Remember when The New York Times thought it was front page news that trans kids have a slightly elevated risk of experiencing osteoporosis in their fifties instead of their sixties
being trans is soooo fun because not only does everyone and their grandmother have pseudo-scientific psychosexual observations to make about you, but so do OTHER trans people!
every time a trans person decides to downplay transmisogyny on here, they're surprised at how many people are excited to jump on the "trans women are lying about how hard they have it" train with them. of course, none of them will draw any of the obvious conclusions from this.
the general issue of “male socialization” as a concept is that it assumes a laughably simplistic model of socialization, which allows bioessentialism to be smuggled in as what seems to be social critique
This deeply underplays what actually happened. The murder of Sam Nordquist took place over weeks and was considered by the police investigating to be the worst case they have ever come across in their careers.
i think a lot of TME people display a REALLY gutteral reaction to a trans woman declaring "I was NOT actually male-socialized" because they still think in binaries and that what they hear is the woman saying "I was ACTUALLY female-socialized" which is not what anyone fucking says
I’m not even denying that trans women can be bigoted or even misogynistic to trans men or transmasc people. It’s just the causal attribution that feels deeply transmisogynistic.
I think the idea that relations between trans women and trans men are identical to the relations between cis men and cis women with a veil of “trans pretense” thrown on top is transmisogynistic and in fact just transphobic to everyone involved.
obviously was always going to go this way but still incredibly heartbreaking, the handful of trans athletes out there fighting for a better world deserve so much more
the fact there's less than 10 trans women affected by the trans athlete ban directly isnt some gotcha
the fact the ruling specifically says we are not entitled to title 9 protections in sports is going to be a precedence for just stripping it outright
this is just the start
it's actually kind of enlightening to learn that the average person thinks the "show" in "show dont tell" means conveying character info through lore dumps and exposition and not, you know, using subtext
“listen to intersex people!” and the intersex ppl in question are transphobic intersex activism groups that seek to legitimise themselves by differentiating themselves from trans ppl (hence the insistence our sex is “observed”)/literal TERF infiltrators
Intersex activism is *heavily* compromised by both internally unchallenged transphobia and literal terf psyops that seek to hurt both intersex and trans people. If you can read "LGB and trans" and not have a siren go off in your head here, you're a mark.