#tgnc

[genderoutlaws]

Crossdressing party goers in Gaza, Palestine (1960s) | ph: Kegham Djeghalian

This photo was found by Djeghalian's grandson in 2018, along with an entire collection documenting the rich culture and history of Gaza. Djeghalian survived the Armenian genocide as a toddler, fleeing to Syria, then Lebanon, before moving to Palestine, where he lived between Al-Quds and Jaffa. There he would meet his wife Zevart Nakashian, and go on to open the Kegham photography studio in Gaza.

[man-squared]

One day people will all come to the conclusion that reducing manhood to "evil, bad" and indirectly suggesting that "all men should die" leads to people staying in the closet far longer than they should.

And maybe one day they'll apologize for forcing trans men and other queer men to stay in the closet (which unfortunately I highly doubt), but we got a lot of redfem (alternative spelling) shit to wade through and toss out before we ever get there and it'll be a while before it spreads to the rest of society.

[intersexfairy]

my mom is also intersex - and she was bullied relentlessy. when her hair was short, her peers harassed her for "looking like a boy." these same peers were violent with her. so, she'd almost always let the hair dresser do whatever they wanted, as long as they didn't cut it short. and it never made her happy.

but after literal decades, she finally got a pixie cut. a haircut she wanted. she looked so bright and happy after getting it, and she looks much more like herself. it wasn't "just hair" for her; it was healing and joy. and i'm sure for some intersex, trans, nby, and gnc people reading this, it isn't "just hair" for you, either.

if you've been holding off changing anything about your appearance because of bigotry or dismissal: please know that no matter what, you have permission to do what you want with your body. i and so many others support you. it's never too late to do what makes you happy.

[allofusarchive]

Flyer for Speak Out (Unknown)

[blackremoteshe]

This is your gentle reminder that it’s okay for you to hold space for your grief and you don’t have to carry that grief in isolation from others.

For folks interested in collective grief and care circles, below are a few online support groups coming up in the next week:

- Black Trans Love is Wealth (Feb 26 @ 4PM ET) is a space for Black TGNC folks to share what Black Trans love means to you in your life. RSVP at Blacktransmedia@gmail.com

- Grief and Loss Support Group (March 3 @ 1PM ET) is a space for LGBTQ+ folks to grieve and discuss the feelings of loss. https://www.loftgaycenter.org/grief_and_loss_discussion_group_20240303

- Two Spirit IndigeQueer Talking Circle, (March 4 @ 5:30pm PT) is holding an upcoming talking circle as a collective mourning for the loss of Nex Benedict. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/two-spirit-indigequeer-talking-circle-online-tickets-849689282517?aff=ebdsoporgprofile

- Grief & Care Under Capitalism (March 6 @ 7pm PT) is a monthly grieving space and participatory support group for anyone feeling exploited and exhausted by capitalism. https://www.instagram.com/p/C3VmQI9RwuM/?igsh=NnVsMGk1d3FrNmh4

- Stronger Together (March 10 @ 4pm ET) is a free peer support group for folks existing in the margins. Discussions include how marginalized people often have to navigate our more vulnerable times without the support that we need. https://strongeruwellness.com/stronger-together-support-group/register-stronger-together/

View more upcoming meetings on the full list of gender affirming support groups here: https://www.blackremoteshe.com/resource-hub/gender-affirming-support-groups

[covidtgncstudy]

Interview opportunity for transgender and gender-nonconforming people for a study run by a transgender researcher

Hi, all!

My name is Nico and I am an undergraduate researcher at the University of Texas at Austin. I am currently recruiting transgender and/or gender-nonconforming people for my thesis study on gender presentation and transition during the Covid-19 isolation/lockdown period. Each person will participate in a one-on-one interview (over Zoom, or in person for anyone in Austin) about your experience with gender and gender presentation in isolation. Each interview will last 45-90 minutes (no longer than an hour and a half, realistically less than an hour), will be audio recorded, and each participant will be paid $25 for their time. The interviews will be conversational, and conducted by me, a fellow trans person. 

If you are interested, here is a link to a page with some more information and a form to fill out if you are considering giving an interview: https://bit.ly/covidTGNC 

If you have any questions, please feel free to send me a DM and we can chat more about it. Thank you for taking the time to read through this! If this study does not apply to you but you know someone who might be interested, please share the link! Learning from fellow trans people about our own experiences is so important, and I really want as many people as possible to have the opportunity to participate. 

Thanks so much!

[irynochka]

just came across a casting notice for this (possibly draft) script .. v interesting, anyone have any thoughts on the TGNC acronym? should/would it be used in addition to LGBTQ+, or to create a distinction between LGB and TGNC (so, sexuality and gender identity)? i haven’t really heard tgnc used before, at least not widely.

[pnongeye]

Such a good combination 😊😊 #TGfamily✈️ #TGNC https://www.instagram.com/p/CeqzVU0PQB2OdbTlRmDGH-OW1VNNl7FyYxez8M0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[genderoutlaws]

"Marguerite, dressed as a man."

Al-Quds, Palestine | c. 1935

[man-squared]

Federal judge temporarily blocks Tennessee drag ban

[librarycards]

The term “social transition” has a non-trans history in the psychology of adolescence. In the 1980s, it was an operative metaphor for describing adolescence through the American trope of a rocky period of self-making, what one psychologist in 1978 termed “the difficulty of adolescence as a transitional period.” The primary “transition” that concerned psychologists at the time was school, where social shifts in friend groups and hierarchies from middle school to high school affected a young person’s self-esteem and mental integrity, resulting either in positive self-actualization or, if the social transition went poorly, “problem behavior.”³

The term “social transition” was only later adopted by psychologists and psychiatrists looking to powerfully expand their jurisdiction over trans youth to include entirely non-medical practices that often spur parents to reject or harm their kids: wearing a dress, cutting or growing out hair, wearing a binder or a bra, wearing makeup, or adopting a new name and pronouns. Making those banal but concrete practices of changing gender into psychiatric events was intended to convince anxious and angry parents that they shouldn’t put down their children. By the same token, tying practices of clothing and self-description to healthy development overinflated them with a pathological degree of significance, upping the ante and creating a lucrative target, both for parents of trans youth who wanted to stop their children from transitioning and, now, politicians.

I don’t mean to imply that psychiatry directly caused HB 2885, just that it clearly holds one part of the blame for inventing the root vulnerability that Gragg has taken advantage of in Missouri. If anything, the attachment of sex offender felonies to a teacher complimenting a teenager’s haircut exposes, once and for all, how fraudulent the medicalization of transition has been all along. Gragg can claim the right of the state to control children’s dress and speech (masquerading as the rights of parents) through teachers and counselors, in part, because psychiatry and medicine first claimed the right to regulate trans youth’s practices of transition.

Still, the causal events that led to HB 2885 run far deeper than the shallow history of “social transition” as an especially foolish psychiatric fiction. Here lies the far bigger problem raised by this bill. Not only will psychiatrists prove to be the least effective political allies of trans youth in Missouri, but contemporary queer and transgender culture’s elevation of the private right to dress as the sine qua non of politics is also quite useless as a political strategy.

Part of what I gather stuns in bills like HB 2885 is their audacity. The law would target the most conservative, least politically subversive of all transgender practices: individual style, identification, and language-use. In the case of minors, “social transition” is also a cheap compromise offered to young people who are refused blockers and hormones by disapproving parents and doctors, but that compromise is offered in a broader queer and transgender culture that has elevated self-identification through style as the ultimate arbiter of being transgender, making it much harder to advocate for a genuine right to transition for anyone, teenager or adult.

[...]

Students have very limited First Amendment rights on school campuses, meaning that they cannot present themselves as private individuals enjoying the right to dress as they please.⁷Their self-expression is governed from the outset by a competing set of custodians, from parents to schoolteachers, to psychiatrists and doctors, to the Missouri House of Representatives. Trans youth’s interests are therefore materially extraneous to the mainline of contemporary queer and transgender culture, whose architects were wealthy, college-educated adults whose prior enjoyment of full-citizenship was the very reason they demanded only the affirmation of a right to dress.

I suspect that part of the genuine shock of bills like HB 2885 is that most people reasoned that LGBT liberalism’s elevation of the private individual over all other political concerns would inoculate dress and language from state interference. It evidently has not. What perhaps has been misunderstood, then, is how the state exercises power. The law cannot prohibit being transgender, for there is no such state of being. The state has no need to target people’s interior selves, either, for the law can seize people where it always has, in concrete social practices that it simply declares are the undesirable traits of transgender people—namely, practices of transition.

Jules Gill-Peterson, The Unimportance of Wearing Clothes. [emphasis added]

[allofusarchive]

"Homosexual Slang" American Speech 45, Stanley, Julia P. (1972)

(note: there are a lot of antiquated terminology in this, ones that are not appropriate. I have left them intact to show how they were originally presented.)

[bellamonde]

SAY HIS NAME 

Edwin Chiloba was 25 years old from Kenya. They were a talented fashion designer, with bold and show stopping designs. Edwin was a student on the rise. They survived a hate crime attach in 2021. 

Edwin was brutally murdered for their sexuality and their body was dumped in a box onto the street. This is a heinous murder. Edwin and all Queer TGNC folks deserve justice and protection. 

[thinkgreen143]

RECAP: Have you donated to @/AlexKsToonHub yet?

Link: https://gofund.me/fae65466

[compo67]

look! i got an A!

Great job with the narrated slideshow! Your discussion was organized, clear, and well-supported by the evidence from your research. You explained the importance of trans-affirming visuals, and offered a substantive analysis that draws on your own research as well as on concepts and readings from the course. The images you included are relevant and properly sourced. Your presentation showed how stock photography can potentially be a positive resource, if used thoughtfully and in concert with transgender/gender nonconforming (TGNC) communities. I especially appreciate how the images you use throughout the presentation embody and perform the suggestions you make for how others should use them. In doing so, you gave your audience an outstanding example of what it looks like to picture TGNC people in an affirming way.