#they do this in the comments of trans women!!

[thepartyishere]

typing "dude (gender neutral)" is so much more work than just picking an actually gender neutral word. istg.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

i wanna know more about svsss menopause

They synced their periods together too well. Now they are synced through their perimenopause years.

[teanne]

Yesterday, the governor signed it (of course) To Iowa Liberals: Remember during all of this that Iowa, like all of the usa, is stolen land. The point of saying this (Especially for any white, non-trans people in iowa) is: It's not enough to just be blue and call it a day. Remember the foundation of our government, and its nature. Look directly at how all Iowa supposedly is, its history, being easily shit on and taken apart. That's not an argument to strengthen the government: It's a demand to be one small part of a larger community. Put action locally into the people that need your help right now. https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT2H7FjMk/ ("Trans Talking Point Bingo" found on Iowa lawmaker's desk) https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT2H7h3PY/ https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT2H7ymou/ Comments and creator pages have people to talk with, ways to organize, these videos are a good initial way to navigate your algorithm for trans Iowans.

Iowa's state motto is: "Our liberties we prize , and our rights, we maintain" REPUBLICANS DO NOT CARE THAT MOST IOWANS SUPPORT TRANS PEOPLE KEEPING THEIR CIVIL RIGHTS. THEY ARE NOT STUPID. THE IOWA GOP IS VERY INTENTIONAL ABOUT WHAT THEY ARE DOING. Stand up and build community, speak, and fight. Help Trans Iowans. We deserve to live in a place where our existence isn't a debate. We need your help.

The Iowa GOP's intent has BEEN to make the state a horrible place to live. They're not silly incompetently hateful dumbasses - IT'S ALL INTENTIONAL. Removing civil rights, banning abortion, passing legislation to make sure people can't sue monsanto for giving them cancer (our water and air are poisoned), defunding education, banning books, banning drag, it's everything. The flight of young people from the state has always been a thing but overall republican attitudes towards political strategy is that it's a benefit - because they've begun to account for and accept it in their strategy. "The state's losing everything it has, and it's not blue!!" It's the point. Cutting off the nose to spite the face is the name of the game. They do not care. The Maga voters are political fodder for them to sacrifice, and it's the same talking points you've heard over and over that they got from fox news that got them (this time) from terfs. They ignore thousands of iowans protesting at the capitol. They do not care what you want.

For those that don't live here, the state was considered relatively progressive among US states - it used to set standards for education across the US with the Iowa Test of Basic Skills, it was the first state with gay marriage, it was an important participant in the union during the civil war, it passed one of the first civil rights acts in the nation, UNI was the first university in the nation to let women get degrees, first woman in the United States to be elected to a public office, first state to allow women to join the bar, first mosque built in the USA, and the ONLY state in which a mccarthy loyalty oath measure was defeated by vote in the legislature. There's a lot more in Iowa's progressive history, but it's never been easy to be anything but a white cis straight person here -The state and its institutions have always been overwhelmingly white, and there's a maga problem. The state is viewed by republicans as industrial farming grounds and a place for white people to be born and not much else, which is to also say, their policies reflect the practice of chemotherapy - it's been their strategy to enhance life for business owners, largely industrial agriculture, and fuck over everyone else- both broadly, and, whenever possible, in specific as a nice hateful bonus for them.

Iowa has also supported Ukraine and has sister cities in China (the president of china has visited many times, and it's an important part of the trade between our countries). Making friends with other countries - just another thing republicans hate. It's really, really clear that republicans see Iowa as "beyond worth saving", (It's a feature, not a bug/policy concern - part of their active strategy) from the way the people are treated. any dispensary 100 miles from the border has a parking lot of Iowa plates. a huge amount of tax money from that alone is going to other states. Would be enough to fund our education programs, probably our food stamps. The Iowa GOP wants this state degraded and dead so that the remaining (mostly white) people are more desperate with shittier lives and that this will cause them to vote republican more. People in Iowa are pissed, which is nice to see - it's /difficult/ to trust anyone that looks like they're a cis white person, which has its own problems. But people are pissed.

Don't begrudge any trans people for wanting to leave. Chicago and the twin cities are right there and we deserve to live in a place where our existence isn't a debate. Plenty enough of us are choosing to stay or /have to/.

Don't just continue your life without doing something. We need your help.

it's literally called the iowa civil rights removal act.

[samdeancrimespree]

perhaps a controversial opinion and like. no hate to anyone who likes femsamdean because i like it too but. there is some distinct element of samdean that relies on them being dudes. like….. if they were girls (esp afab girls) do u know how much they would have to be doing to warrant the same “why are they so close… that’s weird” reaction?? the amount of casual affection that girls/girl passing ppl can get away with is insane compared to guys that look like sam&dean. they could be walking about arms linked, kissing each other on the cheek and saying cute nicknames and ppl wouldn’t find it Suspicious. there’s something so jarring (esp in smalltown, usa) about seeing two giant muscly Dudes be touchy with each other. if hunters heard that there were 2 sisters that were badass hunters and their relationship was weirdly close they’d be falling over each other to beg for a threesome. but no. sam and dean are huge and scary and could crush any hunter with one hand. AND they make lovey eyes at each other and sit way too close and live together in their 30s. and no one can say a damn thing about it even tho it’s fucking WEIRD. and that’s what makes it so GOOD. but if they’re girls that part is so diminished. don’t even get me started on how the dynamic with john would be jfc

[ineffable-gallimaufry]

i think that potentially if you want to make a point about transmisogyny it might not be necessary to also include a violently transphobic stereotype of a trans man. i mean. i get the impulse but why do i have to see so many posts like this

[moongothic]

It is kind of funny to think about how popular the Kuja Crocodile fan theory is when you take a step back and think about where that theory kinda originates from Now to be fair, I'm not 100% certain where the theory came from, I can only remember so much of what the fandom was theorizing back in 2008, so I may be speaking from my ass a little right now

But from what I do remember, back in Yee Olden Days, there was a lot of speculation about why the Strawhats got sent to their respective island by Kuma the way they did. A lot of people did notice how each island seemed meaningful one way or another to each Strawhat and tied into their characters except for Luffy, and everybody thought that was a bit odd. Mainly because we didn't fully know HOW Kuma's ability worked. Now, nearly two decades later, we DO know how Kuma's ability actually works; People don't magically travel to islands they have a secret connection to or anything, Kuma himself has to actively choose where he sends people off to, meaning Kuma looked at the Strawhats individually and picked out islands where he thought they'd be best off at. Luffy being sent to Amazon Lily is arguably no different; Kuma knew Luffy was the brother of the soon-to-be-executed Ace, but also a target of the WG (due to being Dragon's son). Amazon Lily was close enough to both Sabaody that Luffy would be able to return there relatively easily if he wished to, or he could try to befriend the Warlord Hancock, who was also being summoned to participate in Ace's execution, to hitch a ride from her to go and try to save his brother. The only challenge Luffy would have to overcome there was indeed befriending the Kuja, at least enough to be taken off from the island safely and alive.

But indeed, we only really know and can fully understand that now. Back in Yee Olden Days, the fans did just seem to think Kuma's ability might be a bit more mystical in nature, and thus people got really curious what Luffy's Secret Ties to the Kuja and Amazon Lily could possibly be. And naturally that lead to people speculating that maybe Luffy's mom was a Kuja. Because what other subconcious connection could Luffy possibly have to the island especially when it didn't seem like it would help him reach/achieve his dreams any faster either.

But then we get to Impel Down and Crocodile gets those transgenderism allegations thrown right in his handsome face (and people start shitposting about him being Luffy's other parent) And I think that might be where the streams crossed. People noted how Crocodile has his funny little reptile motif going on, and how the Kuja ""also have a reptile motif"", transgenderism allegations, badabing badaboom Crocodile could be a former Kuja, secret past SOLVED.

But the connection there is really weak though, isn't it? Especially when you considder that the Kuja don't really have a REPTILE theme going on with them. Yes, the snake motif is important to the Kuja, our beloved Hancock being The Snake Princess and the sisters having the Gorgon/Medusa (fake) backstory, but the animal motif is limited to just snakes, not reptiles as a whole (otherwise we could also speculate that Moria is a former Kuja because he's also named after a reptile). And more importantly, the Kuja have a big FLOWER theme going on for them, namely in, well, their names; each Kuja is named after some kind of flower/plant. Sure, Crocodile could have a secret deadname but we don't know if he does, there is no evidence to suggest either way (but also, depending on when you think he would have transitioned then him just being able to have a secret deadname is kind of up in the air (see: Crocodad timeline))

So if Kuma's ability doesn't have a magical way to send people to places they have ties to (whether the person knows it or not), and if Crocodile doesn't have any obvious, thematic connection to the Kuja, then the only reason people believe he could've been a Kuja is because... he might be trans. And... yeah. That's kind of a weak basis for a theory, isn't it

[fagsex]

it kind of makes me want to rip my jaw clean off thinking about how transphobia has set us as a society backwards in means of misogny and racism by like decades so quickly and in such a fundamentalist christian extremist anti feminism with faux feminism way as well but like other than that im doing fine

[uncanny-tranny]

Comparing oppression can sometimes give you insight as to what other groups of people go through. It teaches you what you have in common with people seemingly different than you are, and teaches you how you are different and how you can ally yourself better with other peoples.

However, if your goal is to prove you suffer the most between you and another person, you'll likely find that there is no conversation, just an endless barrage of back-and-forth to prove which of you deserves to be listened to.

The reality is that you don't have to be in the most pain in order to be listened to. So often, we are inundated with this idea that the person suffering the most is the only one who ought to be listened to, and it sends the message of "holy shit, I guess I don't matter. I guess I deserve to suffer if others are going through worse," and that's just unreasonable and unfair. Who has it worse is entirely contextual and changing, and sometimes it is subjective - as in, something that is earth-breaking for you is an average tuesday evening for the guy next to you.

Kill the cop in your head that says your voice will only matter if you prove yourself. Listen to other marginalized people and know it isn't a competition to see who can prove themselves most worthy of tine and energy. Our resources can (and should) be multifaceted and able to help a variety of peoples.

[sinnettini]

... I thought you said you were nonbinary and not a guy?

... is this because i said "can't a guy even x" ? can't a not-guy even call themselves guy

[captain-lovelace]

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[satoriberry]

tha terf paradox of promoting acceptance of oneself's biological nature and not changing it for societal ideologies but then turning around and criticizing any person that has a different perception of their biological nature that doesn't immediately enter the "male or female" binary hmmm,,,,

[wild-at-mind]

I have so many complicated feelings about bisexuality still, almost 10 years after I came out. It's so weird thinking that my entire life journey of seeing myself as part of the LGBT community is less than 10 years old. I was an adult for all of it. Maybe i will write about my bi feelings sometime soon because writing it helps.

[bijoumikhawal]

this isn't the pervasive problem people pretend it is to justify transmisogyny (especially because most of the time the person doing this is a cis man), but it is weird when you're in a "progressive" space and someone says something unironically effemiphobic because they think GNC men either don't actually exist or deserve to be insulted for doing Gender Bad which makes us inherently bad. Or both? Somehow?

[chemicalarospec]

hot take but I feel like people overstate how much Charlie was "the Mom friend" in the Lethal Company video and tbh it's giving sexism.

[spiderbitesandvampirevenom]

? the person who commented that is literally a transfem butch

breaking news: transfems are capable of objectifying other transfems