#trans womanhood

[jimberoschwezer]

Recognizing afab trans women as trans women is part of the fight against bioessentalism. You can't exclude us from trans womanhood without reinforcing bioessentalist gender boundaries

[mararhodus]

happy international women's day

[the-most-sublime-fool]

—Mikayla Cadger, trans activist – full article via CBC

[crouton-girlfriend]

Being a trans woman feels like being instructed from birth to be a man, and knowing at some point - it doesn't matter when - that this is killing you. It doesn't matter how you learn - it could be the pressure of the cage, with a thousand daily cuts to toughen up your soft skin. It could be the freedom of the field beyond, with a taste like honey-kissed ambrosia of the first real joy you have felt in a long, long time. Being a trans woman feels like deciding at some point - it doesn't matter when - that you will split this machine in two before you let it take another drop of your blood.

All you need to be a woman is to want it. And that want is a beautiful and powerful thing, and you can change the face of the world in its name. I believe in you <3

[softbutchvodkasoup]

Transsexual women stop fucking infantilizing yourselves challenge.

[mistybunny]

"if hell is a teenage girl then heaven is a woman"

[contagious-watermelon]

Why do I keep seeing transmascs and trans men insisting or implying that all trans men are "female socialized," or "understand the female experience," or "navigated the world as a woman." Because yeah, sure, that can be true for some people. especially if you weren't gnc at all as a kid and didn't crack your egg until well into adulthood, it makes sense.

But they don't stop at saying they had that experience. It always comes with an addendum that trans men, as a group, all can relate to this experience. I don't know about the entirety of my demographic, but I never got even a little bit of what some of them talk about. I didn't even believe that women were scared of going out at night until I kept consistently seeing them say it, online or wherever, for years. I never realized catcalling was a thing until I saw some women complaining about it on reddit.

But they posit it as some sort of, you're safer than cis men, right? You know what it's like? Which, on top of being patently, demonstrably false in the case of myself and many other trans men, holds some unpleasant and often outright hostile implications about trans women. And they always deny it, but if you can't even conceptualize someone like me who grew up gnc, and never got the bulk (or any?) of whatever we consider to be 'female socialization,' what does that say about what you think trans girls went through, growing up? I don't want to speak for them, as I've never experienced that firsthand, but I can guarantee that (if you're even a little bit obviously trans) people don't treat you like a cis kid of the opposite gender. By and large, they don't get treated like cis boys.

It just makes me mad that we're taking this inaccurate framework that (ever so conveniently) puts trans people into the box of our assumed birth gender, and trying to fancy it up and use it with a faux-progressive veneer; never mind the way that transphobes use it to bar trans women from being athletes, or using the bathroom, or having access to any gendered resources they need. It would be bad enough to try and dust it off and use it even if it were largely accurate, due to the aforementioned connections to outright transphobia, but it literally is patently false. Not in all cases, obviously, but why are we trying to revamp this untrue, inaccurate generalization and pretend that we can make it 'trans-inclusive?'

[genderqueerdykes]

how do people not understand that when we hurt and fail trans women we hurt and fail all women because we've hurt and failed some of our most vulnerable, disadvantaged women. there is never a situation where you can uphold women withhold upholding trans women as well because trans women are a vital part of that population. you can't step on a trans woman's toes without stepping on a cis woman's toes or genderqueer woman's or intersex woman's or queer woman's or butch woman's toes as well. when you exclude trans women, you exclude all women. we all lose. love and include trans women or leave.

[baby-girl-aaron-dessner]

There are people out there who have said nothing about the dutch child rapist competing in the olympics but have now declared that they care deeply about women’s safety and ethics in sports.

[uncanny-tranny]

Tall trans girl reading this: you aren't too tall for heels. If you want to wear them, wear them proud. There is nothing more spectacular than a tall woman in heels, and nobody can ever take that away from you, not even yourself 🩷🪻

[scramratz]

Wait till these radfems find out I still identify as a lesbian

[antifainternational]

[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.'

[ineffabildaddy]

right so i need u lot to know that when i write crowley as a woman-shaped being it’s not because i’m heterosexualifying her relationship with aziraphale, it’s because

1. she’s the trans character of all time

2. it’s really interesting and fun to write a character with a different gender presentation to their usual one. opens up different possibilities for their character oftentimes

3.there’s enough people writing them both as man-shaped beings, mostly with dicks, so why not mix it up a bit?

i have specific plans to write fem!az and man-shaped crowley and fem!az and fem!crowley together when i’ve got the time for it too so watch this space

[butch-with-a-deep-voice]

Something about my femme having gone back home has made me realize something so important about butch/femme love I didn't really register at first.

How much my gender as a butch was affirmed by my femme. She sees me for who I am in a light I'm not sure literally any queer peer I've had prior has. My two-spirit womanhood, my butchness, just felt... natural around her. The masculinity, the "silly" chivalrous tendencies, the way I naturally wanted to dress. It was all affirmed just by being in relation to my femme. I had literally zero gender dysphoria for basically the entire week. It was glorious.

I actually had one of the worst dysphoria days in months yesterday afterwards, almost like a whiplash effect. But, this also helps serve as a reminder of just how right butch is for me. How happy I feel specifically as a two-spirit butch, in relation to my femme.

Once again butch/femme has proven itself holy.

[unlimitedbutchworks]

ultimately you have to remember that complaining about "4chan white trans women who are bigoted and so and so" is almost entirely pointless for any purpose aside from raising transmisogynistic sentiments in observers. this specter of an evil tranny is constantly looming despite the individuals being rare and often total shut ins, and people expect transfems to take this shit seriously and be constantly swearing off association with """bad people""". these people, when they do exist, by and large lack the power to actually do anything with their beliefs; obviously if they do it sucks but this idea that there are trans women ~getting away with it~ and that all transfem communities allow and hide this behavior is blatantly transmisogynistic in addition to often being completely imagined! its insane to act like you have to choose between resisting white supremacy and resisting transmisogyny, and yet, people wind up continually portraying it as this