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"Bi people aren't oppressed they can just date the opposite gender, they have straight privelege" idk how to tell you this but having to somehow Control who you Fall In Love With so you don't face bigotry isn't a privilege

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Reminder that generations of abolitionists lived and died being told that their cause was fruitless because slavery was simply the natural way of the world.

Reminder that John Brown’s raid failed, but he still managed to leverage his imprisonment into martyrdom.

Reminder that slavery went from being legal in all countries to legal in none.

Reminder that the abolitionist movement suffered many devastating setbacks before succeeding in the end.

Do not let anything discourage you from working for a better world. We have come so far, and we will go further.

Happy Juneteenth.

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THE LEFT HANDED AGENDA

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Before you say “Duh,” remember they are using the social contagion lie to make life saving health care from children and teens.  Studies like this can be used in court to fight for the rights of children in our community.

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I really hate how "trans man" has become synonymous with "a man with a vagina." I was watching this debate between gay men about whether or not they'd date trans men, and for those who said no, it all came down to "I wouldn't date trans men because I'm not interested in people who don't have a penis," which is a valid opinion to have, but it really just made me wonder "what about the trans men who had phalloplasty? Or metoidioplasty? What about the trans men who do have a penis?"

This is a thing I've been noticing a lot lately. It seems like everybody has just forgotten that trans men with penises actually exist. The fact that trans men with penises are not even considered in a debate like this is really quite telling, and it irks me. I want them to be considered too.

Trans men can have penises. They may not be the same as cis penises, but they can be quite similar. And as a trans man struggling with bottom dysphoria, I would appreciate it if this source of dysphoria wasn't seen as my most defining feature as a trans man.

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The "gender identity" language really was the wrong approach for explaining transsexualism and gender dysphoria. While it seemed like a sensible and simple way to try to explain things, using "I was born as X, but I identify as Y" is what opened up the gates to all the transphobic and non-sensical "non-binary" language we see today. Saying "I identify as X" relies on people's tolerance, not on logic, and it doesn't distance itself from such things as "Well I identify as a goat" and "Oh, so I can just choose to identify as a gender, then?"

The approach should be a medical one; scientific, rational, neutral. Transsexualism is neurological, something a person is simply born with. The simplified version would be that everyone's brain naturally has a gender, that which makes you feel like a man or a woman, and in transgender people, that gender developed in the opposite direction of the body's physical sex. That's the story that makes people go "Oh, that makes sense, then" and helps them understand why transgender people feel the way they do, that they're born that way and aren't mentally ill, and that they neurologically really are the gender they say they are. It garners both understanding and respect, when it's about respecting something real, and not just a request to "be nice".

It's too late to turn back the clock now, but I do believe it'll still be helpful moving forward to explain transsexualism with simplified versions of the science behind it, like this. Every single person I have given this explanation to (in real life, to people who aren't terminally online) has responded with some version of "Oh, I didn't know that, now it makes sense." Not only does it help them understand transgender people better instantly, they immediately draw the conclusion themselves, without me even needing to explain it, that this is distinct from the "non-binary" trend. The latter in particular is also very important; it helps redirect misplaced frustration with identity politics away from regular transgender people and back onto the ideology that is responsible for it.

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"Bottom Surgery is actually what the Cis want you to do :/"

Yknow, I see this every so often on here but like, in what universe is this actually true? In a world dominated by transmisogyny, this is not true in the slightest, because what the Cis folk actually want is for us to get nothing. They do not want us to transition at all. They want us dead, or, if they can't get that, they want us eternally marked so they know who they can hit. Stop being weird about trans women doing goddamn anything.

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Original comic by Rasenth

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Published in “Transvestia” magazine #38 (April 1966). I think original art could be by Bob Tupper.

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I've been planning to make this comic for so long now, but a strange feeling of shame has stopped me, year after year.

Today is IDAHOBIT, the international day against LGBTQ+ discrimination. I feel like now is a good time to share it.

It's easy to slip into shameful silence because of survivors guilt, because "it wasn't that bad". But it was bad. Homo- and transphobic violence is bad and needs to be talked about, especially in a time where homo- and transphobic rhetoric is rampant and normalizes seeing us as lesser humans, normalizes hurting us, verbally, legally, physically.

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i think alot of lgbt discourse online exists because people have forgetton that the reason labels  like “lesbian” “bisexual” or “transgender” exist is because there was large amount of people who had a shared experience that required a community and hence a label. which is why you get community’s like mogai which are obsessed with microlabeling every single lived experience in a way that’s extremely unhelpful in forming communities, examining one’s personal identity or actually how certain groups face real life oppression, and it’s also why you get people who think all labels are stupid and useless and why we should just all just call ourselves “queer” when that’s also unhelpful and reductive and sucks the nuance of sexuality and gender.

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eh I left the discourse since then. TBH Ever since then I've been doing better, chilled out a lot more about others, and also discovered I'm trans myself, I had just been suppressing my dysphoria to the point I believed I didnt have it or didnt have enough for it too count. Not to mention that the whole presentation should match your gender sentiment shared in transmed circles did not help at all, turns out you can in fact, want to be a guy and still do make-up and wear dresses. Though part of that is also my own fault from internalized transphobia too. I'm not fully tucute but I definitely am glad to distance myself from the majority of transmeds since a lot of them have just gone full Blair White and vehemently against GNC trans people in general. I still think people need dysphoria to be trans but I think what a lot of transmeds dont realize is that most trans people without dysphoria do indeed have it, its just very light, suppressed, or just comes about in a different way that cant be described neatly, and it ends up pushing out a lot of people who do indeed have dysphoria. But in the end I dont really care anymore, there is virtually no benefit to pretending to be trans and even online being trans fucking sucks, so anyone pretending to be trans is either a fed stirring shit up, someone who is trying to figure out something else and has ended up here, or actually trans and is suppressing it in a very strange way.

oh yeah for sure, i've always been very much for the mindset that "the majority of non dysphoric trans people are actually either 1. geniunely confused OR 2. actually dysphoric" because only a very small amount of people would do that shit for fun or to be actually malicious. it's less about stopping people from identifying as ftm/mtf to me and more about stopping them from spreading misinformation about trans people. THAT BIT SUCKS and just makes MORE confused people.

i also 100% get the bit about transmeds being too extreme and disliking gnc people, i've always been very picky about who specifically i hang around so i personally haven't had many issues telling transmeds i know / knew that i crossdress?! they don't seem to think it makes me any less of a guy but maybe its just cause i dont fit many "tucute stereotypes"

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we have to start expressing vocal disgust at 'ironic' homophobia again in a big way. if you can't explain to me how calling a guy a twinky little fruitcake valorises the terminology vs. reducing and demeaning him for perceived femininity I don't want to hear it. nobody is off the hook for this.

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just saw a post where someone put “detrans dni” and like… hey we should be supporting detransitioned people bc if we don’t terfs will