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Growing up as a trans person of colour is odd, because we're hardly ever acknowledged, let alone centred in conversations. I think a massive symptom of this is how many of us have 'white' names, as our chosen names.
I'll use myself as an example, but i've noticed this as a growing trend. My chosen name, until recently, was 'Scarlet' and i got this from the world i was raised in. Its objectively a white name, with white roots, for an Arab woman. (Currently I'm trying out Yasmeen instead).'
And then this is used against us, because we are frequently assumed to be white. People judge online communities and are like 'you're white', trans communities are white, etc. But the only reason we even have these names is because of these attitudes.
Its annoying.
#trans woman#transfem#intersectional activism#intersectionality#yes the trans community has#a problem with being#white-centered#but y'all are contributing to that#by making assumptions#trans pride#transphobia#transmisogyny#transandrophobia
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pretty please, my fellow progressives
Could we please all keep in mind that the concept of "The Jews In General, or A Specific Type Of Jew, Controls Education, Government, Media, and/or Banking", is a longstanding antisemitic trope?
And most of all, that it is false??
No, a marginalized group does not also control education, the government, the media, and/or banking?
No, Jews do not secretly control these things and just pretend to be marginalized? No, Jews have not secretly been accumulating power since the Holocaust, granted by too-generous gentiles, out of pity?
No, it isn't better if you just mean a specific subgroup or kind of Jews. It's still specifically Jews.
It's like when people who hate trans/queer people are fine with rich white cis gay men. So they think it's not bigoted to blame "people with blue hair and pronouns" for the downfall of society.
We all know this means, "I only see some of you as human like me. You have to speak and act a certain way to count. Everyone in your group has to pass a test to get into the Good group."
Doesn't work.
Sure, it gives them plausible deniability to the people who matter to them. But everyone else can see exactly how they feel.
We've all known for years that it's bad to think of a marginalized group as having some "good ones." Rein it the heck in, please.
Because YES, all of those examples are ones I've seen implied, or stated outright, over and over, within the progressive community. This month alone.
#antisemitism#anti-semitic#yes this is about how gentiles use zionism#yes this is about how fast it went from 'this isn't NECESSARILY antisemitic' to 'this ISN'T antisemitic'#yes this is about claiming that we claim antisemitism to deflect valid criticism#yes this is part of a larger pattern of violating every progressive standard but only for jews#none of us would ever say 'people are just claiming misogyny to deflect valid criticism'#we would never claim that trans people secretly control or “influence” the government#we would never treat Ukrainians like “'noble savages” who need us to speak for them#but we treat Palestinians like “noble savages” who need us to speak for them#we know to center the people affected and uplift their voices in every other situation#but in this situation we ignore the fact that we're supporting palestinians by talking ABOUT them#we swallow far-right Palestinian propaganda channeled through diaspora organizations#while Palestinians in Gaza demand completely different solutions and support#zionists echo Palestinian solutions and experiences because we know people in Israel and Palestine#and we get told we love genocide or just blocked#this is how Hamas propaganda is designed to work. Hamas has systematically silenced Palestinians for 18 years and now it's all you know#it is genuinely terrifying to see the entire progressive community sound exactly like the alt-right while it absolutely insists it's not#we also know to center marginalized people's voices about what harms them -- except the Jews?#honestly I think that progressives listened before Oct 7 and that the “no we just mean ZIONISTS are evil” has done wonders to reverse that#let's be real the zionists-not-jews trope comes from Hamas too#all it had to do was claim it definitely meant Zionists not Jews and that it was the Palestinian resistance and progressives flocked to it#its fighters were calling home from the massacre to boast about how many Jews they had killed. it has not changed.#i suppose that the zionists-not-jews thing gave freedom to unexamined antisemitism that people felt guilty about#but oh my god it caught on like absolute wildfire#wall of words
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Happy pride month and remember kids
-Making a character gay after the book is finished is not representation
-Having your only gay character to be a celibate who dies alone because the only person he ever loved was literally villain is also bad
-also finally making the character gay In Canon on a movie but also making the villain lover to be trying to apparently stop the literal holocaust is not a good look either
-Making wherewolves a metaphor for HIV and then making one of the only two prominent wherewolves in your story to be a predator who pray on young boys is absolutely horrible and not good representation
-Also allying yourself with people who opposed the right to marriage for gay people and then using gay people to justify being a terf is also a rather bad and disgusting thing
-The vixen mean bisexual woman is a bad stereotype
-Using plausible deniability by making your bi characters weirdly confuse but never setting on whether or not they are actually bi is bad
-Stop burying gays
-Yes even if the gay is buried before the story started this actually makes it worse
-(not about books but) naming a trans character Sirona Ryan was just malicious compliance and rather childish btw
-We need the sweet teen gay rom coms, we need the sad gay stories, we need the painful coming of age books, we need evil gay people, we need those the only thing we don't need is another secondary character baddly written as a second thought on straight media
-Lesbians exist and If your "lgbt book rec list" is just gay man I don't trust you
-speaking of lesbians stop with the bullshit of "there's too many stories about butches" because there really isn't
-Dont try to cut the "TQ+" from LGBTQ+ because trans and queer people have your back and trust me if they lose their damn rights you better believe you are the next on the chopping board honey it's delusional to think that this moral panic will stop at drag queens and trans people
-Stop begging marvel and Disney for crumbs and go consume media from indie gay people for the love of god
- And lastly have a good pride month and remember it's not just about "all love is love" it's also about "conservatives really want to do genocide on queer people so please stand in support"
#yes i made this another unpopular opinion post#happy pride#anti booktok#anti acotar#anti lightlark#anti jk rowling#she has no right to use the gay community to be transphobic after being such a shitty ally#anti jkr#trans rights#trans pride
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TRANSGENDER JESTER BE UPON YE
#art#my art#jester#trans#HELLO LGBT COMMUNITY#lmao i wanted to do this LAST YEARRR and i finally did it . right on time for pride month to end .#this month needs to be extended it felt like 10 days thats not fair#anywayyyy thats my little sillay jester sona weee ^^#trans flag rlly has the nicest colors ever#i think its funny i was like . hm what if this doesnt have enough . TRANS PRIDE !! vibes . ah yes . just add the flag duh#u cant say its anything else the flag is RIGHT there
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"Trans men and lesbians can date!!" "Trans men and straight men can date!!" "Lesbian includes attraction to men!!!" "Labels mean nothing just use what you want!!!" what if I threw a rock at you.
#lgbt discourse#queer discourse#queer#yes ive seen all of those things being said unironically#y'all wanna include men in lesbianism so bad#y'all wanna invalidate trans men so bad#just say you're a mysoginist and go#just say you don't see trans men as real men and go#and for people who think it doesn't invalidate their label?#why even bother? why do y'all refuse to identify as bisexual?#why do you continue to disrespect lesbians and trans men#we can be different communities and still respect and uplift each other#identify as you want but one day you'll learn that actions have consequences#and get called a transphobe#and i will LAUGH#lgbt+#anti bi lesbians#also labels mean things and if you don't agree with it don't participate in society!#because everything and everyone has labels whether you like it or not
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hello trans people in my phone. first of all i love you and i'm glad you're alive. second, does anyone know why my gender and body dysphoria may have gotten at Least a million times worse since i accepted my identity as a trans guy and started trying to present in a way that matches how i feel?? bc i would have thought maybe. just maybe. that it would be the opposite but! alas
#furthermore if anyone has good tips for coping with overwhelming levels of dysphoria that theyd like to share pleaase lmk#i am. really really having a time.#worst time ever to realize this about myself btw#bc of election and all that ofc yes#but ALSO a bastard be extremely broke#and i dont think i'll be able to afford t for a while and that makes me so fucking depressed teehee#silas speaks#transgender#transmasc#trans#trans community#transblr#trans advice#trans pride#gender dysphoria#body dysphoria#trans dysphoria#dysphoria#trans masc#trans ftm#tboy#tboy swag
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Anyways thinking abt how Miles’s monologue to his not-Mom at the end really reflects how it feels to be a POC queer and not feel like you belong even in your own community having to keep secrets that hurt everyone yourself included and wanting so desperately to be supported by people like you only to realize they won’t support you either (sans Hobie, Margo and Pavitr - other teens of color) so you seek refuge in the place you grew up in only to realize you still don’t belong there either
#yes ik hes technically in a different dimension at the end#the metaphor still works ok#miles morales#across the spiderverse#rio morales#hobie brown#margo kess#pavitr prabhakar#also noting how gwen - who is white but implied to be trans - only has a very conditional acceptance that's revoked when she 'goes-#out of line' like it does show how conditional lgbtq communities can be towards trans people and queer poc
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#okay so random tag post even though it's been ages#me thinks the current place i work is actually decent a la accepting-queer-ppl so?? miiiiight. consider actually putting my#pronouns in my email signature (which hardly gets used but shh) but like. the actual ones not the society/people assume anyway ones#idk i attended a virtual tech focused event for trans dov (yes early but they didn't want to put the event on sun) and you know when#everyone is just sharing their stories and experiences and it's just like... an overwhelming sense of community? anyway that#and since it was hosted by a professional org the topics were all workplace focused and mayhaps that's something i'm thinking abt for#this year. at least within our pride group I might be ready? wild bc for a long time tumblr has been the only place I feel comfy being 100%#myself. but hearing real people's stories makes me feel like that kind of community would be nice to have elsewhere too#and the whole looking to others also turns around into the leading by example thing bc then we had some breakout groups at the end for#networking which is not my favorite but! i did my intro and said I use she/her for work but will use she/they for this group and#then the next person said he/him at work but for this group he/they so that made me wonder if it was bc of me saying so first?#which if it was is kind of like oh. the way I'm looking for those people for me.. I can also be that for someone else#anyway this sounds dumb typed out but irl/professional me has always separated out queer identity so it's new to me#i'm allowed to be giddy okay. just a little. as a treat (is tumblr still using 'as a treat' i really hope so)#oh shit is this what gender euphoria feels like#alright that's it for now i think#gah emotions and whatnot#missed you all btw i'll start actually being online again soon#personal
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its funny bc jacob is literally on my lesbian gf's very short list of men she would make out with, and he was put on that list waaaay before i watched iwtv bc she thought he was funny and charming when he was a guest on game grumps back in the day. i just looked it up and she must've first watched those episodes 8 years ago........
she hasn't watched iwtv and probably won't but when i was watching it the first time she was like aw sick its jacob anderson i love that guy and i was like hello??? how do you know him???? you didn't watch game of thrones??? and she was like oh i've wanted that man for a LONG time and then showed me all his game grumps episodes dhdibdejebej
it's just so funny to me that she knows him from him being endearingly bad at mario kart and not the fact that he is an iconic actor, and that even from him just vibing she's like yeah he's one of four men on this planet i would snog xx
#jacob anderson#idek who else is on the list beside me and jacob but i know there has to be a couple more LMAO#see i recognise the lesbian assad loving community but the lesbian jacob loving community needs more representation xxx#and yes i'm a gay trans man in a relationship with a lesbian trans woman i s2g don't come into my inbox being weird
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istg non lesbians need to back tf out of lesbian conversations and lesbians need to get their shit together
a small edit for a little more context: this post is inspired by a tiktok of a girl talking about another girl (their both lesbians) said she slept with men as a form of self harm after breakups. everyone in the comments immediately started claiming that she was as actually bisexual. i want my community to be a safe space
#yes. surprise i am in fact a lesbian#lesbian#its about community issues and how “gold star“ have affected the community#why is it that when a lesbian sleeps or has slept with man we automatically shun them#or claim it’s internalized biphobia?#i’m literally straight4pay#i’m a sw for context#idk who told u that you can only fuck people ur sexually or romantically attracted to but their WRONG#you can CONSENTUALLY fuck someone you’re not attracted to….#we are just reinforcing gold star ideals in out community when we claim someones not realy a lesbian bc they don’t fit this hyper specific#idea#i think this probably goes much deeper and def has more nuance and etc to be said#but i’m not the smartest and im tired#lgbtq#lgbtq community#trans lesbian#lgbtqia
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"X is so genderidentity-coded" this "Z is b-sexuality and i will fight people on this" that, "10001 reasons why character C is [insert sexuality, gender identity, disability etc.]" shmat.
can we just go back to saying "I headcanon this character as being X, Y, Z"
If I see one more person use "[insert disability, gender identity, sexuality]-coded" in context of
"I personally view them as [sexuality] and a representation of [sexuality] and it's a positive thing and I will be upset if someone disagrees"
My brain will melt.
No one will fight you over headcanons, but some people will fight you over saying that a canonically pansexual character is 'actually lesbian/asexual/gay etc.'
#i feel like fandom etiquette is lost to time and fandoms and social media only suffers from it#bcs yes!! HC that this character is autistic or aroace or trans#everyone has headcanons!#but YOUR personal interpretation and takeaway of piece of media is NOT automatically canon#i remember writing an academic paper on queer-coding in american media and let me tell u none of it was positive#it started as filmmakers trying to pass the censorship by only coding characters as queer but it turned into just#coding villains and bad characters as queer#which harms the entire queer community#it applies to disabilities too#going 'oh they are so OCD-coded!' when a character just likes organizing and cleaning is not good#seeing a stereotype or crumb of stereotype and taking it as 'oh they are this then' is not great#ramble#qbr rambling
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Hi! im not sure if you read tags on reblogs. But your recent drawing of Steve in trans colours.. was that meant to be a reference to the Vibes he has, or is it a confirmation of anything...? He'll still be transition goals no matter the answer, but i was just curious how /hj or /srs it was.
It's serious! He's trans. Got transed by werewolves.
#hitting all my characters with my trans beam#looking at adam: 'hes got a he/they type beat...'#also yes i do read tags! but then idk if its weird for me to respond to tags so i dont#but i do read them.#also yeah this is why he's a werewolf. so maybe it will come up#just yknow... shapeshifters... thing that makes you hairy... not an uncommon trans allegory#plus also adam and steve.... yeah.........#uhhhhhhhhh#i dont think about the logistics too much though because to me it feels invasive#i dont think he as a person would tell me about it so i just dont know#also if anyone asks me about whether he has balls ill kill you im sick of people asking me that#also he DOES have pretty severe amnesia#so jts not like he can uh... remember about jt.#but theres like 60 more episodes or something to go so who knows#if theres a way for me to put it in canonically... i will#complicated when its magic trans + a guy who doesnt communicate his feelings + has amnesia#but on god its canon ill make sure of it#asks
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If you ever see me becoming one of those transmisandry people, please fucking call me out immediately.
#it shouldn't happen though i am too triggered by MRA-lite material#i can't see that changing any time soon even though i haven't had exposure to the content for like 10 years#the transmisandry discourse on this site melts my brain it's awful it's just online stuff being argued about more online stuff#this is not the same as me saying i will never be treated badly for being transmasc i am not stupid i know that happens#and i am fully committed to fighting the patriachy which has nothing whatsoever to do with my individual manhood or anyone else's#it's a system and yes gender and how we fit into the patriachy is made extremely complicated in trans circles and that's ok!#i promise it is you don't have to design a new system that cis women and trans women are using to do oppression on specifically trans mascs#we're all being fucked over by the patriachy and how the fuck does it help to be divided#but in reality let's face it i can say this all i want but the real reason i'm never going anywhere near being a transmisandry person#is because i was exposing myself to MRA-lite content at a formative age and harming myself in the process#even if i didn't know i was a trans man guess what it would have harmed me just as much if i did have that awareness#and honestly when i see transmisandry discourse all i see is that fucking triggering stuff again#all it does is nitpick whether patriachy is real with tiny examples it doesn't talk systemicly and it doesn't help men in the slightest#it pays lipservice to marginised men but it has no interest in talking about the fact that men are usually simultaenously#oppressed and oppressor at the same time- this is not accusatory it is just factual#it's true of the queer community too and basically every community#but we can't seem to talk about it without just harming each other and blaming and not seeing each other as human#the internet makes it all so much fucking worse this stuff can't exist without it#anyway i'm super rambling but these are genuinely very triggering topics for me i have unfollowed people i LOVE becuase of this#and i still love them! unfollowing on a social media isn't a referendum on that i just can't see that stuff and i need it gone from my dash
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husbeast watched To Wong Foo, Thanks For Everything! Julie Newmar with me and he LOVED IT and i could just cry little tears of queer joy. this movie means so much to me as a queer person and as a gender nonconforming and a just generally socially non conformative person.
if you haven’t seen it, you gotta.
#the youths really don’t realize how much of a completely different world it used to be#same sex marriage has only been legal in the US for the last 9 years#if youre under 30 or so you really don’t know what it used to be like#‘gay panic’ was a legally admissible defense for why yoy brutally murdered someone#queer ppl had to live in secret basically#yes even in 1995#the internet barely existed#most ppl in america weren’t even aware gender nonconforming folks EXISTED#or that that was even a THING#so many stories of trans ppl who were young then & older now not realizing they were trans#but there was nowhere to go if u didn’t have a local queer community#& most places did NOT have open queer communities#u literally had to know a guy#hanky code was in use to surreptitiously signal ur gayness#this movie is a reminder of how far we’ve come and what we have to learn#also this movie was racially groundbreaking believe it or not#ok maybe not groundbreaking#a movie where the three main characters are a white girl a black girl and a latina girl#was still a p big deal
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i'm getting a good grade in transgender
#sib the local lgbtq charity that has monthly meet-ups for trans people & any of their open-minded loved ones#just asked Me if i could help with hosting these ???#I GOT A PROMOTION BY JUST BEING THERE GKFJFKF#poggers. huge.#i said FUCK YEAH because ohhh this is exactly what i wanted#i WANT to give back to this community i WANT to help my fellow people#i don't want to just reap the benefits of the ongoing fights other people had for my sake i want to fight with them !#and if my means of fighting are caring for and welcoming people in need of company or information or just fun#then that's what i'm gonna do !!!!#taking care of each other is our number one priority in the face of everything society throws at us#if i can help even just a little bit with that. fuck. i'll have all i need.#if one other trans person can feel safe thanks to something i did i will have it all. fuck the lottery. this is my big win#the founder of the charity was so nice too he was understanding that i may not be able to help consistently#because i don't have a car and it's like a 15-min drive away not really reachable by bus so. need mom to drive me there gkfkf but#he said that was completely okay and he said my ''expertise'' was all that was needed ???#BRO i'm. yes it is i the big tramsgengar expert uh-huh professor t-shot in the house#like SURE i know. quite a lot about all this what with all the internet exposure to the subject and. Me living that#but expertise ??? gkfjf i. i guess. i mean. woargh.#anyway i'm super flattered and excited and i hope i don't let them down
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PT: Note: This is not saying that men who see women hating them and respond by becoming MRAs and whatnot are totally fine or women’s fault. It’s just that it is difficult for men to be vocal feminists when people base their feminism off of hating men. /end PT.
It is not “coddling” to refrain from telling people “I hate you for the way you were born.”
When I say it hurts the feminist cause to consider men our enemy rather than just patriarchy itself, accusations of “coddling” are a common response I get. I am not asking anyone to put men’s feelings over calling them out for misogyny they enact and perpetuate. I am talking about expressing sentiments in public or to men directly that you despise them for existing at all.
It’s one thing to be traumatized by sexism and vent your feelings about men amongst friends. But normalizing this as a part of mainstream feminism, making it so men have to see these sentiments when they engage with feminist content, drives them away from our movement. You can say men driven away by being openly hated never were going to be feminists in the first place, but I staunchly disagree. It says nothing about one’s views on oppression to not want to be around people who say they consider you an irredeemable monster no matter how hard you try to support them.
This is not about men’s feelings. I do feel that people should care about those too, including because as a transmasc I am extremely aware that seeing these sentiments harms trans men, such as preventing them from being out and transitioning for fear of being hated by those around them. But this is about what is effective in breaking down the structure of sexism. Excluding half the population from being our allies matters. Cis men should be able to use their privilege to shoulder some of the work of fighting sexism. How will they learn how to do so if we ostracize them?
Note: This is not saying that men who see women hating them and respond by becoming MRAs and whatnot are totally fine or women’s fault. It’s just that it is difficult for men to be vocal feminists when people base their feminism off of hating men.
#yes!#as op states it doesn't mean that men are misoginistic bc a bunch of feminists hate men#but it has all of these effects we gotta look out for#also the impact on the transmasc community is big#and this also EASILY spirals into hating trans women and ppl who transitioned away from manhood?????
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