#animals say trans rights

[alpaca-clouds]

It is funny. Recently I had a transphobe argue to me, that "well, it is all made up! Animals will still not know that you identify as a man". Which to me is so funny, because while there has never been extensive research done on this topic, there is a lot of anecdotal evidence showing the exact opposite.

As someone who has done a lot of work with animals, I can tell you, that those animals that for one reason or another like one gender more or less than another often show the same loving or hostile behavior towards people completely depending on the gender the people actually identifies as.

"Sure," some people might say, "because if you take hormons you gonna smell like the gender to an animal." But that is the funny part. Animals often act according to that with trans adults who are still in egg mode. Who have not come out yet. And nobody knows why and how they can tell.

But some of the harsher animals with a "gender preference in humans" are like the best trans indicators. You have not admitted to yourself you are a guy? Yeah, this cat is gonna hate you anyways. Because this cat hates men.

Sincerely the guy who got attacked by this one fucking bunny, who didn't like dudes, several times

[sskk-manifesto]

Not to stan Akutagawa on main but I've missed his voice so much

[7roaches]

perfectly normal simom posting

[jasontoddssuper]

Miles:You guys are latino too????But-Your names-

Percy,holding back a laugh:If it helps,mine's short for Perseo

Miles:Okay,then i can give you a pass.Now Don Jason over here-

Jason:Why'd you pronounce my name like a fucking anime character

[artheresy]

An argument over whether or not Dan Heng is Dan Feng seems to have begun getting sparked again in certain parts of the Fandom and it does nothing but hurt my head to no end

Both sides cherrypicking or treating it like a strange situation, making false equivalents. "Yknow governments don't consider people who've lost their memories to be separate people" that's a flawed argument to use in favorite of DH = DF because it's not just he lost his memories. He literally grew up, experienced his own childhood, had a whole identity cultivated based on those experiences and that life and continues to live his own life. To treat the situation like it's just him getting a bit of amnesia is wild to me

But also I hate when people continue to insist he's running from Dan Feng and his past and how he's miserable and shouldn't ever confront the past and deal with it as if his and Blade's whole stories aren't centered around rebirth and karma, paying for your past life's karma. He needed to confront the past to ensure a freer future! He literally has!! And he will continue to do so because he realizes this, DH isn't dumb and he's grown since we first saw him. He understands

But yeah uh I'm so tired

This whole thing feels very Ship of Theseus. What makes the ship what it is, the physical aspects of its planks, its sailing history, or both?

For him, the question is what makes someone who they are? Is it the body that makes them up and any inherent genetic factors (like traits)? Is it their experiences, how they've grown up, and the identity they've developed in that time? Or is it both factors mixed together?

Personally in the case of Dan Heng, I think it's both! Yeah he has a lot of traits from Dan Feng. There's a lot inherently there. But we can't disregard his own experiences and the identity that has formed based on his history and what he's seen.

Again I can't stress this enough... It is a false equivalent to compare him to people who lose their memories or get amnesia, he didn't just lose those memories. He started life from the beginning, a whole different kind of life. And even then, the amnesia topic comes with its own debates. Isn't there a whole other thought experiment regarding someone put to trial who ends up with amnesia and what their verdict should be?

I guess in the end, it's all up to people's own philosophical beliefs after what constitutes a person. My personal belief that DH and DF will always be connect but the separation between them is also meaningful is something based on my own ideas of what consisitutes a person and their individual identity, similar situation with how I see Rukkhadevata and Nahida as connected but still not the same person exactly. At the end of the day again, it's personal beliefs

But what I can't stand and can't stand by, is someone acting all high and mighty like they're perfectly right and everyone else is wrong, especially when they're cherrypicking or not holding all their evidence to the same standard. According to some ppl, apparently it's better in the CN fandom where instead of treating it like "I'm right you're wrong" people have divided themselves into "DF and DH one person" and "DF and DH two people" groups and most importantly of all, they treat both like theories and just keep to their space and tag which they believe when it's relevant. Why can't we just do that? Why can't we follow in their footsteps instead of bringing up this argument every so often with the same tired flaws from both sides?

[mayhasopinions]

me changing my whole aesthetic to spiderverse and nimona within the span of 3 weeks

[celestefem]

Why are you projecting strict gender roles onto a goose, of all things? And sexuality headcanons?

[piosplayhouse]

Not going to get involved in the ao3 politics shit but I just want to say after reading some of the top posts on this site I can tell most of the people talking about this subject very clearly did not experience Sexytimes With Wangxian

[neverendingford]

skyglow:

(alternative title: photo dump of a midnight desert run)

[sheilaerinniperonista]

I can't be the only one who read Lycion as trans as hell right. like this dude hated the way he looked, he didn't like his reflection, his hands, feet, he hated everything. and so he decided to become a fuckig werewolf because that's what he wanted dto be. also I was verily convinced he was a weirdo lesbian so now he is. to me.

[astroturf-enthusiast]

I'm marinating a fic idea after seeing your gobslay posts- do you think he started transitioning because it would be easier for him to kill goblins that way or did he already start as a child because it was something he knew but could not explain?

You milord have sparked something in my mind-

I think he started to really think about it after the attack on his village. As a kid on a farm he definitely was raised more masculine side anyways and just hadn't gotten to an age where he really knew how to express himself.

I think the horrors of goblins and what happened that day made femininity not only uncomfortable but dangerous. He leaned all the way into masculinity during his training with how he looked, acted, and thought, though didn't actually consider himself trans, even as people started mistaking him for being a guy around town. He hadn't really considered why he never corrected them, nor, why it felt so wrong when someone saw him that way.

I think the first year he became an adventurer he came across a book detailing Transitioning Through the Ages of Magic and thats when he had a word for it. It was probably only a few months later that he decided it was practical enough to get it done. And he's never really spoken of it since.

Cowgirl was very supportive and the androgynous nature of elven society has High Elf Archer helping him explore femininity again whenever he tells her

[nonbinaryvulcan]

Armitage Hux stimboard

(pt 2 electric boogaloo)

🌑 💫 🌑 | 🐈 ❤️ 🐈 | 🌑 💫 🌑

[waqinash]

[stormikitty]

One of my stuffed animals growing up was trans and a completely different one was a girl that people always thought was a boy because of her name, which I would argue is a perfectly gender neutral name to give a stuffed animal. They were both bears and I would scream at anyone who misgendered either of them.

[silverislander]

got through another church service :) (people wouldn't stop touching me without asking) (got guilt tripped abt not coming around anymore twice) (extremely aware i was being watched and judged the whole time) (everyone only seems to remember my brothers accomplishments) (they still fucking do gendered call and responses in 2023)

[melto]

this is something that i regularly had in my crunchyroll status when i was like 11/12