Tag: transphobia

political-me:

As U.S. President, George H.W. Bush, among other things, cut AIDS research funding, banned HIV-Positive people from entering the country, encouraged “behavioral change” to the exclusion of comprehensive sexual education, and extended/expanded many of the murderous AIDS policies of Ronald Reagan, for whom Bush served as Vice President. By the end of 1993, over 194,000 HIV/AIDS related deaths had been reported in the United States. Approximately 133,000 of which were during Bush’s one term as President. Between 1987 and 1992, the median age at death among men in the United States that died from HIV/AIDS related causes was 38; among women the median age was 34. George H.W. Bush died November 30th 2018 at the age of 94. May he rot in Hell alongside Ronald Reagan! 🖕

THANK YOU FOR THIS POST. If I saw one more news headline today about how great this mass murderer was I was gonna barf.

i-am-a-fish:

queeranarchism:

bartfargo:

riftwitch:

fattyatomicmutant:

Petition to refer to TERFs as FARTs, which stands for Feminist Appropiating Reactionary Tranaphobe

“Trans-Exclusionary-Radical-Feminist,” when you think about it, is a VERY kind term. To be called a TERF is for the person to admit that they still consider you a feminist.

But what kind of feminist excludes so many women from their movement? If you hate so many women for what they are, you really don’t deserve to be called any kind of feminist, radical or otherwise.

Anti-trans people: Stop calling us terfs it’s insulting

fattyatomicmutant, about to coin a new term: ‘K

Feminist Appropiating Reactionary Transphobe

is far far more accurate too.

ima just spread this

aureliaborealis:

prokopetz:

prokopetz:

Rape is the only crime on the books for which arguing that the temptation to commit it was too clear and obvious to resist is treated as a defence. For every other crime, we call that a confession.

I’ve gotten more angry asks about this post than I have actual reblogs.

imagine hearing “well if he didn’t want to be shot, he should have worn a bulletproof vest” on a trial

The thing is, though, it is said, in the case of racial minorities and vulnerable people. How often has a black person been shot just for driving/walking/ringing the cops for help/wearing a hoodie/playing in a park? How often do people say they should have behaved differently, as though their actions were a logical precursor to their murder?

How often do Jewish people, Sikhs and Muslims get blamed for being ‘too’ who they are in public? Especially women wearing a headscarf or men wearing a turban? How many are told, ‘well, what did you expect?’ when they try to report a hate crime?

How many queer people are blamed for their own murders and assaults simply for existing in public spaces? How many are told that if they just made an effort to be normal, they’d have been safe? How many were assaulted when they were actually passing, but were outed as queer and found themselves trapped and abused by people who felt angry at being ‘tricked’?

How many disabled people have been murdered just for not being normal? How many autistic children and adults are killed by their caregivers annually, or subjected to torturous therapies to try to cure them? How many interviews, articles, memoirs and documentaries justify this cruelty in the name of normalisation and blame the disabled person for the impact of their disability on their families?

People have always blamed victims. Yes, it happens to victims of rape and sexual assault, and always has done, and is disgustingly regularly reported as justification for what happened. But it happens to others too. Also, please remember that the rates of rape and sexual assault of people of colour, queer people and disabled people are far higher than the general population, and that it is far harder for these victims to access the justice system, compensation and health/support services.

novafuzzcheeks:

You know I had plenty of cis men try to neg me for nudes before I grew my beard but now it’s mostly terfs who do that shit lmao

Radical feminism means negging women with polycystic ovarian syndrome to try to get them to show their pussy apparently. A little misogynistic and predatory tbh. I’ve had plenty of terfs do this and not a single trans woman has ever sexually harassed me 🤔

Trans folks have accepted and embraced me with open arms the moment I started growing my beard and talking about being a woman with a vagina and a beard while radical feminists have sexually harassed and degraded me. Yet they try to say trans women are predators??? Ok Susan

(Ok to rb)

So I started getting transphobic messages from radfems

novafuzzcheeks:

haiku-robot:

terfs-hate-women:

galaxxxia:

kalikarmachat:

galaxxxia:

I’m a cis woman. I have polycystic ovarian syndrome. I have a vagina, and dysfunctional ovaries. 

Hope your shitty ideals of how people should look to be a certain gender are working out for you.

Terfs are so toxic and ironically so anti woman

What’s interesting is I never got hate from terfs until I started growing a beard. None of them ever assumed I wasn’t a cis woman until I started growing a beard. 1 in 5 people with ovaries have polycystic ovarian syndrome. There are 3 million diagnosed cases of “hirsutism” (excess facial and body hair) in people with ovaries PER YEAR in the united states. Cis women live in fucking torment trying to hide their hair because of people like this. FUCK TERFS. 

It should be fucking radical feminism to be a woman who embraces her fucking body hair and beard despite it being considered unattractive or wrong, but here we fucking are.

These people are no better than the men demanding I prove I have a cunt with photos. Nasty creeps.

It’s not ironic that terfs hate women; it’s expected.

They’re not feminists. They’re not even radical. Terfs are just bigots.

they’re not feminists

they’re not even radical

terfs are just bigots

^Haiku^bot^9. I detect haikus with 5-7-5 format. Sometimes I make mistakes.

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This Book Is Gay by Juno Dawson

So, pretty much, don’t read this? I started out reading it and thought, wow, this has not aged well, and then I read the verso, which said the date of publication was… four years ago. Which was pretty much when my internal voice went, ‘Oh… no. This is going to get worse, isn’t it?’. Spolier: it did.

Did not finish. Really exclusionary of pretty much anyone but cis gay males, pretty much every quote on bisexuality is about not liking labels or actually identifying as something OTHER than bi, either because of being being mislabeled or discriminated against (page 27-28), gender essentialist ‘lesbians like vaginas’ ‘gay men like… big hairy men with big willies’ ‘penis? check! …gay men are.. male’(page 51), ‘lesbians like vaginas’ (page 67), transphobic (so many pages), ‘intersex is not so much an identity, as you can’t really choose it’ (page 37), conflates homophobia and transphobia as basically the same thing without mentioning the transphobia rampant in the broader queer community (pages 72-92). Noped out after genuine anti-semitism on page 111 ‘Not being funny, but these guys (Jewish people) kinda started it’ (about religious homophobia).

To eliminate any confusion bout the author’s name, the author came out as transgender after publication, so the first name on the cover is one that shares the initial J with the author’s preferred name, Juno. My reaction to discovering this development was thinking that I really hope Juno works through the utterly pervasive transphobia that is inescapable in this work. Carrying that is toxic. But the fact that the author has come out as transgender doesn’t make this work any less transphobic. In fact, it’s worse, because it makes it harder to argue the damage this book can do when it’s coming from a now-out transgender person, something I will be doing with my library system shortly.

In summary – this book would have been revolutionary ten or fifteen years ago, because nothing like this existed. It still would have been toxic. Time and correct terminology has moved on, but at its core, this would have always been a work that placed more emphasis on trying to be crude and cool to appeal to young people, which is a tragic mistake. Anything that tries this hard is never going to be cool in the eyes of a teenager. Add to that the spadefuls of misinformation, glossing over of history and hate crimes, erasure, exclusion, and casual super gross misogyny for the sake of jokes (‘Lesbians like vaginas. They don’t even want blokes watching. I KNOW, how INCONSIDERATE.’ – page 67), and this is a book that doesn’t even come close to matching the promise of its beautiful, bold, inclusive, balanced cover.

Using my powers for good

thequietestlilbucket:

seananmcguire:

iamshadow21:

Just requested five purchases from my local library: Autoboyography, Beneath the Sugar Sky, When the Moon was Ours, Not Your Sidekick, and Dreadnought.

They bought Tell Me Again How a Crush Should Feel and Down Among The Sticks and Bones for me last year, so. *fingers crossed*

Reminder that you can request items for purchase, and then, not only do you get to read them if the library buys them, but you’re making them available for others, for example, closeted queer kids who can read them at the library under the guise of study if their home isn’t a safe space. Be the change you wish you had when you were a kid.

❤ ❤ ❤

Wait, Dreadnought by April Daniels?! It’s so good! I mean, gonna warn you that it has hella transphobic characters (including an emotionally abusive father) that you’re supposed to hate, but it’s really good if that’s not an issue for you.

I actually own it already – I bought a second hand copy from BetterWorldBooks – and I love it and think it’s super important. I know the transphobia in it is hard to read, but it’s not sugar-coated and it’s an #ownvoices writer describing a very common transgender experience through the lens of science fiction. I don’t think there’s anything quite like it in my library’s YA collection yet. Thanks for the warning, though.

transgirlpinup:

starlingsongs:

starlingsongs:

When trans women are mocked and made into jokes in the media, I get very upset, and I am often told “Kay, you can’t go through life getting offended every time someone makes a joke.” And I sputter and object but they don’t hear me. So I want to be clear for once, about why the jokes make me angry.

I learned to hate myself for being transgender before I knew I was transgender. I laughed at the jokes in stand up comedy routines, and prime time sitcoms, and animated comedy shows, and in the movies, and in books, and in games, laughing at trans women for existing, about “men in dresses”, about people who “got their dicks chopped off”, and I learned to think that was worthy of ridicule.

And then a day came when I felt a pang of envy at what my female classmates were wearing and I repressed it, and felt guilty, and a day where I felt incomplete because I had no breasts and I repressed it and I felt disgusting
And a day when I realized the only images of romance that made me feel anything showed two women together and I repressed it and I felt like a monster
And a day when I realized I felt sick when I looked at myself in the mirror after every shower before work and couldn’t bear to look at my own face, and I hated myself.
And then there came a day when I hated myself so much, and I thought I could never understand why, and so I just wanted it all to end. And it was just a miracle that I swerved my car back into my lane in time.

And all of it started with a joke that I heard on TV, and then kept hearing from all the voices from the ether, over and over and over, worming an idea into my mind before I was old enough to realize I was absorbing it, the idea that a man in a dress is funny, and that changing your body parts makes you a freak, and that women who have penises instead of vaginas are liars and hurt men. And they’re still making these jokes. And somewhere out there right now, just like all those years ago, there is a little girl in a t-shirt and cargo shorts with buzzed off hair watching the TV, hearing that joke and absorbing it without knowing it, who will someday have to pry herself apart to tear it out of her head, just like I did.

That is, if she doesn’t kill herself first.

I know this is a really heavy post but if you read it and you appreciated it, I’d appreciate it in return if you reblogged it. This is really important to me and I want people to read it and understand it. Thank you.

1,000,000x this. Read it. Then read it again.

I know it’s about racism, but it applies just as well here:

You’ve got to be taught
To hate and fear,
You’ve got to be taught
From year to year,
It’s got to be drummed
In your dear little ear
You’ve got to be carefully taught.

You’ve got to be taught to be afraid
Of people whose eyes are oddly made,
And people whose skin is a diff’rent shade,
You’ve got to be carefully taught.