#trans people are not your enemy

[carlyraejepsans]

god fucking bless this poor girl, I wouldn't wish the scrutiny on anyone, but if her leaking the no-fly list somehow has the ripple effect of collectively snapping thousands of queer discourse addled 14 year olds out of their bullshit i am going to laugh so hard.

#SWISS TRANS CATGIRL HACKER STOLE THE USA NO FLY LIST. TWITTER TRIED TO CALL HER OUT FOR IDENTIFYING AS A BI LESBIAN. #PEOPLE ARE FINALLY REALIZING HOW STUPID THAT DISCOURSE IS #BESTIE SHE'S AN ENEMY OF THE STATE SHE'S MORE BE GAY DO CRIME THAN YOUR CONFORMIST ASS COULD EVER DREAM TO BE

[cock-holliday]

Cis ra/dfe/ms insisting The Opposite Gender™️ could never experience something they do is laughable already, but when trans people do it???

Fellas we are proof of the flexibility and fluidity of gender of course anyone on the spectrum could share experiences, what are you doing??

Trans women like “I experience this for being a woman so trans men could never get it.” Fellas, I can guarantee you every trans man has had at least a few year period where society treated them like girls and women.

Trans men like “I face this as a cis-passing man so trans women have no idea what that’s like.” Fellas, an overwhelmingly large portion of trans women do not come out until adulthood. For better or (more often) worse, they will likely know what it’s like to be seen as men if not at least boys.

Why are we doing boys vs girls shit like children, y’all should have a better grasp on gender by now.

#LJsm #whyyyy are we seeing the opposite transition as an enemy? #do you know how liberating it is to read stories of trans people with the opposite agab finding joy in a gender I didn’t like? #so much trans content I like is absolutely not my experience but paints a better picture of gender for me! #the same can be said for folks inside my transitional direction #I have never liked dresses—there are trans women and trans men who love them #I LIKE having a beard—for many trans men a beard is euphoric but there are also trans women who love their beards! #binary or not how do you look at the buffet of gender options available #and then decide not only are you going to self police your desires #but anyone who doesn’t do that too is an enemy and anyone with the ‘opposite’ desires is an enemy too

[snekdood]

yall are willing to die for trans women and not trans men and we should talk about it actually

#transandrophobia #you'll do anything to protect trans women but dont have that same energy for trans men. interesting. #anyways i think the reason this is is bc ppl like this think bc we're men we dont need to be helped or protected #that somehow we should have figured out how to do this on our own. that we dont need community bc we're already solid and tough enough #which is weird like. how are you trans friendly but then you dont do any other basic progressive shit like #getting rid of gender roles entirely instead of now instead applying them to trans people also? ?? #like you dont get to be all 'men should express their emotions and be vulnerable' and then reinforce the traditional gender roles on- #trans men still. like have you or havent you decondtructed that shit in your head or did you iust see someone reblog something that seema #correct w/o even doing any critical thinking or self reflecting or anything on your end at all #i didnt suddenly become made of rock and become invulnerable when i transitioned. bc that narrative for men in general is inaccurate- #and harmful. and even if i did become super buff and capable of mowing down my enemies that wouldnt mean i dont suddenly need community #that doesnt mean i become immune to bullets or that i dont need a space to express my emotions regarding being trans n shit #like yall really just want to leave us out here to die it seems like. we have nowhere to go. no real community bc yall wont give us the #time of day or compassion or anything. you think 'men bad' and thats the deepest your political analysis goes as far as im concerned. #and if thats the case how much better are you than a terf who just decided they were 'okay' with trans women? #p sure this post was inspired from a trans guy literally being a meat shield for other trans ppl and no one gave a fuck.

[bunni-bonez]

tbh I think it’s kinda fucked that young men who get radicalized by the alt right tend be receive way more sympathy from leftists than young women who get radicalized into terfdom. It seems like a lot of online leftists see young Nazis as enemies (as they should), but redeemable ones. They get the luxury of having their radicalization explained with Materialism so that they can, in theory, eventually see the light. Which on some levels is good. Deradicalization is a good way of defanging dangerous movements. But radfems never get that grace. Which is understandable, they are hateful bigots after all, but their ideas don’t spring from nowhere. I’ve spent more hours than I’d like to admit curiously scrolling thru radfem blogs. And honestly. I get it. A lot of it just feels like understandable frustration at growing up in a misogynistic culture. On tumblr at least, it seems like radfems are primarily angry at men, trans people are secondary enemies to them. Its justified to be angry. I may not have always lived as a woman, but I harbor a lot of pain and anger at the way misogyny affects my life. But that anger can not be the sole basis of my outlook. Because anger only shows you half the truth. And in the material blind spots is where radfem transphobia comes in. Trans people might not always be the main enemy, but they are the more vulnerable one. While we should oppose terfs, especially the active propagandists who want us dead, it is important to understand how young women get swept up in that ideology. And hopefully through that, we we can try to prevent that rabbit hole.

Or idk whatever I hate discourse lol

#Like yeah misogyny is awful and everywhere #And tbh even queerpositive leftist spaces do not talk about it nearly enough #and patriarchy makes men do evil shit #you are allowed to be angry at men for that #trans people are not your enemy on this though #and no amount of trans people being tactless online will make that true #Idk man #tbh this prob isn’t even my first radfem sympathy post lol #idk I get them!!! Their anger at men and patriarchy is refreshing and needed!!! #they just need to read some theory and actually meet trans ppl #queer feminism #feminism #marxist feminism #marxism #leftist #this post might get me killed lol pray 4 me

[bijoumikhawal]

Saying "one of the major parties in a country trying to genocide trans people is the "most pro trans" major party in the world" as a statement of fact should inspire fear and terror, not be a call the be thankful to that fucking party. Anyway Biden is partially responsible for the current T drug class

#cipher talk #If you people could be honest about the actual strides democrats take I wouldn't despise you so much #I would love to talk about some of the actual good done! But I'm not gonna reblog your stupid fucking post if you're pulling that #Guilt tripping/ frankly threatening voting bullshit! And badmouthing your political enemies to the left of you #You do not inspire solidarity in us when you do this! You inspire hatred! #Do you know how it feels to be told 'vote for us or you'll fucking die'? By the party that refuses to play dirty and always wrings its hand #Over not having enough power? #Genuine strides have been made by democrats for trans rights right now- /largely on the state level/ #Also the post I saw that inspired this was literally just fucking pink washing

[transtalesofdoom]

The link between the patriarchy and transphobia becomes incredibly obvious once you realize that most, if not all, transphobia is about women being victims.

Trans Women are framed as men trying to take advantage of the inherently weaker """normal""" and innocent (read: cis) women. Invading their safe spaces. Following them into bathrooms and changing rooms to assault them. Competing against them to gain an unfair advantage (that they have because they're just naturally stronger, faster, smarter, tougher, etc). Taking away resources from the poor, disadvantaged women.

This rhetoric never acknowledges the sexism it's based on, nor questions the reason why women would need separate spaces in the first place. Women are victims, but if we blame the trans ones, we don't have to acknowledge what they're actually victims of.

Trans Men are seen not as men, obviously, but as women who have fallen victim to harmful ideology. Told to reject their natural feminine traits. Desperate to escape the chains of the patriarchy, they've been tricked into perceiving themselves as the "other" gender to change sides. They're not men, they're just confused, poor unfortunate souls. Victims of indoctrination.

This view, which is common among TERFs, not only frames women as easily manipulated fools, but by focusing on that, it once again gets to ignore the wider circumstances. Which is incredibly ironic. The idea itself is based on the patriarchy and sexism being so awful that people hate it and themselves so much to join an even more oppressed minority, yet somehow it remains agnostic to the patriarchy as the central problem.

If we vilify trans people, we can ignore the systemic injustice. Hell, we can even reinforce it. Men are Predators! Women are Prey! Those are inherent traits they cannot ever outgrow!

It's vile.

TLDR: Gender Essentialism is the Root of All Evil and if you consider yourself a feminist or any other form of gender related activist, but cannot recognize this, you will fail.

#rant #long post #genderqueer #trans #transgender #crimes against the gender convention #lgbtq #nonbinary #queer #feminism #terfs may look at this post without threat of my hooves #in fact terfs probably should look at this post #stop reinforcing the patriarchy with your attempt at feminism #we have a common enemy and its not trans people #its ronald reagan probably #that being said if you put anything transphobic in the notes i WILL stomp you to death with my fucking hooves #misogyny #transphobia #gender essentialism

[spitblaze]

Cis Men run... every institution. Cis men are at the head of every government in the world, Cis Men created the system we all have to live in and made themselves the Societal default. It's kind of hard to feel sympathy for Men on anything other than an individual level when in a broad sense, Men are the reason for literally all of their own problems. Men are the ones who protest ANY form of progress, even if it would be beneficial to them, even when it means addressing and getting rid of things like Toxic Masculinity and allowing them to live in a freer, less rigidly definitive way. Men are the reason we literally all have to be scared all the fucking time just to stay safe. That's not TERF shit. That's literal centuries of oppression and the result of everyone who isn't a Cis Man having to learn very quickly how to keep themselves safe FROM Cis Men. Masculinity isn't the problem, Maleness is not inherently the problem, not all Men are inherently the problem. But in an abstract sense, assuming all Men are untrustworthy or potentially dangerous is the only way to keep yourself safe. I'm a Trans Woman. Yes, the TERF movement is primarily made up of Cis Women. But when I go outside the reason I try to make myself as unnoticed as possible, the reason I am afraid for my safety, the reason I don't present unless I have people around me, is because of what a Man could potentially do to me. Because of what Men HAVE done to me. And I'm not an outlier. It's all very well and good to say "viewing Men and Maleness as inherently bad is wrong" in the abstract? But in practical terms if I suddenly let my guard down I'm fucking dead.

Hi, I'm a trans man. I know exactly what you're talking about, I've been there during the time before my egg cracked, I've been there AFTER my egg cracked, and I'm not about to tell you you should innately trust every man or masculine person. Unfortunately, for a lot of people, it's the most surefire way to stay safe. I get it, I've had that moment where a man approaches me in a way where I'm positive I'm about to become a statistic, I've seen the kinds of grifts run by men to convince other men that the only way forward is domination and fascism, I've seen how many men see any sort of pushback on their privilege and place in the world and go berserk. 'Misandry' is a loaded word thanks to MRA shitheads, and it's not one I like to use. Cis men have historically not faced sex discrimination anywhere in the GALAXY of the magnitude of women.

The point I am making is not that you have to trust and love and tolerate every single man. I would be a goddamn hypocrite if I told you to do that, I don't even do that. What I'm saying is that there are a lot of people who, for whatever reason, see men as inherently inhuman, inherently incapable of love, inherently predatory. It's what fuels TERFs in their ideology, the idea that someone within spitting distance of masculinity has only one goal, and that is harm. There are people who look at men expressing their love for other men and mock them or react with disgust, not because of garden variety homophobia, but because they are men, and who could possibly love a man? You see people in queer spaces get uncomfortable when someone who doesn't shave their facial hair walks into the room, exclude trans men and nonbinary amab people on the basis of their proximity to manhood. I understand why it happens, but getting jumpy right off the bat in situations like this helps nobody. Designating women as the 'victim' gender and men as the 'predator' gender is reductive, and while I understand a lot of this behavior is an overcorrective (healthy) fear of strange men, the real fact is that, like...most men aren't dangerous. There are a lot who are, and I'm not asking you to lower your guard on the bus or whatever, just to realize that like. Someone being a man does not preclude them being inherently predatory or regressive, and someone being a woman does not preclude them being 'safe'. That's all.

#spitblaze says things #long post #did you guys not see the 'some' #*some* of you have terf brainworms #others have a healthy fear that may or may not be leaking into your perception of men on the whole #idk. i dont know you. i dont know your story or your history #im just fucking asking people to stop seeing trans men and aksing why we would possibly want to be a MAN or side with the 'enemy' #or seeing mlm express attraction and shit on us because theres nothing more disgusting than a man #or freaking out the second someone who's not Feminine wants to enter a queer space #btw im not just talking about men. im also talking about people who get jumpy around butches because AAAH MASCULINITY SCARY

[x-v4mp3y3lin3r-x]

if you're deconstructing your ideas of binary gender and binary sex— you also have to deconstruct your ideas of binary sexuality and romantic attraction, too, fyi

#'are you saying homosexuals don't really exist??!?!!?!' no. please use your brain. #im saying it literally doesn't matter if a lesbian dates someone who YOU perceive as a man. #because the people in that relationship know more than you. #and human experience does not exist in a binary. #you have to accept that sometimes other people will experience life differently than you do #this also goes for gays and bis and pans and aces and aros. #the only people who get to define their experiences are them. #so no I don't really care if a gay man says his true love is a woman and he means it. #i still consider him gay. because he knows himself and his partner better than i know how to perceive them both #and how someone else identifies is none of my business. #that woman may be only part woman. or only perceived as a woman. or only sometimes a woman. or always both woman and man. #there's so many ways to be human. you have to learn to take other queers at face value and not question them #when you question if someone is 'REALLY gay' or 'REALLY trans' or 'REALLY bi'; you're thinking with the mindset of an oppressor #you do not need to gatekeep queerness. queerness is not a limited resource. queer people are not your enemies. #learn to empathize and embrace experiences unlike yours. be a better ally to the people in your own community instead of immediately - #- searching for ways to cast them out. be better. stop thinking like our oppressors. queer people do not need to rationalize ourselves for - #- anyone. they don't owe you an explanation. you cannot take their 'gay card' away.

[lasdelaintuicion]

truly cant imagine viewing social politics through a celebrity lense enough to seethe at the harry potter cast in the name of "feminism" (as if that's at all the focus of the anti transgender cultural revolt...) hilarious ❤️

#the joanne rowling discourse is so so so #stupid #becoming a stan and making her out to be an idol out of the blue over her views on trans people is SO funny #is it truly “her books should be BANNED like christian fanatics said in the 90s and she should be KILLED" #or “she's the lord and savior of feminism and everyone including celebs who don't agree with her or engage in this culture war is AN ENEMY” #they are celebrities. they will prioritize their public status. thats their purpose. be normal about your expectations maybe #its funny to watch #celebs are kept a powerful political tool by this behavior <3 #specially from westerners #because their public reception elsewhere is not as relevant

[awesomecooperlove]

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#truth bombs #justice for humanity #fight back #know your enemies #the deep state oligarchs don’t want us humans alive #trans gender plan #mind control #restrictions #violence #discrimination #hatred #division #wars #destruction #crimes against humanity #these people are evil #criminals

[oddconvictions]

seeing radfems post abt PCOS and using it to??? hate trans people or whatever? as though pcos isn't. you know. an intersex thing.

#this is so exhausting. trans people and intersex people and queer people are not your enemies why are u so focused on them instead of #you know. very real feminist issues out there

[eclown]

are these your ghouls ma'am.

ghouls implying its normal and fine to say "kill yourself" to people and implying youd send this shit to a minor? or that youd have to be a teenager to even get upset at someone telling other people to kill themselves? how do people on tumblr still think you were banned for nothing

#predstrogen #also saying 'go outside' when you know these people are making 100+ posts a day... many such cases #if youre gonna act stupid and say ugly things online dont shit your pants and when people dont like you #yesterday was the first (and hopefully last) time i even opened your cohost bc it was a 'litmus test' to see how fast youd take the bait #and you took it in literally less than an hour! less than HALF an hour! and tried to excuse suicide baiting with the shittiest excuses ive/ #ever seen. you even contradict yourself in it AND say the kys post was to a someone who agreed by mistake. because you were cranky #and then pointing people to me and saying “you know what to do” like are you srs... #take steps to better yourself and make your life nicer instead of searching your name on platforms you hate and crying victim (and bigotry) #when people hold a negative opinion on you and things you LOUDLY and PUBLICLY say #and stop talking shit about trans men. they arent your enemies you hypocritical loser

[lastcatghost]

If you're not seen or treated as a human being by the society you live in, how can you also be held to the standards of human behavior in that society?

You can't expect oppressed people with restricted rights to exist, and being under constant threat of violence and incarceration simply for being in a targeted demographic, then the social contract expected typically expected of those in that society can't apply to the groups seen as less than human.

Peaceful protests and voting isn't gonna be a valid excuse to stall change at a certain point, and those who seriously suggest it are a threat to liberation, not allies to anyone except their privilege the current system of oppression affords them

#human rights and civil liberties #full human experience #trans acceptance #trans liberation #liberation from oppression #cant hold people to human standards of behavior if they arent treated and seen as humans by that society #bigotry is a tool used by the ruling class to divide and distract us from the real threat #working class solidarity #the bourgeoisie is the real enemy #marginalized and oppressed groups are not who keeps raising the costs of everything except your wages

[cascadianights]

People are always like "but you shouldn't need it to be you/your daughter/your wife" or "you shouldn't need some metaphor to understand" or "why are we watering this down for people" - Listen:

If I've learned anything by the (weak, watered down, unfocused) leftist reaction to the current attempted genocide of trans people, it is that very few people will act or put themselves in danger unless it DIRECTLY affects them. ESPECIALLY other minorities who are not multiply marginalized (w the understanding that can bring) but Do have a lot to lose.

That's not true for every person! Some people have a basic understanding of empathy and compassion. Some people have higher level critical thinking skills or kindness. But I hate to break it to you - all of those things (empathy compassion critical thinking even kindness) are SKILLS. They are not a given. They are rarely honed by accident. They are difficult and many times come at a cost to you to learn and practice.

People may not have these skills for a MILLION reasons, but many of them are linked to poverty and generational trauma, lack of funded public education, and living in a dystopian capitalistic society that prioritizes individualism and leaves barely any time or energy for thinking through complex ideologies unless you MAKE that time. None of those reasons are "they're just too dumb" or "they only have the capability for hate and evil."

There are people doing very bad, purposefully malicious, monstrous things - and they are still people. If we lose sight of that we lose sight of the lengths of dangers and kindness capable of EACH of us. Beyond those with real harmful intent, there are MANY MANY MANY more people who are letting themselves accept the wrong solutions to the same problems we all see. For example, many of them genuinely want to protect children! And they listened to the answers for how to do so given to them by church and state and friends.

THOSE are the people we need to make metaphors for, we need to connect with individually, we need to show how and why this will impact THEIR lives. In a perfect world where the entire American society wasn't run on "us v them" that wouldn't be necessary!!! But it is! Because they want to protect the people IN THEIR LIVES right now, not a theoretical kid somewhere else they can't imagine being anything like their own. They want to put food on the table and a roof above the heads of their family, and they have grasped onto ANYTHING that they think will let them keep providing that.

We need to show these people how easily their child could be the center of these debates. How limited a world their child will grow up in without access to information on different ways of being and existing. We need to show them how and why this will impact them, their daughters, their wives, because we need to break through that concrete wall of defensiveness, built and calcified by the words of politicians and leaders with malicious intent but hiding nothing but desperate fear. We need to make it personal, to make it real FOR THEM, to make it understandable without a college level degree of critical thinking analysis why and how this war will show up at their doorsteps too.

It's exhausting. It's hard!!! It's infuriating and invalidating and endless. But appealing to their humanity, in whatever means that must take, is the only way to thaw out those who may stand with us. Because if we stand alone, I know with every bone in my body we will fall alone as well.

#queer #trans #empathy #critical thinking #politics #who is your true enemy: those in silence or casting a single uninformed vote - or those telling them what to do and painting us as monsters #that doesnt mean you shouldnt be angry or betrayed or fearful or mistrusting it just... means falling into those things wont help ys #wont let anyone reach them #we have to reach those we can we HAVE to or we have nothing not even those we marched beside are standing with us #and if youre reading this like “whats rich peoples excuse they had good schooling and no poverty to run them into the dirt exhausted #umm rich people Are the Problem and also i dont know what their excuse is - being out of touch? not meeting real different humans? #being isolated in an echo chamber of beliefs in an environment led by and filled w the very monstrous sharks creating these laws #like idk try to get through to them too but idrc theres like 8% rich people thats the worlds worst minority #we need to get through to the poor working class masses and middle class WASPS with voices at the PTA meeting and the people Around Us

[zersk]

femboys are the future

#trans people they are not your enemy

[spekktors]

I think so much of online queer discourse ultimately stems from a staunch refusal to engage in actual community-wide solidarity. A lack of willingness to practice compassion and listen to people who don't share the exact same identity label as you do. This compassion gap shows in the way tme people talk about trans women especially

#babbling #i see so many posts on here that talk about trans women like they're the enemy. that's not okay #I'm BEGGING some of you: talk to trans women. read their books. engage with their ideas. develop genuine compassion for them #trans women are women yes. but more importantly they're people. they're members of your community who deserve your compassion #they're our allies in the fight for trans liberation. you benefit infinitely more from treating trans women as people and comrades #than you do treating them as enemies in your insular discourse