#trans rights activism

[caesthoffe]

One of our siblings was murdered recently, and you need to know about it.

TW // transphobia and violence against trans people

Brianna Ghey was a 16-year-old trans girl from Warrington, England. On Saturday, February 11th 2023, Brianna was found dead on the side of a park with multiple stab wounds. Two 15-year-olds have been taken into custody in connection with her murder.

People in the Warrington area have alleged that Brianna was being bullied in school, and that neither the administration nor the police did anything.

Despite this, local police have said there is no evidence that the attack was hate-based and most news articles don't mention her status as a trans woman. This is deliberate. This is genocide by the hands of transphobes and TERFs.

Britain does not have gender self-identification (your legal gender being determined by how you identify and not any arbitrary medical requirements), meaning even in her death she will be deadnamed and misgendered on her death certificate.

She deserved so much better.

Mourn the dead, and fight like hell for the living.

EDIT: A verified GoFundMe has been set up for Brianna.

[femanthropy]

I read a reply on twitterX that really stuck with me. When someone asked MaryCateDelvey why she makes fun/calls out trans women not trans men. She said “I have sympathy for self hating women but not for creepy men” (can’t remember the exact reply).

Exactly. Even if a woman is furious at radical feminism and biological reality I will have endless sympathy and empathy (I was in that position once upon a time).

I empathise the feeling of being forced into a societal role of what it means to be female. To be objectified, to be violated. To be told that boys will be boys. To be taught (I was raised Christian) that I was responsible for male urges and needed to hide bra straps, nipples, breasts.

To save the poor boys and men from learning that I menstruate. Hiding pads in my sleeves when grabbing them from my locker. Males will make all the fart shit piss jokes but as soon as menstruation is brought up they are squeamish and disgusted. I thought I was the chewed up gum. The ripped off ductape. Losing its adhesive every time it was on somebody new.

From medical misogyny and gaslighting. From body image to makeup to cosmetic surgery to pregnancy to birth.

I wanted to escape too. When facing down the barrel of a patriarchy full of cruelty and subjugation. Of course I wanted to choose something I believed would free me from it.

It’s not that simple for people in Afghanistan. It’s not that simple for women and girls living in countries under Islamic regime. It’s not that simple for women and girls who are Mormon, Amish, Fundamental Christians, Muslim. For women and children who are trafficked and sold as a service to sick sick men.

They can’t identify out of their oppression. So why could I? Well the truth is no matter what. I couldn’t. I could lessen the blow somewhat because I was fortunate enough to leave Christianity and reject feeling ashamed of my female body. I couldn’t identify out of the assaults. I couldn’t identify out of being objectified. I couldn’t identify out of being a spectacle for being same-sex attracted and showing affection to another girl in high school.

I have empathy and compassion for girls with rapid onset gender dysphoria. I have empathy and compassion for the women and girls who think that transitioning will make them heterosexual.

I have not an ounce of compassion, sympathy or care for autogynephelic men. For pornsick men. For men who think they are more of a woman than a female person. For men shoehorning their way into feminism under the guise of “trans misogyny”. I will not ignore all of the times the thing that “never happens”, HAPPENS.

[yurdior-blog]

@annoyingradfem finally convinced me to join this app. Hi radfems. My TikTok is RadicalVenus and I have a radfem discord I’ll be sharing later.

[dykeulous]

“everyone can define their own womanhood the way they want to!” okay… fair. but why is it a problem when cis women define theirs as simple sex characteristics & body type? why is it such a problem when cis women say “i don’t have a particular feeling of a gender, i’m a woman just like a female dog/cat/lizard is”? why is she either called transphobic & offensive, or being told she’s actually an egg/non-binary/agender/whatever? why are we all allowed to define our womanhood/manhood, until those concepts mean nothing to certain people apart from their specific body type & the way they were born? it’s such a non-issue, it’s such a neutral & morally gray statement…… why are we getting all worked up & jumping to attack people who have different perceptions & experiences from us? we need to understand that not everyone is like us, and that it’s obvious that non-trans/non-dysphoric people won’t understand us. we are different. it’s okay to be different. people who are not like us aren’t being violent or offensive simply on the basis of not being like us. we have to get that in our heads or our movement will completely crumble.

[cyarskj1899]

[becuzmdsaidineededpersonality]

A non-binary student has died after being beaten to near death in a school bathroom. Their name was Nex Benedict.

There is an ongoing gofundme the family has set up in their memorial. The ACLU and Lambia fund released a joint statement of support as part of their ongoing legal campaign to protect and support transgender students in Oklahoma public schools, Bridge v. Oklahoma State Department of Education.

I don't really have anything else to add. This whole thing is just heartbreaking and I can't even begin to imagine what their family must be going through. This is why we must continue to fight and not leave LGBT students in red states behind. To protect students like Nex.

[frostralia]

I am not a thing up for debate. I'm Frost Nicoletti. I am a brave, brilliant, and beautiful woman.

[autistic-and-radical]

I'm wondering, for what trans rights American TRAs are fighting for? I just don't get it. Transitioning children? Self-identification? Abolishing gendered spaces? I'm from Poland. Over here, trans people have it awfully hard, both medical and social transition are very troublesome and even dangerous. Gay people can't get married here, can't adopt kids. Conversion therapy is alive and well despite being illegal. Hell, a girl at the pride parade got SHOT for nothing a few weeks back. In 2020 a bunch of men went around after the pride parade beating people up just for having something rainbow on them. Those "anti-trans" bills y'all are talking about are bills that protect women and children. You have it really good in the US compared to Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Africa, South America, etc.

[mister-rad-boy]

Honestly the way that some trans people/TRAs talk about gender is so similar to Jehovah’s witnesses. Acting like people “discovering their genders” is some sort of spiritual awakening and that always bugged me about the whole movement even before I peaked. People trying to spread the good word of gender identity and acting like it was this big solution to their problems. It’s what led me away from religion and what ultimately caused me to peak on gender ideology.

[burningtheroots]

I doubt that any TRA can offer a scientific definition supported with biological facts which proves that biological men can be women.

If they should ever be able to present one, I‘ll listen.

Emotional arguments not counted.

[crazycatsiren]

If you want to fight me on trans rights, you're going to lose. I may be a cripple, but when it comes to protecting my friends and people I care deeply about? I will fucking rip your transphobic self to pieces with my bare hands and teeth. Fucking try me, twat waffle.

[yurdior-blog]

Trans rights logic 101

[hedgehology]

If would rather be alone with a bear in the woods than a transphobe. 🐻⚧️

[graciecritical]

“girls can have cocks” if they can then trans women shouldn’t want to transition.

and if you don’t want to transition then why are you trans.

i truly believe trans people exist. but i’m a trans medicalist. if you don’t want to change the actual physical parts of you that make you your assigned gender. how are you trans.

girl dick isn’t a thing. it’s just something to make lesbians traumatized. thanks.

[thedepressedjuggalette]

The Republican Party is the Party of Child Abuse.

[hard--headed--woman]

some people come in my notes and try to prove me that everyone feels like a woman, a man or something else, that if you don't feel like your "assigned" gender then you must be trans, that us ""terfs"" are trying to sell the lie that nobody feels this way and that you can be dysphoric and "cis", etc... and i could debunk it so many times because it's total bullshit (i do it sometimes) but at the end of the day it doesn't even matter. no i don't care if people really feel like women, men, if we all experience gender euphoria, i literally don't care. womanhood and manhood aren't feelings. a woman is an adult human female. a man is an adult human male. your feelings literally don't matter in that case because being a woman or a man isn’t a matter of feelings, it's a matter of biology. die mad about it. also, you know, feelings can change, so i don't think we should base our laws on these.