#resources for trans people

[communistkenobi]

whenever right wing people talk about “parental rights” they are talking about property rights. they are arguing for further political and legal enshrinement of their children as their literal actual property

#I also wonder if this is like a middle class expression of a desire to shore up other property rights eg homeownership #like homeownership is a foundation base for the nuclear family. property rights allow you to own the resource #that produces the family and allows it to be ‘private’ #so like children are another frontier of this property relationship #anyway. bad time to be a trans person lol #& all the actual legitimate issues w/ parental rights ie indigenous genocide forced sterilisation mass incarceration the foster system etc #are not even remotely concerns for these people because well. they’re fash lol

[peachyblkdemonslayer]

#trans day of visibility #trans resources #trans rights #transgender #trans people

[uncanny-tranny]

Don't get me wrong, I think it's perfectly acceptable that trans people don't always have certain surgeries and procedures, but I think something is to be said about the amount of trans people I have seen bash a certain gender-affirming procedure.

It's totally fine to not want some or any surgeries, but it's still transphobic to say "I think the results are ugly/look mutilated" or that trans surgery is "rudimentary" or "experimental" - even if you're also trans.

The idea that certain gender-affirming surgeries are mutilation or experimental is a classic form of transphobia, so it really does hurt seeing other trans people propelling those same talking points.

#trans #transgender #lgbt #lgbtq #ftm #mtf #nonbinary #i dunno i just want to find resources for gender-affirming care without hearing how my body is mutilated and gross #transphobia #transphobia tw #cis people can look but don't touch please #gender-affirming care is very much not experimental

[vanillabat99]

Here's a petition for combatting the latest anti-trans stuff in Alberta!! I'm pretty sure you have to at least be in Canada to sign it, but I'm not sure if you need to be in Alberta specifically. Please sign it if you're able to, this directly impacts my community and people I care about!!!

If you can't sign, there's a legal fund donation page for the Skippingstone Foundation, which is a group I can personally vouch for and that does so so so much for the community.

Thanks for taking the time to read this, and I hope we can get through this together!!

#skippingstone foundation my beloved. please please please check out their website at the VERY LEAST!!!!!!!! #the founders are amazing people and the resources they have are fantastic!! #also!! help make my shitty province less shitty please!! #batty blogging #text #link #activism #lgbt #lgbtqia #lgbtq community #queer #trans #transgender #trans rights #canada #sorry for all the tags i really dont know how to tag this!!

[sanguinaryrot]

every time someone realizes they’re trans, an angel gets its wings

#trans stuff #someone came to me today to tell me their nephew came out to him #and asked me some questions on how to be a good ally #this has happened a couple times to me #and I love it. i love that I can help cis people make sure their trans family and friends have an easier time of coming out #come to me I have resources. I have books. I have stories. I will tell you all about it #gah!!! trans people of the world I love you. even if we’ve never met

[genderkoolaid]

i think "nonbinary" can be useful but a lot of times the way it is being used isn't helpful to actually discussing nonbinary people, especially since it is a HUGE umbrella term with very few boundaries. like there are nonbinary men & women, so positioning "nonbinary" as something intrinsically separate from man/woman isn't accurate. or there are times where it would be more useful to name the specific group (like multigender people, androgynes, abinary/aphorians) rather than a much vaguer term

in general the problem is that our language to describe nonbinary existence is basically some scraps held together with duct tape. there's sooo many ways in which nonbinary people are erased or binaried through language. not just through the lack of gender neutral options but the la of blatantly genderqueer ones.

i kinda feel like as of right now, nonbinary-ness is pretty slapdash & all over the place and it would be helpful to have a large-scale discussion on what terminology would be best for discussing things like exorsexism and it's various aspects, and how to talk about nonbinary people without homogenizing us, while ALSO acknowledging the need for umbrella terms that can cover a range of individual identities, even if people don't personally identify with the umbrella term itself. & on that note we should also probably discuss the issue of. like. perfectionism wrt nonbinary language & the way that potentially useful terms get lost bc of it. I don't think nonbinary people can really achieve meaningful equality and inclusion on the same level until we are able to have equally diverse and useful ways of describing ourselves, and a stronger understanding of how we relate to each other as a community.

#I've been chewing on this general topic for a while #bc I'm realizing that I don't like identifying as nonbinary specifically bc of how ppl often use that #to just mean ''gender neutral'' & often exclude androgyne multigenders by assuming nb can't be men/women #even trans theory so often just groups nonbinary people in with whoever feels the most relevant and is uninterested in exploring exorsexism #outsidr of it's connection to other issues #there's an assumption that nonbinary experiences can be more or less grouped in w binary ones without missing out on much #it's just frustrating. same w when people assume that all transitions end w people looking cis-passing #and ignore the difficulties that can come from things like non traditional bottom surgery! #there's next to no resources for salmacians and virtually none for agenital prople #which y'know. might be important for things like urinary/genital care #or sex work or anything #hell so many people have argued that exorsexism doesn't exist because all nonbinary oppression is ''just transphobia'' #so many ppl are completely uninterested in looking at nonbinary people separate from binary ppl & binary experiences #m.

[feralsteddie]

Okay just saw a post that was talking about how Steve would at least have an idea about bisexuality even if he didn’t know the name of it bc of pointing out Vickie could still like boobies thing

And I absolutely agree, I’m a Steve knew he like babes and dudebabes all along truther, BUT

Steve also could’ve known it was something Vickie could do, but not himself.

When I was a kid I knew trans women and drag queens, I spent more than a little time with them, and I still didn’t know you could be trans in the other direction until someone spelled it out for me. Obviously, that’s a bit different, but Steve could have the idea that, yeah, totally, Vickie’s a girl so Vickie could like both, because in his head it could just be different.

He grew up in a small town in Indiana in the 80s, it wouldn’t be that he was stupid, wouldn’t be a hit on his intelligence, it’d just be something he didn’t know and hadn’t had the chance or resources to learn about yet.

#steve harrington #listen!!! #i say this bc even the difference between the 2000s and now is astounding #like my fifth grade babysitter was a drag queen!!! I had a whole person right there was a trans girlfriend and the pieces still didn’t click #even though I already knew something was off with me I didn’t connect those dots and didn’t really know how to voice that #nowadays people have internet and library resources to figure this shit out way more than I did #and there just more visibility in general #and that’s just like a fifteen year jump #in the 80s? where before Rob Steve would’ve only heard the queer community talked about in slurs??? #unless he went and found himself a community- a place that wasn’t biphobic too which is hard to come by even now #he wouldn’t know! #and that’s not a dig in him!!! #sorry I have… a lot of feelings #especially about this #pyreposting

[aloeverawrites]

If you want to learn math, no amount of good intentions and warm feelings alone is going to help you understand math.

If you want to learn science you can’t just sympathise with a biology textbook without reading it.

If you want to learn another language you can’t just smile at the text until you understand it.

So if you want to learn how to be an effective ally, you have to learn about the people you’re trying to help and the bigotry you’re trying to fight.

It’s a nice attempt but you can’t purely affection your way out of the bigoted teaching that the dominant culture taught you.

You’re going to have to do some studying.

#you know how well intended disability allies will say “your disability is so inspiring it’s good you don’t let it define you #or how white allies will say “wow you’re so arcticulate! black people can speak properly. #about aave #if you don’t unlearn the bigotry you’re just going to keep spreading it but with good intentions and in a nice way #which is sometimes more frustrating #so you have to learn #human rights #disability #anti racist #antisemitism #trans rights #lgbt rights #intersectional feminism #today I was reading a post and poitingoit to myself the antisemitic state said by someone with good intentions #and then I read a Jewish poster explaining how it was antisemitic #the guy had good intentions but you have to study. me and him were both taught the same things and we have to unlearn it #and I have a lot of unlearning to do #you don’t have to study in a way that’s difficult if you mostly read posts follow people in a minority group that educate about bigotry #and get more resources from them #google if you’re confused #you can do it

[a-faggot-with-opinions]

begging people to learn the difference between privilege (conditional access to resources that some people do not have) vs privilege (the systemic power to oppress people of a different class)

#star speaks #privilege #this post is about 'straight privilege' that some people claim transhet people have #transhet men have conditional access to resources that trans gay men don't have sometimes #but they don't have the systemic power to oppress us for being not-straight

[trans-axolotl]

it's getting cold + snowing in my city and I am so fucking angry because this year cops have evicted more encampments then we can ever remember them doing in like the past five years. it keeps happening when we're going to do outreach + mobile syringe exchange and we'll drive past the spots we always go to and our neighbors are just gone, because in the middle of the night without announcing it cops evicted everyone. and like they've been doing this shit for years but it is so much worse this year. they've put in so much more new anti homeless and anti sex work architecture this year and even though there's some rad ppl fucking it up, there's still so much. and i'm just fucking livid every time we go out there for overnight outreach and all my sex worker friends tell me how much more cops are harassing them this year like. fuck this shit so much. stop criminalizing survival. we keep losing track of so many ppl because of this and we keep having to wonder who's alive and who died bc the cops trashed their tent and it's fucking below freezing outside. we lost four people in october and november who were murdered for being trans sex workers and it's just. there is so much grief and there is so much anger and i want to tear it all down

#personal #fuck you. fuck you for hurting my friends. #i am still so fucked up about the people we've lost like. they were my comrades and they were SO loved and they did so fuckign much #and now we all have to live in a world without them #i feel like that's one of the shittiest things about being a sex worker is the amount of people all of us have lost. all of us #harm reduction #vent #also fuck all the nonprofits and grant people or whatever. for fuckign hoarding resources and spending money on 'development directors' #we need more handwarmers. we need more funds for stems + syringes + condoms. we need trans specific services back again #stop hoarding the shit you have. stop saying you're doing “harm reduction” when you pay your executives 95k a year and REQUIRE YOUR EMPLOYE #TO SUBMIT TO DRUG TESTING. there is no world in which that is harm reduction there is no world where that is liberatory

[never-forget-viva-la-pluto]

TW:transphobia, murder, transmisogyny, death, suicide mention

this is mostly a rant that i just need to get off my chest

Trans women are censored, harassed and ignored, stalked, and another trans child has been murdered. its a bad time to be trans in many countries rn

If you think that those things dont go hand in hand then you are wrong. Ignoring a trans women when she reports harassment and stalking is how trans women get killed. when a trans man gets excluded from lgbt spaces bc he is transitioned and people think that men=bad, it leaves him without support if he is suicidal or being harassed. When a child is seen as something other than human because they are non binary, officials don't call an ambulance when they are injured and thats how kids die. What happened to Nex was murder.

The ceo isnt committing murder, but he is contributing to the culture that gets people killed and i hope he feels bad about it, especially since tumblr is the one place where a lot of trans people feel safe being themselves.

@photomatt when the statistics have the faces of your friends it is very hard to take you seriously when you have been so glib about the experiences of the trans women on this site. Trans women are some of the most brutalized and murdered people in the world so sorry if I find the car hammer explosion joke funny. Against @predstrogen you look pathetic. I can guarantee she has gotten real death threats. How do i know? bc I have too, as most of the trans people online have.

Enough of that. FELLOW TRANS!! FELLOW QUEERS!!!

LINK TO TRANS RESOURCES INCLUDING SUICIDE HOTLINES:

Don't give up, and dont stop being angry. We deserve to exist and we deserve to be treated like human beings!

#transgender #transphobia #nex benedict #rest in peace nex #black trans lives matter #please let me know if i tag this improperly #ive seen a lot of names and faces of trans people who are no longer here and it never gets easier #no wonder so many of us off ourselves #it hurts to trans a lot of the time anyway #carhammerexplosionmatt #predstrogen #and this goes double for queers of color #lgbtq resources #trans hotline #suicide hotline #this is mostly a rant #i am just so angry #suicide mention #death mention

[hobbinch]

I'm so fucking furious how common it is for a surgeon to get a reputation for working with trans ppl, and then turn out to be an awful butcher who's power tripping on treating such a particularly vulnerable population who have limited choices for where to go at all.

#like its a tale as old as trans people have been able to document our experiences having gender affirming procedures #and then transphobes try to use stories of malpractice as examples of why we shouldn't be allowed to exist/transition #when the phenomenon is literally a RESULT of transition resources being so punished and limited

[vyeoh]

Imma introduce y'all to a resource that helped me a ton when I was in middle school as a baby queer: the I'm From Driftwood YT Channel.

They're an online archive of a bunch of stories told by a bunch of LGBT people ranging in age, ethnicity, backgrounds, etc. If you're looking for firsthand accounts, check em out!

#vio.txt #lgbt #sibce apparently my new habit is occasionally dropping resources for the baby gays out there #they have videos of older trans people specifically that helped me a ton #lgbtq #queer #lgbt resources

[thisislito]

For people seeking top surgery and chest masculinization, there is an amazing resource called

TopSurgery.net that provides resources, knowledge, and can help connect you to surgeons!

They have a selection of before and after photos from different surgeons, as well as information regarding questions to ask your surgeon, a primer on nipples, and more.

I highly suggest checking it out and using its resources to its full benefit.

I have a surgical consult tomorrow and am actually considering getting another one know if the surgeon does not have the expertise for the procedure I desire. (In other words I went from ‘I get what I get’ to ’this is my body and I get what I want or as close as possible’)

#top surgery #trans future #trans man #trans things #please reblog so more people can see #trans resources #ftm resources

[justablix]

Every time I hear a particularly out-of-touch take from an online leftist I want to subject that person to hearing just a little of what my colleagues talk about in the break room

#we are not as a society anywhere near as progressive as working in your office with a diversity and a womens quota would make you belive #and if you keep acting like we are im going to take your head off #signed a queer rural trans man with a blur collar job #'queer identity x is taking away resources from' my brother in christ at my workplace people still joke about rape in polite conversation #you have lost sight of what is and isnt an actual problem

[undedkat]

Sometimes I see OBGYNs advocating for abortion rights and reform within the medical system to provide better care to afab people. And then someone in the comments is complaining that the doctor used the term “pregnant individual” or “patient” instead of “women”.

Cis women are often not given the same level of medical resources and information as cis men by medical practitioners. Medical reform in this area is absolutely necessary. How can you see this and be upset that people dare to include afab trans people in activism.

#imagine being upset that someone used the term individual while literally advocating for reforms that benefit cis women. I’m losing my mind #it’s a mix of both trans androphobia and trans misogyny. inclusive language in afab medical care is used to include trans masculine people #note: I’m cis so I’m sorry if this gets something wrong on the trans rights side. #on a similar note - there needs to be medical reform to better resources for black patients and black women are affected by both #unded rambles #transphobia #lgbtq #feminism #intersectional feminism