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This is a picture of a cis woman, y’all are literally just racist

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Really all it should take to convince you to support trans people is the fact that there are many, many studies that say "yeah trans people are real and we've found that the best treatment is to just let them transition" like that should really be the end of the argument

I never had to be convinced that trans people were real because I just. learned about that in school. like, it's common knowledge, and we've known it forever. so people arguing about it constantly like it's new territory is so weird to me

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There is literally no moral value to any gender. It is All Morally Neutral. It should go without saying but I think we've circled back societally to assigning value and personality based on gender

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Like i hate to break it to you but if you are actively hostile to people who are part of a community for existing as part of that community/at all, maybe you don't belong in that community and people aren't going to want you there. In exactly the same way as we say 'no cops at pride ', regardless of whether or not an individual cop would otherwise be LGBT+, because the actions that individual chooses to take are actively antagonistic to the LGBT+/queer community. What's not clicking

Just saw a terf mad that someone said terfs don't belong in the lgbt community.

Did you forget what the t stands for?

#critical thinking skills of a sea cucumber

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Love how i can measure whether my posts are hitting trans circles instead of terf ones by the number of MCR icons. Love that for us

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They make us sound so fucking cool

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ohio republicans are attempting to pass a bill which would allow grown adults to subject young girls to internal genital exams if they are accused of being trans.

the bill hasn’t actually gone into effect and may never actually go anywhere but it’s important to be aware of the lengths of harm and humiliation people are willing to subject children to over anti-trans fearmongering. this is transmisogyny in action.

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weird anti ideology finally leaking out into the mainstream

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The thing is that transsexualism is about having fun and looking cool and by being transphobic you are indirectly admitting you both hate fun and don’t look cool. Which is very very sad for you

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@ any terfs crying in my notes about how my not including them in queer shit makes me queerphobic, here's a hint: if you try to destroy and actively remove integral parts of the queer community, you no longer get to be part of that community. Die mad about it

#same idea as no cops at pride #those individual cops might otherwise be considered queer but they are electing to continue being cops #something with historically and now has played an active role in tearing down the queer community #ergo they are not allowed in #what's not clicking

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I am begging some of y’all to learn even the first thing about LGBTQ+ history. Please.

Here are some resources (with links!) to get you started:

Before Stonewall

(a documentary about LGBTQ+ life before the Stonewall riots of 1969, including interviews with queer elders).

Nancy podcast, The Word ‘Queer’

(on the history of the word ‘queer’ and its relation to LGBTQ+ people).

Jeffrey Weeks, “Against Nature”

(on the importance of understanding categories of gender and sexuality as historically contingent, culturally specific, and socially constructed rather than “natural,” universal, or innate).

Jonathan Ned Katz, “The Invention of Heterosexuality”

(on the origin of the concepts “heterosexual” and “homosexual,” the history of late-19th century sexology, and the formation of modern norms of sexuality).

John D’Emilio, “Capitalism and Gay Identity”

(on the role of capitalism in the formation of LGBTQ+ communities in the first half of the 20th century).

Michel Foucault, “We ‘Other Victorians’”

(on some of the persistent pitfalls and traps that people fall into when thinking about the history of sexuality, and the recent origins of our ideas about sexuality itself).

Leslie Feinberg, “Transgender Liberation: A Movement Whose Time Has Come”

(an early work on trans politics and history that aims to show that trans people have always existed).

Susan Stryker, “A Hundred-Plus Years of Transgender History”

(a more historical account of the formation of trans identities, and the existence of gender nonconforming individuals pre- the formation of LGBTQ+ community).

Sheila Cavanagh, “Touching Gender: Abjection and the Hygienic Imagination”

(on the history of gender-segregated public toilets and how they have contributed to the construction and policing of norms of gender and sex).

Siobhan Somerville, “Scientific Racism and the Invention of the Homosexual Body”

(an examination of the connection between the invention of racial categories and early sexology). Scott Lauria Morgensen, “The Biopolitics of Settler Sexuality and Queer Modernities”

(a theoretical and historical examination of the way norms of gender and sexuality have been enforced through colonization and settler colonialism).

Making Gay History podcast series on Stonewall

(a series of podcasts about the Stonewall riots of 1969 which acted as a catalyst for the Gay Liberation and the modern LGBTQ+ rights movement, including Pride. Includes interviews with Sylvia Rivera, Marsha P. Johnson, and other central figures who were present at the riots).

“Prelude to a Riot”

“Everything Clicked…And The Riot Was On”

“Say it Loud! Gay and Proud!”

New York Times, “The Stonewall You Know is a Myth, and That’s O.K.”

(debunking some of the persistent myths about the Stonewall riots).

Sylvia Rivera, “Y’all Better Quiet Down – Christopher Street Liberation Day, 1973″

(a famous speech given by Sylvia Rivera to the crowd at the 1973 Christopher Street Liberation Day (i.e., Pride) event in New York. Note how the crowd boos her and tries to get her off the stage).

United In Anger: A History of ACT UP

(a documentary about the HIV/AIDS epidemic of the 1980s/90s and the community of activists that helped shift perception and policy around the virus).

David France, How to Survive a Plague

(David France discusses his book on the history of the HIV/AIDS epidemic).

PhilosophyTube, “Queer*”

(an excellent video essay on queer theory and the “queer” turn in LGBT politics, community, etc.)

All of this is just a beginning. There are tons of other free resources out there, and I encourage people to add on to this post with recommendations.

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My good friend Amy, who is a trans historian and museum pro has compiled a list of trans museums studies resources on her website!

Check out 'Not Your Average Cistory' here!

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Stone Butch Blues (Free PDF Download)

CW: graphic depiction of sexual assault; violence; murder; hate crime;

(Check https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/43932 for more)

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idk im really tired of 15-17 year olds who have never interacted with the gay community irl and spend too much time on tiktok trying to act like the authority on all that is lgbt+ 

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idk if anyone needs to hear this today, but: if you are a trans dude, the fact that you are a man is a good thing and your existence as a trans man makes the world a better place. it is not a bad thing that you are a man and it’s especially not bad that you are a trans man. the fact that you exist as a man is a great thing and you are amazing. sleep well tonight

#this too

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@ all the terfs saying they used critical thinking to get where they are

#terfs #radfems #lmao