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People love to reduce animals to bits of deterministic biological machinery as if they aren't affected by their own lived experiences in deep and obvious ways

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It's actually devastating how the terms transfem and transmasc have been co-opted.

When they were first coined (as I remember it, at least) they were made to be expansive.

They meant "literally anyone who's gender is more feminine than masculine" and "literally anyone who's gender is more masculine than feminine" respectively.

The other common usages I saw were "literally anyone who's transitioning towards femininity/ masculinity".

They were very broad classifications. Purposefully so.

These terms allowed nonbinary people to have language that expressed masculinity or femininity without disavowing/erasing other (gendered) aspects of themselves.

And there was no expectation that everyone had to use them. They were just two options. There for anyone who wanted them.

Now these terms are (most often) used as synonyms for trans women/men. Now there's discreet "transfem" and "transmasc" experiences. No room for overlap or complexity.

It's become just another way to ask "yeah but are you a man or a woman"?

Fuck everyone else, right?

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from @/vero_muerte on tiktok!!

found this video at <2000 likes and i NEED more people to see this because. yeah.

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A hill i will die standing on is that picky eaters deserve respect and accommodation and to eat food they enjoy too. Sensory issues, disliked flavors, allergies, intolerances, cultural differences, religious restrictions, moral or political choices, they all deserve to be given consideration if you know you're gonna be cooking for them and to not be excluded from the fundamental right to food & access to the many important social bonding acitivities centered around food

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You are being watched.

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"Veganism is a privilege" really isn't the argument against veganism that people think it is. Yes, it's a privilege to have access to a wide range of plant based food. And it's a privilege to have a healthy enough body that animal products aren't a necessity for me (which they can be for certain people. Like in cases of severe dietary allergies for example.) Most vegans will readily acknowledge that it's not possible for everyone to be vegan. It's not even a point of debate. So yes, it's 100% a privilege. But why would that matter? Why wouldn't I want to use my privileged position to do what I feel is right? Is that kind of moral responsibility not what we generally ask of people who have privilege over others? I'm not out here to tell anyone what to do. Personal actions can only go so far and all that. But to me this particular argument reads as a thought terminating cliche.

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we as a community need to start considering the act of speculating on a persons agab as an act of transphobia

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I Think Something Is Wrong

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nobody needs to know what gender you were assigned at birth. no more agab. nobody needs to know.