People Don’t Pay Enough Attention To Stuff Like This

Guys, intent isn’t magic. This matters when we talk about males in female spaces regardless of what they are for. I’ve talked about it before, but when I was in my dv survivors group, I had male cofacilitators that led or helped lead the group. I’m sure these men believed they had good intentions. But their actions and their presence had the same result as any other male in female space. It stunted discussions, stunted growth and stunted solidarity. I lost count of how many of us would talk more before and after group than during. So I’m sorry, but I don’t care what a males intentions are or what their thought process is. This is actually still entitlement and males don’t belong in female spaces

they say they love insects but they hate wasps and mosquitoes

If this happened to men there would be uproar everywhere

Can someone just do it already

Things I support:

dysphoric people (trans or not)

getting dysphoric people access to better healthcare

getting transitioning people access to better healthcare

getting trans people healthcare which presents treatment for dysphoria and transition as options and does not pressure anyone to do anything

scientific research into the health risks and long-term effects of various aspects of transitioning (binding, hormone therapy, psychological patterns, etc.)

safety and autonomy of trans people

detransitioned people

Things I do not support:

males in female spaces

female spaces being compromised into free-for-all “gender neutral” spaces (while male spaces are left untouched)

medically transitioning children

lesbians & gay men have to be “open to” dating transwomen/transmen respectively or they’re transphobic

lesbians & gay men should “re-examine” their “genital fetishes” (i.e. DIY conversion therapy)

presenting medical transition as the only route for dysphoric people

pressuring dysphoric and/or gender-nonconforming people to identify as trans

erasing gender-nonconforming women like joan of arc from women’s history by claiming they were transmen

erasing gay figures like marsha p. johnson from gay rights history by claiming they were trans

rapists, murderers and predators who hold (or held) positions of influence in the trans movement (biko, rivers, alok, etc etc)

“centering” males in female reproductive rights

silencing female issues to cater to transwomen’s feelings

silencing victims of male trans people in the interest of “not making transwomen look bad”

violent and/or intimidating protests, no-platforming, other intimidation tactics, as an attempt to ban women’s writing, silence women’s dissenting voices, and erase women’s achievements

people identifying as trans based on gender stereotypes, outdated notions of “brain sex,” or nebulous feelings rather than sex dysphoria

transwomen being allowed to pretend they were not socialized male

transwomen being allowed to pretend they do not, and have never held male privilege

transmen’s experiences with female socialization and sex-based oppression being silenced and transmen being thrown under the bus in order to make the previous two points appear legitimate

pushing false statistics, lies, and strawman arguments to demonize anyone who questions trans theory

“TERF”

subsequent TERF witch-hunts, block lists, demanding that no one so much as hear what radical feminists have to say and instead blindly accept a strawman version of what we believe

ostracizing and bullying of anyone who expresses curiosity about radical feminist ideas, reveals that they’ve read radical feminist blogs, or so much as reblogs memes from radical feminists

denial of basic biology

denial of basic sociology

denial of sex-based oppression

That’s crazy imagine if there was a gender of people who’d been systemically oppressed and subjugated for millennia, told they were the root cause of evil in society, told they were objects and not humans, raped killed and abused, enslaved, banned from some forms of artistic performance because their existence was “corrupting morals”, stripped of their bodily autonomy, and blamed and used as the scapegoat for every single problem in the world. I’m sure they’d also collectively become horrible hateful bigots with no care for any other human too, right? Oh wait. Huh. That’s weird. They’re not.

no amount of women hating men on the internet will compare to the acts of misogynistic violence men commit. you can control the media you want to consume, you can not control the acts of others out in the real world. stop comparing women posting “i hate men” to men killing women out there. misandry isn’t real.

Lefty Cartoons

reminder that lesbians are NOT more violent than men and we don't have the highest domestic violence rates. i wish people (mostly men) would stop deliberately misconstruing this

I think the most vulnerable people in society are, like, impoverished children who currently live in abusive homes or something. Not fully grown adult males on estrogen.