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Best Ways to Explain Your Transition

I accidentally walked in on the goddess Artemis bathing. It was this or get turned into a deer and devoured by my own hounds.

You know castration anxiety and penis envy? I've got, like, the opposite of both of those.

I seriously misinterpreted Valorie Solanas.

I took the red pill without researching what the Wachowskis actually meant by that.

I fell in love with a lesbian.

I asked a genie for the love of a woman (at least now I've got better self-esteem).

I got kicked out of Boy Scouts.

Method acting.

Draft dodging.

There are so many better cosplay options this way.

Soy addict.

What? No, I've always been like this. Are you feeling okay? Hold on, I'll call a doctor.

[ciswomenofficial]

Just finished rereading the essay so that I could talk about it with a refreshed perspective. First of all, I’d like to say that I don’t think I’m in sharp disagreement with you and think I mostly agree. I’ve had some moments rolling my eyes at some of the way she talks about men, and also always felt that the conclusion was overly nihilistic and self-destructive. However, I have found a lot of interesting stuff to think about in this personal essay that I think is worth acknowledging, and that I think it would be useful to bring it up. If you wouldn’t mind a comradely discussion, I’m glad to have a productive argument over the specifics.

First of all, I strongly relate to being talked over on gender issues by cis women as a trans woman who didn’t feel safe to come out at the time, and by them playing identity games as to why they didn’t have to acknowledge me talking about transmisogyny. While I definitely think that it’s important to look at how people tokenize trans women who are saying the same nonsense as they are, this is just the other side of the identity game coin imo. It’s important to see what politically advanced trans women have to say on the subject on one hand, but on the other hand people shouldn’t say that only trans women can correctly address transmisogyny and dismiss peoples views out of hand based on an identity category either, and that is something that I think is being imperfectly addressed in this. Both of these root back to the same fetishism of identity.

Secondly, while I’m extremely critical of individualism, I do think that one thing I’ve gotten out of this essay, related to the last point, is that certain people tend to treat other people as group members to the point of denying their status as individuals. Don’t get me wrong, I warm up quicker to women than to guys, but I think that it’s still important to not just go through life with the default assumption that the guys around me are all misogynists, and I think it’s good to critique being assholes to men just because one puts the whole weight of that category and everything it represents societally on them. If there’s non-antagonistic elements to some of the exploitative relationships between petty-bourgeoisie and workers, and it worth engaging the most principled and advanced segments of the petty-bourgeoisie, than the same is true with men. On top of this, I think it’s fine to voice that men do not largely experience many of the issues that women do to the same degree, but I think it’s unhelpful to dismiss all of them as not having experienced something altogether as men are a diverse group, and on top of this I think that it’s absolutely inappropriate to tell someone that they have not experienced a certain personal issue just based on a category. I think this essay does provide some worthwhile critique of the bad-faith discourse where people are shut down based on how they are gendered by the people around them, and applied with assumptions.

Thirdly, I think this essay does make a case for how men who are not necessarily “hegemonicaly masculine” (imo this is not related to misandry but rather transmisogyny) can get thrown under the bus by strains of liberal cisfeminism. I think that Coats goes too far in on this in many ways, but I do think it provides interesting food for thought on the subject. While I’m as likely to get labeled as a misandrist as anyone (some liberal feminists I know irl think I’m like a transsexual Valorie Solanas or something because I openly say that women need to be prepared to be violent against men if we want to change society) I think it’s important to realize that I have common stake with many guys, especially those who are, regardless of sexual orientation, faggy, so to speak. If we want to change society, we need the numbers on our side, and despite many mens negative behaviors, we need to be ready to work with men, especially those who are oppressed by the whole gender thing for being faggy. Obviously, many of those men need to remold themselves and throw away a lot of negative ideas, but that doesn’t change the fact that we need to work with some of them (not the worst ones of course), and they can only be remolded through comradely debate and the process of making revolution. The way that a lot of liberal feminist then make fun of men and the ways they berate men for not living up to the expectations of masculinity and re-create patriarchal tropes that mock men for not looking young and virile enough (eg. baldness) and for showing feminine interests are imo counter productive. I also think that such perspectives on men are kind of inherently bound up in transmisogyny insofar as faggy men are seen as having some proximity to trans women by society at large.

Obviously, I don’t agree with all bits of the essay, but I just thought I’d get my thoughts on it out there. Sorry if you don’t want this kind of thing on your post.

Edit: as hoshi9zoe pointed out, the original version of this post needlessly berated other transfems like Jennifer Coates, for which I do apologize, and I have toned it down in this edited version. The original version survives in reblogs.

Some months ago, I was searching through this transandrobro blog to see if they posted a callout of me, and i found this reblog, which I couldn't really write about for months, because what do I even write. I recently wayback machined it for posterity, and I guess this is my attempt to write a post about it.

It's saint-dyke himself, the coiner of transandrophobia, saying that the infamous (at least for me) article "I am a transwoman. I'm in the closet. I'm not coming out" is what made him coin the fucking word. It's literally bolded and underlined: "Reading this article is what made me coin “transandrophobia”.

The reason I put off writing this post is that reading that article makes me feel like i'm drinking poison. And it is poison, make no mistake, it's internalized transmisogyny brainworms dripping out of the writer's brain and onto the page.

It's a justification for why the author, known by pseudonym Jennifer Coates, doesn't want to transition, despite knowing she is a trans woman. And it's the exact kind of internalized transmisogyny that keeps trans women in repression and not transitioning. "I'm not going to pass, i'm forever going to be an ugly freak who will at best be humored by other women, the closet is uncomfortable but at least it's safe"

It's the same exact bullshit a lot of represssed trans women tell themselves because it's what society tells us about trans women, that we are freakish parodies of women, that we will never pass, and if we don't pass we have failed and are ugly freaks. It's all to scare us into staying in the closet and make others hate and fear us. Transmisogyny permeates our society, and the majority, maybe all transfems will absorb and internalize some of it.

Coates says that it all is just applicable to her, but again so many transfems believe this shit before transitioning and realizing it's a pack of lies. If this bullshit was in any way valid, a lot of trans women shouldn't transition, because before we actually transition many of us believe it word for word. And "it's only true for me" is how we justify it to ourselves. We tend to be way harsher on ourselves than others. This kind of self-hating transfem tends to think: "Other trans women are beautiful graceful goddesses, earthly manifestations of the divine feminine, always destined to be women, while I'm an ugly forever male ogre who just has a fetish."

It's all bullshit, it's poison, it's internalized transmisogyny.

And the rest of the article is bullshit too. It is not some insightful mediation on gender as some people say, it's the author confusing and mixing up actual transmisogyny with an imagined problem of misandry. She does this because she has gone full repression mode, and decided she has no other choice to live as a man, so her dysphoria and experiences of transmisogyny are actually men's problems.

It's a bad article, excusable because as Coatas points out, it's "essentially a diary entry." that was meant to be a way to "vent frustration" and she "did not intend for anyone else to actually read it." It is clearly not the product of a healthy mind.

I hope the author sometime in the past seven years eventually did transition, and that for whatever reason she didn't want to publicly repudiate her own article. Maybe she lost access to the medium account so she can't delete it.

Far worse than the article itself is the response to it. I've seen it passed around as some insightful commentary on gender by the "feminists are too mean to men, misandry is real" crowd. I have argued against this before. And other people have made insightful comments about it.

And learning that saint-dyke claiming that he was inspired to coin the word "transandrophobia" because of this article is the cherry on top of this shitcake of transmisogyny. For my thoughts on "transandrophobia" theory and how transmisogynistic it is, see here.

Of course, Saint-dyke absolutely could be bullshitting here. Claiming that Coates's article is what inspired him to coin the word might be a lie to claim that transandrophobia theory is not transmisogynistic because it came from listening to trans women.

This is why "listen to trans women" doesn't work. Because TME people will always choose a trans woman who confirms their prejudices. Blair White has made an entire career out of this. And Coates article is popular because it says that misandry is real and trans women's issues are partly caused by it, misgendering herself and other trans women.

And it's popular for another reason. Coates has thoroughly internalized transmisogyny, and thus her article presents a trans woman that is exactly as transmisogynistic patriarchal society wants her to be. She is suffering, but ultimately accepts her assigned role. She truly believes that her biological sex dooms her to forever be male. She literally "manages her dysphoria by means other than transition" as conversion therapy advocates want us to do. She never makes an social claim on womanhood by actually transitioning, so she doesn't invade the sacred women's spaces. Yet she performs the role of woman perfectly by serving men, by defending them from supposed feminist misandry. And she fulfils the ritualistic role that the rhetorical figure of "trans women" sometimes serves in progressive spaces, of giving a blessing to TME people's pre-existing views and actions, all while actual flesh-and-blood trans women are destroyed by those same deeply transmisogynistic spaces. This time it's a blessing for the same "misandry is real" soft-MRA bullshit that has infested the online left and created the transandrophobia crowd.

That is why this article and the positive response makes me sick, makes me feel like i'm drinking poison. This is what its fans want trans women to be like. I'm acutely aware this kind of self-denial is exactly what transmisogyny wants from me and tried to indoctrinate me into doing it. And I want none of it. I want to live, I want to be a woman.

[shreddedcarrots4]

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“Bella where the hell have you been loca” - Jacob Black

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28 set 2021 09:27

UNA VITA ROVINATA DALLA MALAGIUSTIZIA - LA DRAMMATICA STORIA DELL’EX AMBASCIATORE MICHAEL GIFFONI, ASSOLTO DOPO 7 ANNI E MEZZO DI GOGNA: FU ESPULSO DAL CORPO DIPLOMATICO DOPO ESSERE STATO ACCUSATO DI TRAFFICI IN KOSOVO E FAVOREGGIAMENTO DELL’IMMIGRAZIONE CLANDESTINA. ORA CHI LO RISARCIRÀ? - DOPO LA SENTENZA È SCOPPIATO A PIANGERE: “LA MIA VITA È STATA DISTRUTTA. HO AVUTO DUE INFARTI, UN ICTUS, UN TUMORE, IL MIO MATRIMONIO È FINITO E SON DOVUTO TORNARE IN CASA DA MIA MAMMA. E QUESTO PER COSE CHE NON SOLO NON AVEVO MAI FATTO, MA NEANCHE MAI PENSATO DI FARE. ERA TUTTO INFONDATO"

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Francesco Battistini per il "Corriere della Sera"

«È stato come essere condannati a morte...». Nell'aula bunker di Rebibbia, quando all'una e mezza i giudici dell'ottava sezione penale l'assolvono con formula strapiena, Giffoni scoppia a piangere.

Si strofina gli occhi e si scusa, perché da una vita il suo mestiere è quello di nascondere le emozioni e adesso non gli riesce: «Mi spiace, sono in pieno choc emotivo Ma dovete capire: quel che m' hanno inflitto in questi sette anni e mezzo, per un ambasciatore equivale alla pena capitale.

Sì, non lo dico io, lo dice una legge del 1953: la radiazione d'un diplomatico è equiparata alla fucilazione per alto tradimento in tempo di guerra E loro m' hanno fucilato, senza alcun diritto di farlo. La mia vita è stata distrutta. Una prova durissima di resistenza fisica, morale e materiale.

M' hanno espulso dal corpo diplomatico, ho avuto due infarti, un ictus, un tumore, il mio matrimonio è finito, m' è rimasto vicino solo mio figlio di 12 anni e son dovuto tornare in casa da mia mamma, a sopravvivere con la sua pensione E questo perché? Per cose che non solo non avevo mai fatto, ma neanche mai pensato di fare. Era tutto infondato».

Assolto perché il fatto non sussiste: non si sognò mai di formare un'associazione a delinquere. Assolto perché il fatto non costituisce reato: men che meno, si mise mai in testa di favorire l'immigrazione clandestina.

Nella mostruosa galleria dei Kafka italiani, ecco il caso della fucilazione senza processo inflitta sette anni e mezzo fa all'ormai ex ambasciatore Michael Giffoni, 56 anni, newyorkese di nascita e italianissimo per spirito di servizio, incarichi dalla Bosnia alla task force del «ministro» europeo Javier Solana, che nella storia sarà ricordato perché fu il primo ad aprire una nostra ambasciata a Pristina, subito dopo l'indipendenza del Kosovo.

E il primo, anzi l'unico, a essere cacciato con disonore: «Senza che nemmeno fosse cominciato il processo, il ministero degli Esteri mi tolse tutto: rango, incarichi, stipendio. Feci due volte ricorso al Tar, che per due volte mi reintegrò. Ma per due volte la Farnesina ribadì la mia destituzione: una a firma dell'allora ministra Federica Mogherini; la seconda, del segretario generale Elisabetta Belloni. Ero accusato di dolo e colpa grave, senza uno straccio di sentenza penale contro di me».

La sentenza ora è arrivata, «dopo 4 anni di processo, di tanta gente che t' abbandona, di soldi che non ci sono, d'un telefono che passa da cento chiamate al giorno a sette-otto all'anno». E ha appurato come l'ambasciatore Giffoni non c'entrasse proprio nulla con quel suo collaboratore locale - peraltro figlio di Ibrahim Rugova, il «Gandhi del Kosovo» - che fra il 2008 e il 2013 trafficava in visti e permessi di soggiorno. Chi l'ha conosciuto nei suoi 23 anni da diplomatico sul campo, uno che è stato a Sarajevo sotto le granate e ha visto gli orrori di Srebrenica, non ha mai dubitato un attimo di Giffoni.

Ma alla Farnesina si son fatti un altro film: «Non so se in Kosovo io abbia mai toccato interessi o suscettibilità. Non me la sento neanche di dare colpe. Credo che il mio caso sia stato più che altro un impazzimento. Un accanimento feroce e disumano. Di chi conosceva il mio profondo attaccamento al Paese e ai valori dell'Ue». E ora? «Non è finita, lo so. In uno stato di diritto la mia riabilitazione dovrebbe essere automatica: non in Italia. Per me, fare l'ambasciatore era una missione e questo è il peggio: m' hanno destituito non solo dal mio lavoro, ma dalla mia vita e dalla mia anima».

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translation:

terf’s say trans women are violent, but their the ones using their real urethra adjacent to their real vagina to piss in my bowl of cornflakes. “i just want breakfast, please stop pissing in my cereal bowl, your ruining your own copy of the vagina monologues, did you follow me home? how did you even get in my house, the glue binding your copy of the vagina monologues together has come undone, there are pages all over the floor. did you draw a portrait of valorie solanas on every page of your copy of the vagina monologues? i... shes gone.”

[ms-andrist]

Let's not forget the sacred text "The Scum Manifesto" by Valorie Solanas (may have misspelled her last name)

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Angela Davis, Are Prisons Obsolete

Angela Davis, Beyond the Frame, Women of Color and Visual Representation

Audre Lorde, Zami, Sister Outsider Undersong

Catharine A. MacKinnon et Andrea Dworkin, In Harm’s Way, the Pornography Civil Rights Hearings

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Janice G. Raymond & Donna M. Hughes, Sex Trafficking of Women in the United States

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