#support your sister not your cisters

[desultory-suggestions]

[littlesistersti]

How do you battle a terf period product brand?

If you look up the period product brand Garnuu, they campaign for period poverty, green earth, charity for women, and all that typical stuff. However, their main campaign is "girls only club"

Discuss: either we all boycott this terf company or gather up all the trans individuals who have periods to buy their products and advertise it to really drive it in.

Ps. I'm not trans so any trans people out there want to provide their input?

[haveyoureadthistransbook]

Support your sisters not your cisters. Über Diskriminierung von trans*Weiblichkeiten by FaulenzA

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Die Musikerin „FaulenzA“ beschreibt aus ihren persönlichen Erfahrungen die Diskriminierung gegen trans*Frauen und gibt Anregungen für mehr Sensibilität und Support:

Sie erklärt Trans*misogynie als ein Zusammenwirken von Feminitätsfeindlichkeit, Transfeindlichkeit, Klassismus und Ableismus und richtet ihren Schwerpunkt darauf, wie sie dies auch in der feministischen und queeren Szene zu spüren bekommt. Trans*Frauen wird hier oft mit Skepsis, Ablehnung und Unbehagen begegnet. Sie stehen unter dem Druck zu beweisen, dass sie keine Cis-Männer sind, werden oft nicht als selbstverständlicher Teil feministischer Bewegung akzeptiert und ihre Perspektiven nicht gesehen. Manche Frauenräume/FLT*I*-Räume schließen ganz offen trans*Frauen aus, in anderen erfahren sie Ausschlüsse auf subtilere Weise.

Trans*Frauen wären „männlich sozialisiert“, wird gesagt, was FaulenzA als ein ebenso unsinniges, wie diskriminierendes Argument entlarvt. Weitere Themen sind u.a. „Trans*misogynie in den Medien“ und der „Trans*gender Day of Remembrance“. Im zweiten Teil des Buches gibt FaulenzA vom „Schwanz ab-Feminismus“ zum „Menstruationsneid“ einige Beispiele, die zeigen, wie durch biologistische Sichtweisen trans*Frauen ausgeschlossen und diskriminiert werden. Absichtlich und unabsichtlich.

Mod opinion: I haven't read this book, but I enjoy the author's music and am hoping to check it out sometime soon!

[lemonsharks]

As a (queer) cis woman, the only uncomfortable thing about sharing womanhood/women’s spaces with my trans sisters is figuring out how to compliment y’all in a polite way that telegraphs my own queerness (am family) without calling attention to your transness (because if i don’t know you as an individual then I can’t know if you enjoy that).

I want to share around the gender euphoria (being a woman is pretty great!) but at risk of putting anyone in danger (we live in a society (derogatory)).

The worst thing you can do, as someone who has recently realised they are transfem, is to let terves and transphobes convince you cis women will never accept you.

I was told that when I came out everyone would reject me. That I would find myself isolated from the world, and from other women especially, who would react to me with horror and revulsion.

In reality, within the first months of coming out, in no particular order:

My sister's reaction on my coming out was, "Right, so I have a sister instead of a brother. Cool. I'm taking you clothes shopping tomorrow."

A friend, when she learned I am a woman, immediately invited me to her women-only, girls-night-out birthday party the following week.

Another friend, when a friend of hers expressed doubts about my gender, immediately shut them down and reaffirmed I am a woman.

I went camping with a group of friends, and we had two tents, one for the boys and one for the girls; I was unsure as to which I should enter, to which a girl friend responded by grabbing me and physically dragging me inside the women's tent.

In the women's bathroom at a movie theatre a random woman, whom I'd never seen before and haven't seen since, stopped me as I was going into a stall, to warn me there was no toilet paper in there, because she'd just used the last of it.

All of these, and more, some from friends, some from complete strangers. All within a few months, as a trans woman who hadn't started medical transition yet, and was very visible as being a trans woman.

I've had some people reject me, true, but the vast majority, including almost all cis women, accepted me as a sister with open arms.

Cis women are cool. It's terves who are bigots.

[liberaljane]

support your SISTERs, not just your CISters.

My womanhood is not threatened by a trans woman claiming hers ♥

Digital illustration of a trans woman sitting on a teal cushioned chair. There are various trans patches sewed at the base of the chair and fireflies. Text reads, 'my womanhood is not threatened by a trans woman claiming hers.'

[sexisdisgusting]

"support your sisters not just your cisters"

if a tim is my sister then my cat is my dog

[soup-mother]

post soviet transfeminist organisation going "support your sisters, not just your CISters"

(CIS here being the commonwealth of independent states)

[cordycepsfem]

For all the things trans "women" appropriate, it's very telling when you start piecing together the things that they don't. For instance, I've never seen one worry, talk, or even mention breast cancer - something you think they would, considering how much they love talking about their "boobs." But they like the idea of pap smears (even though they don't have a cervix) because it's fun to expose your "lady bits" to people I guess. It's all fun and games, too, to shop for panties and eat chocolate and flirt with boys, but the line quickly gets drawn when it comes to housework, being emotionally supportive to others, raising the children. They love pretending they have periods, but never vaginal prolapse, endometriosis, ovarian cysts. I never hear a peep about pay gaps between men and women. Never a word on the health risks associated with makeup, high heels, or things like scented/bleached menstrual products. Another thing that's always bugged me is the complete disregard for the environment - like, plastic surgery and artificial hormones and the excess clothes and all the trans "official" pride merch (I'm thinking of that random Ikea stuffed shark that so many became obsessed with).... And, like, a woman has never had to buy her way into her identity. She just is. The list goes on, and I grow tired. Perhaps this is all just an unfair rant from a cranky woman, but I can't help it - I see the patterns. "Trans people are who they say they are." But actions speak louder than words. I'm tired.

It’s this weird dichotomy between supporting your “sisters,” not just your “cisters.”

My “cisters” - actual women - here in the US need the things you talk about: research into breast cancer; Pap smears and mammograms; better treatment for disorders that only affect women; help with housework and childcare and getting maternity leave and affordable daycare and good schools for their kids. They need community and feminism to create common goals to work towards. There is actual oppression of women and girls around the globe every day. We can’t buy our way out of it, or take off our identity - our very being - when it doesn’t suit our needs.

My “sisters” - men who are definitely not included in any definition I have of sisterhood - want to be fussed over and worshipped and validated for every breath they take while wearing ill-fitting women’s clothing and mumbling about their fetishes and polycule. They want us to believe that 35-ish trans people dying per year, mostly in ways that could happen to literally anyone, is a genocide, while femicide happens so often that we don’t even recognize it as a hate crime.

For people who want to be accepted as women, they do very little to look to women to figure out how to fit in, how to be a part of a community. Instead they want to come in and take it over, which is an extremely male thing to do.

[kittyit]

forgive me for using your inbox to scream into the void, but torrey peters came up so: i couldn't get a book club dominated by females in one of the bluest parts of america to even consider reading how to suppress women's writing by joanna russ, but eeeeeeverybody was down to read detransition baby because it's so important for us to support our sisters, not just cisters :)))) and all of the grossest parts of it are really just reminders to us to examine our biases :))) some men degrade women :))) to cope :))))))

I haven't the new peters book yet but wow what did joanna russ ever do to deserve this ;_;

[madtomedgar]

I think if you are a cis feminist one tumblr and your blog is a lot about feminism right now, you do need to be actively also posting things in support of trans people, especially trans women. It's not enough right now to just not post transphobic garbage, you need to be actively and publicly supportive of the rights of trans people. Because it is pretty bleak right now, and a lot of people are very scared and very down, and a lot of bad actors are doing their damndest to convince everyone that feminism and trans liberation are antithetical. So if you care about uplifting and liberating your sisters, you gotta make explicit that you are not just uplifting your cisters. And that doesn't mean every post needs to be about everything but like. Just put it out there.

Also if you are a gentile and a lot of your blog is anti-zionism, you need to also be publicly condeming antisemitism in the diaspora, and uplifting Jews, because again, there is a reasonable fear here that one without the other means bad things. Yeah.

[queerbiting9]

"support your sisters, not cisters" goes so hard

#LwiththeT

[littlesistersti]

why do you have a problem with a girls-only product? are you claiming girls are oppressing men? if a trans man is feeling oppressed by women then he needs to look inside himself and deal with his misogyny issues and his male privilege. he doesn't get to invade girls-only spaces! he's a man! unless you think trans men aren't really men and therefore don't need to constantly check their male privilege in this male-centric world? in which case you're a terf. hit dogs holler!

I think I know who is hiding behind the anonymous but the answer is

The brand advertises "girls-only" to sound very friendly and helpful, but the problem is the brand itself and the brand creator/owner makes content about how it's exclusively cis women and "men can't have periods" and insert more anti-trans stuff here. So it's the opposite of the second part you're saying. Macy Maxson does not acknowledge it's not only cis women and girls who have the monthly bleeding.

I have nothing against a product with a marketing campaign for ending period poverty and violence against women. It's very unfortunate that the brand promotes anti-trans and terf/farts behaviour as well as collaborate with other terf/farts.

although I am unclear if this anonymous person is a terf or not. I do not know what "hit dogs holler" means.

edit: grammar

Edit: I love how after the first sentence of anon’s ask, it started stretching more than a black hole spaghettification. I never claimed that “girls are oppressing men,” all I said was the period product brand is wrong for saying “girls only” because there are, surprise, trans men who, surprise, menstruate and need the period products.

[sarah-rieser]

Oh hey, that’s me!

https://www.facebook.com/bcamonmouth/posts/pfbid0pyfQgnxooakw5bZue3HoZPegUjuE9xXSozyREM8qEh3r6UHxLYeJ22LGdyuFKL5Vl

Sculpture Award: Sarah Rieser “Themis, We Are (Support Your Sisters, Not Just Your Cisters)”

[i-am-simply-here]

Seeing the phrase "support your sisters not your cisters" just reminded me of an interaction that haunts me to this day

So like at my old job there was this group of clearly queer people. They weren't in my department so I never really had the chances to interact with them, just saw them in passing often. But I really wanted to interact with them bc I was lacking in queer friends and they seemed like fun.

So, one day, one of the women in the group stops me and compliments my outfit (tbh I got a lot of compliments that day which bewildered me bc I wore than fit often). Then she asks for my pronouns, and despite the fact that I hadn't ever told my coworker, who was right next to me, abt me being nb, I answered any pronouns (and I was so flustered about this bc omg the trans woman I've been wanting to be friends with just complimented me and asked for my pronouns).

Fast forward a little bit. I'm in the break room in the back that I rarely go to bc the other coffee machine was broken. That group is in there. That woman is like "oh I want to show you my stickers, I think you'd like them" and shows me a bunch of queer stickers on her water bottle, one which includes that phrase I mentioned earlier. And my awkward autistic ass did not know how to react or respond (and again I was flustered bc she was talking to me) so I responded pretty mutely and awkwardly. Probably seemed disinterested and like I didn't want them talking to me 😔

Anyway they never interacted with me again after that 😭 and I didn't know how to approach them at all. So I blew my chance at being friends with them and I thought of that awkward interaction every time I saw them.

It plagues my mind often.

[niiwa-angel]

For all the whining TRAs do about women not "standing up for their rights" it seems they aren't interested in standing for ours either. Why is it always "stand with your sisters, not just your cisters" until women need support? I also legit cannot think of a time when feminists beat up a trans movement, even if that movement was designed to humiliate or take away the rights of women.

Yesterday during a march for women's access to abortion french feminists were again assaulted by trans activists. Some were masked, harassing the women, yelling continuously. They called them "terfs". They stole and ripped up a sign that said "abortion saved my life" and hit the woman carrying it. One stole the phone of a feminist. The police had to get involved. The phone is still stolen. The women ended up being expelled from the march by men who declared that certain feminists were not welcome.

[habits-white-rabbit]

This International Women's Day remember that trans women are women. Period.