if you ‘defend’ trans women by accusing twefs of ~disrespecting our identities~ or whatever, you’re basically doing the twefs’ work for them.
respond with materialism, talk about how women are constituted as a class regulated by sexual violence and how this works in the same ways for cis and trans women, talk about how twef ideology exposes us to greater sexual violence and death, talk about how ‘biological sex’ is ideology that maintains gender and discuss the actual complexities, etc. etc.
but don’t make it about ‘identity’ please because not only is that easy for them to ridicule, even if it’s accepted it still makes trans women into lesser/fake women.
People are cruel and incorrect about some of the worst things on this website, that’s for sure. The number of blatantly ahistorical and erroneous takes I’ve seen about the American LGBT community’s experience with the historical HIV/AIDS epidemic and with HIV/AIDS currently is really sad considering how relevant HIV/AIDS is to our community.
“genitalia associated with cis women are harshly stigmatized and policed as part of misogyny, which can lead to violence” and “not all women have vaginas and not everyone with a vagina is a woman” and “trans peoples’ bodies are harshly stigmatized and policed as part of transphobia, which can lead to violence” are not mutually exclusive factsx and in fact all of these things are very much interlinked, and should not be used as gotchas! against each other
70’s feminists: let’s celebrate our natural body hair! wahoo!
terfs, circa 2018: actually fuck hairy women no matter if they’re cis or trans as long as i can use body hair as an argument to insult trans women…. uhm what’s the racialization of ethnic traits to deny womanhood to woc and/or jewish women?
They are a terf and general transphobe who reblogs trans folks selfies and call them slurs, insult them, and are generally awful.
I urge all my trans followers to block them so that they cannot reblog your selfies or otherwise harass you! They seem to target trans lesbians and gay trans men specifically
It’s not about whether a character is trans or gay. Gay characters make sense. People have been gay for millennia. Trans however. Not the case. In a high fantasy setting, how in the balls are they going to perform surgery where they change the sex of the character??? It makes no sense at all. They’d have to explain it. And remember, this is high fantasy, Game of Thrones is also in that category. This is a time where they would reach into your body with an object strikingly similar to a salad tossing spoon to yank out a small piece of arrowhead. Pretty sure they hadn’t figured out a surgery as complex as a sex change…
The people complaining that there aren’t enough gay/trans people in stuff like this are just as bad if not moreso than the people who complain about gay/trans people being in stuff like this.
Create your own fantasy world filled with nothing but gay/trans people. Make it so that being heterosexual is the minority. All the power to you. Good luck trying to create it.
You don’t have to have surgery to be transgender. Lots of transgender people don’t. Transgender people, people who identify with the gender not corresponding with their birth sex, have existed before the surgery. And the existence of and recognition of a third sex or dual sex existed in pre-modern times in lots of places are the world.
So, for one, your “how in the balls are they going to perform surgery“ question doesn’t actually matter. They don’t need to in order for transgender people to exist.
But if they did want to include transgender people who undergo physical changes to reflect their gender/sexual identity, in a HIGH FANTASY world, there’s actually a really easy answer to that:
*ahem*
“How are you going to make someone trans in a fantasy setting full of magic spells, potions, and artifacts?”
shout out to the elixir of sex shift for covering more than just a gender binary.
also lets not forget that in ye old days (aka time of the ancient greeks (aka the bc years)) that people drank the urine of pregnant mares to feminize themselves. like, trans people find a way 😉
…the fucking Sumerians had trans people, brosky.
Sumerians.
They didn’t even have fucking iron, but they had trans women.
dude lemme find you a fucking. girdle of sex change from 1st edition
woah what’s that?? the first edition efreet cover???
OH HEY ITS A FUCKING GIRDLE OF SEX CHANGE AND THERES ALSO A POSSIBILITY IT REMOVES ALL SEX CHARACTERISTICS FROM THE WEARER
it’s on page 145 of the dmg 1st ed. want an easier-to-read screenshot of a pdf??
Also good authors can write characters who are trans/non-binary in settings that don’t speak about gender the same way we do. Example is An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon.
Now is not a time to mince words: The left’s silence in this instance signals their complicity in anti-Semitism. They are allowing naked, open bigotry to grow in front of them without a word of protest.
In fact, when Jake Tapper tweeted criticism of Mallory’s attendance, he was himself criticized on the grounds that Mallory is not important enough to castigate.
This is both false and insidious. It’s false because Mallory is the head of one of the most mainstream activist organizations in America. The original Women’s March broke records for attendance for single-day demonstration in the US. It has taken on an even bigger role thanks to the #MeToo movement. It is one of the strongest, most important voices in left wing activism (as it should be).
Mallory’s role, then, is not a fringe leader of some small movement but the leader of a cultural powerhouse. And it is tribalism that has silenced the left on her behalf. Morality should be guiding our positions, not the relative power of others or what “side” they are on. To accept hatred among our own because it is convenient or because it is less dangerous in our minds than the other side’s hatred is an amoral, tribal, strategic decision rather than a moral one.
Ultimately, anti-Semitism is evil, as is racism, xenophobia, homophobia, Islamophobia, and every other hate that takes groups of people and turns them from individuals into massive globs of enemies to be destroyed. It is infuriating that anti-Semitism is not taken as seriously as these other forms of bigotry. But it also exposes a serious moral failing on the left that threatens the very integrity of its collective soul.
Tamika Mallory has not just gone to see a man oozing of such hatred speak. She has publicly endorsed him. She has refused to back down for her attendance. She has refused to denounce his words. She has composed her own anti-Semitic dog-whistling comment. And she has thanked others for supporting her attendance.
It is our job to speak up, not because she is powerful (which she is), and not because she is influential (which she is) and not because if we don’t speak up, the hatred will spread (which it will). We – and everyone else on the left — must speak up because it is the right thing to do.
This isn’t just a “Jewish issue” either because the speech was also transphobic as well. The leaders of the Women’s March can’t be allies to the trans community while they condone this.
Look you guys, there has never been a time when transwomen couldn’t vote. There has never been a time when transwomen couldn’t get married. There has never been a time when transwomen couldn’t adopt children. Transwomen are male citizens and have always enjoyed the rights and privileges that go along with that. Transwomen have never been institutionally oppressed for being trans. Like, enough.
This is such a combination of factually inaccurate statements and then just absurd goal-post moving.
Would you suggest that women’s oppression ended in 1919 or 1964? This would be before Roe, before the phrase “sexual harassment” was even invented? If I said that women aren’t oppressed because we can vote or that the legality of gay marriage means institutional homophobia is over you would rightfully laugh at me because of course access just to the ballot and legal marriage doesn’t make up the whole of institutional oppression.
But you’re also wrong on the details:
I mean, to start, it’s been documented that a totally straight married couple trying to adopt in the 1950s and 60s would likely be denied if the straight, cis, happily married mother said she wanted to adopt a daughter instead of a son…that being a strong enough sign of suspiciously lesbian urges that the couple should not adopt. Chances that even a straight married man who once was caught cross-dressing (which is in many places still on the books as a crime) would be allowed to adopt in that environment? They wouldn’t even try.
Littleton v. Prange in 1999 was a case where a trans woman married to a man tried to sue the doctor who negligence killed her husband and was denied by the Texas Courts because her marriage was ruled invalid.
Michael Kantaras, a transgender man, was denied custody of his children in 1998 because his marriage was, again ruled invalid.
If you are transphobic unfollow me and never interact with this blog again.
Tbh I reblogged this like an hour ago and in the mean time I’ve dropped 15 followers so let me just reblog this again cause I don’t want y’all transphobes anywhere near me 👋🏽👋🏽
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