#send to a transphobe to shut down their organs :)

[angelsaxis]

"I’m Lola, a Black transfemme living in Nigeria, where my existence is illegal with two decades of jail time. I got kicked out by my parents after I was forcefully outed and am currently in a homeless shelter.

I’ve been harassed multiple times, and recently, I was followed and harassed by four men near the shelter who threatened to kill me and split my head open. My life is in danger, and I’m facing homelessness as the shelter will be shut down by this month’s end. Being homeless as trans woman or transfemme in Nigeria is a death sentence

I’m also dealing with suicidal thoughts from gender dysphoria and a lack of access to HRT.

I’m seeking help so I can afford safe housing and gender affirming care so I can transition safely and save my life. This GoFundMe is the second one created because of problems with the first."

Lola is currently living on the streets because their homeless shelter kicked them out when they reported transphobic harassent and violence. they've been attacked, and they need food and money for a place to stay.

if you prefer not to donate to the GFM, you can send money to Lola through P*yP*l here: paypal.me/angelsaxis

#angel posts #gay #transgender #gfm #crowdfund #pride #gay pride #trans pride #lgbtq #donation #nigeria #naija #ally #mutual aid #trans #gender queer #lesbian #bisexual #trans crowdfund #trans mutual aid #allyship #queer ally #queer #pansexual #gay ally #nigerian #queer nigeria #queer nigerian #lgbt #ace

[drpepperhateblog]

The Hogwarts Legacy boycott is the most counterproductive internet activism I’ve ever witnessed

Note: I’m not playing Hogwarts Legacy because I think the author is overrated and hasn’t been good in years. And well, again, feeling concerned about some of her opinions on transgender people.

With that said, finding it very interesting how everyone are harrassing anyone who dares to touch the game, whether by purchasing it or by playing a free copy or by pirating, due to the transphobic views of the author... On Twitter. Which is ran by Elon Musk. A transphobe. 

Not just that, but Twitter most certainly on the regular hosts and spreads more antisemitic and transphobic views on their site than Hogwarts Legacy ever will...

I especially find it fascinating when tweets show they were sent from iPhones. You know, iPhones, primarily made in China, likely helping fund the genocide of Uighur Muslims.

If you choose to boycott the game for concerns over transphobia or antisemitism, then I do commend you for that. I’m a big proponent of the idea that people need to show their opinion with their wallets more often. Rejecting something you could’ve enjoyed because you don’t want to contribute to making the world a less safe to live is commendable. For the same reason I have a lot of respect for vegetarians and vegans. I could never do it. More power to you.

With that said, no one consumes cruelty-free in reality. You’ve probably eaten meat. Or used Twitter. Or had an iPhone. All things that you didn’t actually need to do in order to survive, but things you chose to do anyway.

Why did you? Likely because it’s impossible to care about all causes at once. No one is capable of doing so. 

When deciding what to focus on, it’s likely a competition between what is easiest to give up and what cause you care the most about. Hogwarts Legacy is probably to most very easy to give up. To others, not so much. Which may sound silly, but then again, so is choosing Twitter (created by a transphobe) over going outside and touching some grass (created by Mother Earth who is likely not a transphobe). We all have something we’re attached to that we don’t actually need.

There’s an additional angle to this, though. Not only is it hypocritical to shame others for consuming in a way that could potentially fund something you consider harmful, but it’s also ineffective.

An aggressive approach is counterproductive.

Similarly to how you’re probably not going to make someone stop smoking by putting a cigarette out on their skin and yelling at them how they’re going to get cancer, sending death threats to people for playing a video game is unlikely to be effective either. Chances are they’ll double down. Note how some responses to this organized bullying has been “well then, I’m going to buy two copies”? Congratulations, the hydra grew two more heads and now the game earned even more money. Odd how you’d want to contribute to that if your concern is genuinely that buying the game could cause transgender people to die en masse.

Hogwarts Legacy became the best-selling game on Steam before even being released. Not just in spite of the boycott, but also in spite of the bad reputation of early access game releases.

Perhaps the biggest irony of it all is J.K. Rowling’s fear of transgender women surpressing cis women are now as a result of the boycott suddenly not looking so unwarranted. Women streamers have been pushed to tears. Girlfriend Reviews being an especially sad case, where a Jewish woman received a free copy of the game, donated any money earned from it to transgender charity, and yet was harrassed, threatened, blacklisted, and even had some accounts on social media shut down due to said boycotters making deliberately false reports of hate speech. I guess it wasn’t enough that J.K. Rowling herself got death threats and had a book written about her in which she dies a gruesome death. No, instead activists doubled down on the misogyny. 

And it’s sad. It’s genuinely sad. A movement that should be about the freedom of loving and respecting people for who they are and who they choose to be has now instead become an authoritarian movement against wrongthink and a breeding ground for bullies and oppressors.

#hogwarts legacy #jk rowling #jkr #transphobia #lgbt #lgbtqiap #lgbt community #social justice

[mspaintbarbie]

#wow another new post im on a roll #barbie #send to a transphobe to shut down their organs :) #terminal illness tw

[blackswallowtailbutterfly]

I identify with a lot of the tenants of radical feminism but I find it really off putting that most tumblr radical feminists spend their time arguing with and about transwomen. Being trans in our current culture involves being a target. I don't think people would choose to go through transitioning and accepting the risk of not being able to use the bathroom in public, being assaulted or killed, or being seen widely as an outcast, just because they want unfettered access to women's spaces.

Well, the reason transwomen come up as a subject so often is that unfortunately, many of them do want completely unrestricted access to women’s spaces. They’ve tried to shut down the Vancouver Women’s Library because it had books they didn’t like. One, operating under a fraudulent organization, stole money from the Women’s March. Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival had to shut down because of what happened when they came in (they were never prevented from coming, but simply discouraged because Michfest focused on very female-specific experiences). They ejaculated on posters, intimidated women with spears, and one of them eventually went on to murder a lesbian couple as well as their son. It’s rumoured that one of the couple had rejected his advances. The Cotton Ceiling, coined by a trans pornstar and unchallenged by most transwomen, involves coercing lesbians into sex they don’t want, at the threat of being called bigots or “TERFs” if they refuse. So we don’t want them in our spaces, and lesbians in particular don’t want them in theirs.

Being visibly trans can indeed make someone a target but so is being visibly female, which is something one usually can’t hide. The thing about transition is that it’s taken on a very different meaning from what it once did. Trans people used to be people with sex dysphoria who were so uncomfortable with their sex that they sought surgery to make themselves appear more like the opposite sex. Indeed, sex-dysphoric people are still present in the trans community, however the trans movement has largely been taken over by non-dysphoric cross-dressing males (often not even that: see “Danielle” Muscato) who are more than happy to keep their penises and instead externalize their supposed dysphoria onto female organs instead of their own male ones. Hence transwomen who will claim that the mere mention of female organs or bodily functions is triggering to them, but they have no problem sending rape threats to women, directly involving their penises. Such transwomen have a special word for trans people who are dysphoric and see the identification with trans by non-dysphoric people as an appropriation: truscum.

Now, as it happens, white transwomen are actually less likely to be murdered than white women. Transwomen of colour are at much higher risk, and that’s largely because many of them have to resort to prostitution, which, in spite of all the libfem sex pozzie shit that will make it seem otherwise, is extremely dangerous. And there are far more women of colour in prostitution than there are transwomen of colour.

But why can’t we just let dysphoric transwomen into women’s spaces then? Well, one problem is that the trans movement has made that impossible. Any “gatekeeping” at all is seen as transphobic. A male need only say they’re a woman, and they must be taken at their word or it is bigotry. Another problem is that a longterm study of transwomen, before and after transition, showed that their rate of violent crime is the same as men. Therefore, even truly dysphoric transwomen present exactly the same threat to women as men do.

So should transwomen just be forced to risk their safety by going to the bathroom with men? Well it turns out that very few anti-trans attacks occur in men’s restrooms. On the other hand, there have been quite a few assaults and sexual assaults by transwomen* on women and girls in restrooms, shelters, and locker rooms. Of course, a solution to this is that, where possible, there should be a gender neutral restroom. But the trans movement often protests this because transwomen say they “won’t feel like women”.

So to be perfectly honest, I wish we didn’t have to focus on transwomen, but unfortunately they are very focused on us and we cannot afford to ignore that.

*Many of these assaults were simply committed by men in women’s clothing. They may not have been part of the trans movement at all (though several have been), but since, as mentioned earlier, the trans movement wants everyone to accept that any one who identifies as trans is trans, that any male using the women’s washroom is a woman, then there are no men who pretend to be transwomen; they are transwomen because they claimed to be or because they present as such. The trans movement cannot have it both ways like they want. Either everyone who claims to be or presents as trans is trans, which means every single rapist, murderer, and physical assailant who has claimed to be or presented as trans is, and the trans movement must deal with their own shit before coming after “TERFs”. Or the trans movement must accept that not everyone who claims to be trans is, which means they must accept that some gatekeeping does have to happen, and not just for trans, but for whomever claims to be a woman beyond being biologically female as well.

#my posts

[sicklittleboy]

TW: Abuse, Suicide, Homo/Transphobic slurs, Depression, graphic content

Dear ---,

I have never been honest.

So maybe when you called me a liar you were right.

Playing this game is easier than trying to create a new one.

I was raised keeping my mouth shut.

I started grinding my teeth in my sleep.

My brain subconsciously trying to keep my nightmares silent.

When I open my mouth all I see is you.

My words leave my mouth and I can’t remember saying them.

You lost someone.

And i’m sorry. 

He walked into the ER.

You didn’t tell us.

He set his organ donor card down on the nurses desk.

You went to his funeral with mom.

He pulled out a handgun and shot himself in the ER.

You were so angry at him for leaving you,

and--

You took it out on me.

I was rude to you. 

And I apologize for it.

But you came into my room screaming.

You lost a close friend.

You shoved me down and slammed my head into my desk.

You called him a brother.

You threatened to kill me,

multiple times

Mom was worried you were going to kill yourself.

And I was Jealous. 

All these years and she never recognized me.

A few days ago I told her I tried to kill myself and she didn't seem shocked

You stop waking up as early and she contemplated sending you to the hospital.

I have cut myself for six years and she never asked me why

I want her to care that I want to die

you-

You hurt me.

And, Dad-

I can’t tell this story for fear if being called a liar again.

Being called a bitch again.

Being called lazy again

Being called selfish again.

Being called useless

unwanted

self absorbed

stupid

unintelligent

waste of space

liar

fat ass

thoughtless

cunt

“I will fucking kill you”

. . . 

I wish you liked me as much as you liked Phil.

- Your only “Daughter”Ó̶̢̢̥͕̜̪͕͎̱̣̘͈̙̳͜͜l̸̨̳͔̼̮̰͖̻̮̪͖͉̦̮̖̙͕̱͍̖̠͖̪̱̮̃̔̔̂̽́̈́̍̆̓̅͘̚͠ḯ̷̡̧̧̨̡͔̙͇̝͖̹̹̯̫̮̟̝͇̘͍̞̑̉̎̾̇ͅv̶̝̜͇̳̪͔͍͎͈̑̉̀͛̎͜ͅi̶̧̧̪̟̟̻̟͈͈̣͕͂͋̀̀͛́͋̇̆̍̓̃̊̈̌̈̈́͆̊̽͒̐̂̈́̓̎̉͌͝͝ͅá̶͓͉̥̥͉͈͈͚̟̣̬̦̦̝̆̀͌ ̸͖̮̣̓̈́̔̊̆͗̆̃̀̾̐̄̆͂͑̾̐͋̌̎̿͂͆̒̚Ȁ̸̡̢̢̛̼͉͚̜̮͉͕̖̗̮̠̩̪̮͓͚̝̘͔̬̻̘͔̓̾̾͑̑́̋́̍̄͛̐͗͋͐̌̓̃ͅͅn̸̡͈͔̣̞̼̰̠͎̯̬̩͙͇͍̩͇̙̓͆̓̿͜n̵̨̛̻̲̼̜̺̰̝̭̖̜͍̜̹̾́̈́̑͒͐̀̊͗̀́͌̉́̇͝͝͝ẻ̷̢͈̪̞̠̞̩̬̹̯͉̝̼̼͙̝̼̳̮͔̮͔͛̇̈̐͛̊͐͋̊͐̿̽̚̚͠͝ͅ

- Your oldest son. Mark

#open letter #openlettertomyfather #deardad #Trauma #livingthroughtrauma #abusesurvivor #ilived #Abuse #childabuse #livingwithtrauma #this sucks

[planetransgender]

Chuck J. Pfoutz | Chuck Pfoutz Presents

If you’ve ever doubted the power of a united community, you apparently have not met the transgender and gender non-conforming family and their allies in St. Louis, Missouri. No strangers to adversity, they took to social media yesterday to voice their concerns when new details about an upcoming scheduled fashion show were released.

Promoter and photographer Chuck J. Pfoutz of Chuck Pfoutz Presents had contacted Metro Trans Umbrella Group (MTUG) in October 2019 asking them to collaborate on his plan to stage a high-end fashion show. While initially interested in joining forces, MTUG stepped away from the project in November citing lack of capacity at that time within their organization to devote resources to the production. Their Executive Director had been injured and MTUG needed to care for their own organizational needs.

Pfoutz persisted planning and casting for the event. A cast of approximately 50 models were locked in for the show scheduled for March 14 at Mad Art Gallery in St. Louis City. Few specifics of the event were publicly released. Pfoutz explained to me that he always keeps the theme details secret to “protect the surprises.”  Surprised they were. In fact, many in the cast had also been left in the dark until details started surfacing via social media.

I contacted Pfoutz this morning about the community concerns and he was eager to explain the event by sending me the same copy that had been released to the general public via a Facebook event page. The show titled: The Maximum Exposure Fashion Series Presents “Beyond the Binary” was to be an historical event featuring Transgender, Gender Non-Conforming, and Non-Binary runway models of all gender identity, expression, size, ability, race, and age. Open to the public, the theme of the show was Transgender Murder Mystery.

Based on true events the show was designed to highlight the hate crimes in the transgender community. The text that Pfoutz sent out to certain individuals also thanked everyone for protecting the theme and respecting his vision.

In my text conversation with Pfoutz he contradicted his text regarding the theme by telling me that theme was the vision of the models in the show. If any models were involved in developing the theme, he certainly did not solicit ideas from all involved as I was in contact with some of his cast who had no idea that a trans murder theme was the direction of the show.

The trans women of color who were planning to model in the show were quite concerned with the nature of the show’s content and found it in poor taste that anyone could believe it a good idea to form a show around the death of a trans person, let alone cast trans women of color to deliver the message. This was of great unease to members of the community who took their discussion to social media last night.

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Messages sent to the author by anonymous sources close to the situation describing the transphobic behavior they experienced with Chuck Pfoutz.

Also troubling was the assertion that Pfoutz had previously presented himself as transphobic by misgendering persons identifying as transmasculine and knowingly refusing to use their pronouns. There had been underlying concerns from the onset about Pfoutz’ intentions in mounting a trans-centered show. This behavior was publicly known by local transgender performers in the St. Louis drag community and became part of the online noise again as conversations continued regarding the upcoming March event. All who shared their stories with me asked to remain nameless as they wish to continue working as performers in the community and feared retaliation from Pfoutz.

I asked Pfoutz why he had chosen a trans theme. After a number of attempts to avoid answering my question by sending me links to other fashion shows and past event successes he’d produced, he finally shared that in 2016 he lost a personal friend – a trans woman who was shot by her boyfriend. He did not disclose her name but said she was well known. If this was the catalyst driving his desire to build this production, how does his claim of respecting the visions of the models fit into the script?

When I questioned the insensitivity on his part in choosing trans violence as an entertainment piece and especially not sharing the vision with the entire cast, Pfoutz stood by the decision and stuck to his previous position stating he was respecting the ideas of the models. I also suggested that trans stories should be told by trans people. Pfoutz saw nothing wrong with continuing with the theme even after the model he stated in one text to me had dropped out due to the backlash.

Public outcry was also responsible for some backpedaling last night when Pfoutz changed the event page to add that proceeds from ticket sales would be divided between a number of local trans advocacy groups. MTUG was included in the list of recipients, although they were prepared to decline the donation out of their concerns.

A testament to the power of community voice was the decision this afternoon from Mad Art Gallery to drop the event from their calendar. Mad Art Gallery is a long-time ally and friend of MTUG and the St. Louis transgender community and could not in good faith allow the show to take place in their facility.

After receiving the news, Pfoutz took to social media to make a false claim that he had canceled the event out of respect for the community. We’ll add this to the growing laundry list of disconnects between what Pfoutz asserts to have occurred and what those close to the event know as factual.

The St. Louis trans community would like to thank Mad Art Gallery for their ongoing support and friendship. MTUG will once again be holding their annual art show and fund raiser Transcending the Spectrum 7 at Mad Art Gallery on May 2 and asks all allies to join them for an evening of art, community, and no hate.

Mad Art Gallery is an award-winning event space located at 2727 S. 12th Street in St. Louis.

To learn more about Metro Trans Umbrella Group visit them on the web.

Visit Mad Art Gallery for facility information on event booking.

Saint Louis Community shuts down a Transgender Murder Fashion Show If you’ve ever doubted the power of a united community, you apparently have not met the transgender and gender non-conforming family and their allies in St.

#Chuck Pfoutz

[mredwinsmith]

Spirit of the Boycott: Trans Marginalization in Ultimate

“Growing up as an athlete, every positive thing I learned – about goals, dedication, leadership and values, I learned through playing sports,” says Olympic athlete Chris Mosier. These benefits are one reason that sports must be accessible to everyone. Many ultimate players who are committed to inclusivity are boycotting the American Ultimate Disc League this year because of the AUDL’s exclusion of women.

The AUDL boycott addresses how cisgender women and cisgender men have unequal access to ultimate. However, currently in ultimate, cis women players have more representation, visibility, and institutional support than transgender and nonbinary ultimate players, and this is unaddressed by the boycott.  

While cis women are currently excluded from ultimate at the professional level, transgender and nonbinary athletes face barriers to participation at ALL levels of our sport. Archaic policies hold trans athletes to inconsistent and medically misinformed standards about their bodies and transitions. Nonbinary athletes, forced to identify with one gender or the other, have to compete under an identity that isn’t theirs.

Mosier also describes how he was impacted by gender divisions as a trans athlete. “I was a three-sport all conference athlete in high school…but I chose not to pursue my dream of playing college basketball because I didn’t want to be on the girls team.” He describes how he instead was the college mascot, “I think it’s pretty telling that [in] my experience in college athletics I was most comfortable being in a costume.”  

Any argument for why the AUDL should include women is equally true for why all of ultimate should include trans and nonbinary athletes. The Transgender Law and Policy Institute, states that because of discrimination against transgender people, “It would be particularly harmful to exclude [transgender players] from the significant physical, mental and social benefits that [are gained] by playing recreational sports.” On the other hand, the opportunity to “participate in recreational sports in their affirmed gender can provide an enormous boost to their self-confidence and self-esteem.”

Organizers must demand that all athletes, cis, trans, and nonbinary, have equal opportunity to participate in ultimate. The parallel women’s pro teams, and the briefly-proposed United Ultimate League with a 3-3 mixed format, are not solutions that address the needs of trans and nonbinary athletes.  When even those boycotting the AUDL for the sake of inclusion exclude trans and nonbinary players from their vision, it erases their presence in the struggle and pushes them even further into the margins.

Some ultimate players are working to promote inclusion of trans and nonbinary athletes. This spring, Jenna Weiner led the Upwind Academy course, “Talking About Trans” about trans identity and how the ultimate community can be more inclusive of trans ultimate players. Vancouver Ultimate has a written policy on inclusion that specifically affirms trans and nonbinary players.

In New York, league players recently piloted a new league format of 2-2-1 — 2 men, 2 women, and 1 spot that does not have a gender assigned to it.  This type of format may help make more space for trans and nonbinary athletes. It may also have shortcomings or problems, but trying a new idea is better than continuing to use the same exclusionary systems.  If this format doesn’t work well, people may learn from it and come up with a better alternative moving forward.

More radically, we could create athletic divisions that are separate from gender–something more similar to wrestling’s weight class system, something that isn’t limited to two categories. Instead of trying to fit trans, intersex, and nonbinary people into a classification system designed for cis, non-intersex people, we can dream a different system using performance categories that encourage a wider variety of people to play, and that hold all bodies to similar levels of scrutiny.   

If we start with the question, “How can we include everyone in the ultimate community who wants to play regardless of gender?” we can start looking for solutions that work for everyone and center the needs of those who are most marginalized in our current system: trans and nonbinary athletes. If we start with the question, “How can cis women have access equal to cis men?” we will automatically limit ourselves to a narrower perspective.

The ultimate community is in a period of growth, gaining recognition, and building larger-scale institutions. This gives us an opportunity. Instead of perpetuating the same exclusion that exists in other sports, we can use this moment to make significant and lasting impact at the forefront of inclusion for transgender and nonbinary athletes.

People with cisgender privilege can educate themselves about trans and nonbinary identity, and think about strategies for change, in both their local area and in the wider ultimate community. Transathlete.com “is a  resource for students, athletes, coaches, and administrators to find information about trans inclusion in athletics.” Corey Alexander’s article about his perspective on ultimate as a trans man includes five suggestions for ultimate players to promote inclusivity; his forthcoming essay, tentatively titled “Boycotting the Binary,” will also discuss nonbinary identity and nonbinary athletes.

Establishing a trans-affirming culture on and off the field is just as critical as official policies and formats. “Silence is often interpreted as disapproval. So it’s up to you to send a clear message that LGBTQ athletes are welcome on your team.  On the field or in the courts there’s far too much homophobic, biphobic or transphobic language thrown around. . . The best thing you can do is to shut it down on day one…The next thing you can do is to back it up with strong policies,” says Chris Mosier.

Discussing access to playing in the AUDL, Carl Morgenstern writes, “Playing sports—especially ultimate—has greatly enhanced my life. Ultimate gives me a sense of pride and purpose…These benefits should be available to everyone.” We couldn’t agree more.

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