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a sitting platypus

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semiaquatic secret agent

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[ID: The Manray and Patrick meme. Manray is labeled, “inclusionist”, and Patrick is labeled “mspec lesbian exclusionist”.

Manray is holding up a card that reads, “lesbians can be attracted to both women and nonbinary people”, and saying, “So you think lesbians can be attracted to both women and nonbinary people?”

Patrick replies simply, “Yup.”

Manray asks, “So you are saying for sure that lesbians can be attracted to both women, and nonbinary people.”

Patrick replies, “Yup.” again.

Manray is now replaced with a large block of text, that reads, “So you agree that lesbians can be attracted to more than one gender, because nonbinary people are a different gender from women, which means you believe that lesbians can be mspec, also known as ‘multi-spectrum’ also known as ‘being attracted to more than one gender’, which you have just said you believe lesbians can be, because you believe lesbians can be attracted to both women and nonbinary people, which are different genders! You believe lesbians can be mspec!”

Patrick replies, “No, lesbians can’t be attracted to men.”

End ID.]

And yes, they fucking can.

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[ID: An expanded version of the "hard to swallow pills" meme.

The first panel shows a drawing of someone holding a pill bottle to read the label, which has been changed to, "Very easy to swallow pills, actually".

The second panel shows a hand holding three pills, which are labeled:

"If you hate mspec lesbians, you do not support trans people.".

"'Nonbinary' and 'woman' are two different genders. 1+1=more than 1!!! Shocking!!!"

and

"Most mspec lesbians are trans, and guess what? Even the ones who aren't aren't hurting anyone!"

The rest of the image is text against a gradient background that fades from grey-green, to lavender, to purple, to royal blue, to seafoam, green, yellow, grey, and black.

The text reads:

"Most people who hate mspec lesbians literally don't even know what 'mspec' is short for and constantly lie to eachother about what it means.

Here's a hint: The M does not stand for male, man, or masc.

It's short for 'multi-spectrum'.

As in, 'The spectrum of being attracted to multiple genders'.

Mspec lesbians are lesbians who are attracted to more than one gender.

'Woman' is one gender.

'Nonbinary' encompasses literally infinite genders.

If you agree that lesbians can be attracted to nonbinary people…

Guess what, chucklefuck?

You literally already agree that lesbians can be mspec.

And if you continue to deny this basic fact…

You're just proving to everyone that you think all nonbinary people are actually women.

Mspec lesbians have existed forever.

You can either celebrate Queer history…

…Or die mad about it.

End ID.]

Wishing every mspec lesbian a very happy pride month.

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hi. i made some images.

feel free to take them and use for whatever you may need them for. no credit required

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you cannot call yourself intersex if youre not intersex

you cannot reclaim shi/hir pronouns if youre not intersex

you cannot reclaim the word h*rm or h*rmaphrodite if youre not intersex

you cannot reclaim the word baeddel if youre not intersex

you cannot call yourself transintersex if youre not intersex

you cannot say that you "want to transition to be intersex" full stop

you cannot say that you were cafab or camab if youre not intersex

and frankly yall need to re-evaluate the way you use afab and amab if youre perisex because that shit does not mean "born with a vagina" and "born with a penis" and it never has. its an event and doctors fuck up all the time, especially when it comes to intersex people.

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hai guys im sick of this

shi/hir are exclusive to intersex people regardless of what some dumbass perisex asshole on tumblr says.

listen to intersex people when they tell you over and over and over and over again that they are exclusive and should not be used by perisex people.

[pt; they are exclusive and should not be used by perisex people. ]

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if you’re a baby trans and you haven’t started smoking cigarettes or vaping yet don’t. it’s actually not that hot or interesting. It will just cause you ungodly frustrations and suffering and cost you a bunch of money and be next to impossible to quit

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“trans people in sports is such a complex issue” it really isn’t. make the sports skills-based instead of segregated by gender. “ohhh but so many people’s lives depend on their sports for scholarships” okay then let’s make university universally funded so people don’t have to worry about paying for it based on how well they can throw a ball. how are you not keeping up

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you’re not any less transphobic if you’re just bigoted towards non binary people.

non binary people are no less trans than anyone else and i’m pretty sick of people attempting to justify harassing kids for “making up genders”, please go away and get caught in a bramble bush

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certain queers will really believe that gender and sexuality labels have rigid, unchangeable definitions that must be maintained and "protected" from evil queers who want to ID as transman lesbians or whatever, and then go on to act like they are any better than a raging transphobe crying about how the terms male and female "don't mean anything anymore"

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Could you tell me about the moth symbolism to bisexuality? I've heard that for the first time and would love to know more!

Yeah absolutely!

The moth is an unofficial symbol of bisexuality due to its use by the community (specifically bi sapphics and bi women) to flag their bisexuality. This is most commonly seen in tattoos or on clothing (think pins and patches)

The moth has been used by all queer folks as a symbol for their queerness but has caught a particular interest in the bisexual community and therefore is attributed to bisexuality.

This source on sapphic tattoos says: ‘Although it’s unclear exactly where this idea came from, the moth (the death’s-head hawkmoth in particular) has become a commonly acknowledged queer tattoo, particularly for bisexual women. On TikTok, people post videos of their moth tattoos with captions such as “officially branded myself as a homosexual” and “happy pride to all the gays with moth tattoos”.

As one TikTok user put it “butterfly = straight, moth = bi”. So if they’ve got a moth tattoo, they’re probably queer.’

Moths in cultures across the world also symbolize transformation, death, rebirth, caution, and disguise, which are all concepts that can represent the bisexual community.

Here are some of my personal attributions to these concepts related to bisexuality:

Transformation: Bisexuals are so many things, and we have the ability to form transformative communities for the good of others around us. we have the bi-cycle, we have transformative fluidity that is inherent to our nature and without us the queer community remains stagnant.

Death and Rebirth: the inherent duality and plurality within bisexuality. the contrast of death and rebirth aligns perfectly with common bisexual experiences of feeling split between communities. this is also in homage to the death of our expected cisheteronormative lives and the rebirth of our fully realized fully queer bisexual identity.

Caution and Disguise: this pays homage to bisexual invisibility and double jeopardy, being disguised within society and having to move with caution when we are out. it also honors those of us who cannot be out whether in cishet society or in the queer commmunity, and honors those of us who have sacrificed so much to get our community to where we are today.

I hope this helped anon! i would love for this symbol to become more wildly recognized in our community for sapphics and achilleans alike! i’m personally planning on getting a few moth tattoos here soon :)

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Historically, bisexual identities have been misunderstood, ignored, erased, and stigmatized within the heterosexual communities, the LGBTQ+ community, and mainstream society, and this intersects with the experiences of bisexual butches.

the discrimination crosses over into pressure to conform to either heterosexual or homosexual communities with there being very little space for bisexuals to exist on our own without input (unwanted) from either group.

this is why it is so important to not only recognize the diversity in bisexual identity, but to uplift us and affirm us within our subsections of the queer identity. we have been here alongside you for centuries and it’s far past time to recognize us and our existence.

It’s one of the biggest reasons I refuse to hide my identity away. I take pride in being able to advocate for the bisexual community, the butch community AND the bisexual butch community. we need more visibility and we need more acceptance in all areas of bisexual presence but especially within the broader LGTBQ+ community, and the more of us refuse to be silent the stronger we will be.

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If you find using alt pronouns tricky or unnatural, just a bit weird that you maybe avoid it as much as possible— I'm talking it/its, neopronouns like ae/aer.

Practice. That's it.

It is okay to find these odd to use, because you are not used to using them. It isn't that it/its is magically uncomfortable to use to refer to another human, it's that you haven't used it for people before and your brain isn't used to it. It's okay to have trouble formatting neopronouns, because unlike she/her/hers/herself you don't have experience using that pronoun and it's variants

Practice! Write something starring a character using those pronouns. Find a character who uses them you can write about. Just scribble out sentences. You need to train your brain a little, and that's normal.

Did you ever have trouble using they/them? I did! People who complain using singular they/them feels wrong are experiencing the same thing. I struggled to conjugate it at first because I'd not used it in such a way. Now it is effortless. You just aren't used to it. You should practice.

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they/them is not an all-inclusive pronoun that you can use to refer to anyone just because it is gender neutral.

the very basic sentiment of "don't misgender people" seems to go over even the heads of trans people and cis people alike when it comes to they/them pronouns.

not everyone wants to be called they/them. if someone strictly uses she/her or he/him or she/he or neopronouns etc. anything that is not they/them.... using they/them would still be misgendering. in the same way calling someone who doesn't use any other pronoun that pronoun would be misgendering.

You don't get a free pass to call people whatever pronouns you want to call them rather than the pronouns they use just because they them is a gender neutral pronoun.

also not all nonbinary people use strictly they/them pronouns or they/them pronouns at all.

i feel like this is very simple yet is misunderstood by a lot of people