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There’s a lot of cis women who get really into trans discourse on this website who just straight up refuse to acknowledge they have privilege over trans men. And I’m tried of these cis women being given platforms and being allowed in trans activist spaces online.

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Is this actually a community wide or systemic problem or did you just meet one annoying guy

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here’s a challenge for some of you: address your failures in upholding members of our community without immediately jumping to sexualizing them and fetishizing them

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Successful trans men

I wish I knew about men like these growing up, I wish I knew that trans men could be successful after a lifetime of never seeing anyone ‘like me’ excelling in life. So here are some trans men - some that you may have heard of, some that you may not - that are successful in a range of careers. Never let being trans hold you back, never think you can’t do something, never think there is not a place for you.

Ben Barres American neurobiologist for Stanford University and advocate for women in science. Barre’s research on the interactions between glial cells and neurons changed the way that we understand the brain and opened up a whole new field of research.

Stephen Whittle Professor of equalities law. Founder of FTM Network in 1989 and Press for Change in 1992. Whittle has been heavily involved in trans activism since joining the Self Help Association for Transsexuals in 1979. His research and activism has been instrumental in ensuring the rights of trans people in the UK.

Michael D Cohen Actor, teacher and coach. Making his break in award-winning Nickelodeon sitcoms Harvey Danger and Danger Force he was the first series regular actor to publicly come out as transgender. Cohen has a BSc in cell biology and a masters degree in adult education, teaching at his own acting studio and providing workshops.

Chris Mosier American triathlete and award-winning coach. Six time member of Team USA in both duathlon and triathlon, Mosier also won two national championships in racewalking and was the first transgender athlete to qualify for the Olympic trials to compete against other members of his gender.

Yance Ford African-American film producer and director. Ford received an Emmy for Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking and was nominated for an Oscar for his part in producing and directing the documentary Strong Island which follows the death of his brother.

Kael McKenzie Canadian judge. Serving in the Canadian Armed Forces for several years, McKenzie later attended law school and and worked as a lawyer before being appointed as a judge to the Provincial Court of Manitoba in 2015. 

Shane Ortega Native American former flight engineer in the US army, former marine and professional bodybuilder. Throughout his career Ortega has served in Iraq and Afghanistan in over 400 combat missions. He has a long history of advocating for the repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell and the recent banning on transgender service members in the US army. 

Drago Renteria Chicano photojournalist and deaf and LGBT activist. Renteria founded the Deaf Queer Resource and is CEO of DeafVision - a webhosting and development company run by deaf people and the founder of the National Deaf LGBTQ Archives. Renteria has been instrumental in both creating and hosting many online deaf/queer spaces online along with being heavily involved in real-world activism for decades.

Phillipe Cunningham Elected city councillor for ward 4 Minneapolis and previous special education teacher, Cunningham holds a masters degrees in Organizational Leadership & Civic Engagement and in Police Administration and is passionate about tacking inequalities in his community. 

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Is that generalization really true or was a one trans person kinda mean to you.

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this is a drawing about how i love my cat

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"noooo but this trans woman is actually dangerous and has hurt people" please explain to me how spotlighting her and setting her up for mass harassment is in any way helping anyone in this situation. Like, does this 6 hour long cringe compilation help the victims? because i think you just want an acceptable target for bullying

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I’m sorry but if your reproductive activism doesn’t include trans people it’s not real reproductive activism.

Fighting for Reproductive rights shouldn’t just be fighting for access to safe abortions for cis women. It’s also fighting for affordable access for STD screening, fighting for affordable access for prostate/cervical/breast cancer testing, fighting for insurance to not deny trans people reproductive care, fighting to remove the laws forcing trans people to be sterilized to get their gender recognized, fighting for affordable access to hysterectomies/Tubal ligation/Vasectomy, fighting for affordable access to birth control/plan b/condoms, fighting for comprehensive sex education, and so much more.

There’s so many people who boil down reproductive rights to just being abortion rights specifically for cisgender women, and it’s really annoying. There’s more to it. And you should support and fights for everyone’s reproductive freedom.

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hot take but i dont like callout posts for entire demographics

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the way that people are still having to breakdown how dysphoria + hormonal changes will often make it so a lot trans people dont want to (or are even straight up unable to) penetrate with their penis or be penetrated vaginally is fucking crazy like that feels like the obvious conclusion but somehow we've been washed away by fetish content that near exclusively portrays trans women as dom tops and trans men as sub bottoms so who fucking knows

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stop telling trans girls that "it's okay to be a feminine man" and start saying it to "cis" girls with a little bit of a fujoshi vibe instead. would have saved me years.

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listen man. you gotta stop making transandrophobia a transmasc vs transfem thing. and maybe you don’t think youre doing it. you feel hurt and that is extremely valid but youre also not helping yourself by making post after post about exclusively about transfems, no matter how specific and deserving the actual subset of person youre talking about is. I think, also, its alienating to people who would otherwise agree with you but are offput by your language, not in a “well i agree with you but you should say it different” way but a “i would learn more about this topic but this language makes me uncomfortable so i am going to avoid it.” it actually isnt very helpful if you want to argue that transandrophobia doesnt suggest trans women oppress trans men (which it doesnt and never has) if the only perpetrators of it you ever talk about are trans women and that that is the first exposure some people will ever have to the theory.

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Made a little something on slur reclamation.

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Most anti phone advice is so inane and regurgitated to me but one thing I’ve been thinking about for days is “social media is okay, but the real danger comes in when you think your phone should be your go to during your limited pockets of leisure” like that’s literally the truest thing ever