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do YOU want to wrestle and get pinned down by other transmascs in an all inclusive wrestling event? Sign ups for next years T Boy Wrestling has opened 😎 if you live in SoCal/LA area, come wrestle with us!

[genderqueerdykes]

From Reclaiming Two-Spirits: Sexuality, Spiritual Renewal & Sovereignty in Native America, written by Gregory D. Smithers.

[Image ID: A photograph of a page from the book mentioned above which reads:

PROLOGUE

Two Spirit Natives are sacred

Lesbian Natives are sacred

Gay Natives are sacred

Bisexual Natives are sacred

Trans Natives are sacred

Queer Natives are sacred

Intersex Natives are sacred

Nonbinary Natives are sacred

- NATIVE AMERICANS in Philanthropy

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[mushroomyhouse]

Trans people exist in every culture and background across the world and throughout history ❤️

An illustrated print collaboration by @zandegoop and margot fink available at

❤️ mush.house/zandegoop ❤️

[transbearsofcolor]

[seraphic-sapphic-safehaven]

Wishing all Hispanic queers a wonderful Hispanic Heritage Month! You deserve this month where you get to take extra pride in your heritage, culture, and identity! You are beautiful, amazing, resilient human beings, and I'm so happy you're here and part of this community!

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[abyssal-debonair]

You’re a grown man with the trauma of a little girl. ... I don’t mean that trans men cannot speak about the misogyny they experienced; it’s just now, most people will look at me and not see the layers of patriarchal violence I experienced. The song “Sweet Cis Teen” asks: Am I a boy or am I just my trauma? But all of my experiences did not magically disappear the moment(s) I realized I am a man, nor were they left behind. It was traumatic being a Chinese woman. I was spat at, harassed, fetishized, assaulted, told that my worth depended on others, my experience and abilities invalidated. My bodymind holds these memories and shapes itself with them, and I do not want to trivialize these memories because they continue to inform who I am and my politics.

this entire essay is worth a read, but the quotations I pulled out are the ones that strike me deeply, being the most relatable to my own FtM experience.

[door-insurance]

I don’t like it whenever I try to vent about the stuff I face as a closeted trans man from the Middle East, well-meaning westerners tell me that I should leave everything behind and come over to their side like it’s that easy

The environment we were brought up in conditioned us to be loyal to family/roots/tribe, it’s not easy to let that go

I basically built my whole life here, my job is here, I was educated here- it’s harder to take that with you abroad where they don’t even recognize your college, it’s not easy to let that go

Like okay I get to the west, now what? How am I gonna afford HRT and my ADHD meds? How am I gonna provide for housing? Taxes? Bills? If the college educated non immigrant citizens are already struggling for jobs with their state college degrees, what about me?

I’m supposed to take a couple of fast food gigs where I get yelled at by white people over chicken nugget? Only to not make enough to afford rent????

Idk I’m sorry I’d rather transition during retirement where at least I have a financial safety net, gender dysphoria might be a bitch but I don’t wanna end up homeless in a country where I don’t know anyone

I had a IRL transmasc person who I thought was a friend basically call me a coward for this, he probably looked at me like I was his escape plan- like we’re gonna get outta here Thelma and Louis style

This is real life not a fcking movie, we don’t control the narrative here

Plus I have young nieces and were involved in their lives, idk what effects me disappearing like that would have on their development and I’m not taking any chances

Plus I can’t leave my cat behind

The world doesn’t just revolve around me

[brownandtrans]

If you are interested, please email tranzformationnc@gmail.com.

Works can be submitted between June 20th and September 1st of 2024. Twenty works will be selected for the final compilation.

Interested parties who email will be scheduled for group meetings to provide additional information and answer questions.

[shermangiftbasket]

heres a comp of all the kissing I caught at tboy wrestling 😗

[genderqueerdykes]

if you are a person of color and are struggling to understand or express your own gender because you do not and/or cannot conform to white beauty & gender standards you're not alone and you do not have to warp yourself to suit someone else's narrative- every culture on this planet has their own relationship with biological sex & gender and you do not have to mold yourself to suit gender roles that literally just don't exist in your cultures, or don't make sense to you

you do not have to try to change your face, hair or body to match standards that don't apply to you. you are allowed to approach gender in your own way, in whatever ways make sense to you. it's your life, your gender, your culture, your expression. you don't have to screw yourself over like that. good luck in finding the real you, you'll find them

[russettpotato]

the confidence is confidencing 👀

(he/him; 4.5 years on t; 3.5 weeks post-op)

[transbearsofcolor]

[seraphic-sapphic-safehaven]

Hi, beans and sprouts! My best friend Sammy, a Latine nonbinary transfem, could really use some help. They've been dealing with a lot of stressful and scary stuff, so I'd be so grateful if y'all could throw some spare cash their way, even if it's just some change or only $1. Here's what they said:

"Hey y’all. I’ve had multiple medical situations arise in the last few weeks, and now I’m short on rent by quite a bit. If you can help me at all, I’d be willing to exchange any help with an appropriate tarot reading."

Contact Sammy for a tarot reading here!

CashApp: $Sammynarian

[five-spiders-in-a-creeper-suit]

Made a statement with my photography this weekend.

My friend let me do a photoshoot and it was great fun! we made sure to stay safe and take precautions.

Its a huge statement for what going on today and how it almost mirrors history. But instead if it being a white cis woman being burning the bra, it is a Black Transgender Women with her head shaved and twinkle in her eye. I'm proud of being her friend and her trusting me to photograph her in such a way.

[lowresolutioncryptid]

I’ve been seeing a lot of terfs deny the very clear link between trans exclusionism and nvzism/white supremacy simply because they do not understand the history behind it. ignorance is not a legitimate excuse to perpetuate systems of white supremacy. And it is further testament to the harm that banning critical race theory and queer studies in schools is doing to y’all’s brains. Because if I’m being completely honest, I’m seeing an alarming amount of self-identified terfs and radfems who are legit STILL IN HIGH SCHOOL. YOU ARE NOT WELCOME HERE. My blog is 18+, not for children, anyone under 18 gets immediately blocked. Anyway…

Transphobia and anti-blackness are historically linked and continue, to this day, to be overlapping forms of systemic oppression. Black trans women, specifically, have higher murder rates than any other group. Both trans and black people statistically face more medical discrimination than cis and white people, respectively. The combination of both of these marginalized identities forms a particular and very sinister intersection of oppression.

Not only do both of these systems of privilege work to uphold the social and structural power of cis people and white people.. biological essentialism and transphobia also, historically, were used to define the beliefs of white supremacy and race essentialism. Race essentialism is the false belief that it is “natural order” for whites to oppress other races. For centuries, white “philosophers” made up a whole list of pseudoscientific “reasons” WHY they believed racism was “natural”. One of them was the idea that “distinct and separate biological sexes were the mark of a more evolved race-“ meaning the white race.. they compared European patriarchal sex roles and gender roles to the matriarchal cultures and gender variance that they observed in communities of color.

I have seen terfs accuse people who bring up this historical fact of “masculinizing” black women and women of color, which is a very real issue, but in this case and with historical context, that is a misunderstanding and most of the time is being said by people who want to silence trans people and shut down any criticism of terfism.

Acknowledging the thousands of years of acceptance of gender variance and third/fourth gender categories within pre-colonial African, Indigenous, Latin, Asian, & Middle eastern cultures, is not to blame for the masculinization of women of color, and as a matter of fact: the invention and enforcement of Eurocentric gender roles REQUIRES and RELIES on the masculinization of women of color in order to uphold white women’s place within white supremist systems as the “ideal of femininity” that they can then weaponize against women of color when they do not adhere to those Eurocentric standards.

During times of enslavement and segregation, black women were forced, legally and socially, to conform to very strict Eurocentric femininity standards in order to avoid harassment and violence, and if they deviated from these norms and codes they were dehumanized, masculinized, and were “made into examples” of white femininity being “superior”. Gender roles and biological essentialism do not exist in a vacuum outside of the white supremist systems that they were created within and invented to maintain. To imply that all women share the same experiences within these systems is akin to saying “I don’t see color”.. it’s denying the lived experiences of people of color.

Most gays are familiar with the symbol of the pink triangle, the badge worn by LGBT victims of ww2 concentration camps, but the transgender victims are often overlooked..

“Hitler’s Nazi government, however, brutally targeted the trans community, deporting many trans people to concentration camps and wiping out vibrant community structures.” - Museum of Jewish Heritage.

The US holocaust memorial museum that holds remembrance vigils for the victims persecuted by the nazis, under the Obama administration, included both gay men and transgender people in their list of victims. However, under the Trump administration this was changed to only include gay men. When asked about this change one of the museum’s head curators responded that because trans people were viewed by the nazis as indistinguishable from gay men that they are “included” with the definition. This is an obvious cop-out. The other reason that they gave was that the term “transgender” was only officially coined in the 1980’s, despite the thriving population of German trans people and gender-nonconforming subcultures that pre-date the nazi control of Germany.

Ancient Judaism recognizes at least six (6) distinct sex categories and gender roles, our women fulfilling “traditionally masculine” roles and vice versa.. this is a direct threat and opposition to nazism which relies on Eurocentric patriarchal gender roles. White women serve one purpose within nazi ranks: BIOLOGICAL incubators for white babies. If you don’t have 1) European genetic material 2) biological capabilities of reproduction (vagina, womb, mammaries) to be exploited for domestic labor, you are not considered a “true” woman by nazis. “Woman” being defined within nazism by biological, reproductive traits is so eerily similar to terf’s definition of woman that the only explanation for still perpetuating these ideas that I can think of, other than apathy or being full blown nazis, would be ignorance and historical illiteracy. The systemic eradication and erasure of trans and gender-nonconforming people by the nazi party was essential in maintaining these standards at a structural level, as well as the reinforcement of these false beliefs within popular culture. In order to maintain that false image of “dominance” “supremacy”, they had to invent a subclass that was then deemed “inferior” by their own standards.

When trans people of color and trans Jews are explicitly telling y’all that the harmful rhetoric you spread about trans people has DIRECT historical links to white supremacy and nazism, and (whether intentionally or unintentionally) upholds these systems that are killing us, it’s not your place to dig your heels into the ground and come up with excuses. It’s your place to listen and reevaluate your views.