Kai

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They/Them
Mostly a lurker

[Kai @pxsteldreamer]

@cheese_2449 Trans men still face oppression as trans people, especially when they don't fully pass. It's not that they don't want to be seen as men, but they'd like if people acknowledged that being men does not immediately remove their oppression or make them "evil" like some people think

[Kai @pxsteldreamer]

@fuckrozanov Also like if you know something triggers you, it's on you to avoid the trigger, not on everything around you to make sure you're not triggered. Genres and ratings exist as general guidelines and if you're concerned about specifics, you look it up because it's your trigger

[Kai @pxsteldreamer]

@fuckrozanov Literally like. If I know I have a specific trigger, and I know the genre I'm reading might contain that, I can just google the book and check, but outside of that I'm accepting the risk of being uncomfortable because sometimes that's the point of a book

[Kai @pxsteldreamer]

@EstrogenGuuji @cheese_2449 Also I AM transitioning. I got top surgery a couple years ago.

[Kai @pxsteldreamer]

@EstrogenGuuji @cheese_2449 If you're not doing DIY it can absolutely vary based on healthcare, and depending on whether it's testosterone or estrogen. Partially because you need to see a doctor to get the prescription, which costs more than $60 and often includes medication monitoring appointments

[Kai @pxsteldreamer]

@femanthropy @fx6uun That's not viewed as a useful commodity the way giving birth is, because formula exists, and breasts have been sexualized, making them viewed in a different way than a womb. I didn't say they had no use, simply that they aren't viewed as such

[Kai @pxsteldreamer]

@femanthropy Trans women can be women because gender is different than sex, but also because HRT and SRS both exist and fundamentally change the bodies and functions of trans people's bodies. You choosing to remain in an echo chamber is your own choice

[Kai @pxsteldreamer]

@femanthropy At any rate, I'm not interested in further debate or argument with someone who isn't having the discussion in good faith. You already made up your mind, you're not going to change it because of some tired stranger online explaining things anyways.

[Kai @pxsteldreamer]

@femanthropy The science supports gender and sex both being far more of a spectrum than a binary, and being separate from one another, and that transgender individuals are more like their identity peers than their assigned sex peers in terms if brain function, but again, you're not interested

[Kai @pxsteldreamer]

@femanthropy The definition of female you gave does not include those with Mullerian agenesis. It is, therefore, excluding them despite them being female, they wouldn't fall under the definition you gave. Which is my point.

[Kai @pxsteldreamer]

@One_Supernova @femanthropy I am aware I used the incorrect word. It's late where I am and I am tired. Thanks.

[Kai @pxsteldreamer]

@femanthropy At any rate, I don't have the energy to explain transgenderism and transexualism and the validity of them to you, nor do I have the time

[Kai @pxsteldreamer]

@femanthropy My point was simply that literally every definition of female and woman are in some way exclusionary towards members of those groups, including cis ones. Rare? Sure. But you're still excluding a part of the group, even following your own logic, albeit flawed

[Kai @pxsteldreamer]

@femanthropy If you do not develop the Mullerian pathways (Mullerian agenesis) you can still be female. Your definition excludes that

[Kai @pxsteldreamer]

@femanthropy And what about the intersex women who develop both sets of gametes? Or those who are born without any of the reproductive organs mentioned when discussing the Mullerian pathway? Not every woman has that development, this definition excludes them from being female

[Kai @pxsteldreamer]

@femanthropy Not every woman, not even all cis women, have the same set of sexual characteristics that are used to define female. Some don't have uteruses, some don't have ovaries, some don't have XY chromosomes, some don't have breasts. Defining female is just as difficult for that reason.

[Kai @pxsteldreamer]

@burnthelilacs This isn't quite how it is though. Nonbinary and xeno gender people can also have dysphoria, many do, but we also just don't have a strong connection to gender/sex in the way they're viewed and treated by the world. My body doesn't tie to either sex or gender, I'm just /me/