Native Land In Native Hands

i don't know if people know this but the idea that AGAB is useful in medical contexts is actually actively dangerous

one of my friends has CAIS. they were assigned female and have a prostate. they have been denied prostate exams multiple times on the basis of "being assigned female" despite insisting that they had valid concerns about symptoms that aligned with prostate cancer. guess what happened when they finally got an exam? they ended up having prostate cancer

it fortunately is now in complete remission, which is why they're comfortable with me talking about it, but you see the issue here? biology is never as simple as assigned sex, by judging the care someone needs by their proximity to maleness or femaleness any mixed or otherwise "abnormal" sex characteristics they have are completely ignored

it doesn't just affect intersex people either, you're throwing trans people under the bus as well. transitioning does change your sex characteristics, trans people should have access to medical care that is catered to their body and not to their assigned sex

🌟 INTRODUCTION🌟

Heya! My name is Fionn(I go by a billion other ones as well though) and this is my blog! I’m 18, Transmasc, biromantic ace, and an omnist! I have both physical and mental disabilities and can get tired easily, so please be patient if I haven’t responded to something.

lover of: the undead, plants, alternative music subcultures, salmon, folklore, tomfoolery, patch making, fungi, botanical illustrations, gothic literature, graphic novels, queer iconography, sewing, embroidery, and all things horror related

media I enjoy: The Magnus Archives, Gravity Falls, Howl’s Moving Castle(the book, audio drama, and movie), the Objectified comic, The Last of Us, I want In, Interview With the Vampire, Rocky Horror Picture Show, The Owl House, What We Do in the Shadows, BURNER, everything ENA, Adventure Time, Jujutsu Kaisen, Ok Ko, Pressure, Undertale, Severance, Monster High, Arcane, Over the Garden Wall + a lot more

favorite bands: Bauhaus, The Cure, Alex G, Bloody Dead and Sexy, Scarlet’s Remains, Cocteau Twins, Megadeath, Depeche Mode, Drab Majesty, Joy Division, My Bloody Valentine, Starry Cat, The Psychedelic Furs, Soundgarden, System of a Down, T.S.O.L., Tia Wood, Lemon Demon, Talk to Her, Alice In Chains, Nirvana, The Doors, Sisters of Mercy, Strawberry Switchblade (this changes pretty frequently)

other blogs:

@omnist-crashing-out - where I post about religious and spiritual stuff and also my religious crisis with being an omnist and craving community

@anticipansy - where I post and rant about all things queer (including myself) and political stuff

DNI: just be a good person and don’t be creepy and you are fine.

PFP by Chester_MAS

Banner: Folio 109 from Book of Miracles

Quick sketch of my doomed boys maybe someday i will finish it

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."

someone called me "divisive" for pointing out someone's binary language in a transgender-specific post, so here's a reminder:

it's people putting humanity into two gender boxes doing the dividing, not nonbinary people wanting to be seen.

it's the people separating good valid transgender men and women worth fighting for from supposedly invalid nonbinary people who aren't even worth mentioning doing the dividing, not nonbinary people pointing out systemic exclusion.

it's those excluding nonbinary who are being divisive, not nonbinary people taking up space.

most of the time calling nonbinary people divisive is absolutely ridiculous.

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!

A+ example of how the media manipulates people for clicks and anger engagement.

you gotta be so careful when tagging posts about object shows bc imagine youre a sports enthusiast and youre trying to find posts about the sport basketball and instead you come across yuri of a shape and a number. and they both have tails

just a pretty boy soaking up vitamin d