#i also am not a fan of kiwis. but that's just because i don't particularly like tarte or sour things

[mickgaydolenz]

i voted wrong on the fruit poll like an idiot. the worst fruit by far is cantaloupe :(

[shyocean]

Thought for the greater trans community.

People with uteruses are having a particularly rough summer.

Our access to life-saving emergency medical care. Our access to maintenance medicine. Our basic bodily autonomy. Right now, a trans man in Texas who is raped might be forced to give birth while having no access to legal protection afforded to women giving birth. It's frightening. We're angry. There a lot of trauma and emotion, right now.

Even if some of you don't care. Realpolitik. This is a big enough issue, that it has the chance to flip a lot of centrist red voters blue. If we, as a community, really got behind this, maybe we could push the government more towards the center, instead of listing more into christo fascism. Now, I am not a centrist, but unless you plan to overthrow the government in the next three months, blue is better. Practically, unity and coalition building would be a good thing.

So, thinking about the relatively unprecedented level of intracommunity discourse, abetted by Kiwi farms etc, it feels hard to believe it's chance. That alienating people with uteruses from the trans movement isn't getting pushed into place by someone else.

Because, for god's sake, is the community really telling people with uteruses to sit down and shut up and listen to people without uteruses, because we have the privilege of having a uterus right now, so we don't deserve a voice in the community about what we are called or even to discuss whether we belong here?

Is the community really telling trans-aligned people with uteruses that we aren't really trans, and that we are the cause of the christofascist authoritarianism that's oppressing us both ways?

Are we really publicly having all this anti-afab, anti-female discourse on main?

Is the community setting it up like a choice, either we can care about protecting Black transfemmes, or we can care about the voices and dignity and priorities of people with uteruses? Like we literally can't do both?

Surely we aren't doing this to ourselves, right?

Because it's incredibly alienating to me, a trans person dating a Black transfemme. It's led me to not want to have anything to do with anything trans 'community' besides loving my girlfriend and friends and living my life.

Can you imagine the impact on a scared, angry, less attached person who can't get their lupus meds, or a woman who almost died because her doctor wouldn't remove her dead wanted pregnancy, or the teenager who's been raped or any of the thousands of ongoing horror stories that are freshly occurring?

This is not respectability politics; you will never be enough for the people who hate you. This is about people who are actively trying to be on your side getting kicked in the teeth for it.

You don't even have to like or care about cis women or afab trans people. You can be fully a misogynist, and still, and if you are queer, understand that working together politically would help personally, because everyone 's liberation is intersectionally tied together.

And every actual amab trans person I have actually talked to is someone I like. It's just the badness echoing across social media. We act like it's coming from inside the house, but I don't think so. I don't.

I think we're better than this, on the whole, en masse, without anyone profiting off our in-fighting and fear. I am hoping so.

And that means we also don't go after binary trans people who have made a mistake or gotten notoriety, or support. I don't think Hunter deserves whatever she's getting for hitting a stupid like button. No one actually deserves the harassment. I don't think we need to be disappointed that Keffals was able to turn a threat to her life to her advantage because she's pretty and has a huge fan base. Can we just. Stop. Hurting. The person within reach?

I think it is being pushed on us and we have to resist, y'all.

Transphobia is not a tiger; it's a persistence predator.