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Insisting that trans women/transfems experience "male socialization" bc of their CASAB is one example of trans people upholding CASAB as an immutable truth. The very caricacture of the "theyfab" is enforcing the immutibility of CASAB. These groups talk out of both sides of their mouth. Both imply that CASAB directly informs how someone was socialized and therefore how they behave. The hypocrisy of both these stances is astounding.

I don't subscribe to CAGAB/CASAB as an immutable truth, which leads to 'problematic ideas' such as "your AGAB has less to do with whether you're transfem or transmasc (or god forbid transneuter) than the vast majority of the trans community acts like it does." CASAB/AGAB is ultimately an event in your life that says nothing about how you were raised or socialized. Not every cafab/camab has the same experiences (or even the same bodies) across the board. It's not even close. So we have fearmongering about the evil afab transfems, but there is a fundamental misunderstanding of what that means. It does not mean "I was born and raised a woman, but I feel entitled to spaces reserved for trans women/transfems." It means "At birth, doctors coercively assigned me female, but my lived experience does not match someone treated like a woman by society, and that causes me to experience dysphoria. Despite the remote circumstances of my birth, I had to jump through hoops to be accepted as a woman due to circumstances that repeatedly and continuously occurred after the the one-time event of my birth, and therefore I feel aligned with a transfeminine label due to being coercively treated like a man my whole life despite my gender identity aligning with womanhood/femininity." This experience is a lot more common than people realize, especially since ideas of what makes someone fit neatly into "womanhood" are dictated by (usually eurocentric) cultural norms. CASAB/CAGAB is generally not something you can "clock" with people due to the high unreported rates of intersex individuals and natural genetic variation that flies in the face of the pseudoscientific notion of the sexual binary. Because CASAB is pseudoscientific bullshit, it's time we as a community let go of it being an immutable truth and approach the situation holistically on a case by case basis. Why do we instantly distrust other queer people discussing their experiences? Why do we always assume the worst? What does someone have to gain by being an amab transmasc or an afab transfem? Infiltrating what? Gaining what? Challenging the systematically enforced sex binary that ultimately harms trans people more than it helps them, and then being punished by their own community for daring to be honest about their personal experience? Yes, even the trans community at large upholds the idea of CASAB/CAGAB being a lifelong sentence; a reality of biology. Enforcing CASAB throughout life means effectively supporting Gender/Sex Phrenology. It's saying " 'natal males' always have these traits and 'natal 'females' always have these traits," despite that simply not being the case for perisex and intersex individuals alike. (Perisex and intersex also being socially constructed categories rather than immutable scientific categories.) CASAB is not a lifelong sentence. It is a decision a doctor makes that forces infants into certain "ideal" societal roles based on subjective assessments of their genitalia. We need to let go of CASAB as a necessary prerequisite to being a "certain type of trans." It boggles my mind that other trans people are so married to the idea of universal experiences among those of the same CASAB, even as they insist they male socialization/female socialization are bullshit (which they are, and the Wrongness of CASAB IS one reason why).

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The more I live, the more I'm convinced that how you are perceived on a day to day basis has more to do with "dysphoria" than CASAB does.

I don't subscribe to CAGAB/CASAB as an immutable truth, which leads to 'problematic ideas' such as "your AGAB has less to do with whether you're transfem or transmasc (or god forbid transneuter) than the vast majority of the trans community acts like it does." CASAB/AGAB is ultimately an event in your life that says nothing about how you were raised or socialized. Not every cafab/camab has the same experiences (or even the same bodies) across the board. It's not even close. So we have fearmongering about the evil afab transfems, but there is a fundamental misunderstanding of what that means. It does not mean "I was born and raised a woman, but I feel entitled to spaces reserved for trans women/transfems." It means "At birth, doctors coercively assigned me female, but my lived experience does not match someone treated like a woman by society, and that causes me to experience dysphoria. Despite the remote circumstances of my birth, I had to jump through hoops to be accepted as a woman due to circumstances that repeatedly and continuously occurred after the the one-time event of my birth, and therefore I feel aligned with a transfeminine label due to being coercively treated like a man my whole life despite my gender identity aligning with womanhood/femininity." This experience is a lot more common than people realize, especially since ideas of what makes someone fit neatly into "womanhood" are dictated by (usually eurocentric) cultural norms. CASAB/CAGAB is generally not something you can "clock" with people due to the high unreported rates of intersex individuals and natural genetic variation that flies in the face of the pseudoscientific notion of the sexual binary. Because CASAB is pseudoscientific bullshit, it's time we as a community let go of it being an immutable truth and approach the situation holistically on a case by case basis. Why do we instantly distrust other queer people discussing their experiences? Why do we always assume the worst? What does someone have to gain by being an amab transmasc or an afab transfem? Infiltrating what? Gaining what? Challenging the systematically enforced sex binary that ultimately harms trans people more than it helps them, and then being punished by their own community for daring to be honest about their personal experience? Yes, even the trans community at large upholds the idea of CASAB/CAGAB being a lifelong sentence; a reality of biology. Enforcing CASAB throughout life means effectively supporting Gender/Sex Phrenology. It's saying " 'natal males' always have these traits and 'natal 'females' always have these traits," despite that simply not being the case for perisex and intersex individuals alike. (Perisex and intersex also being socially constructed categories rather than immutable scientific categories.) CASAB is not a lifelong sentence. It is a decision a doctor makes that forces infants into certain "ideal" societal roles based on subjective assessments of their genitalia. We need to let go of CASAB as a necessary prerequisite to being a "certain type of trans." It boggles my mind that other trans people are so married to the idea of universal experiences among those of the same CASAB, even as they insist they male socialization/female socialization are bullshit (which they are, and the Wrongness of CASAB IS one reason why).

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I don't subscribe to CAGAB/CASAB as an immutable truth, which leads to 'problematic ideas' such as "your AGAB has less to do with whether you're transfem or transmasc (or god forbid transneuter) than the vast majority of the trans community acts like it does." CASAB/AGAB is ultimately an event in your life that says nothing about how you were raised or socialized. Not every cafab/camab has the same experiences (or even the same bodies) across the board. It's not even close. So we have fearmongering about the evil afab transfems, but there is a fundamental misunderstanding of what that means. It does not mean "I was born and raised a woman, but I feel entitled to spaces reserved for trans women/transfems." It means "At birth, doctors coercively assigned me female, but my lived experience does not match someone treated like a woman by society, and that causes me to experience dysphoria. Despite the remote circumstances of my birth, I had to jump through hoops to be accepted as a woman due to circumstances that repeatedly and continuously occurred after the the one-time event of my birth, and therefore I feel aligned with a transfeminine label due to being coercively treated like a man my whole life despite my gender identity aligning with womanhood/femininity." This experience is a lot more common than people realize, especially since ideas of what makes someone fit neatly into "womanhood" are dictated by (usually eurocentric) cultural norms. CASAB/CAGAB is generally not something you can "clock" with people due to the high unreported rates of intersex individuals and natural genetic variation that flies in the face of the pseudoscientific notion of the sexual binary. Because CASAB is pseudoscientific bullshit, it's time we as a community let go of it being an immutable truth and approach the situation holistically on a case by case basis. Why do we instantly distrust other queer people discussing their experiences? Why do we always assume the worst? What does someone have to gain by being an amab transmasc or an afab transfem? Infiltrating what? Gaining what? Challenging the systematically enforced sex binary that ultimately harms trans people more than it helps them, and then being punished by their own community for daring to be honest about their personal experience? Yes, even the trans community at large upholds the idea of CASAB/CAGAB being a lifelong sentence; a reality of biology. Enforcing CASAB throughout life means effectively supporting Gender/Sex Phrenology. It's saying " 'natal males' always have these traits and 'natal 'females' always have these traits," despite that simply not being the case for perisex and intersex individuals alike. (Perisex and intersex also being socially constructed categories rather than immutable scientific categories.) CASAB is not a lifelong sentence. It is a decision a doctor makes that forces infants into certain "ideal" societal roles based on subjective assessments of their genitalia. We need to let go of CASAB as a necessary prerequisite to being a "certain type of trans." It boggles my mind that other trans people are so married to the idea of universal experiences among those of the same CASAB, even as they insist they male socialization/female socialization are bullshit (which they are, and the Wrongness of CASAB IS one reason why).

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Ehatever i need a tattoo on my leg so i can wear my booty shorts and be even more fashionable

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kickstarter to help me recover after getting scalped by this porn bot

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hate hate hate how sites are increasingly trying to make right click saving images impossible. facebook, instagram, reddit (app), pinterest*, etc... all make you jump through hoops just to save an image. can you guys not please. how ddo i make them stop. can we get one of those EU regulations or whatever that makes them all comply, or are we going to have to wait for global socialism for that. ugh

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You're obsessed with the rotting bloated corpse. It's like your Jungkook. Embarassing!

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Fruit ice lolly themed stickers

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you either die a hero or live long enough to get into omegaverse

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i have to come up with everything really fast

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nothing will make you think "i have got to get weirder" more than finally feeling comfortable enough around other people to admit to interests of yours that you think make you a freak and a weirdo only to realize with a combination of embarrassment and relief that you're like a normie to them

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A380でお願いします

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tried to block the baddest bitch of them all but all it said was "edit profile"

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almost peed my pants today when my bf told me about this dude in his hometown who dressed up like ryan gosling in Drive every day (including driving gloves) but did not own a car. bf was like “yeah we called him Walk”

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drawing people i see in the city (48/?)