#trans squared

[kiruliom]

no spoons for ID

trans² (trans squared) flag

reasons one could use this flag (non-exclusive):

transitioning in more than 1 direction (I need to specify this experience is NOT intersex exclusive)

re-identifying with your agab ('detransitioning'), but from a distictly trans lens this time.

having detransitioned, but deciding to re-transition at a later date.

having more than one gender

being so trans just using transgender doesnt describe it well enough.

I was gonna add more non-binary inclusive stripes but I had to keep it to a minimum while still keeping it recognizable as a version of a trans flag. I hope the single white stripe from the original does it justice, at least it's touching the blue as well this time ^-^

TS provided in alt text

[clevercrumbish]

Terfism is targeted at radicalising older-middle-aged women in order to sever the otherwise naturally-forming bond that makes trans women and older-middle-aged cis women the strongest of comrades via our shared interests and experiences.

[caffstrink]

T4t huntlow so real etc etc

[genderkoolaid]

tfw a cishet person describes a piece of media as having problematic representations of queerness & you gotta fight the urge to go on a rant about it's nuance in depicting queerness and the reasons why it is so powerful and important for so many queer people and how trying to label any "outdated" or "complicated" versions of queerness as problematic/offensive is just making it more palatable for cishet liberals

[wis-art]

she's done fishing, time for violence

[augustfuckinggay]

howd they get married, who proposed, when, and where? what does the fam think of the marraige? what do they think of the whole thing? does bill have a human form and does he use it, and what happened with fiddleford?

sorry if this is too many questions! I just like the new aus coming out and didn't know if you had been asked about many things yet.

when you and ur bf fight:

Sorry for the wait!! This was a big one, it was really fun to answer all of those questions... Also meet my au Stanley :] (she/her). Text under the cut!

Oh boy… That’s a lot of questions!

Well.. I’ll try to answer all of them!

Question 1: How’d they get married? Who proposed, when, and where?

Bill: I proposed first. We were taking a break between universes,

on some crushed altar or something, and i just… decided it was the perfect moment. Best day of my life.

After that we both proposed to fiddleford. Figuring our how to double-propose was… an interesting task, but I’d like to think it went really well (especially with Fiddleford agreeing to both immortality AND marrige in the spot… this guy didn’t even think! Sixer had to ponder for a few months before he accepted immortality)

Question 2: What does the fam think of the marriage? What do they think of the whole thing?

She’s okay with it. Bill redeemed himself in her eyes after the incident (Stanley)

He still doesn’t REALLY trust Bill… But he trusts Ford so he’s coming to terms with the whole thing (Dipper)

She’s SOOOOO excited for the whole thing! Mabel is the one who bonded with Bill the most, so she’s ecstatic to see him happy! (Mabel)

Question 3: Does Bill have a human form?

Nope!

Question 4: What happened to Fiddleford?

Immortal makeover!

[waxdream]

In flatland, are the irregular shapes a metaphor for disability or being lgbtqia+? Or intersex? Or all of them?

I only ask because the narrative seems to draw inspiration from both. Gender in Flatland is determined by whether or not you're a shape or a line segment. The lower classes of triangles are irregular, and they are dehumanised (deconfigured?) To the point that they are considered to have smaller brains by the narrative based on angle size. I personally think that due to flatland's satire, and hints throughout the text, A square is an unreliable and biased narrator who is indoctrinated fully in the society of flatland. So what he says about the angle of triangles, and the smartness of women, shouldn't necessarily be taken for granted. I would be interested to know if the part about the triangles is a reference to phrenology and how stupid it is, but I digress.

Irregular flatlanders are reconfigured at birth. This suggests it's considered a disability, however, the irregularity doesn't seem to be disabling. In fact, the only effect it has on the person is that it makes their class impossible to determine - something which would have social effects. We also only see evidence of male children being born irregular, which is a common stereotype of autism, and the coupling with 'social detriments' being the result of irregularity, it could lead to this conclusion. However, I doubt that Abbot was commenting on this in 1884, though that doesn't prevent modern readers from taking it in this direction. I just think that he wouldn't have written 'reconfiguration' into the story, a deadly process of creating "regular" children if it was a metaphore for disability - it was often a lot more common after all to hide disabled folk away. Although, if any historians out there know about parallels in victorian society, I'd be really interested.

I'm most convinced by my reading that Abbott was talking about intersex children when writing about reconfiguration. Most of Flatland is a social commentary after all - following the wrongs of victorian society on how classes are treated, with a larger focus on women. Now, with sight recognition in flatland, women are mistaken for squares from certain angles, and sometimes for circles. Imagine if you will, an irregular semicircle - a male who would often be mistaken for a woman. Considering the sexism Abbott talks about in this world, I think that irregularity being a metaphor for being intersex is plausible. Especially since the children are reconfigured at a very young age.

When I first read the book, I read irregularity as a disability and nothing more. But now I'm thinking about it more, I really would love to know other's opinions. The book is old, and I'm not sure if my thoughts are plausible - but then again, it seems implausible that the book is mocking the sexism in victorian society. Yet it does - lots of evidence points to Abbott being a protofeminist writer. It's not a stretch to me that he might hold a stance against the mutilation of intersex children. Or perhaps a stance against conversion therapy. Let me know I guess :)

[consulting-mage]

Squish! That! Doctor!

[meiko333]

Trans Lesbian Samus Aran Icons

Like and/or reblog if you save/use

[multimousefanatic]

I once saw a post where someone speculated that Emelie and Amalie couldn’t get pregnant without the miraculous because they were trans and Felix and Adrien look alike because they are essentially clones of their mothers who are twins

And I know a lot of people headcannon Adrien as trans (Which I LIVE for) which would make a lot of sense with this theory

But have we considered… Trans Felix + Lesbian Kagami?

[whatthefoucault]

It's Trans Day of Visibility, so I made you these delicious trans pride rice krispie squares. I hope you enjoy them!

[pokemon-icon-factory]

Pokémon Trainer Penny transgender icons — requested by @yoylecake420

Free to use, but credit is appreciated

[lucabyte]

transfem loop + siffrin... you agree

i does agree.... i does in fact ... write a 7k word essay on the subject..... if you would like to perhaps click that link and read it if you were not already aware...... kisses u on the forehead......... sorry its that long but i had to cover all of my bases you know how it is with textual analysis when you're trying to draw a distinction between "headcanon" and "reading of the text" because those are different things.... to meeeeeeee.......

[kalosbian]

made some pride icons of some of my faves for pride month!!

free to use, no credit needed!

[wis-art]

One of them dresses up cartoonishly in the same manner every day, the other one doesn't own a single summer dress.

[grimesapologist]

the thing is tumblr didn't used to be the site full of sober celibate white agoraphobes that polls on here regularly suggest it is, I remember Tumblr being a much more diverse place in terms of lived experience and it makes me sad to see it flattened into what often feels like a masturbatory exercise in affected disenfranchisement and willful ignorance towards the world and even sometimes knowledge itself.