No. They. Fucking. Aren’t. dysphoria is the literal reasoning for being trans, you can’t just wake up one morning & be like “oh lol im gonna identify as the opposite gender from now on” it does not fucking work that way & fuck you if you think it does
No. They. Fucking. Aren’t: Aries, Taurus, Gemini
dysphoria is the literal reasoning for being trans: Cancer, Leo, Virgo
you can’t just wake up one morning and be like “oh lol I’m gonna identify ass the opposite gender”: Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius
it does not fucking fucking work that way & fuck you if you think it does: Capricorn, Aquarius, Pisces
Expecting people to teach you about issues they face at the drop of a dime isn’t just rude, but it’s incredibly insensitive. We’re constantly having to deal with these issues, we’re on the verge of breakdowns, outbursts, full of pain or rage or both and expecting us to have to force ourselves to relive these experiences at your demand is just….wrong.
We are not text books. You’ve heard it before, but has the meaning really sunk in? Text books are objects containing the story of someone’s story and emotions. We are people. We lived the stories, we are the emotions. And these things hurt us to relive.
TP:
Then don’t expect us to understand and help you. If you can’t be fucked to educate us then you get Jack shit in the way of support for this issues because goddamnit, we can’t help you if you won’t let us know what’s going on.
There are thousands of people saying what’s wrong and explaining how in articles and blog posts all over the Internet. Demanding every individual person you come across to take time out of their life to personally educate you is a demonstration of a) how lazy you are, and b) how little you care about the forwarding of these movements.
You want to know what intersectional feminism means? Fucking google it and read articles by intersectional feminists about it. You want to know what queerbaiting means and why people are criticizing shows that do it? Google it and learn.
This is the same kind of bullshit we’re put through with respectability politics. By putting stipulations on your support, you prove that you care more about your feelings than our lives.
Oxford English Dictionary Adds 15 new Transgender and Nonbinary Terms to its Online Dictionary!
Oxford Dictionary has just added a slew of important trans and nonbinary terminology to its online dictionary, OxfordDictionaries.com. The following terms are now officially defined in US English:
Life Outside The Binary does not necessarily endorse the particular definitions nor the wording therein. Many of these definitions may be overly simplistic or use outdated terminology. It is certainly more important to understand each individual’s understanding and relationship to a given term, and to understand their history and social context, rather than to differ to a broad general definition. There are also many other important words (such as transmisogyny, binarism and other identities such as neutrois and androgyne) that definitely deserve inclusion in dictionaries.
However, this is still a huge win for transgender and non-binary people! Especially words such as “cissexism,” “transphobia,” and “misgender,” (as well as several common transgender identities) being defined in a reputable online language resource may represent a huge step toward developing common understanding and acceptance of trans and nonbinary people and issues.
-Lane
now people can stop saying “those aren’t real words”
What haircut do we have? What hair do I have? What do hair do? What is hair
ur 15 so I’m really hoping u figure out how fucked up radfem ideology is and how it harms so many people and how the core of it is white supremacist find better role models pls
Wowowow yes I’m going to listen to some condescending, petty piece of shit online telling me how believing in that Sex Is An Actual Thing is hurting so many people
Yep
Logic
believing in Sex Is An Actual Thing is white supremacy now
radfems believe in eurocentric definitions of sex and gender and treat them like law and when someone doesn’t adhere to those eurocentric definitions (of sex and gender) u call them a “genderist”
so yes, radfem ideology has a core of white supremacy
we believe in eurocentric definitions of gender???? what?? we believe in the CONSTANT worldwide biological reality of sex and want to destroy gender!! libfems are the ones that worship this eurocentric gender notion that everyone has an ~innate gender identity~. how are women oppressed? (not just white women). is it bc of their ***identity*** or the –biological reality– that is constant throughout time and geography??? dude, I rlly don’t think u understand radfem ideology… :///
it’s funny bc ur white n u think eurocentric definitions of gender are “worldwide” which proves my point
And any scientist will tell you that sex is just as much a social construct as gender. Like there is no scientific reason to call anything “male” or “female.” I just don’t know when radfems will stop worshipping the vagina. Like I can’t imagine the kind of cognitive dissonance you must deal with when you constantly say you want to stop being judged based on genitals but do just that all day long like “yep” “logic”
wait ok so I think I get it…nothing’s real? we can’t have a word for ppl with vaginas and ppl with penises? we can’t have a word for the two pieces we need to reproduce as a species? there’s “no scientific reasoning to call anything” anything? so words are useless? ah..ok..it’s so clear now…
how..is..the presence of a body part….a social construct?? who are these catch-all scientists that reject the nature of reality??? I’ve been hearing a lot abt them but I’ve never seen them…an elusive species I take it…… ..
When did I say the word vagina and penis isnt needed? What I implied, and you missed, is that there is no reason to assign genders to these body parts, bc they aren’t male or female. They are just penises and vaginas. Why are you so obsessed with gendering everything and abolishing gender at the same time like how counterproductive, and I’m on mobile but if I remember when I go home tonight i will post some sources for the “elusive species” you’re referring to. In the meantime, I hope you can walk away from your vagina shrines for long enough to realize that your ideologies are contributing to getting people killed on a daily (:
So indigenous trans boy about to graduate with a degree in gender studies and human sexuality here n let me tell you a thing, indigenous cultures have had genders outside of what whites deem “male” and “female” for…… well since way before Europeans discovered that their own filth was causing the Black Plague and decided to start showering. Once your demonic people started raping and pillaging their way through our lands and committing mass genocide and kidnapping children and brainwashing them into believing European culture and “science” that’s when your “CONSTANT worldwide biological reality of sex” became a dominant fantasy that people are forced to adhere to in order to avoid being murdered by people like you @worrry@gendergatekeeper and @baby-b-u-t-c-h so yes, what you believe is a white definition of sex and gender. But I don’t really expect you to know what you’re talking about considering the whole world has been built to make you feel like your opinion matters. I forgive the young one bc you’re a child and have much to learn about how the world works but the rest of you have no excuse bc at this point in western science, you can read hella studies about the fact that sex and gender are institutions used to keep in place white supremacy and the genocide of transgender people of color and non-white transgender people outside western societies. You are just willfully ignorant and reap joy in the deaths of non-white transgender women whom are most at risk for being killed by people like you. Peace.
I keep waiting for chulaspice to make an argument of her own lmao there are other threads of ppl actually responding to her assertion that she’s conveniently ignoring ツ
TERF is a termed coined by Transgender woman Katrina Rose in order to describe a subset of radical feminism that uses terminology like “trans-critical" and “womyn born womyn" to continue to advocate and push forward the ideas and efforts of people like Mary Daly and Janice Raymond that hold that trans people and radical feminism are not compatible.
It is so named because it seeks the genocide of trans individuals.
TERFs like to say that it means Trans Exclusionary, but that isn’t what the term was coined to mean and so is used as a way to disguise their rampant hostility and proclaim pride in policies and ideals that seek to inform trans people that they are to be eliminated by giving them cover for their hatred and making them seem less violent.
TERF’s use a lot of language that seems reasonable. Yet every argument that TERFs like to describe as “critical" instead of “hostile" is actually a thinly disguised version of one or more arguments that were and are used in support of this goal of Trans Extermination.
An excellent example of this kind of “critique" is the argument that Trans women are men, and therefore represent a threat to women when they go to the restroom.
This argument is the same argument used to defeat the Equal Rights Amendment and the efforts of Radical Feminists to create Unisex restrooms. This argument puts forth multiple theories that are harmful to women. First off, it posits women as helpless creatures in need of protection from men by the patriarchal systems that men have put in place.
This argument also is used by people to deny trans people access to employment, access to public services, access to medical care, access to health insurance, and access to housing, by actively continuing the principle notion that creates hostility towards trans people as a whole. Each time they use this argument, they are actively working to deny trans people their rights by supporting and advocating for the very system that oppresses trans people.
Another example of this is the argument that “biology" is involved, even though biologists and medical doctors are in general consensus based on experts that this argument is false. The “Biology" argument hinges on the same basic principle: that trans women are “really" not women at all, which is the same argument as the restroom argument justified in a different way yet having the same basic effect.
They can often be spotted saying that biology is not a social construct, despite all major peer reviewed biology journals and all major biologist organizations all agreeing that it is, in fact, a social construct.
TERFs are not known for their ability to be honest or possess integrity, both of which are difficult to have or use when advocating for the genocide of an entire class of people.
Many TERFs will seek to use the phrase “moral extermination" or “critical of trans politics" which still amount to he same thing in practice, but allow them to make claims that are no different from the anti-gay claims that they “love the sinner but hate the sin" and make them seem as if they are good people who are simply having a pleasant disagreement with the very people they are seeking to rid the world of and working towards that end.
TERFs like to pretend that their words and actions happen in a vacuum, that their words have no great effect, and that they are not acting in collusion with the very system they are supposed to be fighting. TERFs frequently call trans women “he", “him", sir, dude, dudebro, and assorted other masculine terms and claim that they are not insulting them.
Lastly, TERFs are mos commonly associated with Lesbian Separatist Feminism and advocate either a matriarchal utopian ideal and/or the genocide of men (often through the “kill all men" trope that they claim is just humor or justify through the actions of “men as a group") or else they seek to escape to a private space and build a small commune or private sanctuary of just women.
This is, ironically, the source for most of queer theory, which they also argue is a “bad thing" without irony, having for the most part decided to either erase from their collective history this uncomfortable fact or intentionally remaining ignorant of it.
The last major identifying trait of TERFs is their consistent denial of the science that demonstrates that gender is a real thing, that it is a social construct (because social constructs are real things) and that as a result, all transgender people are just delusional, harmed by the patriarchal system and they will cease to exist once gender is abolished. This argument is wrong on multiple levels, but most especially in the idea that trans people will cease to exist without gender since they refuse to put any effort into understanding the nature of what it means to be a trans person.
Here they are using a variation of the same argument used against lesbian radical feminists in the 1970s and gay and lesbian people for the most part even today: you aren’t really what you say you are, you just don’t know any better. This form of gaslighting an oppressed group has a long and illustrious history. It often takes the form of “how do you know you are gay" and then attacks people when they say “well, we just were attracted to other women and not to men" when directed at lesbians by saying things like “well, really, you’ve just never tried a man" and related arguments. It posits that an awareness, because it must be described in a way that other people will understand, is not “real". By saying that since transgender people describe their awareness in relation to common everyday things (I just feel better in those clothes, or I am trapped in the wrong body), TERFs further the argument that trans people are just deluded, and that they mutilate or otherwise self harm themselves.
This is especially prevalent in their attacks against minors who are transgender, where they can also blame their parents for forcing them into it, doctors for malpractice, and confusion.
All of which, again, contributes and uses the exact same arguments and ideas that are already used to deny trans people access to their rights, employment, health care, and bodily integrity.
TERFs get around thinking of themselves as genocidal villains by saying that they support the rights of trans people, while they actively engage in the vary things that undermine and deny trans people those rights. This is the moral aspect of their extermination plans — they are doing it for noble reasons and great value to the general population (which is the same kind of argument always used to justify genocide).
TERFs are a tiny minority of radical feminists, the majority of which does not think any of these ideas are worth a damn, and that they are actively working against the ideals, goals, and spirit of radical feminism.
My mom is the type of person who names the trash can and used gendered pronouns when referring to it, but she refuses to use my brothers chosen name and male pronouns
I’m probably going to reblogging dozens of posts today for Trans Day of Visibility and a lot of the reason behind that is that creating a safe world for trans people is something that needs to happen like, now. Trans people are people and trans rights are human rights, no ifs, ands, or buts about it.
The other big part of why I really want to work hard for that world is that my little brother is trans. If there is anything I want to do in my life, it’s be there for him and make sure he’s safe because he’s one of the most important parts of my life. He’s a sweet guy and I just love him to pieces.
Trans Day of Visibility is important because it builds a community where trans people are safe to explore their identities and it builds confidence which is incredibly important, especially for younger kids.
Happy Trans Day of Visibility everyone!!!
(P.S. love you Kyle, you butthead)
This is a simple text based game where you play as a young binary trans person trying to buy some underwear. I made it with the intention of showing cis people what it’s like to be trans, particularly those dealing with dysphoria, cissexism, and trying to pass. You can play as a trans girl or trans boy (the nonbinary options are not representative enough). It’s short, so you can play it multiple times for different paths. There are several paths, some better, some worse; if you’re easily triggered by dysphoria or transphobia, you may want to avoid this game. Some paths are safer than others, depending on how well you pass (surprise, surprise). TW for homophobic/transphobic slurs, transphobia/transmisogyny, slurs, misgendering, and possible violence.
