#cw// transphobia

[sprinkleonthatcriticism]

Reitanna: "I can't be transphobic because I'm pansexual" Also Reitanna: *proceeds to be transphobic*

1# proceeding to accuse a minor of "transtrending" without evidence

2# Reitanna seishin misgendering Issac despite knowing FULL WELL that he goes by different pronouns (she does this more than two times)

3# using the term 'trap' and talking over trans voices when they voice their concern about how the word 'Trap' is in fact a slur (see 'Idiot on Colors! 3D journal) So uh yeah

[xxduncandonutxx]

(Regarding your post about Viv making a transmasc character cis) The thing about Viv making a character who was originally meant to be transmasc cis is that it shows her disregard for transmasculine people, all the while she is praised for her pretty minimal transfem representation. This is an issue because it gives a glimpse into how she thinks about trans issues: Trans women are just feminine men (Something she's been shown to enjoy time and time again), and Trans men are just "trenders and self-hating women" (which she's literally said before). This line of thought is perpetuated through things like this, even if it seems minor, because she knows if she was more loudly transphobic people would begin to question her. Hopefully this makes sense! Have a nice day :)

Thank you for sharing your thoughts ^-^ !! Again, I don't really see it as an issue because again, it's just concept art.. concepts change, just because someone makes a trans character cis doesn't mean they are "erasing" transmasc people. I mean, it would make sense if the character was actually shown to be trans inshow and then Viz decided to make them cis in the next episode (something she didn't do, she only did this to concept of the character NOT an actual canon person.)

I do have issues with her other transphobic things like calling people "trans trenders" and such, but simply making a (concept character) cis instead of trans does NOT make Viziepop a transphobe, what DOES make her a transphobe is those logs. /srs

My girlfriend, who is trans doesn't see the concept art as an issue and me, who is genderfluid (falling under the trans umbrella) also don't see this as a problem but I'll respect your opinion.

I hope this makes sense, have a nice day /gen

[heckpuppyy]

I woke up to Ladiva and Bridget slander on my twt this morning via a shitty reddit post about transfem characters and I am HEATED. You're gunna label Poison a "Dommy Mommy" and then call Ladiva a harmful stereotype? Poison?? The character who was made trans so the devs didn't have to feel bad about a ciswoman being beaten up and it didn't count bc she wasn't a "real" woman?

And Ladiva being harmful??? LADIVA???? The character whose whole story is about loving yourself and finding beauty and acceptance within and not appealing to other's ideals? The character who didn't transition or even attempt to be more femme because she loves the body her parents gave her and she praises it for being strong enough to protect the ones she loves and gentle enough to hold them close? The character who is absolutely everything lovecore and is always smiling and caring and gentle and motherly to everyone because she believes everyone deserves respect and honor?

Don't you ever come for my mother ever again!! I will never tolerate Ladiva slander ever!!

[duncan-rawr-x3]

from reading reitanna's original fiction I believe very strongly that reitanna can't fathom the idea of a sexless relationship

You are absolutely correct + she doesn't seem to understand that some Asexuals can still date people too. If I remember correctly, I think I saw a comment once where someone said that they got into an argument with Rei about how Minkie and Derpy being asexual; Reitanna refused to listen to the person when they tried to explain to her that Asexuals CAN still go on dates, have a relationship ect. if they want. CW// Transphobia, Lesbianphobia, trans slur usage

Like, Reitanna Seishin shouldn't speak since she's pansexual AND a cis-woman NOT an Asexual, same with the trans =/= trap thing. I use to believe that Trap isn't a slur because of Rei and I had made a crossdresser oc that I rarely used/draw anymore (that being Christelle Celest).

But after sometime, I stopped using the term 'trap' and just opt with using Crossdresser to describe my character. /gen

Reitanna Seishin also tried to use the "I can't be transphobic or lesbianphobic because I'm pansexual!" excuse, which nEWSFLASH WOMAN, You can still be transphobic and Pansexual.. it's like a gay person and lesbian can be transphobic by simply saying "I only date REAL man" or "I only date REAL women".

In my personal opinion, Rei IS a transphobe.. she uses the slur trap, she invalidates people's genders and she had MULTIPLE TIMES and PURPOSELY uses the wrong pronouns for Issac who goes by he/him but Rei keep using "they/them".

Anyways, sorry for the rant. /gen

[lizardsfromspace]

The pure Jokerfying energy of learning one of the key influencers of the British transphobia movement is someone who campaigns against trans rights bc he regrets getting dozens of plastic surgeries to look like Jimin from BTS. They present him as merely a "detransitioner" and bury the lede that he was detransitioning from trying to transition from British to Korean but he really based his media empire on assuming "well, trans people must regret their surgery as much as I regret my THIRTY TWO YELLOWFACE SURGERIES"

[buggachat]

drag has anonymity. it has history. it's a second identity. it's wordplay. it's flamboyancy. it's performance. it's comedy. it's rejecting societal norms and expectations. it's having fun. no one can convince me it wouldn't awaken something in him

[the articles i stole from: one, two, three ]

[ayeforscotland]

Something is different this time with JK Rowling’s ugly comments regarding Imane Khelif and Lin Yu Ting. Both of whom are cis women and have identified as women since their birth.

It’s the first time I’m seeing more of the general public reacting with “You don’t know what you’re talking about. Stop being so weird and obsessive.”

Reaction to this has been particularly strong in Taiwan.

‘Gender Critics’ aren’t even being gender critical now. They are being gender enforcers for women they perceive to be outside the norm.

And it’s good to see people recognising this creepiness for what it actually is. Frothing at the mouth at every little thing will turn the public away from you.

[catboybiologist]

“As a biologist, the terms biological woman and man don’t make any sense to me” okay then you’re an idiot and a terrible biologist. I swear to god, morons like you only become biologists just so you can hold it over others, when in reality, if biology deniers like you can become biologists, then being one really doesn’t mean much anyway. But this probably just gave an autogynophile like you a boner to read, anyway.

Oh fun! Haven't gotten one of these in a while. Disregarding the fact that you somehow think the qualification for being a biologist entirely hinges on defining womanhood, I do need to ask some clarification. I know I'm feeding the trolls here, but here we go: does your definition of "biological woman" mean:

Sociological woman? Eh, context dependent, I'm not fully out of the closet, but oftentimes, I am and present femme. So let's call that one 50/50.

Psychological woman? Because I am one.

Neurological woman? Because I am one [1].

Physical woman? My soft tissue redistribution is handling that well.

Hormonal woman? My blood tests are within cis female ranges.

Transcriptional woman? As a signalling molecule, the downstream effects of estrogen have broad transcriptional effects, completely changing the profile of gene expression and functional genomics of my cells. [2]

Genetic woman? I mean, see my above point- as far as my genes that are actually active, I have all of the same transcripts being produced, controlling which genes are expressed.

Karyotypic woman? I actually have a few signs pre-HRT that might point to a non-XY chromosome pair, but I haven't had a karyotype. We'll put that down as unknown. And hell, even if its XY, there's plenty of cis women who are karyotypically XY, with suppressed sry or complete androgen insensitivity. Interestingly enough, a completely androgen insesitive woman can go her whole life without knowing- and functionally, is very similar to a trans woman, actually. Fancy that. [3]

Reproductive woman? I can't produce an egg cell, but neither can significant fractions of cis women. Also, this is all gonna change soon, which is fun. [4]

There's also a lot of understudied aspects to the biology of HRT and even pre-HRT that are emerging, largely demonstrating widespread cellular and genetic remodeling of trans individuals undergoing hormone therapy. The field is a bit behind due to constant political pressure to revoke funding, but a lot of the results are extremely exciting in both testosterone and estrogen hormone therapies. I'm sure that, as a self professed biology As someone who presumably has a lot of expertise in biology, I'm assuming that you're aware of all of this cutting edge research, and are keeping up with modern papers, including but not limited to these cool findings:

Trans men on HRT exhibit significant genetic and transcriptional changes that make them biochemically male. [5][6]. It's a good hypothesis that the same happens with estrogen treatment, but those studies don't exist yet- I'm sure you're reserving judgment until more publications exist, of course.

Trans men on HRT develop male cell types and tissues. [7]

Trans women experience muscular and blood cell changes that align with cis women moreso than cis men [8]

And many, many more! This is an exciting, underserved, and groundbreaking field of research, and I'm sure you're keeping up with the latest in scientific journals about it.

I'm sure, of course, that you understand that it becomes impossible to draw a distinct line anywhere in here, and that words like "woman" are shorthand for the myriad of traits that invisibly synthesize in our mind and in society to represent a concept? I'm sure you understand that science is fundamentally descriptive, not prescriptive? I'm sure that you understand that these findings, while really cool and interesting, actually don't mean jack shit about what the word "woman" means or not?

As someone who is the ultimate decider in what a biologist is, I'm sure you know that bioessentiallism is a childish mindset that completely ignores and disregards the constantly changing, dynamic nature of biological systems, something that extends well beyond biological sex and its relation to gender.

I'm sure that also, that you understand that beyond just this, that the role of science in society is to advise how to achieve our moral principles, not create moral principles in themselves. And I'm sure that understanding means you know that trans affirming healthcare and supportive societal treatment leads to reduced mortality and increased happiness for everyone, right?

So great to talk to someone who is surely a scientist on this. You are a biologist, if you're talking like this, I assume? I assume you're not going to spit complete misreadings of scientific language from the background sections of these papers that only reveal you've never read a scientific paper in your life if you're thinking this way? I assume you have experience interpreting data like this?

Also, imagining my genitalia while writing this? Ew. Please stop projecting your fetishes into my inbox.

Works cited:

Kurth F, Gaser C, Sánchez FJ, Luders E. Brain Sex in Transgender Women Is Shifted towards Gender Identity. J Clin Med. 2022 Mar 13;11(6):1582. doi: 10.3390/jcm11061582. PMID: 35329908; PMCID: PMC8955456.

Fuentes N, Silveyra P. Estrogen receptor signaling mechanisms. Adv Protein Chem Struct Biol. 2019;116:135-170. doi: 10.1016/bs.apcsb.2019.01.001. Epub 2019 Feb 4. PMID: 31036290; PMCID: PMC6533072.

Gottlieb B, Trifiro MA. Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome. 1999 Mar 24 [Updated 2017 May 11]. In: Adam MP, Feldman J, Mirzaa GM, et al., editors. GeneReviews® [Internet]. Seattle (WA): University of Washington, Seattle; 1993-2024. Available from: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK1429/

Murakami, K., Hamazaki, N., Hamada, N. et al. Generation of functional oocytes from male mice in vitro. Nature 615, 900–906 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-05834-x

Pallotti F, Senofonte G, Konstantinidou F, Di Chiano S, Faja F, Rizzo F, Cargnelutti F, Krausz C, Paoli D, Lenzi A, Stuppia L, Gatta V, Lombardo F. Epigenetic Effects of Gender-Affirming Hormone Treatment: A Pilot Study of the ESR2 Promoter's Methylation in AFAB People. Biomedicines. 2022 Feb 16;10(2):459. doi: 10.3390/biomedicines10020459. PMID: 35203670; PMCID: PMC8962414.

Florian Raths, Mehran Karimzadeh, Nathan Ing, Andrew Martinez, Yoona Yang, Ying Qu, Tian-Yu Lee, Brianna Mulligan, Suzanne Devkota, Wayne T. Tilley, Theresa E. Hickey, Bo Wang, Armando E. Giuliano, Shikha Bose, Hani Goodarzi, Edward C. Ray, Xiaojiang Cui, Simon R.V. Knott, The molecular consequences of androgen activity in the human breast, Cell Genomics, Volume 3, Issue 3, 2023, 100272, ISSN 2666-979X, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xgen.2023.100272. (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666979X23000320)

Xu R, Diamond DA, Borer JG, Estrada C, Yu R, Anderson WJ, Vargas SO. Prostatic metaplasia of the vagina in transmasculine individuals. World J Urol. 2022 Mar;40(3):849-855. doi: 10.1007/s00345-021-03907-y. Epub 2022 Jan 16. PMID: 35034167.

Harper J, O'Donnell E, Sorouri Khorashad B, McDermott H, Witcomb GL. How does hormone transition in transgender women change body composition, muscle strength and haemoglobin? Systematic review with a focus on the implications for sport participation. Br J Sports Med. 2021 Aug;55(15):865-872. doi: 10.1136/bjsports-2020-103106. Epub 2021 Mar 1. PMID: 33648944; PMCID: PMC8311086.

[coulsonlives]

Holy shit, Shapiro had his ass handed to him. This is so satisfying to watch.

[mxrobinhearts]

So, y'all know what's happening with Photomatt now, right?

He's being lovebombed by transphobes, overloaded with supportive messages, and sent links to anti-trans articles and podcasts and videos and newspaper columns. He's being told about the toxic TRAs and cancel culture censorship and the violent trans activists who "eat their own".

Sympathic lips are telling him all about "children being sterilised", about "unfairness in women's sports", about autogynephilia, about Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria, about "gay conversion therapy".

And because he's angry, bitter, and has had his ego bruised, he is listening.

He's been in the rare position of a CEO actually subjected to a similar treatment as the people using his service, and he did not care for it. He feels uniquely hounded, he feels alone, he feels deeply wronged. He was an Ally, he did and said all the Right Things. And even still, he was Cancelled, labelled a transphobe.

I don't want to predict the future or guess to Matt Mullenweg's character. I genuinely, deeply hope I'm wrong here. However, if within the next few months, he starts expressing some "legitimate concerns" with trans rights, I will not be the least bit surprised.

[xxduncandonutxx]

Idol did not just call a trans person a femboy-- 💀

I'm fine with people using the term femboy to describe a cis-MAN who dresses femmine and such, BUT never never EVER fucking describe someone who is mtf a femboy because that's fucking offensive and you could be seen as a transphobic for that-

[agendercryptidlev]

We need to talk more about the transmasculine suicide rate.

There's a common saying that every transgender suicide is a murder, because it is the lack of acceptance in society that leads transgender individuals to commit suicide at such a high rate, this is true of trans men who have the highest suicide rate across all gender identities:

[image ID: a stylized graph depicting the percentages of considering & attempted suicide for different gender experiences.

Cisgender boy/man: 28% considered suicide, 8% attempted suicide

Cisgender girl/woman: 37% considered suicide, 10% attempted suicide

Transgender boy/man: 59% considered suicide, 22% attempted suicide

Transgender girl/woman: 48% considered suicide, 12% attempted suicide

Nonbinary/genderqueer: 53% considered suicide, 19% attempted suicide

Questioning: 48% considered suicide, 14% attempted suicide

end ID] ID by @tstomboy

Trans men are not receiving the support they need, and many of them are not surviving because of this. We need to make sure that mental health support and suicide for transgender individuals is as inclusive as possible for these transgender men who are at the highest risk.

We need to ensure trans men feel safe and welcome within the queer community as isolation is one of the more exacerbating factors on one's mental health. We need to make sure resources for victims of sexual violence are inclusive of transmasculine individuals, who face the highest rate of sexual abuse and yet often have to recloset themselves to find support. We have to love trans men because society shows them nothing but hate.

Check in with the trans men in your community, you may just save a life.

[metamatar]

Zionists love to ask me, "How would you fare in Gaza?" to which I love to respond, "How would I get to Gaza?" This first question, like many transphobic heckles that I have received from Zionists, is an Althusserian hail. According to Althusser (1971), the hail serves to interpolate the individual into the subject, to bring the individual into ideology. The noble identification of "gay friendly" Tel Aviv's gift to all queers is a hail—an interpolation of the transgender body into an always already indebted subject position, one enmeshed in a "cycle of debt." Under the Zionist economy of gratitude, the transgender subject is perpetually indebted to capitalism and the West for allowing her to exist. The properly delimited space for the transgender subject within this ideology is essentially one confined to an apoliticized space of pride parades and gay bars, but never the front lines of an anti-imperial or anticolonial project. It is a queer/transphobic assault against those visibly queer bodies who refuse to be properly disciplined neoliberal queer consumers—and transgender bodies are often the most visibly queer bodies and hence the ones singled out for attack. As one cannot return the gift to the one who gave it (in this case because the Zionist disidentified from his own queerphobia), the transgender subject is forced to pass it along—to Palestinians. Hence, the queerphobic Zionist can pass the gift of his racist colonial phobia as well as his queerphobia on to the transgender subject. The projection allows the Zionist to disidentify from the transphobia inherent in his hail. This is particularly important, since it is precisely the violent transphobia—"what are you?"—that is an incitement to vulnerability. I am supposed to feel vulnerable, afraid, attacked by this hail, in order that I may pass on that gift of death to the supposedly transphobic Palestinian.

Papantonopoulou, Saffo. “‘Even a Freak Like You Would Be Safe in Tel Aviv’: Transgender Subjects, Wounded Attachments, and the Zionist Economy of Gratitude.” Women’s Studies Quarterly 42, no. 1/2 (2014): 278–93. http://www.jstor.org/stable/24364930.

[punkitt-is-here]

Do you think maybe you got rejected from all those comedy troupes, not from a lack of being funny, but because you look like a schlubby white dude named "mason" but you identify as a woman? I think maybe you make normal people uncomfortable because you're gross to look at but saccharine in a way that makes it feel like you're trying to downplay your ooga-booga caveman ass appearance and it just makes you unsettling.

Now see, THIS is hate mail. This is some prime time shit. Actually trying to get at me. Referencing the time I got turned down from an improv club, that's a deep cut. I can tell you've been on the hater grind for a while now with that one, which i can respect. However, you lost me at the caveman appearance. If you're so keen on making true callbacks, you'd know I already received hate mail comparing me to a neanderthal a couple of days ago and should know by now that comparing me to a caveman is fruitless because i think they fucking rock and now im imagining a caveman in an improv club and it's actually a really sick thought. i shouuld fucking draw that. wait hold on.

yeah wait this owns fuck whatever you were talking about im thinking about thog now. i think he always messes up zip zap zop but his improv troupe loves him anyway and he's really good at the physical comedy side of things

[penny-anna]

something i find genuinely bizarre about the anti-trans rights crowd is the apparent conviction that women habitually see each other's genitals in public bathrooms

[ayeforscotland]

The one positive that will come from this utterly deranged tweet from stochastic terrorist, LibsofTikTok, will be more people learn about Paleo Pines - an adorable Dino-farming sim.

Solidarity to Paleo Pines team, their socials will be a fucking nightmare right now.