#i love my trans brothers

[boyohazard]

Saw some fucking shit idiot brain fungus take that trans women are somehow known for being discriminatory against transmascs. It’s that dumb “transandrophobia” shit again, with people not realizing what transmisogyny is or how it affects transfems and trans women.

I would just like to make it clear that every trans woman and transfem I have met has welcomed me into the trans community with open arms. They have been my greatest supporters and allies next to my fellow transmascs. They are my sisters, just as my fellow transmascs are my brothers. They are not my rivals, nor are they my enemies. Trans solidarity now and forever.

[tigolbittywizard]

These Kings deserve the crown of Miss Italia.

I'll pretend that Italy exists for their massive fucking W

Over a 100???? It was just the guy in the photo a couple days ago djsjdjks

[tampire]

Asia Consent winning her first challenge in Dragula Season 666

[catmask]

my sister texted me smthing going on at home thats making me sad but im trying not to think about it and stay whimsical. its fursona friday..... its fursona feidayyyy...

[pepprroxy]

Starry sky

Ik I wrote “mon petit” wrong T-T

[saintaviator]

sparkle on its TDOV !!!!! 🫶✨🏳️‍⚧️

[starwarsanthropology]

Canon genders the clones, both individually and collectively, pretty aggressively. They're men, brothers, boys, sirs. Omega is notable for being the "female" clone, to the point where she's not recognized as a clone in a meaningful way.

But the clones grew up without gendered social groups! Despite how clones are gendered by external factors, gender is functionally a nonentity in their lives until they meet civilians, and civilians do a load of other weird shit anyway.

So why do they still use gendered language?

My argument is that feminine language isn't used as a gendered form of address, but as a form of address that reflects a specific kind of power dynamic and relationship between parties.

Given the structure of the clone army, the only people a vast majority of young clones interact with who could insist on being called ma'am are exclusively kaminoans.

The kaminoans view clones not as autonomous subjects, but as property. They have and expect complete control over their lives and actions. Incidentally, the female kaminoans we see (such as Nala Se) tend to demonstrate an even more proprietary perspectives on the clones.

You can question a sir, like your superiors or trainers, at your discretion, but you can't question a ma'am. A sir is someone who has power over you, but is somewhat responsible for you. The have personal accountability to you in some way. Sirs are responsible for men under them. A ma'am is someone whose power over you is absolute, an authority without accountability, who is not beholden to you but that you must obey. You are tool or a number to a ma'am.

And when you bring clones out into the wider galaxy, I'm not sure anyone would figure it out that quickly.

Say you're a new jedi general. You meet your men, and they address you as "ma'am". Maybe you correct and move on, figuring that they've grown up surrounded by thousands of identical men and aren't great at guessing genders based on social and appearance cues. Scuttlebutt has your forms of address spread through the men by the end of the day, and you don't think about it again.

The clones, on the other hand, take this correction as he/him jedi stating that they want to work with them and suppourt them despite having so much power over them, which fits with both what they know of the jedi and, most often, their leadership style.

She/her jedi (see Shaak Ti especially!), clones maybe treat a little more as absolute authorities. This gendered divide in behavior gets met with, "hm, maybe they're just not used to women." For many jedi, they eventually switch to calling them sir as well, especially as they build rapport.

For Shaak Ti specifically, she is an absolute authority as the representative of the Jedi on Kamino, not just as a figurehead but as a decision maker and educator. Even as the clones grow to trust and love her, she's a relatively distant and all-powered figure. She has near total authority over them, and clones might ask for help or suppourt, but there's no social obligation for those requests to be met, she's just kind. It's compassion, not duty.

Senators, there's a good mix of different factors that make it confusing. "Senator" is always an acceptable form of address if you're not sure how'd they react, even if they should be ma'ams by default, but they're either trying to build rapport for some reason or genuinely want to work with you when they say to call them sir, regardless of the actual power dynamic at play. The she/her senators that respect the clones are in the same boat as Shaak Ti: Padme Amidala may care about clone rights, but I am still just one of hundreds to her and she has no personal accountability to me. Her position is such that she should not and cannot owe me anything. Same with Riyo Chuchi, Mon Mothma, etc. etc.

And a civilian that insists on being called ma'am or sir is going to be an asshole either way, and they technically have power over clones without personal accountability or responsibility for them. It works.

Finally, Palpatine.

He's a slimy rat fuck who pretends to be affable and kind, so of course he's going to laugh and say, "Oh, no, call me Sir!" when you call him ma'am. He is not personally accountable to you, and he does not care about you, but it helps his image and it helps him manipulate people to pretend, so of course he's making you use sir to build false intimacy despite the fact that he's the ma'am of ma'ams, both in power gaps and lack of accountability for his treatment of clones.

So having clones using sir vs ma'am not as a reflection of gender but as a reflection of power? Yeah, I think it works.

[vaspider]

G-d the best thing just happened:

I just looked at some of the pictures my brother has been posting on FB from his drive to OR and realized that he gained another level in Man Face.

And like, it's in part that his beard has filled in and looks great, but it's also just the shape of his face and just... IDK, something. But it's so fucking cool to look at a face that I've seen so many times in the past 41 years and think, "Oh! There you are!"

It's happened several times during his transition. Every time he gains another level in Dude, I get to experience it all over again, and it makes me so fucking happy for him bc he's my brother and I love him so much.

[coolunspokenforname]

I didn't get the trans Stan twins headcannon at first - mainly because I couldn't imagine adult Stan and Ford giving themselves almost identical names - but then I remembered how close they were as kids and, honestly, it would be more unbelievable if they didn't give themselves matching names. Who wouldn't want to share a name with their best friend in the world? And Ford keeps the name even after his fallout with Stan??? Crying.

[chasing-faith-and-fate]

Moon 35

Moon 34 bonus | Moon 36

[transmascxielian]

the thing about ‘everything you want is on the other side of fear’ is that you never quite believe it until you’ve experienced it. but it’s so true. i spent most of my summer agonising about coming out to school and to my parents and family, and wanting to crawl back into the hole and my old name and not change anything. but then the other day my dad told me he was proud of me for a university thing and that i’d be a fine ‘young man’. and my teachers and people at school call me ant now. and about a week after my mum told my aunt and grandma on her side, they sent me one of those custom drinking glasses with ‘ant’ and the letter A inscribed on it. sometimes the other side of fear is beautiful.

[misty-missdee]

can you even imagine.

Hey, being trans can be hard. be nice to a trans person :)

[sleepinglionhearts]

It's election night! That means I, who try not to voice too many of my thoughts and opinions because this is supposed to be my fun blog, have things to say!

You know, all things considered, if The Orange Menace wins the election, the one thing I am absolutely going to be tear-my-hair-out angry about, completely insane about, would be to start seeing posts from the sorts of people who were very anti-vote, "it doesn't matter anyway" complaining about Harris losing.

Like they weren't, yknow, part of the problem.

I cannot tell you how disappointing it is to live in Texas, to know that sometimes the voter margins are so, so slim, to see in my county alone that the numbers could probably have shifted very solidly blue if only there were More Than 30% Voter Turnout!!

And for all of those who will be surprised! Surprised about the consequences of The Orange Guy winning! And upset about it! In the same vein of conservatives who get upset because, say, the abortion ban affected them, "why didn't anyone warn me" etc, etc, SURPRISED!

I already went through this in 2016, in college, with OTHER QUEER AND POC STUDENTS ALL LAUGHING OFF THE ORANGE WIN THEN, and then somehow being shocked that he made things worse?

And I know I can't put the blame entirely on them, but with the things I hear from my younger coworkers even, the attitudes they or their friends have, it's like. Aha. Ohoho. I know where this comes from. I've seen this attitude somewhere.

Hate that.

[tampire]

Filth / Horror / Glamour

[dysaniadisorder]

ok of all fictional characters like. being a girl Actually woulda fixed Sparrow Oak Garcia. like most characters, you know, its a little joke. but straight up if Sparrow transitioned none of that stuff woulda happened to her kids. she Would Not have treated them that way

[guttednight]

telling my die-hard lestat-er mother that armand is my favourite character in iwtv was harder than coming out as gay and trans combined