#discussing that transphobe

[rivetgoth]

It's honestly crazy that discussion around testosterone HRT skews so much towards the beginning stages of it (to the point that you have dozens of guys thinking their transition is "failed" if they don't pass by like a year in lol) and what the initial changes of the first couple of months to years look like, like the classic laundry list of those early basic changes like bottom growth, voice drop, etc, when IMO literally none of that compares remotely to the depth and intensity of the long term total masculinization you start to experience like 3-5+ years in.

[butterfly-ribbon]

the most miserable thing to me about people doing the "mizuki is mizuki" bit is that the reason she says "i'm just me" when she's questioned is because she's exhausted of feeling like she has to always explain herself or prove things to others only to be faced with transmisogyny. it's insidious that people will ignore the context surrounding this to argue that mizuki's gender doesn't matter and insinuate that people who think it does are "reducing her to her gender" because this is just degendering from people who don't want to engage with textual transfemininity.

"inferiority" is a common refrain for mizuki, but not in the context of how ena struggles with inferiority - instead, it's an inferiority informed by how people see her as lesser or it being an inherent impossibility for her to ever be truly who she is (which is being a girl) when what she wants is to be treated as a normal girl without any asterisks attached and this is the reason she lets niigo assume that she's a cis girl for so long due to the internet allowing her the "plausible deniability" of cisness. mizuki is a character who reflects a very real experience where transfemininity influences every part of her life, because it informs how she lives, how she acts, her goals, and her choices each day.

this kind of complaint can be even worse when it's coming from people who acknowledge her transness, because it's always made by tme people who refuse to engage with how much being transfem can shape one's life and saying that discussing her transfemininity in depth is flattening her nuances even though it's a huge part of what makes her a very layered character in the first place is insinuating that this is a shallow aspect of her character which is really not that much different from saying she would have richer interiority if she weren't a girl (ie, a femboy).

[echoarts03]

WHAT THE FUCK, UK???

I MAY NOT UNDERSTAND ROMANCE OR SEXUAL DESIRE… AND I MAY NOT UNDERSTAND THE STRUGGLES OF GENDER IDENTITY,

BUT I CAN TELL A HUMAN BEING APART FROM A MONSTER, AND THOSE SUITS CALLING THE SHOTS ARE NOT HUMANS.

TO MY TRANSGENDER SISTERS/BROTHERS/OTHERS…

I AM HERE. FOR. YOU. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

LET ME BE YOUR SHOULDER TO CRY ON IF NOBODY ELSE WILL, AND LET ME FIGHT FOR YOU.

Reblog this if you will protect our trans community no matter what the law says. 👊

[gatekeeper-of-witchcraft]

I know I’m preaching to the choir but tims get so mad when you call them male instead of men, despite the claim that “nobody’s denying biological sex!”* even if you capitulate to calling them women (as a gender), because it tells them you don’t really believe it. you don’t buy it.

they know the only reason you’re keeping quiet about the fact that they’re men is because they’ve created an environment hostile to the truth and you’re toeing the line under implicit threat, not because you actually believe their claims.

they cracked down on the definition of woman, so the only way to shut you up (absent your capitulation to threats) is to crack down further on the definition of female.

* side note: I’ve noticed that it’s mostly ppl on the outer edges of the community/discourse that still argue that “no one’s denying biological sex.” the people closer to the inside doubled down and are now arguing for sex as a construct/spectrum/changing sex.

[inana-gets-political]

Legitimately, we have to talk about the most insidious kind of transphobic argument I have heard: "Gender is a social construct"

No, gender is a neurological characteristic with social constructs linked to it. It is that simple.

Saying that gender is only social means it is mutable, and that thus trans people can be made cis and viceversa.

It is a transphobic idea. Trans people exist due to in utero fluctuations of hormones from when out brains are made to when the body is made, there isn't a social reason. Social constructs are LINKED artificially to gender, but gender comes from brain structure.

Also, saying we're a byproduct of an oppressive social construct means that we're a symptom of a disease in society. It means that in a perfect society we wouldn't exist, so... Yeah, transphobic as fuck.

[unsaltedtoast]

the absurd amount of ppl on tiktok who are participating in the whole 'whats the definition of lesbian' and 'are lesboys valid' discourse who are so anti-discussion that they comment 'cringe' when you tell them to read actual lesbian history is so funny like ??

[tubapun]

Obviously the idea that testosterone or masculinity in general are inherently evil is not only stupid but incredibly harmful and bioessntialist. But also I have yet to see a trans woman actually say these things when talking about patriarchy and privilege. I'm starting to think some of you are taking them in bad faith and/or inventing women to be mad at so you don't have to examine if you might just maybe have a modicum of structural power or even just biases to work through

[vexy-hexy]

Hey, so am I the only one who's kinda curious as to why we give so much shit to J.K. Rowling for being a stupid TERF (which is deserved, might I add), but Scott Cawthon got off pretty good all things considered for donating to people like Trump???

I think there have been a few times I've brought Scott's shit up and have been essentially told to shut up, that "it's not too bad"...

Unlike Rowling, where every shitty thing she did and still does, it's constantly in our faces and a good amount of the fans (that I've seen at least) acknowledge and admonish her, but the FNAF community (again, that I've seen) seem to not like anyone bringing it up or just brush it off (I think some people are still JUST finding out about the donations because a lot of people seem to try and hide it???), even though Scott has said he wouldn't apologize despite him donating to homophobic, transphobic, and just, all-around bad people who have the power to take away people's rights to be themselves

Just... I feel like we should give the same energy to Cawthon that we give Rowling since they both suck as people, and I’m definitely guilty of not giving Scott enough shit

Like, am I the crazy one here???

[pezinvests]

this is soooo cunt i understand why people like this series now

[etchif]

Transmasc Paul Atreides is probably THE funniest dune hc imo