#love every trans woman before it’s too late

[protodot]

A PSA from predstrogen that I think needs to be spread around here:

If you see this, please spread the word

[sealsdaily]

First off, there's probably no way we're gonna leave this site, and we love its userbase dearly; however i still wanted to make a statement about recent events. I think by this point everyone's aware of the things involving Avery Predstrogen and the CEO photomatt consistently banning her and other trans women. My point being - I want to dedicate my platform today to trans women online. You are all wonderful and absolutely do NOT deserve the world trying to isolate you, silence you, and harass you. I love you!! Thank you all for making the internet a lovelier place!

[thedivisionbell1994]

bringing this back in light of recent events

even IF all of the transfems who are being eradicated from this site were terrible people one way or another, why is it only trans women getting this treatment???? before the 2018 porn there had been pedos and nazis running ALL OVER this site that you assholes decided to not do a damn thing about until you were gonna be in TROUBLE for it. EVEN NOW you all just let bigots and creeps fuck around and do their thing on this wretched site, as long as they aren’t a trans woman i guess. because truly being transfem is the most vile and evil of things i fucking guess. even if they violated TOS at one point or another, why are THEY getting punished and everyone else just gets to do whatever the fuck they want? tumblr has had a porn bot problem for as long as ive been on this site, across three different blogs between 2015 and now. things are WORSE than they ever are before- but no! hey let’s put all of our resources into exterminating every trans woman on this site who DARES to be horny or share pictures of her body (ESPECIALLY if they’re a sex worker) instead of working on the pornbot problem that almost every tumblr user has been complaining about since forever. i cant fucking stress how many times ive had porn of a real life cisgender ma and a real life cisgender woman blazed onto my feed. how is that fucking acceptable but a trans woman using the site to solicit sex work or just posting a picture of her tits because she’s happy with her hrt progress a cardinal sin?? most of these women received COUNTLESS threats and harassment messages, and the ones who are brave enough to report them have been ignored. or the small percentage who DO get a response are told that these threats (that are usually RAPE THREATS or SUICIDE BAITING) “aren’t breaking TOS”. you stupid motherfuckers. you lot wouldn’t know what breaking TOS was if it jumped up and bit your nose off. extremely concerning that you, staff, are running the site and don’t even know what your own TOS are. or maybe you do and you just like bending it to your will?

i will say it again. you are EXTERMINATING trans women from this site. you are treating them like pests for a site that’s supposedly the “queerest place on the internet”. fuck that. there is no queerest place on the internet until trans women are allowed to exist without scrutiny and fear of being harassed and banned just for being transfem

im sure someone has made a post about this much more eloquently than i will but im starting to see people spreading “proof” that predstrogen is a terrible person and deserved to be deleted. thankfully ive only seen one or two posts about it and it’s having anon’s bullshit be called out, and i have a few things to say about this because it’s a big point a lot of people miss in discussions like this

even IF predstrogen was a terrible person, the way she was treated clearly had bigoted motives. there was terrible people on here that people have LOADS of proof are terrible people. pedos, nazis, terfs, etc. and yet most of the time it goes unacknowledged by staff. blogs never deleted or anything. predstrogen had her transition timeline post UNFAIRLY flagged as mature by staff and was harassed by transphobes for months and staff never did anything to help her, hell they only even acknowledged her when she made that looney tunes ass threat and THEN ol mattie boy started clutching his pearls

what im trying to say that is even IF she’s a terrible person, why is her entire existence from this site being burned from the internet when people on here rarely get that same treatment? and that’s only if staff feels like intervening. why is it when trans women or black people do Anything they’re erased from this site entirely, but creeps and bigots are free to roam as they please?

and if you for some reason believe all of this stuff about her or ARE one of the people spreading it: shame on you. i wont pretend like i knew her, we never spoke before, but this woman has been subjected to so much bullshit on here and with matt harassing her on twitter also. and even after everything you twiddle your thumbs and go “well…… what if she WAS a bad person?” the point is NOT if she was a bad person or not, the point is that trans women time and time again are unfairly targeted by staff when people who are not transfem and actually doing abhorrent things on this site just chill and no one does a damn thing about it!!! if you don’t personally like her then fine, whatever, but do NOT act like her being deleted was justified and warranted

[genuinenoprize]

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[nixiecat]

hey so I'm getting really pissed at this website and I might need to take a break for a while. beloved mutuals please dm me if you want my discord or something

i love you all

-Nixie

[another-punk-trans-woman]

I feel like not enough people talk about the overwhelming grief that comes with being transfem. The grief that punches through your ribcage and hammers on your heart and won't ever stop because in feeling like yourself, you're also doomed to be so alone.

The world demands a perfect performance of trans women, but no one can be perfect forever. And so you lose everything and everyone, over and over again because youre in that group of societies favorite outcasts and it Hurts. But you tell yourself that it could be worse. You could still be who you were before you realized.

But that doesn't stop the grief of all that loss from swallowing you whole. And it doesn't stop you from needing connection (for long, at least) but there's no connection to find. And so you sit there and you grieve, and you hurt and sob, until it gets to be to much and now those trusted few are grieving you, too.

And fuck, we all need less grief in our lives so please, please, PLEASE hug your trans friends for me today. Send that wierd, off-putting girl a hug emoji, tell her you think of her. Ask your old friend that you don't talk to anymore to hang out again sometime.

Love EVERY trans woman you meet before it's too late.

[otherside-picnic]

I have found more happiness associating with trans women are the "creeps", the "freaks" and the "weirdos" of the community than I ever did pretending to hate them. be yourself if it makes you happy, not who others want you to be, and beat them back with sticks when they come to take your happiness away

[ozara13]

Alright I don't normally make my own posts but i wanna share my transition timeline so here's me 5 years pre HRT

And here's me just after 1 year HRT all dressed up

And here's me a few months later but dressed casually and with my new glasses

[transgirl-gaming-thoughts]

Honestly kinda waiting to one day see that a group of transfem coders have come together to make a Tumblr-like site that will have Actual Moderation Standards and Not Be Transphobic. Even when no one else is, we have each other <3

[gremlingirlsmell]

you can really go on any tme person's blog and searchword "transmisogyny" and you will find them acting transmisogynistic 90% of the time

[talisidekick]

My life is on Tumblr. Not all of it, but enough. Why? Because I finally broke out of the illusion I made for myself growing up. I felt like a monster because thats how I was told to feel for feeling what I felt, and so I lied to myself until I believed I didn't feel the things I did. It was a self-made, bunker thick, mysoginistic and misandristic shell of toxicity that made me miserable for the purposes of others convenience in upholding a fantasy world of simplicity. Upon rediscovering truth and having to face all I'd lost in making unappreciated sacrifices, I started to learn how to reclaim and rebuild myself. I want to show people it's okay to be yourself. That being transgender doesn't make you inherently evil. That I, at the end of today, am human, a person, like any of you.

I've shared my thoughts, my frustrations, some of my joys, my hardships. I've made statement pieces, analysis, and even science posts. I've, on occasion, written papers on here with citations/links to my sources. I've put a sizeable amount of time and energy into letting everyone on this site into my life in some small way to combat the idolization and demonization political actors on the local, provinicial/state/territorial, national, and global stage are doing to transgender people. Because the term "transgender" is not synonymous, a thesaurical equivalent, or a replacement for the words "predator", "pedophile", "rapist", "adulterer", "monster", "assaulter", "victim", or "survivor" to name a few. It means "to identify as any gender other than the one assigned at birth". Thats it. Someone could literally decide "I'm just not the gender the doctor said I was" or "I'm not just what the doctor said I was" or " I'm just me" and that's enough. Those are people you know, love, talked to, interact with, laughed with, but maybe also argued with, had a heated discussion with, fought with, or got mad at in traffic for not using a turn signal to change lanes (we've all done it by mistake). Transgender people are just people. Capable of making mistakes, helping others, needing help, and fucking up like everyone else. We all make bad calls, and stupid decisions. We learn, we correct, we hold eachother accountable.

Logging in today to see a long-standing transgender persons blog getting nuked for the either the stupidest idle threat ever made (or so thats the official reason by the Tumblr CEO) or for simply being transgender (as other and numerous members of the public claim) has made me personally a bit wary. The way I see it, it's both. An idle threat was made to a Tumblr executive and because of the prejudice thats become common place world wide, Tumblrs CEO felt vindicated in going to the excessive lengths of full account deactivation on a transgender persons blog. It's absolutely expected to have a zero-tolerance policy on issuing threats, especially to staff. It's not okay in an online forum of supposed neutrality to utterly silence a person completely without fair warning of a Terms of Service failure and a chance to remove, redact, or re-edit a response. We ALL get heated, even myself, and do stupid things in a reactionary moment of passion. What the issue here is, is the disproportionate response. Given I and numerous other transgender people have recieved threats, those on our very lives in fact, which have gone completely ignored, why is there suddenly a zero-tolerance immediate ban policy on a threat that was, in comparison, the kind of insult you'd expect from a grumpy five-year-old?

I see why this is blowing up, because it's a clear display of power privilege. And rather than going through the established review path, as far as anyone can tell, this was a direct response. This sends, whether intentional or not, a clear message: if you're transgender, you're on thin ice here. And it's not just transgender people and queer and cisgender allies who are getting the message. The transphobes, the so called 'gender critical' crowd, the terfs, are seeing it too. That is why I'm calling for Predesterone's account, all associate blogs, be reinstantiated.

The constant misgendering, libel, misinformation, verbal violence, abuse, and conjecture transgender people of all identities face on this site without any reprocussion to those responsible has, for a long while, helped set a clear standard that users of this platform are afforded the privilege of a degree of disrespect towards marginalized groups and minorities. Ableists attack the disabled and neurodivergent, Nazi's attack Jews, Transphobes attack Transgender people, homophobes attack the gays, lesbians, and bisexuals, and racists attack people of colour with -very- little the victims of such hate can do to make it stop. The bigots know this. And this ... this is going to make it worse. Bigots are going to try and instigate harsh responses from minority groups with the intent of forcing queer people and other minority groups off Tumblr. It has already begun in the reblogs of several posts like this one directed at transgender people. Predestrogen is already getting misgendered and disrespected outside the scope of the issue. Conjecture is already being made enmasse.

I'm on Tumblr because Reddit and Twitter were too unsafe. I'm not on any other blogging sites because Tumblr has, for the moment, a supportive queer community. That can change, given this whole situation has been done in such a way that it's being interpreted on all sides as an attack on transgender people.

Tumblr has no obligation to listen to me or others, but Tumblr has always struggled to get by, and I have to ask: is one persons dumb 'threat' really the spark you want to make to get people to leave. Is becoming a truly unprofitable cesspit and hate-haven like Twitter what's desired? Because this is the exact kind of rallying cry to make if you do.

I'm adding my voice to this. Bring back predesterone, this response is out of proportion. No, the CEO does not deserve to be threatened to have hammers thrown at his car until it explodes, or whatever. The point has been made: DO NOT THREATEN TUMBLR STAFF. But neither does a long-standing account deserve to be wiped off the face of Tumblr permanently for a blog post that is so benign compared to what the average transgender site user has to deal with on a regular basis with no recourse. Someone threatened to actually shoot me, kill me, if I was walking down the sidewalk and they saw me, and that post is still up and so is the account despite being reported. It's been 2-3 months or more. If I'm expected to stomach that, you can stomach someone saying they'll throw hammers at your car from a person who in all likelyhood is paying so much into transition she can't afford to buy one tiny kids-sized hammer. The person who threatened me actually openly admits to already owning guns.

[calamitascalliope]

Watching the old Real Time Fandubs highlights that were uploaded today and getting reminded again that as a child I watched a trans woman get subjected to the typical ostracization we are used to and I fell for it and believed the horrible things said about her. God

[honeydewsystem]

less exploding hammers, more loving trans women

hating a CEO is cool and all, but there are things you can do to materially help trans women right now

tell your trans friends you appreciate them

help them buy new clothes

love them before its too late, as someone wiser than me put it

[glauconaryue]

Kenia Cruz was the 27th trans woman murdered in Mexico this year. She denounced a previous murder attempt and and received no protection.

[maloosh-baloosh64]

Trans women are human beings and deserve to be seen and respected as women no matter what under any circumstances. They also deserve the same mercy we seemingly endlessly keep granting to straight white men who make far worse mistakes than what many trans women are often times wrongfully accused of making.

Many have already said it before me and much better said but I will say it as well as a cis white man. Let’s stop fucking taking callout posts seriously and other shit like it.

[jjcocker]

and (in relation to my previous posts) it just enrages me 2 see so many trans women and girls being just. termed for no reason. im a trans boy too and you are not putting anyone down. we're like. were in this together, we are a community and thus have to support each other

matt youre a coward 🫶