take"" and everyone is drawing comparasions to radfem ideology it's time to self reflect.

NOTE: radfem=/=anti trans. That community has a FUCK TON of different harmful ideology. It is entirely possible to be trans, insanely pro-trans, and still hold radfem beliefs.

Also an important note: Transfeminist=/=transfem inherently. I am using the term transfeminist because that is what a large portion of what the people i see doing these things call themselves.

I've seen just as much other trans folk saying SWERF shit or femonationalist shit (for example..)

This is an issue within feminist communities as a whole and we need to do better as a community to make sure we are listening to each other to not fall down the same pitfalls.

POSITIVE NEWS: I passed my drivers test and now have a license!

NEGATIVE NEWS: Just realized I am on episode 199 on my re-listen 💔

“Why should rich people pay more” because fuck ‘em

“So you are okay for paying more when you have money” I am not excluded from ‘fuck ‘em’ when relevant

Alr so I’m not super into either, but RQ stands for rad queer which is like this group that believes all sexualities are valid and I’ve seen a lot argue for paraphiles being valid which is an issue, and TMA stands for Trans Misogyny Affected. I’m not a fan of TMA/TME(trans misogyny excluded) stuff because everyone is different, just because you present a certain way doesn’t mean you don’t experience trans misogyny and I think it creates a weird made up binary and is grossly misused.

The Magnus Archives fans are going through it rn:

*looks up TMA, the abbreviated version of The Magnus Archives* BOOM NEW DISCOURSE TERM NOW INSTEAD OF SEEING YOUR SILLY LITTLE BLORBOS YOU GET TO SEE DEBATES/HATEMAIL/ETC ON “WHO IS REALLY TRANS” AND OTHER COMMUNITY INFIGHTING!

*looks up rq, the abbreviated version of rusty quill* BOOM ANOTHER DISCOURSE TERM NOW INSTEAD OF FINDING INFO ON THE COMPANY YOU WANT TO MELANIE YOURSELF!