Transphobia - Blog Posts

Debating cleaning this up vs. letting the messiness stand and make its own point. Stop killing trans kids and don't believe Hilary Cass, who is purposely manipulating science to further her transphobic agenda. The WHO has better science on trans healthcare.

Anyway, I'm going to be wearing this when I go out tomorrow and hope to give some trans kids some hope. Do something similar if you can. Anything that shows the kids we want them to make it and are there for them. Every small sign of support helps when you're a trans kid and feel like the world is against you.

We’re in a cost of living crisis and our pm’s main concerns are alevels, trans people, and smoking.

you people are so demonically fucking evil. really cool; i'm sure it reinforces nothing that you think that being afab allows you to be a better woman than a trans woman. thanks for examining why you think transfems can't fit the bar of femininity you're establishing by virtue of nothing more than you not being amab. really cool. hey what's up with the nazi comparison at the very end

Radfems and terfs will get so incredibly weird when you talk about trans people. I have had a radfem get very angry about me saying I support trans women and start talking to me about trans women in prison raping other prisoners, like that’s an insane leap. We weren’t even talking about prisons at all. And first of all, that’s a bad thing to happen, everyone can agree. Rape is horrific under any possible circumstance. And I haven’t done any research on that exact topic, I am not an expert, I don’t know of any specific examples but that doesn’t actually matter. Gender isn’t a factor in the level of ‘badness’ of assault, it’s equally bad. This hypothetical rapist trans woman or even real rapist trans women has literally nothing to do with the validity of all trans women. Rapists in prison shouldn’t be allowed to be in situations where they can rape anyone. The prison system is flawed! I don’t have a solution! I am a random person with opinions! My opinion is very simple, rape is evil, rapists should be kept away from victims. And that opinion has nothing at all to do with my opinion that trans women are women.

This is not a well formulated thoughtfully crafted post, this is an annoyed rambling mess.

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I saw someone saying earlier that feeling safe and being safe are different and that we are entitled to being safe, but not to feeling safe, and the example they brought up was like terfs making trans women existing in bathrooms out to be this huge danger to cis women when all stats and research shows that trans women are not and have never been any type of danger to cis women which is what i mean by not all boundaries are valid and I think it’s important to be aware of your reasoning for setting a boundary outside of something just making you feel uncomfortable

Where the trans satire misses the mark in IASIP

Gonna talk about this because it does kinda bug me, and I am a trans man. I wanna start by saying I don't think that trans people shouldn't be joked about, but like any good satire the joke shouldn't be on us. I also do think there is great LGBT rep in sunny and they get it right a lot but also in this case I think they got it wrong.

What has always irked me is that the joke with Carmen was Mac wants to be with her because she has a penis and Mac is gay. I know that when they introduced Carmen Mac wasn't written as being gay, but later he is and he does come out and yes it makes sense that he was sleeping with women because of comphet but now it just seems even more like Carmen was the only woman he really liked because she has a penis.

I know its a little late now but I wish they would've found a way to clear this up.

(not to mention the zoom on the penis in the pants, the whole joke being transwoman have penis funny)

Really what should have happened is Mac finds a trans man that he is super into, but he refuses to acknowledge him as being a man, even though hes a total beefcake. Mac could still refuse to admit he's gay and everyone could point out how completely delusional he is because, well, that's obviously a man.

I don't know, maybe Im just not getting it.

since im seeing some self-medicating Discourse on the blue website again let’s just go over this again:

1. doctors are fuckers and if you’re not being served properly by the system you are in no way immoral for self-medicating

2. the dangers of hrt are consistently exaggerated but nevertheless are real. if you are self-medicating and are able to/have doctors who will help, please monitor your health in order to ensure that you’re not at risk

3. if you can’t do #2, #1 still applies.

thank.

Wikipedia, for those not familiar, is the largest online encyclopedia. Think Cracked but with slightly fewer fart jokes. Some people want that. Go figure. Despite being such an influential site, Wikipedia has fewer than 10 percent female editors. That leads to some strange problems. For example: The entries on porn stars and Pokemon are both more extensively detailed than the entries on prominent women. This page on American novelists is divided into “Female American Novelists” (for the women-folk) and “American Novelists” (for the men). They once removed all the female movie directors from their list of horror directors.

Basically, it seems like Wikipedia has some weird problems with regard to gender – so what’s up? Well, I was an editor from shortly after it was founded until just a couple of years ago. I am also a trans woman, and I can tell you exactly what’s up.

Wikipedia Hates Women: 4 Dark Sides of The Site We All Use

my biggest problem is that queer characters are either only gay to progress the plot/straight relationship or just put in there tokenly for diversity points but just re-enforces shit stereotypes

question for everyone in the alphabet mafia, what are the biggest problems/negative experiences y'all've had with queer media

Better late then never I guess.

Twitch removes the transphobic LGB Alliance from its list of approved charities

Good news! The gaming live-streaming service Twitch has removed the anti-transgender organization LBG Alliance from its list of accepted charities.

In response to a request on their web site, Twitch admins responded:

Thank you for sharing your concerns with us. Following a thorough review, we have removed the LGB Alliance from our list of approved charities. Twitch does not allow charities that violate our hateful conduct policies on Twitch, or whose organization or leadership engage in or promote behaviors that violate our Off-Service policy. You can find our response on Autism Speaks here.

We include a wide range of organizations in Twitch’s charity tool through our partnership with the PayPal Giving Fund so that streamers can choose which charities they align with and wish to support. Inclusion on this list is not an endorsement from Twitch. However, we regularly review the list and remove organizations that violate our policies. Please continue to share your feedback to help us improve charity on Twitch.

this is your reminder that just because intersex people, trans men, and people outside of the gender binary are not mentioned in bigoted policies about trans women does not mean that we won't be affected.

attacking the rights of trans women attacks the rights of all people with marginalised gender experiences.

(this statement does not take away from the very real danger these laws pose to trans women, it just highlights another issue that also needs attention. two problems can exist at once.)

you know, I'm initially inclined to agree, many people will agree (or surface level seem to agree) with left wing ideology just out of uncritical following of a crowd, and I do think that that's a real problem. but like. hmmmm hmmmm

and there's a lot more red usernames in the empty reblogs... the thing is, I think a lot of the people in the notes are sorta reading this post and only looking at it surface level, ironically enough. you can criticize the reason for people getting into politics, I think that's fair, but a lot of the people who seem to agree to that... don't seem to be doing that themselves, I don't think. and are just seeing this as "radicalism bad" or "those silly progressives, they're just like the right".

look, I really don't think you can fundamentally compare these two things, wanting to exterminate another race, or advocating for an ethnostate, these things cannot be meaningfully compared with the very basic progressive ideals that most people in this website (or in most progressive circles for that matter) hold.

and, yeah, seeing the kind of people who are reblogging this and what they're saying along with it, I would also like to mention that a lot of them seem to talk about "radicalization" when they actually mean like, just very basic stuff like supporting trans rights, this isn't all of them of course, some people on the reblogs are being a lot more sensitive about it and making actual criticisms of the way many leftists misguidedly shape their ideologies, without actually saying much on the ideologies themselves, which I think is the ideal.

and I think it is important to have all of this stuff in mind. since trying to look at this from some sort of centrist impartial lens is just... sorta silly. right?