#trans people in stem

[queerpossums]

i’m an ecology major because nothing terrifies transphobes like life sciences taught beyond the 7th grade level

#trans pride #trans #trans people in stem #queer #queer stem #queer scientists #ecology #biology #advanced biology #forestry #life science #bio major #anti transphobes

[thecommunityoftrustworthysinks]

i know it’s a crazy concept but maybe instead of being transphobic and saying shit like “trans women in stem don’t struggle especially if they come out while in the field” or “trans men in stem aren’t progressive because it’s already a male dominated field” and like. instead acknowledge that trans people in stem (and in general) dont follow cisnormative standards of gender at all and any trans person in stem struggles and is brave and strong for doing so

#x #stem #trans people in stem

[uncanny-tranny]

Just a reminder that trans people, you aren't betraying anybody by transitioning. You aren't disappointing women, or men, or whomever because you have decided to transition. This is a personal decision, and if somebody put so much stake into your gender that they feel betrayed by you when they were wrong, that is (frankly) not your problem.

You aren't betraying anybody.

#trans #transgender #lgbt #lgbtq #ftm #mtf #nonbinary #saw a post and this trans guy felt as though he was betraying women by continuing to be a woman in STEM and like... #...why do we owe people that? why do *you* owe them that? #i get why i totally get why. it's just frustrating to see because it isn't their fault but also they don't deserve to feel like they're... #...BETRAYING a whole gender. like does anybody else see how ridiculous that sounds? #how is gender that fragile that we can BETRAY it by transitioning???? like that's wacky to me #so besties... you are betrating nobody by transitioning. you never have. you just *weren't* that gender #if people started seeing transition as embracing who we are rather than BETRAYAL that would do wonders

[gayvampyr]

“queer spaces should be inclusive of people who don’t enjoy sex and who have “strange”, negative or repulsed relationships with sex” and “sex is an important aspect of lgbt community, history, and activism and queer people should be allowed and able to talk freely about sex without stigma or shame” are ideas that can and should coexist.

#‘queer people were banned from and shamed for having sex and that’s where a lot of our activism stemmed from’ and #‘not liking or having sex is considered abnormal and a mental illness and also needs to be destigmatized’ are concepts that not only can but #often do coalign #it’s esp important to consider that a lot of lgbt ppl who have a tricky and strained relationship with sex are like that because of trauma #which is very common for queer folks #it’s really not an ace-only thing #like i am sex repulsed but it’s very hard to discern if it’s because i’m asexual or if it’s the trauma. either way i deserve to have those #feelings and be included in lgbt spaces and discussions about sex and treated as just another queer person with a different experience #instead of being alienated because my feelings about sex don’t directly line up with yours #im so sick of people in this community trying to pit us against each other. as an ace lesbian that shit is so toxic and harmful #my relationship with sex is fluid. im sex-positive always‚ but i often find myself sex repulsed. im otherwise neutral about it but im sick #of people acting like it’s either you enjoy sex and have it frequently or you hate it and you shame everyone who has it like youre a puritan #and it’s often aphobes who bought into that ‘aces are puritanical celibate straights who want ppl who have gay sex to die or think they’re #‘dirty’ or some shit. and it was literally 90% crypto-aphobes pretending to be aces to get people to adopt that into their belief system #the same way crypto-t/rfs pretend to be trans women who want to prey on the ‘innocent women’ #and y’all will use those posts/screenshots as ‘evidence’ that whatever scapegoat you’ve selected is actually inherently bad/homophobic/ #misogynistic/etc and not even #acknowledge the giant hole in your logic cuz you’re too busy trying to find a scapegoat #it’s the same tactics and y’all fall for it every time #text post #like. lesbians are CONSTANTLY getting hounded and told that we’re broken or mentally i’ll for not showing interest in (having sex with) men #for the same reason asexuality is considered bad or wrong or weird #not showing interest in heterosexual relationships or sex is why this is so important #anyone that falls outside the scope of heterosexuality is part of this community whether you like it or not

[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

[mrgaretcarter]

Honestly I think it would do us all well to go back to kinda cringy feminism again for a little bit idk cause I think maybe for some people the discourse somehow circled back around to supporting sexism just rebranded or whatever so its more aesthetic

#personal #instead of progressing the discourse into idk more inclusion of women of color and trans women #it went in the direction of like glorifying women being stupid and romanticizing beauty standarts #also weird centering of men all over again in feminism and in general for some reason #remember in the early 2010s when emma watson was like obliterated for that 'he for she' campaign #because it prioritized men in feminist discourse and then thats the exact direction where things went later on (and where it is currently) #people care more abt like 'haha this is my golden retriever bf he drinks respect women juice!' than about actual women speaking abt feminis #like being a feminist isnt about social change and women prioritizing each other its abt how dudes are hot when they do the bare minimum! #also have you noticed the rise in lesbophobia both in the sense of persecution of lesbians themselves #and of lesbians relationships and culture which other wlw are also part of (its giving lavender menace) #and also remember how we had the me too movement and then immediately after #everyone still fell for a smear campaing against a victim of domestic abuse? #anyway i would really love to get back to basics of like women should support each other! #and beauty standarts overwhelmingly negatively affect women and girls! #and we still need to incentivize girls to seek out intellectual pursuits especially in STEM and leadership roles! #because we continue to be underpresented in those fields and the only way to enact change is to bring our perspectives to those areas #instead of asking politely for guys to throw us a bone! #also stop acting like its cringe to openly and vocally center and prioritize women in every sphere of our lives possible! #and also maybe go back to actively trying to do that! and considering that a good thing!?? #because we're the ones who should have our backs most of all?? idk idk #also where are the teeth?? #why is everyone so afraid of being angry now??? #its like some people circled back to being afraid of being mistaken for man-hating or something #just for pointing out common sense aspects of oppression without adding an asterisk about how men suffer too! #i thought we all knew there is no such thing as reverse sexism!!! #idk!!! #and this isnt me condoning choice feminism many women are evil and actively work against their own interests #or antagonize other women to make themselves feel important such as terfs etc #but idk its like everyone internalized that 'well women can suck too' so hard that its become like #'*most* women suck and we dont even have to keep trying to empathize and prioritize each other and our issues anymore'

[devilfruitdyke]

hii! can i ask how people think butches are privileged?

i've just heard the take a couple times that women (+ adjacent) are oppressed for being feminine, rather than being women. it seems like a small difference but some follow that logic and claim that masculine and butch women *aren't* oppressed for their supposed proximity to the patriarchy. take that with a grain of salt because i dont have sources of that take, but for something similar you could observe the stereotypes of 'not like other girls,' where young women who prefer to dress casually and have men friends are said to have internalized misogyny. ultimately this serves to remove blame from men in perpetuating patriarchal values, and instead places it on gnc women, which is just a progressive way of punishing any woman who dares to be Too Masculine. genuinely ty for the question i needed to organize a few of these thoughts.

#and this stems from a misconception where people who post this take online dont have much experience w real misogyny #and think it primarily manifests in their classmates saying their makeup is too extra #which is a dick move but is tame compared to shit like barriers to education. underfunded womens sports. #the whorephobia coming from alpha male podcasts. the wage gap. etc etc #(note that this doesnt apply to only cis women. im bigender many butches arent women. #i know a irl transfem whos been called a not like other girls girl way too much #and speaking of transmisogyny theres a parallel conversation about trans women who also experience misogyny but are percieved as #closer to the patriarchy.) ok i think that about sums it up

[mini-minish]

some funny girlies who cause a lot of troubles ✨👑💖

#eots #dood #ocs #oc #original character #original characters #theo is a princess and shes like #if barbie was trans #sofia is like women in stem make some noise 🗣️ #the star on both of their foreheads is the royal mark of the aurora kingdom #sofia wears it since she's been engaged into the royal family #theo is the second youngest child of the royal family #and her role consists mostly in being a public speaker and a fan favorite of the people #sofia is an ambassador and leading the technologic systems in the kingdom #so she has more political importance than the princess #idk why im even blabbing about this. im having the oc zoomies #apologies it will happen again

[thekittyburger]

We were looking at Linux distros in computing today and. I thought all the trans girls and furries in computer science were joking. Puppy linux is a thing.

#sorry to all the people who arent trans girls or furries but are in stem and do puppy play #but ive never seen you before so #kitty screams #this post was brought to you by me seeing a computer fucking post and puppy linux being mentioned within minutes on my dash #what does this distro even do #'ease of use and minimal memory footprint' thanks wikipedia

[druidshollow]

i have an ancient oc named flight to the sun, homeward descent, but ive recently realized descent might be a kinda sacrilegious term to a society whos religion is all about ascending... so now i need to come up with an excuse for that being her name (read tags for more context if u want lol)

#the easy answer is to make her trans (which i might just do anyways) but i think instead im gonna make it so she changed it as a statement?? #i already had it in mind that when she was in schooling to join the iterator project she had a punk phase #and descent as a person is quite wary of the idea of ascension. kinda freaks her out #so maybe when she had that punk phase she changed it as a rebellion of sorts and then it stuck as she grew up #im thinking her birth name was something like flight to the sun thirteen sparks maybe #her choosing homeward descent is basically her saying “idk if ascension is all that when the wholeass world is right here” #it sounds strange for a character whos so unsure of ascension to work on/with iterators #her interest in the iterator project first stemmed from a love of the science but then became a moral issue when she #realized the iterators were much more emotionally intelligent and deep than theyd been intended to me #so she dedicated herself to them and researching their behavioral patterns to help more people understand how human they truly are #druid babbles #this is dumb lol #descent #oc posting

[artificial-ascension]

I saw someone talking about the hatred towards bi lesbians and in the tags they mentioned that bi gay men aren't given near the amount of hatred and I think that boils down to two thing:

1. Women aren't allowed to do anything, as an ex teen age girl I can confirm that no matter what you do as a women you will be judged (ex. Girls who like traditionally girly things are all judged as boring and basic and girls who don't are seen as "not like other girls" and "vying for male attention.)

And 2

Femininity it upheld as the golden standard of purity in alot of circles and therefore being a lesbian also attracted to men is seen as somehow 'tainting' the purity of being a lesbian by likeing icky icky men while on the other hand being a bi gay man would be viewed as the opposite, making up for liking men by being also attracted to good pure women.

And obviously not the case always and not all circles hold up the flawed belief that anything associated with men or masculinity is evil, but I think it's good food for thought and it all boils down to a mix of misogyny and man hating.

#it's almost like by violently hating one gender you will always end up hurting the queer community rather than cis gender people #because for a cis perrisex het person this doesn't matter #that community is not hurt in the slightest by this #because honestly everyone suffers from this mindset #bi lesbian and gay men obviously because it's their identities being policed #trans or intersex or just gnc people are always hurt by the hatred of one or the other gender #it's discourse that takes us back decades and it stems from some of the most the disgusting beliefs someone can have about gender #ignore me i'm just rambling

[sageblogsthings]

curious if any other trans folks have dealt w this but something i’ve been noticing is that when cis folks misgender me, they get so embarrassed that it renders any correction basically moot (if they correct themselves at all) because it’s almost like it didn’t happen at all. for example, someone repeatedly misgendered me while talking to another person today and then corrected themself after the fifth time, but did so so quietly that the other person in the room definitely did not hear. like part of the reason getting misgendered sucks is cuz it expands the circle of people around you that will learn the wrong pronouns for you, y’all get that right? i assure u the situation is far more embarrassing (and exhausting) for me than it is for u lol

#sorry if this sounds kind of bitter and rude but. it’s how im feeling rn 🤷 #admittedly i am Not Great at correcting people #partly bc it’s embarrassing and i hate being Perceived #but also bc like. i’m in stem lol not everyone is nice about it #i’m working on it but like. please y’all if u misgender someone in front of other people correct yourself #and more importantly make sure that the OTHER people around heard you do so #like i have my pronouns in my email signature they’re not a secret u need to whisper about lmao #sage rambles #okay to rb #trans #nonbinary

[uncanny-tranny]

People who compare transition to self harm or use real people they know who've self-harmed as a metaphorical comparison to transitioning aren't making the gotcha they think they're making - they're just showing that they don't have the compassion or maturity to engage with either topic at even a conversational level.

And, frankly, it's infuriating as a person who does see those who self-harm as my equal who doesn't need to be used as a cudgel against another group of often vulnerable people.

#trans #transgender #lgbt #lgbtq #ftm #mtf #nonbinary #self harm tw #self harm mention tw #sh tw #transphobia #transphobia tw #and as someone who has self-harmed AND transitioned it's been inherently different. it's not a comparison #and if you wonder why so many trans people have engaged in self harm: social factors. family. abuse. mistreatment #mine stemmed from unrelated abuse largely and also because i wasn't being treated well #absolutely unresolved dysphoria in trans people can inspire that - i know that already. ask me how (don't)... #...but it also isn't inherent to identifying as trans. dysphoria of any kind can make people desperate for any escape... #...and you help them by allowing them space and giving them tools that empower *them*... #...like for me the second a huge part of my dysphoria resolved through transition i was able to start actually fucking LIVING #because for all my life i'd been only able to operate at 50% at most. and now it's more like 80-90% just after transition

[venice-1987]

Call me radical, but I think marginalized men (trans men, men of color, disabled men, etc) should have language to describe how their identity as men and as marginalized people intersect. 

I say this because identification of oppression is the first step in combating it, and becoming educated about it. Having language better equips everyone to fight oppression.

A common argument I’ve heard against this is that its just validating the idea of misandry, but I have to disagree. Misandry is usually a term used to describe the oppression of cis, straight, white, able bodied, etc. men. However, this doesn’t exist. This hypothetical person is not oppressed, that we can agree on. But if we replace a word, say cis with trans, we suddenly get a person that is oppressed for being trans, that we can agree on, right? The oppression of one man does not mean that the other man is the same. Just like the language. We aren’t trying to argue that here.

Another argument I hear is that by men speaking on their own experiences, they are talking over women in the same group? but that’s not how speaking over people works. Speaking over someone is someone who is not marginalized, trying to explain the oppression of a specific marginalized group. For example, a cis person speaking on the experiences of trans people is speaking over them. If we take transandrophobia, its trans men speaking on the experiences of trans men. They are not outside their bounds, they are not trying to speak on experiences they don’t know (i.e. trans femmes). They are speaking on their own experiences, and that’s it. The existence and cries of one oppressed group is not silencing another oppressed group. That’s not how it works. If that was how it worked, then the world would only be able to have one human rights movement at a time. The only silencing that is going on here, is the silencing of marginalized men’s voices. 

We are not expendable. We are not privileged in the same way that white/cis/abled/straight/etc men are, and we should be able to speak on that without backlash. The idea that all men have the same power as privileged men has become pervasive in activist spaces. That’s not to say we don’t hold some privilege, or that misogyny within our communities is not an issue. We aren’t trying to say that, and we still do need to work to dismantle misogyny within our communities, within ourselves, and within the wider world. We are just trying to say that our liberation is unique to our experiences, and that we have a right to demand the justice that has not been given to us yet. 

#transmen #transandrophobia #trans liberation #trans liberation includes trans men #trans liberation includes trans mascs #transmasculine #Some people's knowledge of intersectionality ends when its a marginalized man #and that is disappointing and #so exhausting and disheartening #we need liberation too #we need justice too #our maleness does not protect us against everything #we have unique gendered oppression too #sure it can stem from the patriarchy but that doesn't mean it should not be dismantled too #sometimes it feels like we are our only advocates because other people just see men #not transness #or non-whiteness #or disability #it stops at men #and im tired

[gearbox-dollhouse]

The issue with being a queer horror enjoyer is that I want to write a story about a trans serial killer but I'm almost certain that I'll get called transphobic if I do

#the vibe for it is jusy 'i support women's wrongs' #the main character is a trans woman named Anne or Scarlett or Rose or something with that vibe #and she kills people and it's swag #it'd go into how her issues stem from her parents abusing her for being trans #and she's be cool as shit #she's either a brunette or a redhead and she wears red and her main weapon is a knife

[silly-centipede]

Trans people are always going to have different experiences to their cis counterparts and I think that's just lovely.

trans women are more likely to be gamers and coders? good, we need more women in those fields.

trans men are more likely to be in music and arts? good, we need more creative men.

#i love trans men #i love trans women #i love trans people #women in stem #creative men #trans rights #transisbeautiful #transgender #trans appreciation #kissing all trans people #trans positivity #trans community #trans pride #trans people so cool