#anti lesbian seperatism

[chaos-in-one]

Every time I see words like "fakebian" and "transtrender" I have to fight so many urges to start a fight

Any terms like that but those two especially give me the ick as someone whose both trans (esp since I'm genderfluid bc nonbinary people get targeted w that word a lot) and a lesbian

[mikasasrippedtoenail]

Calling Lesbians' attraction to vaginas a mere genital "preference" erases the sheer violence behind corrective rape of millions of sapphic women. I do not just "dislike" dick, I am physically incapable of being attracted to it. My allure to the female genitilia is not a choice, it's my biological reality. Dismissal of same-sex attraction as a choice reinforces the homophobic ideology that attractions can be altered and also paves the way for discrimination. One cannot opt out of their sexuality, they are always born with it.

[anarchatranny-almanac]

Welcome to the Anarcha-Tranny Almanac!

This blog is a directory of and resource for pronouns, names, and terms, especially related to certain themes. We especially focus on older queer terms and pronouns, and love fulfilling requests for them especially! You can learn more about who runs the blog on our About page.

If you've been struggling to decide on or find a name or pronouns, or are just interested in what older terms, pronouns, and identities might fit you, you're in the right place!

We'll also be posting educational content on various terms, especially slurs that are reclaimed by the community and terms that have fallen out of favor. We'd love to have you along for the ride!

Information on boundaries and interaction under the cut.

We are firmly anti-exclusionism/seperatism. The exclusion of bi women and trans men from lesbianism, women from gayness, nonbinary people from transness, a-spec folks from queerness, etc. is inherently ahistorical and queerphobic, and isn't tolerated here. We do not have a DNI, and anyone can ask for pronoun/name/term ideas, but we will not entertain exclusionism in this space.

We are pro-kink, and anti-minors in kink, including kink discourse. We support kink at pride, and any pride that excludes kink is not real pride. We believe age-appropriate kink education and exposure is vital for queer people of all ages. This blog will not contain any kink-related content that isn't strictly educational, and will always be minor-appropriate.

We do not identify as MOGAI or LGBTQ+ and do not want to be referred to as such. We are not anti-MOGAI, but have had extremely negative experiences in the community (as have many other transfeminine and nonwhite individuals) and do not consider ourselves a part of it. We may use these tags because we understand there's an audience overlap.

[heythereeveryone]

Hello Everyone

Please read my bio before interacting

Rules/Guidelines

•this is a blog of femme lesbian separatist who has a radfem ideology (not to be mistaken with t3rf) who likes lunarpunk if you are against those things feel free to block don’t report

•No sexist,racist,n@zi,people rude to any religion,transphobes or t3rfs,homophobes,p3d0s,or any other hate speech allowed this will get you blocked 🙂

•no weird dms or nudes (friend only dms)

About Me

I live on EST time

I’m a Leo

My personality type is INTP

I’m a demigirl, I use she/they pronouns

I’m a fraysexual lesbian not looking for a relationship

I love Creative activities such as art,writing,sewing,crochet,etc

I also love nature,reading and music and Herstory as well as History sometimes.

I love travel and physical media.

I’m blasian (Yoruba,Sakalava,Tamil,Khmer) but also Soulaan (African American)

I’m a womanist

I’m a sub who believes BDSM also stands for boundaries,discussion,solidarity and mutual respect.

I believe in child/youth rights such as the right to vote at 16 since a lot of 16 year olds work and the right to leave school or run away from bad situations and if you can I believe 14+ should be able to own their own property and handle their own health if they would like

I believe in the right to choose

I love the sukeban

I am lunarpunk and love riot grrrl bands and music

Focus

Womanism and seperatism

Kink and BDSM

Child/Youth rights

Religion

Art

Travel

Anti capitalist

Anarchy

DIY

Decolonization and reindiginization

Land back

Anti-capitalist ,globalization,war

,gentrification and anything big

Like big corpa,pharma,etc

Kinks

Oral

Patriarchy and misogyny (M)

Supernatural

Role play

Group play

Swinging

Pins and needles

Branding

Tickling

Public play

Punish play

Nipple

Groping(breast only)

Mommy/daughter

Bondage

Blindfolding

Bimbofication(M)

Tentacles

Egg Preg(M)

Cyber sex

Praise

Humiliation/degradation

Orgasm control and edging

Lingerie

Sex toys

hickeys and biting

Feedism(preferably fanged) but others are cool as well

Omegaverse(M)

Soft limits

Cnc and r@pe

Breeding(M)

Race play

Gang bang

Odors/scent

Impact

Somno

Rough

Crying

Knife

Lactation

Hard limits

Teen/child

Incest

Diaper play

Foot fetish

Butt fetish

Necrophilia

Bestiality

Piss vomit or scat

Enemas

Conversion

Hair pulling

Choking

Must be lesbian unless m placed next to it

M=male is okay

[nothorses]

do you know where I can learn about baeddels from an accurate point of view?? everything I've found seems to be strangely contradictory and fitting certain agendas, and I'd like to understand better what's going on there.

I don't know if there's one condensed source on Baeddels, but I can help fill in some gaps to the best of my knowledge.

"Bæddel" as a term comes from an Old English slur meant to target "effeminate"/gnc men, people we would now understand as transfeminine, and intersex people. It is the root of the word "bad", quite literally. This was interpreted by some transfems around 2014 to mean that society hates trans women more than most/any other group, and the term was reclaimed as a way of communicating a transfem-centric, transmisogyny-centric worldview and ideology.

So Baeddel ideology is about "centering transfems", but it goes a little deeper than this:

[From this article on Baeddelism, written by a self-described Baeddel in 2017]

Baeddels believe that transmisogyny is under-discussed (which is true) and extrapolate from this two major and deeply dangerous ideas:

Transmisogyny is under-discussed because other trans people, namely transmasculine people, are taking up too much space. Transmascs are their oppressors, and they get away with it.

The only people transfems can possibly be understood by, or safe around, are other transfems.

The first point is problematic because, well, transmascs do not hold the institutional and systemic power necessary to oppress anyone. We are not granted privilege nor power for being trans men.

We can and do participate in transmisogyny, which is absolutely a problem (and it's one I do my best to address in these conversations), but this is lateral aggression. It absolutely causes harm; but it neither aids in, nor benefits from, the systemic oppression of transfeminine people.

Acting as if transmascs are uniquely privileged or are otherwise oppressing transfem people contributes to the existing oppression of transmascs (and again, this is lateral aggression when coming from transfems). In fact, trans men and AFAB nonbinary people face higher rates of lifetime sexual assault and suicidal ideation than any other group- which stems from oppression that is erased and under-discussed, allowing it to continue in the shadows.

The second point is problematic because it very quickly leads to a re-hash of lesbian seperatism, something Baeddels are happy to admit to:

To the extent that “no… young trans women [are] espousing transfeminine separatism” - its true only insofar as it was never transfeminine separatism but lesbian separatism (people get this twisted - it wasn’t necessarily exclusive of cis women & there were cis women who contributed to the theory back in the day) and if we aren’t espousing it its because we’ve implemented it with sufficient success. I, at least, still uphold lesbian separatism [...]

[From this post on Baeddels from one of the original Baeddels, written in 2019]

Lesbian separatism, for those who don't know, is an extremist radical feminist movement that states that women cannot have contact with men without endangering themselves. Solutions to this range from simply interacting with men as little as possible (often including political lesbianism), to forming self-sufficient communes devoid of men, to literally killing all men.

Lesbian separatism is a proto-TERF movement, and something many TERFs still advocate for today. Slapping trans paint on these ideologies does not make them less dangerous, because the problem with TERFism isn't just that they hate trans people: it's that they are a violent and cultish group founded on fear, hatred, and bigotry.

The Baeddel movement largely imploded around 2016/17 when there was some drama and fallout, and one of them was revealed to be fairly abusive (iirc). Still, they left an impact. This post is a compilation of (genuinely horrific) anti-transmasc sentiment found largely on Baeddel tags and self-described Baeddel blogs on Tumblr, all of which is no older than 2018, and largely from more recent years.

If you'd like to dig deeper, the sources I linked provide a lot more information on all of this. It is genuinely fascinating, and it's genuinely important to be able to identify these ideas and why they're dangerous.

I want to leave this off by stressing that Baeddels were a relatively fringe group, and in no way represent all transfems. They caused damage to transfem communities as well as transmasc and trans-androgynous nonbinary communities, and transfems as a whole are our allies in addressing the mess they left behind.

[magnetictapedatastorage]

"on the gender critical movement and its possibility to grow among non-radical people to provide a firm basis for radical feminism to spread as a second step", October 1st 2021

With radical feminism being apparently the only philosophy that acknowledges reality (sex exists, men have male privilege, you can't change your chromosomes, ect), does anyone else feel like it's sort of untenable to go on like this (as a productive movememt)? Of course there is much more to radical feminism than just acknowledging reality (there is also anti pornography, pro seperatism, etc), but increasingly it seems like acknowledging reality is the most topical and foundational thing necessary right now. That may be a problem, because it's so much more 'basic' than anything else.

Imagine if full-on communism was the only ideology that acknowledged the existence of poor people.

Look, I do not want to water down radical feminism. We've all either heard about or seen firsthand whathappens when someone peaks (realizes sex is indeed real and unchangable) and has nothing else to call themselves because no other philosophy seems to fit the bare minimum of "sex is real, and women are oppressed based on sex". I don't want to get into the negatives of individualism, or weather feminist is an adverb or an adjective. But there is a linguistic issue here, and it's growing.

As a more correct term for reality acknowledgers, Gender Critical is the obvious choice. But it can very easily cause confusion due to the conflation of gender roles and grammatical gender (pronouns, other languages, etc). I don't have a solution, and maybe there is no need for one. Maybe Gender Critical is enough.

I just felt like laying all this on the table. There is an increasing number of gender critical young men on here, primarily gay men, some of them detransitioned. there is a shared goal between lesbian and gay communities: avoid destruction. But that goal is shared also with many women of any orientation, due to sex based oppression being widely ignored. The circle of people harmed by sex-denialists is growing to the point where it does not fit entirely inside radical feminism.

The message is too broad. Too basic. Sex is real. Sexism is real. Sexuality is sex-based. But somehow these statements are still controversial at best, much more commonly seen as flatly unspeakable. Even in private. Even anonymously. So we have a self-described radical (to the root) philosophy as the only acknowledgement of a growing number of utterly elementary truths. Sex is real, sexuality is sex-based, sexism is sex-based.

[Will continue]

[mithliya]

the fact that you think drag queens are trans ppl when the trans activist crowd has been calling them transphobic and cissexist and transmisogynistic for years now 😭 when drag culture is a part of gay club culture

maybe i shouldn’t have assumed you had any background knowledge. a lot of the most vocal anti trans as in the people who talk about the medical industry grooming children and experimenting on their genitals .. also views drag culture as predatory and grooming. and in order to not offend their lgb “allies” they associate it with trans. what tras think of drag doesn’t matter the same way what rads think of matt walsh doesn’t matter. gcs still deal with him and radfems still deal with gcs. if i was equating yall i wouldn’t make any distinction.

was the connection not clear enough? i know you aren’t unaware of who actually does the activism to push back pro trans anti woman legislation and it definitely isn’t radfems… it’s gcs and their right wing allies but we’re still involved with that

are you gonna say that homophobic men killing the trans women they were sexually exploiting were actually influenced by evil radfems too?

this is really such a stupid jump from me saying “rads gc and rwingers are linked in this culture war. let me use political lesbianism since that’s something you’ll care about. 70s poliles were advocating for seperatism and “lesbian” liberation. loads of them went back to men. now the average man who thinks he can turn a lesbian or person thinking gay is a choice knows nothing about dworkin but she has contributed to that. would it exist without her? yes. would she be horrified at it? probably. but she has contributed nonetheless to the culture™️. i’ve been a long time follower but i’m going to pack it up. this has all left a bad taste in my mouth

god yes pls leave. i can’t believe you saw some misogynistic homophobe do a mass shooting and thought “this is the fault of feminists & lesbians for speaking up against issues such as misogyny and homophobia within the trans movement!!” and then decided to give a condescending “background knowledge” to justify it too.

[thesaviorofmisbehavior]

Tolerant trans person with an understanding of queer terminology’s history: exists

Some jackass: here’s my radfem rhetoric that I felt the need to spew all over a positive, celebratory post, just to try to make a trans person less popular because I’m not tolerant myself.

What do you mean I’m being an ass?

First day of life up until 6th grade 

Jumped all the way to Freshman year of High School

Then I cut my hair Junior year, why did I do that

Slowly it started growing back and then….

I finally felt comfortable to express myself (the picture on the left was my debut)

At this point in my transition I am 6 months into HRT

A year on HRT

Over a year and a half on hormones. My transition hasn’t been the clearest path but I am so happy that I am on it.