#kalvin garbage

[thetruthaboutkalvingarrah]

3am thoughts ~mod worm

[dreamboypieces]

Have we reclaimed this emoji ⚔️ yet or do you all also still think of kalvin garbage when you see it

[h3llofaday]

Why is my post about Kalvin Garrah getting popular I thought we collectively agreed to pretend he doesn’t exist

[peroxideprinces]

o(-(

[transfaguette]

ppl hated trans men before kalvin garbage and they will continue to hate us after hes forgotten but during his peak he made being a trans man on the internet so fucking miserable. any bad impulse ppl had towards trans men they could just point to him and be like “see, you’re all like this and my hate of you is justified.” they did not actually care about the people (including other trans men lol) that he was bullying they just hated trans men.

[tylerslays]

!!!!BARBIE SPOILERS AHEAD!!!!

i wanna talk. i related so hard to ken in this movie it was crazy. act 1 ken is desperately seeking attention from women to feel validated in himself, unsure of who he is without her. he trusts that one day, barbie will see him for who he truly is, and love him back. he’s not going to the real world because cool ken told him he couldn’t, he’s doing it because he would do anything for this girl. but ken doesn’t know who he is without barbie. that scene where they were rollerblading and barbie was being objectified, ken was respected. he had a place in the world. people spoke to him. and its so stupid, but someone asked him for the time. i feel like act 2 ken is a teenager, seeing the world for the first time and the power he can hold. everyone wants to do things, everyone wants to be respected and feel in charge, and navigating this new world where he has to work for the new found power would be hard. he’s finally being respected but he can’t be a doctor or a CEO or a lifeguard without qualifications.

his view that the patriarchy is run by men and horses shows a belief that a lot of men have. that by being put into positions of power, they can do good for the world, and they have an idealised idea of what power means. but the power corrupts them, causes them to become hard and selfish.

But after the barbies stop him, he is able to reflect on how much he is hurting barbie. that they could share a house. he doesn’t gave to wear leather and mink to be cool. he can just be kenough. he is older and sees the impact of his actions on women. barbie encourages him to see himself without his physical possessions, and without ‘barbie and’ tacked on the front of him. who is ken? who are we without our material possessions?

this storyline also reminds me of becoming a trans man. i felt i needed to be hyper masculine and push away femininity to be respected and acknowledged in male society. part of me reveled in the new power. i was seen and heard instead of ignored. thus is also how a lot of transmeds start but luckily i wasn’t a transmed. but i was pushing away my friends to appease the patriarchy. like ken, i realised what i was doing was damaging, and tried to stop. but hate spreads. you look at Kalvin garbage and his impact on trans masc community. huge. even if he changed, the damage was done. we need everyone to work together to erase misogyny, and erase the idea that men are inherently bad.

rant over lol

[07170]

thinking about my sweet cis friend who when i mentioned a mutual acquaintance of ours & how i had issues with her in the past due to stupid trans discourse like two years ago he was like “what was it about?” and i was like oh its not really something cis people could understand (kalvin garrah esque dysphoria discourse) and he was so sweet like “well i like to learn about things i might not understand, i’m interested in learning what it was” like you are the sweetest man but im never going to subject you to this garbage. but also i <3 telling cis people that they dont need dysphoria to be trans and if they have any interest or any sense that identifying differently would feel good then they just should. IDK

[chaoticgenders]

Me spewing about when i was younger

i used to live near a forest, and i'd always walk around that area and sometimes sneak into it despite my greatx3 grandmas words. I used to always MDD (maladaptive day dream) and run around rping with myself, picking up sticks and pretending it's a knife because i was a edgy kid and was (and still am) obsessed with creepypasta and undertale.

i miss it so much, i've moved, and it sucks.

i hate living near like 500 fuckin' houses (i live in the suburbs), i miss the ac running when i woke up to my dear mitzi barking (rip), i miss the birds chirping, i miss the smell of old dirt and flowers when i went outside, i miss my cat pokey (she's not dead (i dont think), but she's not w/ me anymore cuz i moved), i miss watching mlp:fim on the old ass box tv, and maladaptive day dream about it while pacing to the songs around the trailer

i miss the trailer itself, it was run down and fuckin' terrible but it was nice. i lived literally in bumfuck nowhere, surrounded by the woods, it was just lil ol me, the forest, and whatever character i was MDD about.

i miss it so much.

there's days like today where i look back on it and wonder how the fuck i got here, cause even though i was terrible mentally back then..i'm still the same, dare i say worse-

nostalgia hurts lol

there's a trailer parks, you can buy trailers, whenever i can and get on my feet i'm moving to the center of bumfuck nowhere and getting a trailer. im tired of living in the city it's so

ick /lh

i miss being able to see the sky, the light pollution is weird here.

i miss not being able to help my ma farm, too, it was a small farm it was tomatoes, some greenery, etc but it was a farm.

i miss 'stealing' the neighbors corn crops, it wasnt really stealing cuz he gave us permission but i always phrased it that way cause I'm Like That.

i miss being young, but at the same time i'm glad i'm not young

i know most things about myself now, when i was younger the concept of being trans was so lost on me (thanks kalvin garbage)

idk- im rlly weird today LMAO

[gorillawithautism]

i don't read theory or whatever so i'm probably just repeating what someone else has said already but something i've noticed is that whenever there's an attempt to give any group of people a modicum of privilege over any other group of people, there always ends up being a conversation about who really belongs to the allegedly superior group.

a really obvious example (to me at least) is like in plural spaces you see an attempt to give traumagenic systems privilege over endogenic systems. the privilege in question here is recognition within plural spaces (while endogenic systems' experiences are erased) as well as the ability to exist peacefully within plural spaces online (while endogenic systems are excluded, harassed, witch hunted). but then you get people discussing what makes a system "truly valid" and begin fakeclaiming systems, deciding a system's trauma isn't actually enough to make them a traumagenic system, treating systems differently based on how many headmates they have or how many of their headmates are fictives or what source their fictives are from.

in the trans community, especially prevalent in the kalvin garbage era, you see the same behavior in deciding who has enough dysphoria or passes well enough or tries to pass enough to be considered trans.

you see it in zionism where the attempt to give jews privilege over palestinians has them deciding antizionist jews aren't jewish or are self hating jews.

open to conversation on this btw. it's just something i've noticed

[antitransmedicalism]

@trans-wojak

What have you done to help trans people??

Good question! Back in 2017, an ex-friend of mine was living in a shitty household with a mother addicted to cocaine, a step-father who was a transphobe, and would sometimes stay at his grandparents’ house. The grandpa was a transphobe who tuned into Fox News, voted for Trump (and possibly DeSantis) and laughed in my ex-friend’s face when he told his disgusting grandfather “I’m more of a man than you’ll ever be”.

I helped that ex-friend go to LGBTQ+ organizations, driving him in a car on its last leg long distance to help him find shelter with the help of other trans people working there. I also bought him a new tablet so he could continue doing digital commissions

He began a relationship with his fiance and eventually made plans to move in with them. I helped him with what little money I could give him, and my cis friend also helped him pack and he eventually moved with his fiance.

In high school I also gave him the only compression top I had for him to deal with his worsening dysphoria.

Another trans person I’ve helped is a nonbinary friend online who lives with their shitty sister who is anti-vaxx and goes out of her way to make my friend feel like garbage, such as forcing them to take care of a dog they don’t own when they’re tired from work, potentially exposing them to COVID and refusing to get vaccinated. friend is struggling to make ends meet and really wants to go back to school, I give them money to help, and we’ve bonded over how we have family members with crappy beliefs.

Obviously these aren’t examples of donating to GLAAD or Trevor’s Project, Pridelines or the ACLU, but are examples of people I personally know, online or irl.

Not everyone is able to help financially or in any other way, but what I want to stress is the difference between people who can’t donate but want trans equity, rights and liberation regardless VS transmeds who cry endlessly online about trans people they don’t like “ruining” cis perception of trans people but do LITTLE TO NOTHING to make the future better for trans people by any means, even when some transmeds happen to have influence and privilege like Blaire White or Kalvin Garrah.

[transsexualmasc]

feels very weird to experience a "simple" gender but know that the second it leaves my brain shit gets infinitely more complicated. i'm getting more satisfied and comfortable being like this (and the gender euphoria fucking whips, let me tell ya) but damn. when other people are in the picture suddenly i have all this internalized transphobia i gotta work through before the words "i'm genderfluid and a (redacted)" can come out of my mouth without cringing.

by the way, FUCK kalvin garbage for ruining the word genderfluid for me for so long. i had it before his transphobic shit slithered its way into my awareness and i'm gonna have it long after he ok sentence cancelled i found his twitter and he spent the final days of 2022 sad-posting while i was having gay sex. i am 100% sure he is not happier than me lol

[autism-kun]

so,

kalvin garrah is on tiktok trying to gatekeep dissociative identity disorder using the same shitty techniques he did to gatekeep and tear apart the trans community.

he is an undergraduate in psychology, which is hardly impressive, and he doesn’t even have dissociative identity disorder.

his tiktok is 2000gkg. i’d suggest blocking him.

[raucous-caucus]

Kalvin Garrah and Ben Shapiro are the same person and I don't care what you say you cannot convince me otherwise

[h3llofaday]

I’ve already talked about how Kalvin Garrah affected me as a nonbinary person but now that I’m rewatching his videos his opinions are absolutely crazy,,, like do y’all remember when he said trans masc people should be embarrassed using “girl songs” on tiktok…. That shits insane to me

[domesticatedpigeonsoup]

because bullying young trans people, accusing disabled people of faking their disability, saying that gnc trans people are trenders (and now wearing a skirt on tik tok) is camp

[transfaguette]

in many ways kalvin garbage is the reason this blog exists because of both his awful bullying and also the way people reacted to it by hating trans men more