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True/False game. Make an assumption about me in my ask and I’ll tell you if its true or false. Go.

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I know murdering all of the CEOs of all the evil corporations won't solve capitalism, but I don't think it would hurt either. Maybe we should try killing a few more, just to see what happens

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Honestly, I'm not sure how helpful it is to frame HRT and affirming procedures as "life saving" when discussing the politics of medical rights, because conservatives very literally/materially want us dead.

I'm not convinced that the majority of them are unaware of the suicide rates for trans folks nor that we are less likely to commit post-transition. They'd rather we die than be able to transition.

Trans people are, by definition, an affront to conservative and Christian values in that we prove gender is not dictated by god nor government, and that proscribed gender roles hold no bearing. We demonstrate the embodiment of autonomy. They see us as chaos threatening their order, and they don't like it. They'd rather we die than exist at all.

Further, while the "life saving" argument may be useful for on-the-fence folks with some compassion, it's not the bottom line point. A person's right to govern their own body and life should not depend on whether or not the alternative threatens their life; autonomy should be inherent. The "why" should trans people be allowed to transition is because all people have the inherent right to self-determination.

Trans folks for whom transition isn't life or death should, ethically, legally, and politically, have the same right to body autonomy as those in crisis.

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did u know sometimes the eldest daughter and angriest son are the same person

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god I would be UNSTOPPABLE if I was capable of consistently initiating tasks. just you wait. you'll be waiting a while but just you wait

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A deputy sheriff in Los Angeles has pleaded guilty to assaulting a transgender man and violating his federal civil rights.

Joseph Benza III, 36, was charged Tuesday with one felony count of deprivation of rights for an incident in February, 2023 where he followed the man in his car for nearly two miles before brutally assaulting him once he parked. Benza pleaded guilty the same day, the Department of Justice has announced.

The victim, Emmett Brock, was 23 and weighed about half as much as Benza at the time. Benza admitted that he became enraged after Brock drove by the scene of another case he was responding to and flipped the officer off — something legally protected under the First Amendment — prompting him to abandon the case and pursue Brock in his car for 1.8 miles. Brock called law enforcement to report that he was being followed and pulled into a parking lot, at which point Benza grabbed him without speaking to him, and then "violently body slammed Victim [Brock] onto the ground," according to authorities. "Once Victim E.B. was on the ground, defendant Benza mounted Victim E.B., punched Victim E.B.’s head and face multiple times, and pressed Victim E.B.’s face into the pavement." Brock was arrested and initially charged with three felonies for the incident that left him suffering from a “concussion, contusions and abrasions,” according to court documents. The charges were later reduced to two misdemeanors and then dropped altogether following the release of surveillance video contradicting the official version of the incident. Brock lost his job as a schoolteacher because of the incident.

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"Transandrophobia deniers are just acknowledging trans men as men!" no, what transandrophobia deniers are doing is

attacking transmascs for talking about their own oppression

inventing a false dichotomy where acknowledging transandrophobia means denying transmisogyny

openly misgendering trans men

... except when they instead accuse trans men of being inherently dangerous as a result of being men (where have I seen that tactic before?)

denying that transmascs are oppressed and simultaneously claiming transmascs deserve to be oppressed

suicide-baiting transmascs who acknowledge transandrophobia

making up entire false narratives about "transandrobros" just to justify all that

Like, yeah, they acknowledge trans men as men (sometimes, when they're not misgendering them for fun), but that is so clearly not the reason people are mad at them

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saw someone say "an 11-year-old isn't even supposed to know what sex is and if you do something horrible must be happening to you and you need to get out of there" like can we be for real for a moment. have some people honest to god never heard 11-year-olds making sex jokes in their life

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trans women can be butch without it invalidating their womanhood. trans men can be femme without it invalidating their manhood. if masculine cis women and feminine cis men exist, there will always be masculine trans women and feminine trans men. if being a butch woman doesn't invalidate cis womanhood, it doesn't invalidate trans womanhood. is being a femme man doesn't invalidate cis manhood, it doesn't invalidate trans manhood. trans people are allowed to be gender non conforming, too- this delight isn't reserved just for the cisgendered.

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"Uhh AFAB transfem people could be intersex-"

Without looking it up, tell me what types of intersex people would be assigned female at birth and simultaneously need to transition to being female. I don't think you know, because most of you were just using intersex people as a rhetorical shield for your real audience - cis women who aestheticize and objectify trans women.

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Remember earlier this year when Boeing very clearly had a whistleblower executed? And law enforcement didn't even look for anyone or release any info about it or anything?

People keep comparing Luigi Mangione's case to the subway murderer who got off because of systemic eugenics, but I think there's something more apt about the fact that a CEO had someone executed in recent memory, with zero attempts to find a culprit, while they spared no expense at all to find (and probably frame, it's beginning to look like) someone who shot a CEO. It's always fine to slaughter if you're rich, but if you kill the rich, they will hunt you down.

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“Queer events have a tme lean” you mean a cis lean. If you think other trans people get just as included as cis people in general queer spaces you have not spoken to enough of us. To say this in the context of trans men and transmasculine people in particular is so frustrating to me when so many queer spaces and events are given a “women and femmes” theming.

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I saw someone saying TERFs started with being furious about trans women but for some reason if you look at every single major TERF from the 20th century they all came out of general radical feminism and have extensive histories talking about All Men and how evil All Men are and how they would all gladly eradicate All Men if it were a possibility. The Transexual Empire, from the fucking eighties, the first major defining work of TERF literature, was all about the view that trans people were an extension of the patriarchy they'd been fighting ineffectually their whole lives. Stone Butch Blues talks about radfems hating butch lesbians for being too masculine.

I think part of the issue is that people literally don't understand who or what radfems are anymore. There's this pernicious belief, it seems, that a radfem is simply a shortening of trans exclusionary radical feminist. If you view TERFism as it's own separate thing and you refuse to look at it's broader roots or surrounding culture then you would get the impression that TERFism started with hating trans people because, like, no shit? It's tautological. Of course TERFs only hate trans women, that's their whole thing, right? But they didn't 'start' with hating trans women at all, because TERFism was not initially a movement all it's own! It is and was a specific and dominant school of thought within the radfem movement. While I may think radical feminism always bends towards unavoidable transphobia, TERFs were literally first named TERFs by other members of their category who considered themselves "trans inclusive!" Before that, being trans exclusionary was just one part of being a radfem.

Nowadays many TERFs are mind virusing themselves hard and becoming increasingly obsessed with trans people exclusively, yet even that has many detractors within radfem spaces who do also still hate trans people but think people around them are being ridiculous for losing track of what they consider the bigger picture. I've even saw TERFs calling other TERFs "homophobic" conservatives for caring more when a kink blog is ran by a trans woman than when it's ran by a cis man on the notion that those TERFs have more of an issue with gender non-conformity and queerness than what radfems are "supposed" to care about.

You are. Just. Wrong. Look at their fucking blogs right here on Tumblr. You will a lot of transmisogyny and exorsexism. You will see less transandrophobia on average because they try to keep their hatred of transmascs lowkey but you will see it if you look for it.

But you will, more than anything still with at least some of them but omnipresent among all of them, see a fuckton of complaining about whatever cis men are doing this week, and while none of them may hate cis men more, cis men give them daily opportunities to work themselves into a rage.

And a portion of the issue with THAT is that in large part a lot of people who otherwise disagree with them generally agree about a lot of their complaining about cis men. Few publicly take it to the point of calls for genocide of everyone with XY chromosomes, but TERFs and praxis progressives can agree on getting furious every time a sexual abuser gets a slap on the wrist. That means that you can show people a long list of TERFs hating men, like I've compiled twice, and then have half the examples dismissed because those are justified examples of expressing outrage at men. The thing that fails to understand, though, is that the point of TERF ideology is wrongly seeing trans people as an extension of the system that allows for things like that!

No matter how open TERFs are about their beliefs, TRFs will just say that you "shouldn't take fascists at their word" and then turn around and lap up the line that TERFs simply love trans men too much in a way that's a little too overbearing. It's so blatantly a self-centered cope to pretend that you are objectively the gender you say you are because no one could ever sincerely disbelieve in it. The only way for the "gender is a real thing that actually exists because we're positionally women" thing to work is for trans men to either not be men or not be oppressed at all.

Transfem TRFs don't care because this framework makes them feel like they're in the Wymbyn Club.

Transmasc TRFs don't care because playing pretend and imagining they have structural power over any subset of women, which now includes cis women based on "transmascs shouldn't get access to sexual abuse shelters despite being sexually abused at rates astronomically higher than cis women," gives THEM gender euphoria and might also turn some of them on based on how they act like they're in a bar telling me all about their Women's History class hoping I'll go home with them tonight.

There's this desperate desire to fashion a reality where it is provable with hard science that JK Rowling is not only wrong, which she is, but that her assessment of their status as women is exactly as demonstrably wrong as people who think the Earth is hollow. Except, the method they've come up for doing so is saying that JK Rowling isn't wrong, she's secretly right, but is just so driven by pure bigotry that she lies and spends millions of dollars and spits on her fanbase and let's herself become a despised figure...just to be mean. To trans women specifically and no one else.

And it's so obviously contradictory!

"TERFs hate men and perceive trans women as men"

"no they don't and you can tell because they hate trans women"

"but why"

"because they show that womanhood is not based in collective misery"

"okay so you don't believe Womanhood is a thing that objectively exists specifically because it's a defined category within an oppressive patriarchal society and that's the justification for how someone really can be a Woman in a material way rather than it simply being an internal sense of self"

"no I do believe that"

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