#support all of your trans sisters

[coffin-clown]

while the CEO mess is still fresh in everyone's minds, I think it's vitally important to say: have love and respect for trans women and transfems.

Trans women and transfems have to fight so unreasonably hard just to be kicked away from the table, and it's fucking unacceptable. Listen to tma people who are being lied about, dehumanized and unpersoned for the butt of someone else's joke of a website. Give them the room to be angry, to grieve, to take up space or to recede and *rest* when they need it. Give donations, money, handouts, food, company, whenever you can.

Don't let this just turn into a joke. this is people's lives, happiness, transitions, community, and friendships on the line.

[stonebutchery]

transmascs deserve better than a community infested with reactionary assholes who refuse to grow the fuck up, who are openly misogynistic and transmisogynistic, who literally fucking hide behind "b-b-but i'm oppressed too?!" and "but i'm seen as a woman by most people!" in an attempt to justify why being transmisogynistic is somehow excusable.

you are not my brothers, you are self-centered class traitors coming up with every and any excuse possible not to support transfems and i'm fucking sick of it.

[fortjester]

listening to my mother explain how she understands the trans experience and knowing she said this shit to my (trans) younger sister at some point and holding back an immense amount of rage

[yonpote]

tbh more than getting phan at the top ship, i just really wanna kick any harry potter ships out of there like how are people still posting about that.

[spitblaze]

On the topic of transmysogyny and transandrophobia, i remember hearing a point a few months back that was roughly “radfems dont see either trans people as legitimate; trans women are predators wanting to sneak in and prey on weak women and trans men are betrayers to womanhood to join the side of the predators” and it feels like a very succinct way to understand that both transmysogyny and transandrophobia are both legitimate and both unique experiences for trans people. It just kinda makes sense to me and has made the whole discussion that is going on here a lot more palatable and easier to comprehend, though it does still leave a lot of notable holes due to its brevity.

Oh for sure- it's very easy to fall into the trap of believing that all of this is oppositional and people who face one set of problems cannot possibly contribute to conversations about a different set of problems. Which isn't true! Transmasculine people can have a lot of insight into the ways misogyny is used as a cudgel for conformity, transfeminine people can bring a lot of insight into the ways that proximity to masculinity are seen and used as fear tactics, and vice versa.

I know the people out there denying that transmisogyny/anti-transmasculinity straight up do not exist are small groups of individual dumbasses, and it's important to understand and discuss that transgender people are still more than capable of perpetuating transphobia and misogyny and bigotry, but the growing outside attempts to divide our community really need to be stamped out at the source. Sometimes that will be intra-community issues, but more often than not it's transphobe and radfem psyops and action. It's important to not dismiss the issues that any of us have with anyone else. But it's even more important to remember that we're all on the same team here, even if femininity makes you gag or masculinity makes you uncomfortable.

And don't think I've forgotten about fully nonbinary people- you guys are also more than capable of perpetuating all of this same bullshit, but your insight into how society treats those who cannot fall distinctly within the binaries it loves to enforce is invaluable.

United we stand, divided we fall.

[shmowder]

just need to vent about the Olympics

[weareuniqueandimportant]

I LOVE MURDER... I FIND THE TOPIC VERY INTERESTING... I ALSO BELIEVE ALOT OF ABUSERS WERE ACTUALLY NEGLECTED... AND THEIR "VICTIMS" ONLY REPEAT THE LIES THEY ALWAYS HAVE... OUR ABUSERS ALL CERTAINLY LOVE TO PAINT SUCH A PICTURE... DON'T WORRY... I HAVEN'T DONE ANYTHING... YET <3...

[11bountyhunters]

why are radfems like “i wish to eradicate gender as a social construct” and then turn around and enforce the gender binary and saying shit like “woman-face” and insisting that “males” are all uniformly evil?

[werewolfbneimitzvah]

vent post. There are two stories i was told in my teenage years that even before i had a real concept of trans issues made me uninterested in discussing the supposed sacredness and safety of separated sex-based spaces.

First, when i was like 13 or 14 my PE teacher told us about a time she went to a women's public restroom, some guy was hanging out outside the bathrooms, she didn't think anything of it, went to the bathroom, and he walked in after her and like, creeped on her over the top of the stall. She was ok, she wasn't telling us this to scare us, just telling us what to do in situations like that (and iirc she was telling the whole co-ed class this, not just girls, bc it's useful for everyone), but this taught me immediately and forever that there's nothing actually keeping these spaces separate really, that anyone can be a creep in any space, and that establishing a space like that as for women only isn't actually particularly useful for safety.

Second, when i was 16 i was at an anime convention, a friendly acquaintance of mine and i ended up in conversation outside, and he showed me his bare wrist and told me he'd been kicked out. A female friend of his had stepped in dog poop outside, and between that and the stress of the convention she'd had a bit of an emotional breakdown, so being her friend, he started comforting her and ushered her into the women's restroom so they could wash the poop off her shoe together. And because he was a man who went into the women's bathroom, he got kicked out, no matter that he was doing something that was actually beneficial to a woman. Punishing a woman's friend for supporting her was supposed to... protect her somehow? This made it clear to me that a no-exceptions rule separating the sexes like that wasn't actually inherently good for everyone.

And this isn't even getting into me as a child needing to accompany my younger sister to the restroom when we were out with just my dad because she had certain support needs past the age he felt comfortable bringing her into the men's room with him. And what if I'd been born a boy, or she'd been the first born? Who's helping her then?

And of course even putting all this aside, we should always prioritize compassion and support anyway. But i never even needed to meet a trans person to know that "keeping men out of women's bathrooms" is silly nonsense. But trans people also need to pee anyway and as humans they have that right, so leave them the fuck alone. your precious women's restroom is just a fucking room with a door, holy shit give it a fucking rest, if someone is attacking you in the bathroom that's bad and if someone is in there to pee that's good and it doesn't fucking matter what their junk is or was when they were born.

a woman could have done the exact same thing to my PE teacher and it would have also been bad no matter how "supposed" to be in the restroom she was, and no one should ever be punished for helping a crying friend wash their shoe.

Anyway i know I'm speaking to like-minded folks here, i just think about those two stories literally every time bathroom gender shit comes up and it pisses me off.

[swamp-gremlin]

if i have to hear dumbass discourse about anything ever again im going to have a stress induced brain hemorrhage actually

[dragongirlsnout]

with regards to recent events,

dashboard unfucker will no longer be actively maintained, and the development of the Dashboard Plus extension is being shelved, along with all of my unpublished work for XKit Rewritten.

despite the fact that tumblr as a website is largely propped up by LGBTQ+ content creators, many of whom are trans women, the way this website has treated and continues to treat trans women is utterly disgusting.

from the harassment trans women face from this site's users, many of whom claim to be trans allies or are even trans themselves, to transphobic moderators targeting trans women and selling bans for money, all the way to the CEO of the website directly confronting a trans woman and threatening legal action against her for inactionable threats, tumblr has made it clear that it is by no means the queerest place on earth.

some of my trans sisters may remain on tumblr, even when faced with constant vitriol. i am deeply proud of them and their visibility in the face of hostility, however after seeing recent events unfold, and after being directly confronted by tumblr's CEO himself in a digusting display of indifference, i myself have decided to move onto better pursuits for the larger part. tumblr no longer holds the same shine for me that it did five years ago, and i can no longer justify spending hours of my time every week pouring more work and love into this site than any member of staff ever did.

i thank you all for the support you've given me in the past 8 months, whether through donations, contributions to the script, or even just sending me a kind message. i would ask that you show the same generosity and kindness to other trans girls in my absence, and especially to those who don't code, or write stories, or draw art. every trans girl is valuable, and their worth is more than any arbitrary set of talents. and a little love can go a long way.

yours truly,

dragongirlsnout

[genderqueerdykes]

i have been trying for like. months to explain how the relationship between butch lesbians and trans men is not something akin to polar opposites and this is all i got. like it's not like this:

it's a venn diagram with a massive overlap in the middle. i'm not saying EVERY butch is a trans guy and EVERY trans guy is a butch dyke , i'm just saying it looks more like this:

these are not "mutually exclusive" terms- they do not mean the same thing, but we can be the same people, an very often are. there is a long history of butches who identify as FTM, trans men, drag kings, genderqueer, genderfluid, transmasculine, male, polygender, and two-spirit lesbians, and so much more. the relationship between lesbianism and queer masculinity is inseparable and the only people telling you that butches and trans men need to violently separate from one another and be at each other's throats are terfs. even if we do not share identities, we share our struggle together as heavily misunderstood and unseen masculine queers.

we stand up for each other when our identities get confused by strangers, and we get misgendered. we stand up for each other when terfs and terfpilled people tell us that transmasculine people and men can't be lesbians, when people say "butches just want to be men", when people say "butches aren't real women", when people call each of us bull dykes and trannies, when people mock the way FTMs walk and talk and look, and when people tell trans men they're "just butch dykes in denial". we stand up for each other and understand each others struggles.

whenever a butch lesbian asserts they're a woman no matter how masc they are, whenever a trans man asserts that they are a man and not a butch, whenever a butch struggles to be seen as both a man and a lesbian, and whenever a trans man returns to the lesbian community while embracing their manhood, we are part of the same community, we share the same struggles, and we owe it to each other to stay strong.

we are not enemies. we are bedfellows, lovers, family, spouses, partners, husbands, wives, brothers, sisters, siblings, friends, each others support networks, even if we don't share identities perfectly. whether you are butch and a woman, butch and a man, butch and something else entirely, a male, ftm, genderfluid, polygender, genderqueer, transmasculine, nonbinary, two-spirit or whatever else you may be lesbian, you are part of our family and your experience is worth being heard.

[autisticmudkip]

Campaign close to completion!

Imagine trying to sleep, while being forced to listen to a loud, unavoidable noise. A noise that heralds danger, a danger that has already hurt someone you care about. A danger you can do nothing to protect yourself and your love ones from. This is what Mohammed Iwais has to go through every night.

Mohammed Iwais @mohdiwais has spent months trying to raise money so he and his family in Gaza may evacuate to safety. Now, he is struggling to gain connection to the internet, making this goal even harder for him.

Without a good internet connection, he struggles to keep in contact with people through Tumblr, or to make posts to raise funds for his campaign.

On top of all this, Mohammed has to deal with the constant sound of quadcopters nearby him. This sound is an extremely loud droning noise, which causes fear and stress, and makes any kind of sleep or rest extremely difficult. One of Mohammed's sisters was hit by a quadcopter bullet several months ago, and is struggling to heal while being trapped in Gaza without proper medical treatment.

Right now, the Iwais family's campaign is close to completion. They only need ~ $3.1k USD to reach their goal. However, this certainly doesn't mean that it is acceptable for you to stop caring, or for donations to slow down. Mohammed and his family need your help to be able to evacuate!

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[captainkingsley]

Mabi characters in the au I want to write that I am hitting with the transgender beam:

1. Rian

2. Tracy

[rat-rosemary]

Sometimes i want to make jokes like "girlhood is rising your pussy for 5 minutes straight so you dont get blood on the towel" but I dont want to exclude trans girls :[[[