Athywren

non binary ze/zir / they/them Writer. Feminist. @[email protected] (Mastodon)

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Walking to work in the freezing fog thoughts:
Is the transphobic myth that gnc people are fast-tracked through transition against their will just another round of anti-gnc rhetoric? "Conform! Or the trans will get you!!"

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@_JudeShore @onesparkfire @_celia_bedelia_ What if your assumption about what we’d agree with is less relevant than whether we’d actually agree with it though? Because all this whining about “well you’d think it’s misogyny for a man to have an opinion for perfectly decent reasons!” kinda falls apart if that’s the case.

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@badinfinity2 The thing is I “coped” for years until I was on the brink of absolutely falling apart. Idk, turns out actually feeling able to *live* is better than coping? Who knew, right?? Fuck I hate this idea that thriving is something to be avoided.

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@friedeggbeats @ClaireMax @woodmally1979 Feminism does, but almost nobody who calls themselves a radfem today is a feminist. Or a radical. They’re just transphobic weirdos who uncritically embrace patriarchal ideas of what a woman is and call that feminism. So yeah, like you said, fuckwits whinging.

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@ClaireMax @woodmally1979 Probably also by being muscular, now that we’re apparently meant to believe that it’s a feminist stance that women are inherently weak and inferior, and anyone strong must actually be a man. Ugh, I hate how they’re mangling feminism.

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@_celia_bedelia_ I mean I remember me? So that’s already one. Although I wasn’t “gender confused” - that would be people like him tbh, and there were plenty of those - I was trans.

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@CaelanConrad Wow, I can’t believe they all say they don’t like us and feel unloved by us, yes, yes, that could only be a cultish script and in no way related to our consistently awful and unloving treatment of them! 👀

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@ClassiestBuu2 @CaelanConrad And much like how my glasses turn my world from an unclear, blurry and headache-inducing mess into something clear, the HRT I just swallowed & rubbed on my skin has turned my life from a miserable thing I was existing through into something hopeful and beautiful that I’m Living.

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@pickle_bee @KatyMontgomerie Why are they so obsessed with this idea that “feminine boys are being pushed to be trans when they’d actually become gay if just left alone”? It doesn’t mean either ffs! It just means they’re feminine! Anything else is entirely for them to tell us, not to have it be dictated.

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@antifaducks @Chican3ry One day, Wes Streeting will have his own ❤️

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@speakoutsister He’s just standing up for women though, of course! 🙄

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@speakoutsister It’s almost funny, they’ll insist that I’m in favour of men beating up women because I don’t think having above average testosterone levels makes someone a man, but I’m against combat sports in general. I don’t understand why they’re still a thing in the 21st century.

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@notCursedE What I want to know is what did he say to turn them from the baying mob that they should have been to being willing to pose for a smiley picture with someone who, as far as I know so far, has only been hostile to not just us but specifically the most vulnerable of us.

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@oolon Surely an adult human horse is a Bojack?

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@BenartyComputer @SoozUK Very true, but now I’m getting kicked by people with a different tie colour. The change is quite refreshing!

Or the brief moment of hope I allowed myself when the Tories were kicked out has made the resurgent fury all the hotter and more bitter… one of the two.

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@BenartyComputer @SoozUK Now be fair - they’ve made good on their manifesto promise to keep kicking trans people, so we can rely on them to keep *some* promises!

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@AidanCTweets “We’re all ‘non-binary’ if the definition is not conforming in full to every single sex stereotype…” uh huh, and we’re all clowns if the definition is has ever amused another person… but… that is not the definition… sooo 🤷‍♀️

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@SloaneFragment @jk_rowling If true, I genuinely hope she’s never able to come to terms with or do anything about it. So long as she also loses the ability to influence people anyway… otherwise that’s still more of a curse on us tbh.

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@vometia @AidanCTweets Yeah, I’m always reminded of something Glinner said a few years back, about how they’ve got to leave us somewhere to retreat to if they want their true victory, but they’re actively attacking our right to bodily autonomy. Where on earth do they expect us to retreat to?

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@MillieCheesey “My child has consistently chosen a girl character when able. This has clearly CAUSED her gender identity!”
Ok… orrr it potentially indicated it?
Tbh I don’t really think it necessarily does either - sometimes characters are just compelling - but it certainly doesn’t cause it.

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@auxdroid @mushycrouton Yep, I didn’t hear about the concept until my 20s, didn’t begin medically transitioning until my 30s, but I was non binary the whole time, I just didn’t have a way to clearly express it.