#i didn't mention gay trans people. in fact all i did was say that obviously aromantic cishet men are queer

[celestiachan]

straight trans people do have straight privilege over gay trans people have you never heard of ray blanchard or hsts???

please. please. please. please. talk to queer people who are over the age of 17

[pillarsalt]

Wikipedia anon here, i feel SO embarrassed for misremembering so much about that article. the concept of the cotton cieling and the reminder of the sheer amount of institutions/resources that have been taken over by tims/tras makes me so upset i didn't want to recheck the article again, even though i should have. (it was some time ago i saw the rb of your comic and did my first check, then saw your comic again and remembered about doing so, to clarify. yes i'm an absolute mess i apologize)

i appreciate you so much for not only getting what i was trying (and failing lmao) to explain but also looking into and linking the talk page because JFC!!! so sharing differing opinions for a topic (with cited sources!!) on wikipedia is a no-no, but it's totally fine when you and your friends retroactively decide pro-topic views make you look bad and so you delete the entire article and rewrite the definition of said topic to be about generically "being left out of spaces :.-(" instead of being honest about it being homophobic, rapist rhetoric (which is the reason you're trying to hide it in the first place) hoooooooly SHIT

if genderism ever blows over (with how long it's stuck around for, and with no one being willing to talk about objective/legal concerns like the WPATH files and Maya Forestater, let alone even have a conversation with a GC person, at this point i'm not hopeful...) everyone who contributed to the widescale abuse and trauma of women (especially lesbians), girls, gay men, gnc people, and tip (medicalized or not) could spend the rest of their lives begging for forgiveness and it wouldn't be anywhere near enough. not that i'm expecting them to do that, of course. it's not even blown over yet and we can see from the cotton ceiling article that they'll absolutely try to just gaslight everyone and pretend it never happened (and if it did, it wasn't that bad, and if it was bad it was your fault for not doing your research, etc etc)

ANYWAY i'd rather end on something positive, so thank you again for sharing your wonderful art on here!! seeing there's a talented, feminist female artist who's into pokemon and mlp but hasn't bought into trans ideology is so healing for me. hope you have a lovely day!!! :) :) :)

I wouldn't be embarrassed, I mean the article's not completely empty but it's obviously been stripped down to next to nothing compared to what it used to contain, and half the cited sources aren't really relevant at all. They briefly mention the MTF porn actor who coined the term but failed to mention the scores of other popular MTFs who were vehement proponents of the rhetoric (Riley J Dennis is the first one that comes to mind). And yeah that dude in the discussion page saying he's going to be watching the page and reverting any edits he doesn't like, isn't that very wikipedia illegal? I don't edit wikipedia but I'm fairly certain that camping on an article to make sure your edits aren't edited is not allowed.

It's definitely been a trend with "progressives" to flip the script on anything they've done and can see was wrong in retrospect, claiming "no actually YOU said this, not me." It's a very good reason to keep things documented, and I have huge respect for people who keep the receipts so we can hold people accountable for the harmful bullshit they've spread around. (Speaking of which, I think now is a good time to remind everyone that Eli Erlick is a rapist, another interesting fact that has been unsuccessfully scrubbed from the internet.)

Thanks for your wonderful words as well :) Have a great day too!

[polychaeteworm]

My abusive mother is finally trying to do family therapy and her therapist wants to talk to me on the phone first. I have no idea if this means I'm getting into a session with her but like, she's about to be exposed for not telling the truth if she hasn't already.

This gonna be soooo fun!(Genuinely) Happy birthday to me!

I wrote her the "Here's the facts about why I haven't spoken to you in a decade" email and told her to share it with her therapist. Because at this point, it's like, painfully obvious that she's enmeshed with me and has a number of tightly held delusions that she's good at masking... Until someone pokes holes in her story. Poke poke poke! I promise human mother you do not want me talking to this PTSD therapist that you've told a false story to, but heeeeere we gooooo.

We're talking about things like, she thinks I was kidnapped dispite being told by literally everyone she moans to that I left on my own. She doesn't think I can, she can't believe it, so to her, it simply didn't happen, even when it plainly obviously did.

She petitioned the court to hand her my autonomy and it got thrown out to the tune of her making up conspiracy theories about why they didn't think that was a good idea when there was no evidence that I was incapacitated.

She seemingly cannot process the concept of me disagreeing with her validly and on my own. Any time I hold an opinion she doesn't like, one of her "enemies" put it there. Or she blatantly steps around it like it's not there.

The time she assaulted my system, we were both alone in a supermarket. Nobody told me my mom grabbed and dragged me, nobody hyped me up and convinced me of that. I was not brainwashed, I was not hypnotized. it was a real thing that actually happened.

She claims my trans status is a surprise. She's finally calling me by my systems preferred name (not sharing for our safety) and acting like I just never told her. Which is both cool and absolute bullshit.

Even though she very clearly physically assaulted me for cutting my hair and full on dramatically feined heart attacks Stanford and son style when I tried to calmly talk to her about anything LGBT related, other people defamed her, it was other people, not her own actions.

It's very worth mentioning that this woman isn't your typical flavor of ignorant parent either.

She's a LOA new age cult entrenched hippie fag hag hanging on to her Catholic childhood when it comes to the concept of purity. She lost all her gay friends when they found out she was the "not my kid tho" type. She is a spiritual tourist that had a child(hi it's us) with a native man to trap him in a relationship.

She's charismatic and nice until you disagree.

I feel like something about my gender threatens her and I'm not entirely sure why but it's not my fault and not my responsibility.

I'm only planning on attending therapy with her to, as my therapist puts it, "say goodbye". She has stage four cancer and this might be the last time I interact with her. You hope for the best but I am not expecting the presence of a therapist to change her mind. This is just the showdown I owe to the young folk of the system.

They need to see me advocate for them in this exact environment. I've been waiting for these exact conditions and the spirits are definitely throwing out good signs.

[swaggy-pregnant-elf-man]

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#5

HELP ITS ME SUMI

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i am so sorry bro i dont think i am who u think i am 😭😭

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aras have you seen the Joan of Arc outfit yet

I HAVE NOW KSKDKLEODJ DKDOEOL I AM GOING RVEN MORE INSANE GOING TO WATCH THE STREAM NOW

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3000 posts!

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19 notes - Posted August 25, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

I love the energy and all and I don’t want to offend but as a Muslim girl i can tell you that it is literally haram to identify as anything other than your god given gender. Like I’m not trying to be rude and I’m glad that there a respectful supportive people out there but if you’re looking at the Quran and other islamic book you’ll find stories about how its considered haram. Accepting the islam religion means accepting everything and dedicating yourself to it you can’t just pick and choose.

omg my first anon hate hahaha

i know im not obligated to answer hate but im going to anyway bcuz of i have things to say (sparkle emoji) (im on pc and dont have the energy to find an emoji keyboard)

okay first of all nowhere did i say that I identify as Muslim. i get that it was ambiguous tho so its cool. to clarify,, I am personally not Muslim but I kind of have to act like one so I don't get kicked to the streets or some shit lol and maybe I'm a bit of a coward idkkk but anyways

I would be interested to know what other Islamic books ur talking about btw, but I'm pretty sure the quran doesn't mention being trans anywhere at all. in fact I'm pretty certain, I've read it multiple times with translation and commentary interpretations and anyway being trans wasn't really a 'known' thing back then? bcuz obviously patriarchy and gender roles n segregation blah blah was wayyyy more yk. shit I forgot the word. uhhh yk like prevalent?? ofc the quran does mention a shitton about gender roles,, so yk men r the breadwinners, women raise the kids and keep house and be good wives etc. and also remember the big important fact:: GENDER AND SEX R DIFFERENT THINGS!!! meaning technically u cant be 'born' a gender (omfg my keyboard hates me imagine a question mark here) ur born with certain genitals and society assigns u a gender based on that . sounds a bit fucked when u put it like that actually but anyway back when the quran was being revealed this wasn't a known thing cuz yk they didn't have studies on this stuff,, and yea ur probably gonna say 'but the quran came from allah and he knows everything' well the fact of the matter is he either forgot or smth idk I don't speak for God but trans people definitely exist that's a fact we know so yeah. oh I should come back to my point which was, even with the quran saying those things about what ur supposed to do based on whats in ur pants which is crazy outdated anyway it doesn't take gender ≠ sex into consideration either soo ye that's the most it could've said about being trans and that not very valid anymore rip and that's not even mentioning non-binary people

and anyway Islam is literally all about acceptance and respect and everything so idk it would probably be better if u didn't go around telling ppl they're 'literally haram' for being trans or gay or any typa queer bcuz its literally not our choice (insert question marks) believe me I would fucking love to be comfortable in my 'female' body but I cant no matter how much I try to force myself so I'm sorry dude. no one would choose to be stuck in a situation like this. personally, I believe Islam needs a super massive reformation. well not Islam exactly, but a lot of things said in the quran r outdated wildly now, while a lot of it will also always be relevant, eg. everyone being equal and yk give to the poor etc. i have absolutely nothing against Muslims (I have it against my family for being so forceful about religion - different thing) yall r super cool and ik being a Muslim girl isn't easy believe me, but genuinely seeing Muslim people around and yk, just existing in wider society outside of Islamic spaces makes me feel so proud of where I came from even if its not been the best experience. have u seen the show We are Lady Parts (question mark) its about an all female Muslim punk band and there's only six episodes I literally watched it all today but the message of it is what I'm trying to get to you. u don't have to be the perfect pious wife to be considered a 'good Muslim',, there are so many ways u can show faith. you don't have to be a big strong man who can handle all pain with ease while single-handedly providing for a family either.

anyways peace out that sure was a journey lol and I definitely have forgot some of the things I wanted to say but yea that's all don't forget to like and subscribe <3

(colours r to make it easier to read for people with shorter attention spans,, they don't have any other significance)

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[cheekbites-moved]

People really need to learn that queer coding and subtext does not mean queerbait. It’s basically what authors have to use when they cannot be blatant about it but want to have it in there. That doesn’t make it any less true just because they’re not looking straight into the camera and saying every little minute detail.

i agree with you fullheartedly. especially emphasizing that sometimes coding or subtext is all a creator can get away with, and their efforts to give us the best representation they can within that does not deserve to be belittled or undermined.

however, what makes vnc a particularly infuriating case is that it's not even coding or subtext.

i guess for vanoe specifically you could argue that vanitas is currently only bi-coded, not explicitly bisexual & noe is gay-coded, not explicitly gay.

but, again, when the series has multiple canon lgbt characters already, it's not baiting anyone for having a gay couple that's currently only romantically coded. especially since the series is not over yet. trying to declare it as bait when we're not even 60 chapters in, & will probably end up with 100+ by the end, is bullshit all by itself, honestly.

and there's other shit i didn't even mention in that post!

we have an on-screen f/f kiss with chloe and faustina. and while the circumstances around that kiss are obviously not good, nor are they meant to be taken as good/romanticized, the fact that we got a f/f kiss in the manga (and anime!) at all is still nothing to sneeze at!

louis is universally accepted as noe's first love in the fandom for a reason. the feelings in the manga are quite tangible, even without any sort of confession or declaration.

and vanoe's flirting is just. like. SO blatant. the amount of times they've blushed at each other, and said shit to each other that's more romantic than a blunt love confession could ever be is nearly absurd (in a good way, of course), especially when we aren't that far into the manga's run, all things considered.

vnc just doesn't use any specific terms. nobody's screaming "im gay!!", but we have multiple instances of characters of the same gender blatantly flirting with each other.

& luna didn't say "im trans!"/"im non-binary!", but they did specifically say that they're neither female nor male, so, like... enough to be trans by definition (the definition of transgender simply being not identifying with your assigned gender, btw. if anyone was unaware).

we're not always gonna get a character directly declaring what their specific representation is, but that doesn't mean that representation doesn't exist or isn't valid.

bottom line...

people just need to stop throwing specific terms around. period. especially terms meant to describe a form of oppression. it takes away from these issues when they are actually happening, and makes the fight to get actual cases of it eradicated that much harder. it has to stop.

[caffeineandsociety]

If there is such a thing as a universal AFAB experience, it is being told constantly - even in queer spaces - that it's not your turn to have your issues heard. It is being told constantly that your problems aren't serious, or aren't real, or aren't what you say they are. It's being told over and over and over again that you're overreacting, and that other people have bigger problems so you need to sit down and wait. It is having violence against you downplayed with "but did you die?" in some hat or another.

Scared at the loss of abortion rights? Well, just stop having so much sex then, slut! It's not a REAL problem! Frustrated that you're being obsessively micromanaged by dress codes while your male classmates or coworkers aren't? Ugh, first world problems, don't you know that there are countries where women are still treated like property? You ARE being treated like property? Well why don't you just leave him or call the cops, you hysterical clown? You clearly just want something to complain about! Assaulted because some guy wouldn't take "I'm a lesbian" for an answer? Well you must have been very rude!

No problem you ever face is REAL and SERIOUS to anyone but you. To the rest of the world you're just a child LARPing at having problems for attention, trying to take away from people with REAL struggles. Even if one of these problems is acknowledged as systemic, "well, did it happen to YOU personally? It did? Well you clearly didn't get the worst of it, you're alive, stop complaining!"

And if you transition? Suddenly it starts coming from "feminists" too. If you're a trans man? Well, if you go stealth you might get paid almost as much as a cis man, so corrective rape and medical gatekeeping are part of a privilege, they're not real violence. If you're nonbinary? Cool cool we'll play along with your little game acknowledge you but we need to know your REAL gender what you were assigned at birth so we can tell whether you're a scary predatory man or an annoying frivolous baby girl looking for attention by stealing a narrative from real oppressed people properly assess your privileges!

There's a subset of "trans-inclusive" "feminists" absolutely frothing at the mouth for someone to treat the same way cis men treat them - but if you call them out on it, they turn on the fucking crocodile tears and start crying about how DARE you accuse them of being sexists they're FEMINISTS and you're not a WOMAN so YOU'RE just a misogynist and they will PROVE they're better and more progressive people than you by violently ripping away every piece of support you have.

They're so thorough, in fact, that simply by mentioning how they treat trans men, some of you are probably assuming I mean to imply that they treat trans women any better. I do not. I am well aware that these are the very same people who uplift trans women as flawless powerful queens and goddesses until they set one toe out of line and suddenly they're predators - no, no, it's not because they're trans women, it's because they openly indulge in a children's cartoon on the same blogs where they make sex jokes, so OBVIOUSLY they're PEDOPHILES.

But I'm tired of only being able to discuss my problems under that framework. I'm tired of not being allowed to discuss my problems in isolation. Other marginalized people are allowed to, but me? Hell, AFAB queer people in general? Lesbian issues, if not framed in terms of how the same issues affect gay men, get treated as divisive and seen as a likely sign of radfem nonsense - not because they inherently are, but because those vile communities are damned near the only ones that allow it. Discussing transmasc issues, and not framing them as lesser collateral damage to transmisogyny, is seen as denying that transmisogyny exists.

I'm tired of discussions of my own struggles having to come with disclaimers that I Know My Place, because you all still think of me as a caricature of a woman - a screeching harpy whining about non-issues, a permanent baby with a massive victim complex, too weak to protect myself from mild discomfort so I must spin it as the end of the world for attention - and blend that with the Born This Way narrative and blame it on me being an entitled man.

Unity should not mean "you must frame your issues in terms of how they affect us, while we barely pay you lip service in discussing ours."

So, when will it be our turn?

When will you admit that you're just as prone to bioessentialist misogyny as anyone else?

[satanfemme]

contemplating/venting about work under the cut

also. fuck my job for giving us such a low borderline-meaningless raise. I wanna know what kinda raise the CEO got this year. all the higher-ups are like "YAYYY!! you guys are making more now!!! isn't that so exciting ^_^!! see! we care about our employees!!" meanwhile it's still nowhere near enough to live on, all of my coworkers and I are poor as fuck, and the job is inherently emotionally/physically destructive. it's a sacrifice we all knowingly signed up for, but NOT for the "reward" of poverty. imho.

I have coworkers living with both a partner AND roommates just to afford one tiny apartment. one of my coworkers moved down the street from work to save on gas money (among other reasons). lots of us have side hustles, needless to say. whenever I mention having a whole studio apartment for myself, the first thing I'm always asked is "HOW?!?!?! how do u afford that?!?!?!" and of course the answer is "I don't, lol. nearly all of my paycheck goes towards it and then I take on debt to afford most other things". but I mean, look at that exchange, isn't that insane? an adult mentions to a co-worker that they're renting one (1) shitty room for themself and a dog to spend most of their time in, and the co-worker's immediate reaction is shock cause that's a fucking Luxury lifestyle? might as well say I own a yacht. but the reaction is literally rational and correct!!!!! it's so depressing. it's so so depressing that this is just reality. our CEO was making the equivalent of $80/hr last year. all the higher ups think we should be over the moon for $16/hour this coming year. what kind of raise did the CEO give themself? what will $16/hr cover a year from now really; in autumn 2023? cause in autumn 2022 it's already not covering much.

the deafening silence during our budget meeting, when all us wage employees were asked if we had any questions about the raise. we were previously told (tho, in no on-paper legally-binding way) it'd be to $17/hour. $17 was the Bare Minimum living wage for this area back in 2019. it's now 2022, and we were denied that wage. why? that's my question. but I didn't ask it either, obviously.

I know I'm not the only one feeling stuck and scared. every convo with my co-workers lately, no matter what topic it started with, has somehow turned itself into mutual grief of "I wish I weren't struggling to survive. I really like this job. there's no better animal welfare jobs in the area. this was my escape from a shitty animal welfare job. there's no guarantee that any other job, in any field, would let me be gay/trans/disabled/mentally ill/myself/etc the way I can here. many jobs would turn me away immediately. I feel overworked. I don't know how to afford things." ...and then I bring up the "CEO makes $80/hr" fact and lol. the unspoken tension that plain statement adds to the conversation.

I'd call myself a lil firestarter for it, but the info is public and easy to find. I'm surprised I'm the only one who did the math but I'm glad more people are becoming aware of it. the wage employees are the ones DOING the actual work here, u know? the paperwork, and blog posts, and emailing bestie PETA (ugh), and handshaking the governor (who's actively attempting to pass transphobic legislation but shhhhh) are all very important for the business the cause as well I'm sure, but an animal welfare org would not EXIST without the laborers who know how to, you know, care for the animals. even at the expense of ourselves and our safety.

oops idk, is this rant getting mean? the higher ups are always very nice to me, I'm being a lil mean. but I had to help give a co-worker first aid the other day, and when we were like "hey, you clearly broke something, you're covered in blood, you're fading in and out of consciousness, and we don't know how long you were out before you were able to call for help. let's drive you to a hospital now." they refused to go anywhere but an urgent care clinic cause, u know, money? and then I clocked out late cause we're so overworked we can't afford a single detour during our shift like that. (and can't clock out til all the work is done ^_^). so yeah if I'm coming off a lil bit like a mean commie rn maybe that experience is why. I wonder how often the CEO gets injured on the job? do u think the $80/hr is to cover all those dog bites they get on the daily ... in their personal office space nowhere near the animals?

idk if we're gonna unionize any time soon, but I know I'm not the only one feeling this way. maybe that's the silver lining. still, it doesn't stop the nightmarish elephant in the room either. anywaysssss that's my rant for the day thx

[godsfavefemboy]

Rise up to your level? I'd rather kill myself. I mentioned the dunning Krueger effect to illustrate that it takes a very stupid person to think that they know everything about a subject. Like you obviously think you do. Making you a very stupid person. The fact that you found what it means, but still didn't get it, means you must be even more of an idiot than previously thought.

You literally did say I said that I didn't think it was potent. It was the second sentence of your last part of the post. You said it "was a potent idea" with emphasis on was. If you meant that It used to be a good idea maybe you should've said that. Nazism was only potent because of the time and place it was introduced. Not because it's a good idea. But the way which you seem to compare communism, which you obviously think is a bad thing, to its adversary, Nazism (or fascism if you are generalizing), in a way that makes communism seem very terrible, makes it seem like you support Nazism. Or are at the very least, defending it. Maybe if you don't want to seem like a Nazi, compare communism to a better system of government to prove it's bad, like democracy. Not American democracy though. Real democracy.

They stormed through Europe towards Germany committing MOST of the same war crimes the Nazis did, the main difference being mass genocide. If they did kill more Jews than the Nazis it was simply because they were around longer. The USSR didn't fall until the 90s. 40 years after ww2 ended. It wouldn't be surprising to say oh the guys that lasted 40 years after, may have killed more people than the 6 million (at the very minimum as it was revealed that the Nazis burned and destroyed many documents towards the end of the war) than the guys that lasted 4 years.

They were both bad because they were both authoritarian. Communism is obviously better than Nazism, but that's not to say that it's the best one. There was too much power focused on a tiny group of people way up there at the top.

Antifa again? Okay, let's assume that you are right. You're not, but we'll just pretend you are. Let's pretend that they're all god hating communists who want to gay-ifiy your children specifically, and just shit all over the constitution. That doesn't matter. Antifa is not an anarchist group. They are just anti fascist. Anarchists could be anti fascist. Or communists could be anti fascist. The only people who can't be Anti-fascist, are actual fascists.

Again, the last century. Because they were around a half a century longer. Yes they did ban other political parties. Because communism is not democracy and Nazis and communists are both authoritarian.

The rindersteak were not proof that communists and fascists are interchangeable. They are proof that people value their lives more than their beliefs.

Are you fucking stupid? That is a picture of the political compass with the main ideologies marked as where they stand. You can clearly see communism is marked as authoritarian left. That's what leftist means. To be on the left side of the compass. Far left is socialism. Less democratic than liberalism but more radical conservatism. Far right is conservatives. Not radical at all. The more radical the more equal and fair things are. Fascist is in the top right. It's too much power to the state and places certain people over others. The only thing more conservative than that is a literal monarchy. Communism is too authoritarian as well. Too much power to the state but spread over a group of people.

They are again, not at the same side of the spectrum. Get that through your thick fucking skull, you neanderthal.

The only media mischaracterization is the media pretending that the laws being passed in respect to trans people are not genocide. Because when they say that, they are lying. We will compare trans people to the minorities the Nazis tried to erase.

1. Trans people are not allowed to use the same bathrooms as cis gender people. Jews could use the same bathrooms but had to wear a Jewish star to make sure people knew they were Jewish.

2. Trans people are being called immoral. Jews were called immoral.

3. All LGBT people and immigrants are being blamed for the bad economic state. It was actually caused by covid and greedy people. Jews were blamed for the bad economic state of Germany. It was actually caused by ww1.

That's just a few comparisons, but you get the message. Trans people being legally and morally obligated out of existence is definitely a genocide. It's just not as obvious as the Nazis. I haven't been corrupted by the media. I just have better pattern recognition than you. If they had to wear special symbols to show they were trans, maybe then you would realise how similar they are. Fuck trump and the conservative party literally attempted a coup. January 6th wasn't it? There's a reason I don't like these laws. It's because I find literal genocide immoral.

Yes both are authoritarian, but one is very radical, and one is very conservative. They are at opposite ends. They're both at the top but one is left and one is right. So opposite ends. They are both ideologies. Yes. Not philosophical concepts though. A philosophical concepts would be, for example, the absurd, the idea that the universe doesn't make sense and it doesn't care about you at all. There is no such thing as meaning and your struggles will ultimately amount to nothing. That is a philosophical concept coming from the philosophy of absurdism, the idea that you should rebel against your circumstances even though it won't ultimately matter, even if there is no hope you could succeed. Communism is not a philosophical concept. It is an ideology. An idea. Philosophy is not the foundation of any government. The only ideology that cares about how people live their lives, is religion.

If I came back knowing exponentially more than I do now, maybe I could explain to you how you are not smart. I know why you think you are smart. The dunning Krueger effect. You know so little that you don't realise there is so much more that you don't know. Or roughly. But it's hard to show you.

You learned about the dunning Krueger effect and immediately thought, oh yes I know so much I must be at the end of the chart knowing everything. You literally dunning Kruegered, the dunning Krueger effect. If I rose to your level, I would sink to the centre of the earth. If I rose to where you think your level is I would end up on the fucking moon. But surely you don't believe that? To have soft hair you'd have to shower. And I doubt you've even heard of deodorant, forget shampoo and conditioner.

Antifa literally fought against the nazis

They literally didn’t but it’s cute you think so.

Anyway, nazism is just an idea 🙃

[lanawinterscigarettes]

Kit Walker dating someone who's transmasc

A/N: I know Pride month is over, but this idea came to me in the middle of the night and I absolutely had to write it out. I'm transmasc myself, so I wrote this based on my personal experiences. Obviously, I don't speak for every transmasc individual, so if there's something you feel needs to be changed please let me know. I also wrote two sections to it, one set in the 60s and the other set in the present time. I hope I did this idea justice, it being my first time writing and all. Enjoy ❤

Warnings: slight mention of sex, being trans in the 60s, slight mention of transphobia, I curse at one point, uhhh I think that's it??

60s

-When you first met, he didn't know you were trans (you were eager to keep it a secret, it being the 60s and all)

-"Hi, I'm Kit Walka, what's your name?"

-Over time however, you saw how passionate he was about people being able to be who they are and love who they love without discrimination

-You were really nervous about coming out to him, and you were worried he wouldn't want to be friends with you anymore

-"Hey Kit, can I tell you something?"

-"Yeah, of course! What's on your mind?"

-"...I'm trans."

-He immediately gave you a big hug and told you he'd support and accept you no matter what

-He probably also asked you out at the same time

-"So...wanna go on a date?"

-You would have to keep your relationship a secret, especially if you weren't out yet

-Kit would probably be upset by the fact he couldn't kiss you openly in public, but you would remind him it'd be better not to, for both of your safety

-Posing as "roommates" so people wouldn't get suspicious

-Which means you also have a job somewhere

-Maybe you even work together at the garage, stealing kisses in between refilling people's gas where they won't see

-(You've probably done it on the desk before, or maybe even one of the cars, I'm not gonna lie 👀)

-Going somewhere discreet, maybe even driving out of state, just so you two could get married when it finally got legalized

-Thomas being the ring bearer and Julia being the flower girl at your wedding

-Lana also attending, probably as Kit's best man (or woman)

-Always wearing your wedding rings when you're alone

-Helping him take care of the farm and raising the kids together

-History will say you two were "just friends", unmarried bachelors who lived together all your life...but you both knew that wasn't the case

Present time

-Things would be a bit different if you met in the present time

-Meaning you probably told him you were trans one of the first times you met because of how open he is about being an ally

-(I personally see him as pansexual like myself, so do with that what you will)

-It would also mean you guys wouldn't have to keep your relationship a secret from the outside world, and you could hold hands in public and kiss and such

-I feel like Kit definitely does his best to be a good ally, even if he's not trans himself

-He made sure to do his research as soon as you came out in order to make you feel as comfortable as possible with him

-He asks you questions when he doesn't understand something, and always makes sure to stress that he doesn't mean to be rude or offensive when asking

-I also feel like he'd just have a lot of gay stuff??

-I know that probably sounds really weird, but I feel like anytime the two of you go shopping and he sees something that has the colors of the trans flag he just automatically puts it in the cart

-And during Pride month, when practically everything in the stores are covered with rainbow? He's a menace

-"Kit, babe, we don't need anymore candles, okay? We already have, like, fifty of the exact same one at home"

-"I know, but I'm trying to be a good ally! Also, it smells like watermelon"

-So basically he's all ����👍 and you're all 🤨😑🙄

-Always makes sure people use your correct pronouns

-"And so I said to her-"

-"They use they/them pronouns, actually"

-He would probably start using they/them pronouns as well as he/him because he understands the importance of normalizing people using them and even though he's not nonbinary he'll help in whatever way he can

-Just imagine he/they Kit though-I think I'm in love 😍

-I could totally imagine him getting super upset if you were somehow discriminated against at your workplace

-And if he was there to see it when it happened? Oh boy

-He'd probably get thrown out for decking somebody in the face, I'm not even gonna lie

-Just hope it isn't your boss, or you'll have to be finding a new job

-"Kit, you really shouldn't have done that. That guy was my boss, and I'll probably end up getting fired"

-"Hey, don't blame me suga. He was the one who started it. He should have been respectful towards you"

-"I know, but that's kind of not the point"

-You help him raise Thomas and Julia to be open minded and accepting of all people

-He does his best to help on days when your dysphoria hits you like a motherfucking train

-He'll wrap you in a blanket burrito and binge watch your favorite show with you

-If you own a binder, he'll randomly check up on you to make sure you haven't been wearing it for too long

-"Suga, how long have you been wearing your binder for?"

-"Only a couple of hours"

-"Really? Because I saw you put it on this morning and that was at least 7 hours ago"

-"..."

-"I'll go change"

-If you plan on getting top surgery, he'll start saving up, and even if you say he doesn't have to, he'll insist because he "wants his darlin' to feel the most comfortable with themself as possible"

-Above all though, he'd love you unconditionally and would do whatever it would take to make you happy

Um, where can I get me a Kit please? He's so sweet it makes me wanna cry

[nicanario]

this post is a product of its time

tw: discussion of racism, homophobia, misogyny and a short mention of sexual abuse.

ok, this is basically gonna be a very long rambling post about my not fully developed thoughts on the justification many people give to bigotry when talking about the past: "it was a product of its time"

it would be fair to say, with me being a raging SJW socialist scumbag, that I don't think this is a very good argument and is most of the time actually an excuse to not think about the problems inherent to our society, historical or not, and, by extension, the problems with ourselves. but I do think that sometimes, just sometimes, this can be a valid point, or at least one that raises some interesting questions.

I'm going to cite examples from several pieces of media, but fear not, I'll try to make this as accesible as I can.

so, let's take Star Trek: The Original Series (TOS) as our first case study. this show has, correctly, been called progressive by everyone except for clueless people who don't know much about Star Trek's history, Star Trek's crew, Star Trek's cast, or, frankly, Star Trek. because if you ignore the clear, sometimes in-your-face political history and present of the franchise, I don't think you know much about it at all. I do think you can call yourself a fan if you like it, you may have watched every single episode for all I know. but lots of mental gymnastics are needed to ignore the political progressiveness Star Trek has had since its very beginning.

episodes like Let That Be Your Last Battlefield are obviously anti-racist, at least in their intention. but the episode in question really is "a product of its time," and at the very end fails to uphold its ideals. the episode ends with the two aliens (who are LITERALLY. BLACK ON ONE SIDE. AND WHITE ON THE OTHER. BUT IN THE OPPOSITE SIDES.) fighting each other on their devastated planet, and the crew is like, "oh yeah if they both would give up on their hatred that they both share both of them equally" when it has been firmly established that one is the oppressor and the other one is the oppressed.

and that's a lot of Star Trek, not just TOS. even Discovery, one of the most recent series, has done Bury Your Gays (and Trans) TWICE (though both times literally rectified it, which is cool). there are episodes of the franchise that are overtly racist, or misogynistic, etc. TOS is lauded, mostly justifiably, as very progressive, especially for the standards of the time. they put a woman of colour as one of the senior staff, for fuck's sake. of course, when you analyse that same character, as with most of their intentions at being progressive, you'll see that she was relegated and sometimes even outright mistreated when she had the potential to be much more. but, at that time, it was a lot.

I had a friend (emphasis on "had") who, after I told him about TOS's both progressiveness and constant misogyny, told me something like "imagine feminists trying to complain about a show from the 60s." so, with unearned spite, he was, in some way, trying to make the argument that it was a product of its time.

you could say Star Trek, all of Star Trek, is "a product of its time" in the sense that it's not always perfect. uh, yes, I would agree. but that doesn't mean people have to accept it. well, I mean, the show is kinda over, you have to accept it's that way. but you don't have to accept that it's not wrong just because it was a product of its time.

H. P. Lovecraft, as another example, was a greatly influential writer whose works still shape a lot of people's ideas to this day. I have only ever read like one of his stories, so don't expect me to have an opinion on his works. but I can have an opinion on what I know about him as a person (he did have a life outside his writing, after all). and, yeah, he was a huge asshole. if you want to know more in depth about the subject, please watch Hbomberguy's video on him: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8u8wZ0WvxI

but basically, he was incredibly racist & homophobic. some people might even say, "he was a product of his time." well, there are two possible rebuttals to that. the surface level one, and the one that examines why that argument is wrong to the core.

The Surface Level Response to "it was a product of its time": um, no it wasn't. Lovecraft was more racist than a lot of people even in his time. he wasn't just a guy who carried the racist beliefs of his society like everyone else, he was a reactionary who actively thought and discussed how racist he was, and how right he was for being that way. but that's only applicable to Lovecraft. one can't argue the same for Star Trek: TOS, because TOS did try to be more progressive and more anti-racist than the rest of its society. that leads us to the next response.

The Response that Actually Deals with the Fact that No Matter How Progressive You're Trying to Be, Your Failings Can Still be Criticized: the thing is, trying to excuse Lovecraft's or Star Trek's bigotry because they were "products of their times" misses the fact that racism is still wrong, and some people knew that in those times as well. people from these times weren't all naive or stupid or whatever. they had the capacity for rational thinking. they could stop and think, "hey, maybe what we're doing is wrong." and the fact is, some people did. not perfectly, not to our standars, but they did. everyone could have stopped and think. but most of them didn't, and we can criticize them for it. racism, homophobia, sexism, etc. HURT PEOPLE. horribly. massively.

also, even if you agree with the "it's a product of its time" argument, some people aren't criticising people's or work's bigotry: they're explaining why they don't want to experience it.

The Talons of Weng-Chiang is a 1977 Doctor Who serial, and it's one of the show's more racist stories. almost all the villains are Chinese, every single Chinese person is a villain. there's yellowface, slurs, stereotypes, the Doctor speaking nonsense words instead of actual Chinese, and a general belittling of Chinese culture.

note that I'm neither Chinese nor of Chinese descent. I have been searching for hours for a few posts I've read a while ago (some by people who are of Asian descent) about this episode and I can't find them. sorry.

suffice it to say, even though I love Jago & Litefoot (the audio series and the characters), it's not an acceptable episode at all. but it's also important to remark that, because of it, some people aren't going to want to watch it. sometimes, people aren't saying "the episode shouldn't be this way," which causes others to answer that it was "a product of its time." sometimes, people are just saying, "this is an episode that attacks real people. I don't want to see it. I don't care if it was common in that era to be racist, i don't want to experience it."

however, there is an interesting point to the "it's a product of its time" argument. after all, everything is influenced by its society, for better or worse. and we can't change it anymore. TOS sometimes didn't quite understand the political themes it wanted to explore. Lovecraft was a horrible bigot. Talons was racist towards Chinese folks. and that's that. I don't think we should change the episodes/stories or anything. edit them in any way. that would be, in a sense, changing history. and we wouldn't learn anything from it, about how we can do better.

I think there are two solutions to this:

1. warnings before starting the text: this was done with The Talons of Weng-Chiang. on Britbox, where you can watch Classic Who, this serial has a content warning before the start. that's good.

2. the removal as a whole of the text from some places: I think before applying this one, there should be a lot of thought put into each case. I don't think removing a whole serial of Doctor Who or Lovecraft's stories from anything would be, well, fair. especially on tv episodes a lot more people worked on those, not just the writers and the directors. Lovecraft's writing influenced thousands. we shouldn't erase them or anything. but sometimes, for some cases, we should.

those in the US might seen a Confederate statue being taken down. that is, in a way, a form of removal of a piece of history.

but that is a good removal. statues glorify. one sees a statue and probably thinks "this was a person worthy of admiration." they should be taken down, maybe even with a permanent mark of why this was done (a plaque that reads "a statue of X was here, but he didn't deserve it because of Y" could be put in place of the statues, for example).

another example is the removal from DVDs of the short episode A Fix with Sontarans, a Sixth Doctor minisode that featured Jimmy Savile, a presenter who was later found out to be sexually abusing children.

the removal of that minisode is good, actually. it's not a full episode (it's not even Doctor Who). some might say that's "erasing history" but, like, you can still find it online or information about it if you want. this minisode deserves removal from DVDs and Blu-Rays and whatever more than content warnings. it's not an important part of the show and it prominently features a horrible person who did horrible things during that time.

so, after all that, I have explained why I don't like the "it's a product of its time" argument. it is an interesting point that deserves to be examined, but it's not very good.

I have had this in Drafts for so long I've probably forgot some of the points I was going to make, but eh, what can you do? hope you enjoyed reading this.

bye

[cotton-candy-in-a-thong]

I dunno if that's sarcasm but dude...no...don't send anyone death threats for little shit like this...EVER.

Like I mentioned before in my post, I think it's amazing that people would really justify terrible things being said and happening to people just because they write dark fics online. If reading darker fics makes me equivalent to a fucking perpetrator, I guess killing random people in video games makes me a mass murderer to the real world.

But I guess my friend and I actually deserve to be told to kill ourselves multiple times, huh? Like no, forget all the times we donated to abused groups who needed mental and financial needs and leaped out to support any victim of abuse, it's the fact that we read and write darker themes for already fucked up characters that makes us deserve to be completely and utterly threatened with life threatening remarks, hm?

The sheer apathy people develop solely because others are kinda different than them is interestingly frightening. If you really meant what you said without any sarcasm in it, you're exactly the type of person I'm talking about.

Oh, and as for @vonclosen's post that I noticed you hearted:

i can’t help but notice that in this case, the original, injured party was largely gay & trans men, where misty is a cishet woman. she was in a place of privilege. she said some very, very transphobic, homophobic things, and then responded to (rightful) criticism by posting untagged r//pe fic. she did not sit, she did not listen, she did not learn, clearly.

Wrong and wrong.

First of all, Rabbit has been getting death threats by people who identify as male because of the fact that she simply doesn't want to write for male readers. She writes for cis women, but the anons in her inbox would not accept that, and thus sent her death threats. She is the victim in this scenario, not you or your friends.

Secondly, I know Rabbit would always tag her rape fics and would always place warnings on them for her readers. I never saw, not even one post where she didn't tag any heavy themed fic.

a lot of people who called her out on this were trans, queer, and often much younger people. a lot of people of color, as well.

By "calling her out" you meant random people harassing her for having a writing preference? In our discord, we welcome people of all genders, sexes, and races. She gets along with everyone, and always respects their pronouns, respects their race, and makes sure to voice her concern for any struggle based on their sex. I don't know who this "a lot of people" are, but I personally know a lot of people in our private group who never has anything bad to say about her.

while sending people serious, based-in-reality death threats is wrong and bad, obviously, i can’t help but notice how she weaponizes her “fear for her life” through “threats” on the internet. white, cishet women will often use this defense, consciously or unconsciously, to garner sympathy and get “protection” from like people.

So now you're saying that she's lying and exaggerating what she's been told by more than several people for the past few months? You think her mental health deteriorating because of harassers telling her to end her own life is being weaponized? How is her struggle hurting you?

i’ve personally had this used against me, many times. as a trans/queer native man, it’s a really disgusting and upsetting feeling to be the one wronged and have people still defending the person who was harmful/abusive in their behavior in the first place. people will play devil’s advocate, and, again, consciously or unconsciously flock to defend who is the most cis, heterosexual, and white in the situation–especially if that person is woman, who “needs to be protected”–even if what they were doing was objectively more harmful in real life. the pretend “threat” towards them (often not Real and Present, such as doxxing) is taken more seriously than the actual threat of triggering someone, being racist, being transphobic, being homophobic, et cetera.

Because she's my fucking friend. I know this woman. She has a life, a family, a boyfriend, with pets, and a talent/passion for writing. She has helped me, and others with personal struggles for MONTHS, while never ghosting or abandoning us unless she needed space for her own mental health. Of fucking course I'm defending her. I don't care that she's white. I don't care that she's a cis woman. I don't care that she only writes for cis women. I care about her because she's a genuinely good, and yet misunderstood person who's being antagonized by a bunch of bitch ass twats on Tumblr after all the work she's done to accurate analyze and write about her favorite characters. I know she's not racist. I know she's not transphobic. I know she's not homophobic.

The post where she "lost it and went bigoted" was literally after people were trying to threaten and scare her into writing for a group she has no preference for. If people went and harassed a gay man to get him to write for women constantly, over the course of months, he might snap and say some snappy things about simply not wanting to write for a bunch of butthurt people who probably have vaginas because of the fact that he simply wants nothing to do with their chest fat and "roast beef". And you know what? I wouldn't even be mad because he's a gay man who's entitled to writing for his own preference. In that scenario, those people need to learn that nobody needs to write for the genitalia between their fucking legs, especially if the writer simply doesn't feel like it. If I found a gay male artist, I am not going to bug him if he never drew women because it's not his "target", and thus he doesn't HAVE TO. So why the fuck does Rabbit just NEED to write for non cishet women after she specifically explained that she doesn't want to because it's gonna be trickier for her?

their objective–consciously or not– is to make the minority seem more dangerous to garner sympathy, protection, and to soften the blow of what they did wrong.

Oh yeah, because Rabbit being told to take her own life is about everyone EXCEPT for her. It's about all groups of people, near and far, EXCEPT for her. Victim. Fucking. Blaming much?

i’m not meaning to attack or be cruel to anyone with this post, but this is based off of a lot of extremely upsetting experiences i’ve personally had. i hope people can understand where i’m coming from with this.

And while your experiences are valid, this just isn't about you. I'm sorry, but it isn't. And I like that you were reblogged by one of the cunts, @bloody-boness, who literally harassed and sent death threats to Rabbit, so that's definitely doing wonders for your argument.

Just stop it. All of you. You already showed your asses enough.

Why the FUCK are anons so disrespectful to slasher writers?

You know what I just discovered? That someone sent a fucking death threat to @slasherrabbitmadness. For fucking what? For taking so much time to write incredibly long and detailed fanfictions about slashers, theoretical relationships and smut with the reader? For being honest about her writing preferences and saying that she only writes for female readers? For going beyond fluff material and exploring the darker aspects of the slashers the wrote about? Whatever the fucking reason that shithead anon thought was a reasonable idea to send this woman death threats is never going to be a good fucking reason.

I'm about to go on a fucking list on what the fuck is wrong with you specifically bitch ass anons who think they're fuckin' slick.

ENTITLEMENT TO OTHERS' WORKS:

First of all, these are writers who are writing for the fandom on their own accord. They're using their own skills, on their own time, and most importantly for their own pleasure. Everyone else's validation of their work comes SECOND. NOBODY is entitled to the time and skill from any fucking artist because they're human beings too. If a writer doesn't wanna write something, they don't fucking have to.

Oh now what are you anons gonna do? You gonna fucking cry? Get the fuck over it, and tuck your crocodile tears back into your ass crack. Not every writer has the time or interest for all of your requests and that's entirely fine because you simply cannot make someone do something they literally don't have to do anyway. That's life.

If you're sitting up here and harassing writers because they literally just didn't feel like doing your dinky ass request, move the fuck on and stop mentally reverting back to your kindergarten self. Your dumb, toilet clogged brain chooses to dehumanize writers from being people into the image of animals or robots who were built for your liking, and you need to fucking stop that if you wanna get on anyone's good side.

A writer listening to your request and DOING IT is a privilege in its own right, YOU ARE ENTITLED TO NOTHING. When writers write for you, you say thank you. When they don't, leave it at that and close your mouth.

These type of anons seem to wake up and expect the world to bend over backwards, create a buffet and kiss their cheesy anus when they should really be just grateful when any writer gives them time of the day and leave it the fuck at that.

BULLYING TOWARDS DARKER FICS:

I'm talking about fics that include the list of yandere, drug use, noncon, kidnap, and abuse themes. The issue with these themes is less that writers explore these concepts when writing about slashers, but more that anons and some blogs in general feel the need to bully writers who choose to explore these areas in their works. Random anons seem to bully writers who do noncon, abuse and/or yandere fics involving slashers because they're drunk on the fluffy side of the fandom while seemingly forgetting that these are SLASHERS.

I'm going to remind everyone in this fandom that slashers are NOT good people.

Michael got boners from murdering people in the novel, and even in the movies he's incredibly perverted.

Freddy Kruger consistently flirts with his victims. He literally kissed people against their will.

Jason Voorhees kidnapped a girl and became obsessed with her because she looked like his mom in the 2009 remake.

Billy Lenz invaded a sorority home, sexually harassed them, and is heavily implied to have sexually abused both his sister and the girl found dead in the park.

Bubba Sawyer held his chainsaw to a girl's pussy and let her live because he got horny. He was still ready to have her killed when Drayton said she had to be sacrificed for grandpa (the second movie).

Bo Sinclair straps people in his sex dungeon and is heavily implied to do "things" to them against their will.

Asa Emory, the Collector, was about to grope that one girl's tiddies in the first movie. Jesse Cromeans literally sexually abuses his victims for snuff films.

Brahms Heelshire was NOT going to let Greta leave without giving him a "real kiss" during the scene of her tucking him in bed.

And that's not even all of the perverted, and dark shit slashers do. All the writers who create darker stories really want to do is express how deeply disturbed many of the slashers canonically are in their works. They're bringing attention to the fact that probably the vast majority of slashers totally fucking would hold you hostage, at the very least. But as I mentioned before, many people seem to prefer the "softer" sides of the slashers. This isn't necessarily a bad thing because some people just prefer reading the more "average" stuff while some writers just don't like to write about darker things. That is A-okay.

But when people start harassing writers who write about darker themes just because "omg that is gross, how could you???" while turning around and dreaming about fucking and kissing Jason-kill count over 200-Voorhees, it just makes me wonder as to how people even got to that mindset.

Based on what I've seen, many people who hate darker fics about slashers to the point of bullying and wishing death to the writers has to do with many things.

First is the fact that lots of people in the slasher fandom actually either never paid close attention to or even WATCHED the movies to help themselves understand WHY some writers would write them in a "certain" way. Even if you never watched Halloween, Nightmare on Elm Street, The Boy, or whatever and you simply don't get what some people write about the slashers, your own confusion is absolutely no reason to harass people and I cannot fucking believe I have to explain this.

"But I'm a kid! You can't write that because I'll see it!!".

Get. The fuck. Out of here.

Below is a screenshot to prove my second point:

Another is many people, again, simply being full of shit. Some blogs and users have a strong holier-than-thou attitude about writers in the slasher fandom to the point where they feel the need to go in their targets' inboxes and insult them. Despite wanting fluffy content in their feed and easily having the ability to literally not read works with evil themes, these people feel SO empowered by their own preference that they ever so just "must" dictate what the fuck other people write and draw despite the source material consistently showing that we're dealing with fictional, murderous, and mentally unstable characters.

If other writers or users in the fandom aren't interpreting the slashers to how YOU think they should be interpreted, they apparently have to be burned at the stake....(sarcasm).

I'm going to go ahead and wrap this up by wishing the comfortability and safety of ANY writer who's been harassed by randos in their inbox

Just to name a few at the top of my head:

@slasherrabbitmadness

@ebonyslasher

@msgorillagripcoochie

@panteon-doll

@the-thot-clown

@supremethunda gets an honorable mention even though she's from the Marvel fandom. This is because she talked to me about the harassment towards writers in the Marvel fandom whenever they write fics with darker themes as well, and others can attest that the harassment there is even worse.

There are other people that have been harassed by some really rude anons before, but people sending one of my friends threats just hit the nerve for me to post this.

There needs to be more anons with humbleness, patience, appreciation towards the people they're requesting from because for fuck's sakes, they're human beings too. They have jobs, hobbies, friends, family and emotions. Is it SO hard to be fucking nice? It's not, so don't be stupid to these people and remember to use respect.

That being said, Happy Monday, and remember to stay horny for slashers.

[swaggy-pregnant-elf-man]

I love the energy and all and I don’t want to offend but as a Muslim girl i can tell you that it is literally haram to identify as anything other than your god given gender. Like I’m not trying to be rude and I’m glad that there a respectful supportive people out there but if you’re looking at the Quran and other islamic book you’ll find stories about how its considered haram. Accepting the islam religion means accepting everything and dedicating yourself to it you can’t just pick and choose.

omg my first anon hate hahaha

i know im not obligated to answer hate but im going to anyway bcuz of i have things to say (sparkle emoji) (im on pc and dont have the energy to find an emoji keyboard)

okay first of all nowhere did i say that I identify as Muslim. i get that it was ambiguous tho so its cool. to clarify,, I am personally not Muslim but I kind of have to act like one so I don't get kicked to the streets or some shit lol and maybe I'm a bit of a coward idkkk but anyways

I would be interested to know what other Islamic books ur talking about btw, but I'm pretty sure the quran doesn't mention being trans anywhere at all. in fact I'm pretty certain, I've read it multiple times with translation and commentary interpretations and anyway being trans wasn't really a 'known' thing back then? bcuz obviously patriarchy and gender roles n segregation blah blah was wayyyy more yk. shit I forgot the word. uhhh yk like prevalent?? ofc the quran does mention a shitton about gender roles,, so yk men r the breadwinners, women raise the kids and keep house and be good wives etc. and also remember the big important fact:: GENDER AND SEX R DIFFERENT THINGS!!! meaning technically u cant be 'born' a gender (omfg my keyboard hates me imagine a question mark here) ur born with certain genitals and society assigns u a gender based on that . sounds a bit fucked when u put it like that actually but anyway back when the quran was being revealed this wasn't a known thing cuz yk they didn't have studies on this stuff,, and yea ur probably gonna say 'but the quran came from allah and he knows everything' well the fact of the matter is he either forgot or smth idk I don't speak for God but trans people definitely exist that's a fact we know so yeah. oh I should come back to my point which was, even with the quran saying those things about what ur supposed to do based on whats in ur pants which is crazy outdated anyway it doesn't take gender ≠ sex into consideration either soo ye that's the most it could've said about being trans and that not very valid anymore rip and that's not even mentioning non-binary people

and anyway Islam is literally all about acceptance and respect and everything so idk it would probably be better if u didn't go around telling ppl they're 'literally haram' for being trans or gay or any typa queer bcuz its literally not our choice (insert question marks) believe me I would fucking love to be comfortable in my 'female' body but I cant no matter how much I try to force myself so I'm sorry dude. no one would choose to be stuck in a situation like this. personally, I believe Islam needs a super massive reformation. well not Islam exactly, but a lot of things said in the quran r outdated wildly now, while a lot of it will also always be relevant, eg. everyone being equal and yk give to the poor etc. i have absolutely nothing against Muslims (I have it against my family for being so forceful about religion - different thing) yall r super cool and ik being a Muslim girl isn't easy believe me, but genuinely seeing Muslim people around and yk, just existing in wider society outside of Islamic spaces makes me feel so proud of where I came from even if its not been the best experience. have u seen the show We are Lady Parts (question mark) its about an all female Muslim punk band and there's only six episodes I literally watched it all today but the message of it is what I'm trying to get to you. u don't have to be the perfect pious wife to be considered a 'good Muslim',, there are so many ways u can show faith. you don't have to be a big strong man who can handle all pain with ease while single-handedly providing for a family either.

anyways peace out that sure was a journey lol and I definitely have forgot some of the things I wanted to say but yea that's all don't forget to like and subscribe <3

(colours r to make it easier to read for people with shorter attention spans,, they don't have any other significance)