#cw transphobes

[ayeforscotland]

Many of you might be unaware but if you’re a transphobe there’s a 98.7% chance that your brain is replaced with mushy peas within the first five years.

#ayeforscotland #cw transphobes #british politics #uk politics

[alienbycomics]

Gender Nonconforming Jesus: A look at art history. CW: religion, transphobia, artistic nudity, depictions of open wounds (Long post)

#long post #trans woman #trans man #transgender #cw transphobes #cw wounds #cw religion #exvangelical #ex fundamentalist #ex religious #art history #trans artist #transfem #trans history #lgbtq history #gender nonconforming #cw artistic nudity

[veethesnake]

In light of recent events:

Separating the art from the artist

does NOT work if said artist is

1) alive

2) directly financially benefitting from you consuming the art

Especially if they have tweeted this in the past:

#jkr #harry potter #hp #new harry potter show #hbo #cw transphobes #I wish jkr had never made a twitter account #I miss my hp days #harry potter game #hogwarts #joanne k rowling #jk rowling #fuck jkr

[fellshish]

I love canon trans genderfluid crowley so much i wish all good omens fandom terfs a very happy get blocked immediately

#cw transphobes #good omens #crowley

[alycremie]

The Nex situation is kinda terrifying.

I went to a highly transphobic high school as a non-passing native transgender woman.

In a state where, halfway through my senior year, my right to use the bathroom was legislated away.

during a school field trip, I went to the bathroom with my friends. There were about 8 of us. I finished, and there were only like 3 stalls, so I waited with them - forgetting that I was a non-passing transgender woman in a highly conservative area.

I got threatened by a woman and her husband. They accused me of being a pervert who snuck into the bathroom to creep around or potentially assault someone.

In that moment, I was 100% sure that I was going to die. That they were going to pull out a weapon or try to forcefully remove me from the bathroom. Genuinely, I barely remember the fine details of the event, just the panic and shaking of mortal terror.

I was fine, at least physically. But I was terrified of public restrooms - I used to have panic attacks every time I entered one, because I was afraid of facing the same discrimination - and that maybe this time, I wouldn't make it out as safely.

I was seventeen years old.

All this has made me realize is that, yeah, it could have been me. I could have been seriously injured or killed.

To say nothing of the impacts on mental health - excluded by peers, discriminated against by teachers, treated as "gross" or "wrong", to be unable to perform my own bodily functions when I needed to. I had to dehydrate myself every day so I wouldn't have to go to the bathroom during school.

This is the society we're making. I was not the only trans person at my high school. And I didn't go to the only high school in a transphobic area in the country.

God damn, can we just do something about this? I don't want to be in a culture war anymore!!

#my silly little posts #transgirl #transgender #nex benedict #transphobia #cw transphobes

[shittysawtraps]

Hello, transphobic mother.

You claim to accept your non-binary, gay child and support them but refuse to call them by their name, use their proper pronouns, and are vocal about LGBT groups indoctrinating children. Your child, Manic, has repeatedly asked you to stop talking about politics because the conversation always ends in a screaming match, and yet you persist in bringing it up anyway.

Around your neck is a shock collar. Before you is a television. It will play all the pride footage from the last month. You must sit and watch it without making a single comment. If you speak, you will be shocked. Then, once the video is done, you must sincerely apologize to your child for failing to show them the most basic respect you would give a man on the street.

If you are deemed insincere, or you make excuses like 'i can't learn another language' when the language they are using is perfectly grammatically correct English, or you misgender them again, the bomb in your collar will explode. Manic will be provided with Dr. Pepper and Cheeze-its by my apprentice Amanda to help them deal with the trauma you have caused them.

Live and love or be 'uncomfortable with using they/them pronouns and calling them THAT name and die a grisly death.

#shitty saw traps #submission #this is kind of a vent #i'm having a bad time #cw transphobes

[catboybiologist]

has anyone ever told you that you're perfect as a biological man and you should learn to love yourself as the man that you are????

so cw for discussions of transphobia and all that. So first off, yes, but I'm still trans. End of that discussion.

But anyways, I got this and a similar ask back to back, from either a transphobe or a troll making a weird joke. While the asks themselves are uninteresting, they made me want to talk about something that's been brewing in my head a while. And that's how the phrases "biological man" and "biological woman" make no goddamn sense, as a biologist. So I'm gonna use this ask as starting point to launch into that greater discussion- I'm not really responding to the asks itself, more dumping some thoughts I've had kicking around for a while. (Also sorry this blog is so transfemme language centered sometimes, I'm just writing from my perspective and don't want to exclude anyone I'm sorry. The rest of this post will be from a transfemme perspective but applies to transmascs as well for testosterone and other elements of ftm transition).

The reason it doesn't make sense to me is like, what exactly do you mean by biological? You're describing a massive biological system, and all of its components. So let's dissect what you could mean by "biological".

Obviously you're not talking about the entire human biochemical system, because biology includes our thoughts and behavior. So if someone socially or identity transitions, we're already eliminating some biological factors from what we consider as "biological" here.

Soft tissue secondary sex characteristics are easily acquired by HRT. Shit, I have some breasts growing already, and I'm 4.5 weeks in. So that can't be what you're talking about.

So maybe you're talking functional genetics? Well if we wanna talk that way, we gotta talk about gene regulation. The entire point of taking HRT is the change patterns in gene expression across the body, suppressing genes associated with masculine secondary sex characteristics and promoting genes associated with feminine secondary sex characteristics. Estrogen, like any hormone, is a signalling molecule that is trafficked between cells and across the body. Its job is to kick off a network of downstream signals that carry out a variety of individual functions. So in terms of active genes, a trans person on HRT will functionally be the sex of their target gender.

Okay okay, maybe for some reason you don't care if they're off or on, if you have a gene that has the potential to make you male, you're a man, dammit! Well, as mentioned before, everyone has the genes required to give you secondary sex characteristics of either sex. So under that definition, everyone is biologically both a man and a woman at the same time. And also biologically cancer. Not "biologically has cancer", biologically IS cancer. Also, we're all every organ all at once everywhere on our body. Changing patterns in gene expression are how one organ differentiates from another, and how many visible traits arise. As mentioned earlier, this includes many genes responsible for secondary sex characteristics.

But chromosomes! Y chromosome is a man! The only reason the X and Y chromosomes have relevance to sex determination is due to the Sry gene, which is linked to the Y chromosome. Why is this the case? Well, your chromosomes are paired. Normally, pairs of chromosomes are the same size and have the same genes. This is helpful, because it means you can have two copies of every gene- if one becomes nonfunctional, you have a backup, or you can express multiple spicy variants of the same gene. Somewhere in our evolutionary history, one of these pairs of chromosomes experienced a large scale deletion, causing many of these genes to be missing. It's fine if you have the backup copies on the other chromosome- but some kind of patch needs to be developed to help make sure that, on average, most offspring have at least one copy of the full chromosome. So, the individuals that linked the Sry gene to the Y chromosome, the chopped-up version of the chromosome, passed down some offspring. But there's nothing intrinsic about why it has to be this way- most animals don't have chromosomal sex determination at all. Even in mammals its fairly common for an X chromosome to grab the Sry gene, creating a phenotypic male with an XX karyotype. It's an evolutionary patch, nothing more, and a rule that is frequently broken. And if we want to talk about evolutionary patches being biological determinism… well then let's start talking about how vitamin C deficiency is the "biologically mandated" state of the human. And besides, chromosome structure is really mostly relevant for how it functionally affects gene expression, and we already talked about how gene expression is changed by HRT here.

Alright, alright dammit. I'm talking about the genitals, dammit. If you have a penis you're a man! Okay great. Tell me if you would classify post-SRS women as "biological" women then. Also, we're really starting to reach here.

Fine! I'm talking about bone structure and bone structure alone! I mean yeah, some elements of bone structure will always remain in someone that's had testosterone in their system long enough- its rock deposits in your body after all, its difficult to reverse. But some don't! Even adults on transfemme HRT experience hip widening, changes in height, and other changes in their bones (they just take a LONG time, and I've often ranted about the massive amount of misinformation regarding how long HRT takes to show its full effects). Additionally, there's plenty of surgeries for facial structures- is FFS the true hallmark of a "biological" woman? And also… no matter what metric you start drawing lines on here, you're gonna end up excluding some cis women as well.

To be abundantly clear, NONE of this is to say that you aren't valid if you aren't medically transitioning. What I'm doing here is pointing out that "biological" is a useless, overexpansive, arbitrary adjective that, even using the most transphobic definitions, still includes most trans people. The line is drawn… somewhere in here, to them. And more often than not, it will be drawn wherever excludes the most trans people, which will invariably exclude some cis people, and they'll all eat each other alive.

The reality is that "man" and "woman" are useful conventions that can be generally applied to classify most people into one category or another. And that's not unique to gender, it's literally how language works. As with pretty much any linguistic classification, its observational, not prescriptive. When thinking up of names for animals, we don't think up of a definition first, we see a group of animals that share similar traits and then think up of a name that will represent that species. But then, if we find more edge cases later, or an edge case becomes more prominent, we either adjust the definition or subdivide the group further with accurate terminology. Imagine if, around the time humanity discovered weasels, we made a definition of weasels that only included the European Mink. Then we found the least weasel, and people started crusading about how its "not biologically a weasel" and "defend weaselkind". It's just so… arbitrary. Where it begins and ends is up to us as a society, and linguistics, meaning that "biological" as an adjective here isn't doing much.

What is a woman? Well, some combination of the factors above, and many, many more I didn't talk about here. It's a classification cluster of people exhibiting certain traits that is not easily reducible to a simple adjective. And guess what, so is literally anything we see in the world. What is a race? What is a nationality? What is a species? What is continent? There are useful, simple definitions for each of these things- and those definitions are helpful on a first pass! But once you start to examine it more closely, that utility breaks down, and you have to get more nuanced. Which is exactly what happens for trans people, but for some reason, people aren't willing to have that conversation in the same way we're able to have quirky debates over whether or not Australia counts as a continent or an island.

I want to develop these thoughts further at some point, but I hope this is at least a good summary of my perspective on all this, as a biology grad student, and I hope that some people find utility and comfort in my explanation!

#cw transphobia #transphobia #cw transphobes #trans #transition #hrt #trans science

[victoriadallonfan]

Sometimes I can’t insult anyone because their stupidity does the work for me

#jk rowling #JKR #fuck jkr #anti jkr #screw jkr #cw jkr #bigotry #lgtbqia+ #holocaust denial #cw bigotry #cw transphobes

[behave-or-get-ban-banned]

#captain underpants #trans rights #terfs dni #transphobia cw #cw transphobes #shitposts #twitter screenshot

[aranock]

feminism has nothing to do with you, you are male. you are an oppressor in the system of male supremacy that feminism seeks to dismantle. it's not for you, and no amount of gender feelings can change that

Ignoring the blatant transmisogyny and misgendering for a second; TERFs don't even know the most basic elements of what feminism is. This is also why Im breaking my usual rule to ignore this stuff becauss its worth saying.

Feminism is for everyone, it has to be, because patriarchy oppresses everyone, and its privileges are completely conditional on gender performances which are to a degree self destructive. I am begging you weirdo creeps to go read Bell Hooks, particularly Will To Change. Also begging you to learn basically anything about biology more advanced than 2nd grade. Anyway Im going to go back to being a hot lesbian with my girlfriend and you can fix your heart or keep throwing tantrums about people who know more about feminism than you do.

Either way it wont change the fact that I am a woman, that I am not male and that I am oppressed for it. Hope you learn basically anything about the world someday ✌️

#cw transphobes #cw transphobia #cw transmisogyny

[alienbycomics]

Content Warning: religion and transphobia⚠️

Happy Trans Day of Visibility 🏳️‍⚧️ I made a comic reflecting on my church upbringing as an eXvangelical trans person. The Jesus conservative Christians claim to represent looked lot more like many of the LGBTQ+ friends I know and love. Just some food for thought 💖

#cw religion #cw transphobes #trans artist #lgbtq comics #trans comic #transfem #queer comics #indie comics #trans comics #non binary artist #nonbinary #deconstructing christianity #deconstruction #deconversion #exvangelical #ex fundamentalist #trans day of visibility #easter

[fellshish]

You can’t have him

#crowley #good omens #good omemes #cw transphobes

[pinkleafsheep]

spamton does a little trolling

#spamton #spamton g spamton #kris dreemurr #noelle holiday #cw transphobes #trans rights #legally this post is a meme #deltarune

[bitchass-dyke]

this is how transphobes people look when they try to make "deep memes"

#WHY ARE CIS PEOPLE SO PISSED OFF ABOUT TOILETS #THEYRE JUST TOILETS #SKIBIDI TOILET OR SOMETHING FUCK OFF #shitpost #transgender #cw transphobes #trans memes

[stiffyck]

nothing will piss me off more than a youtuber talking about someone and AT THE END OF THE VIDEO GOING "btw [deadname] came out as transgender and goes by Adrien now."

AT THE END OF THE VIDEO. AFTER THEY MISGENDERED THAT SAME FUCKING PERSON THE WHOLE FUCKING TIME. ARE YOU KIDDING ME. FUCK OFF

#stiff talk #the name is made up btw #tw transphobia #cw transphobes #cw transphobia #tw transphobes