#ignore the TERF

[felucians]

Nex Benedict's death wasn't just for being transgender, it was for being native too. 2 Spirits are revered in many native cultures and it is a native-specific identity. This wasn't just a hate crime against trans & NB individuals, this was also a hate crime against Natives of Turtle Island.

You cannot separate Nex's trans identity from their native identity - this is a case of MMIWG2S (Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and 2 Spirits).

Native children being killed at school is nothing new, so it's equally important to talk about Nex's native identity and being intersectional, this is a devastating tragedy for indigenous people, the queer community & especially those of us who are both indigenous and queer.

May Nex rest in peace 🪶

[pinkrangerv]

dream interpretation request: i had a dream where every time i told someone i was gay and didn't want to have sex with males, they got upset with me and called me a bigot. i said woah, i just don't want to suck dick! they said if you don't want to suck dick, there's something wrong with you. i said damn. im having a hard time in the world rn bc i feel like im being pressured to erase myself and deny myself any sexual boundaries. and all of you guys telling me that hate yourselves so much man.... and blame that self hatred on me, or a boat load of other shit. but the real reason is you know what you're doing is deeply evil and wrong. you will never, ever, ever stop hating yourself until you start treating other people with respect. you may not believe me now but down the road you're gonna remember this and start asking yourself what genuine respect for others would look like

I have no idea why you came onto the trans\he-him lesbian dude's blog to argue this, since trans girls are 100% my sisters and trans men are 100% my brothers, so I'm just gonna advertise my flowers again.

If anyone wants to buy pretty flowers from me (and fund my taxi needs since I've been told not to drive, something about weird seizures...), they're 6 bucks individually and 15 as a trio (with bulk discounts continuing the more you buy) on Tumblr!

[staffs-secret-blog]

EAT SHIT AND DIE

[enbycrip]

The Cass Report demonstrates a truly ridiculous ignorance of literally *anything* to do with not only trans lives, but basic medical treatment protocols.

You *cannot* do double-blind tests where an intervention very clearly has distinct observable effects. Medicine also frequently does not do double-blind tests when doing so would be a) basically impossible, and b) inhumane. It’s particularly common to measure efficacy of an intervention by follow-up and statistical analysis where children and young people are concerned because experimenting on kids is so fucking unethical.

The report is treating reports following established medical protocols as though they are some kind of pseudoscience. Literally the only reasons for this are either a) an ignorance of basic medical and research procedures so profound as to show an utter unsuitability to be involved in reporting on anything to do with healthcare or b) blatant disingenuousness to find an excuse to discard the results they don’t want to acknowledge. Which also renders them deeply unsuitable to report on anything to do with healthcare.

They have used to existence of nonbinary people as an excuse to deny under-25s transition care, treating our entire identity as some sort of adolescent identity crisis. As a 40-year old nonbinary person, I can only say how *utterly* this betrays a profound ignorance of trans culture and identity and/or a commitment to patriarchal and colonial gender norms so profound they are utterly unwilling to dive into the easily-available evidence of adults all over the world with nonbibary identities today, and the anthropological and historical evidence of cultures all over the world with an understanding of gender outside the binary.

And the recommendation that transition should be forbidden to people with mental illness or neurodivergence only betrays how deeply and profoundly transphobia is entwined with disableism. There is a line which literally says “transition did not affect manifestation of symptoms of autism spectrum disorder”. As if this was remotely relevant to anything other than pathologising both transness and neurodivergence.

It of course also attempts to ignore the reality that millions of British adults are seeking neurodivergence diagnoses through the NHS and being turned down or stuck on waiting lists that can easily be *seven* years long.

I am sick with fury and fear, and trying to mute my own reactions because I have a dissertation draft due in tomorrow I *need* to work on.

[gremlingirlsmell]

queer tme ppl when they see an extremely transmisogynist TERF movement in a different country: "this is so punk rock" "based" "heck yea" "faith in humanity restored" "this is so cool to see" "literal history happening there right now"

[akajustmerry]

fuck it. sharing my silly HP opinions until my sleeping tablets kick in. my most controversial h*rry p*tter opinion is that the marauders aren't THAT interesting. like. They're important, sure. But the hype around them has always been whatever to me. Sirius was the only compelling one and lupin is too much of a conceptual hatecrime.

[bannedandburned]

Folks today: we're SHOCKED to find out what Neil Gaiman has done! We're hurting so bad 😭😭

Feminists: wow, imagine if you'd listened to the victims MONTHS ago when they first told you.

[clown-cult]

Female authors when their girlboss, female rage, pussy power retelling of Greek Myth gets called out for ignoring the fact that Odysseus very much did not fucking consent to Circe and Calypso’s advances and that ignoring male victims of harassment and SA is actually not at all feminist

[cut-my-tongue]

My school's "feminist" society has Movember second on their list of priorities... my school's "FEMINIST" SOCIETY HAS MOVEMBER SECOND ON THEIR LIST OF PRIORITIES

Say sike right now. Feminism isn't an umbrella term that you can just shove every other movement underneath, it is a definite movement that focuses on one area and one area only - women and their worldwide oppression. My school is making a mockery out of the real feminism.

Also, you can't see it because I had to blur it out as it had my school's logo on it, but they've decided that their badge/logo is going to be the gender equality symbol... it genuinely does my head in seeing this around school, how stupid can you get

Thank God they AT LEAST put internation Women's Day above internation men's day

[axeofstars]

Ive said it before I'll say it again it does not INHERENTLY make someone a bad/fake feminist if they:

Wear makeup

Wear heels

Wear traditionally 'feminine' clothing

Have long hair

Do traditionally 'feminine' things

Shave

These are all real takes I've seen

Stop telling people their a bad feminist because they like baking, stop telling me that the patriarchy got me because I stopped cutting my hair and starting presenting femminly again (another real thing ive been told), the patriarchy didn't get me, the reason I Started cutting my hair and Stopping presenting femminely is because I thought it meant i wasn't a good feminist and that I wasn't trans enough

[klausinamarink]

not to be controversial on main but i think fandom cons would be much better if all HP merch just ceased to exist

[goat-moth-thing]

saying twerf instead of terf is transmasc erasure btw

[saturnniidae]

I will never understand how people will agknowledge just how jk rowling is as a human being, and still like Harry potter. You can't fucking "separate the art from the artist" when the 'art' is filled with antisemitism, racism transphobia and more! You can't even think about doing that when the 'artist' herself is a fucking HOLOCAUST DENIER.

(Also it's even more pathetic considering jk rowling is actually a shit writer. Like let's be honest, everything people love about Harry potter is from the movies. Every bit of personality Harry had was from his actors portrayal of him)

These people don't care that they're clinging onto the mediocre work of a holocaust denier that wishes death to trans people because they're too wrapped up in nostalgia or whatever. It's pathetic and honestly disgusting.

And it speaks volumes how pretty much all the people I see behaving this was are white

[dronestroking]

Bro I better start seeing more people commenting on the fact that Niel gaiman has been accused of sexually assaulting 8 women and people on tumblr have all of a sudden have absolutely NO smoke for a piece of shit rapist because they like sandman and good omens. Believe women except when it's the male author of YOUR favorite show, got it.

[mallgothchloe97]

[mywordstovictor]

Okay so why did rad fems get the cool term. Radical feminism implies that it’s radical, as in it addresses the roots of feminist issues. But radical feminism is mainly about outright denying the roots of feminist issues? Nah it’s not about gender essentialism and the ways the patriarchy is enforced through the rigid imposition of a binary, stereotyped system of gendered oppression that views women and gender variance as inferior it’s about man bad woman good I don’t like the transgenders. It’s like how astrology got the cool word so the people who ology- study, the astro- stars, had to settle for the crappy suffix. Astronomy. Fascinating discipline, underwhelming name.

But like, radical feminism. Not feminism, certainly not radical. How dare they take the cool name and soil it with their rebranded, shortsighted, painfully normative, room-temperature regurgitation of the shit patriarchy is built on. Radical feminists should be intersectional badasses dismantling the systems misogyny and gendered discrimination are baked into; not throwing tantrums because a trans woman was too cool for their tastes or a stranger on the internet mentioned starting HRT before the age of 67 or someone said ‘folks on their periods’, failing imply menstruation is the one defining characteristic of womanhood.

Anyway radical feminism doesn’t deserve the cool name. Radical feminism sounds like it should be a bunch of trans folks and butch lesbians who ride motorcycles, engage in strategic civil disobedience and maintain vague associons with a network of anarchist communes, y’know? Shittiest branch of feminism shouldn’t get the best name is all I’m saying. I cannot express the profundity of my disappointment when I looked it up, expecting feminism that was radical and probably awesome, and found out it’s just the pseudo feminism that spawned the TERFs. Pisses me off.