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Transilient has been changing the narrative surrounding trans people in the media since 2016. Basil Soper, a Carolinian and man of trans experience, founded the project and mentored trans team members who were either from the southeast or lived there. They aimed to teach the world that we are #MoreThanTrans.

Many of the people who have been involved in Transilient are from Appalachia. James Heathery joined Transilient in 2018 and he, along with Beck Bendetta and Basil, traveled the US interviewing trans and nonbinary people about their humanity. In 2019, James Heatherly, Jayce Jefferson, and Mo Bell, all trans folks from Kentucky, took Transilient through Appalachia and created a mini series called Climbing Every Mountain in partnership with PFLAG.

Accurate visibility is so important in order for our community to thrive as is access to healthcare. Trans and nonbinary folks from the south and rural areas are erased from the trans narrative often. Competent mental and medical healthcare is critical, especially during this pandemic, yet state leaders are still denying basic rights to our community as seen in Idaho yesterday. Appalachia is home to many trans and nonbinary people and yet doesn’t have a lot of mental and medical healthcare options available to the community. Transilient is #PFLAGProud to share this series with you today. We ask that while celebrating trans and nonbinary loved ones today, social distancing, and staying safe please watch Climbing Every Mountain and share it!

HERE IS THE FIRST EPISODE!!!

#tdov2020 #tdov #transgender #trans woman #trans #nonbinary #morethantrans #wearetransilient #lgbtq #transilient #climbingeverymountain #PFLAG gay Roanoke appalachia

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Do NOT Support ‘Adam’ When The Film Comes Out

I’ve talked about this before on this blog but this is the most disgustingly transphobic and lesbophobic narrative I’ve ever come across.

CWs: transphobia, homophobia, lesbophobia, corrective rape, voyeurism

The book Adam by Ariel Schrag is being turned into a movie which has been named as one of the most exciting LGBTQ films of the year. You should know before watching that the book is about a cis boy who pretends to be a trans man in order to persuade lesbians to sleep with him.

Yeah… you read that right.

Book plot summary:

boy spies on his lesbian sister having sex

boy decides to pretend to be a trans man (gross)

i.e. pretends to have a vagina because he thinks lesbians will want him then (he literally wants to fuck lesbians because he watched his lesbian sister have sex wtf)

he does get a lesbian to sleep with him, he straps his penis down using ace bandages and uses a strap on.

all the actual trans dudes we meet identify as lesbians this basically implies that trans men are not real men (lesbians i.e. women)

another time they have sex again only he uses his actual penis but tells her its a strap on. that’s literally rape, she didn’t consent to an actual penis.

he confesses that he’s been lying to her this whole time but she doesn’t break up with him. she even says its okay cause she fantasised about him being “a real boy"

that’s a direct quote. massive transphobia. huge. not to mention this is now the “lesbian is cured by dick trope” which is disgusting and that trope leads to real lesbians and bi women being raped to “fix” them.

he leaves new york, they’re long distance. they get in an argument and he calls her a slut and a whore among other things and then she dumps him

eventually they get back in touch and she has a new cis boyfriend so yep, she’s been “cured” woo she’s actually straight and he helped her realise that yay (massive sarcasm)

It is deeply deeply transphobic. To imply that our identities are just costumes for other people to put on erases who we are as people. More than that, to imply it is done to trick people into sex is a dangerous lie that literally gets us killed.

It is also deeply lesbophobic. To fuel this narrative that lesbians can be “fixed” by having sex with a man leads to real corrective rapes happening.

Here is a review of the book by a trans man. I have yet to find one by a lesbian but will edit this if I do.

This book gives out incredibly harmful notions about trans men and lesbians that are used to hurt them in real life. It’s so entrenched in the narrative that I don’t see how the film can possibly be any better.

I do not say any of this lightly. it’s very very rare for me to call out a piece of fiction or for me to decide that a story is unfixable. But this… there’s no excuse for the bigotry in this.

I’d like to tell people to boycott it but I can’t tell you what to do. So instead I’m going to ask that you share this because it being named as an exciting new LGBTQ film is going to make LGBTQ teens want to see it. And they should know beforehand how hurtful it could be. They should be able to arm themselves with that knowledge.

Don’t make queer kids see this film believing it will represent them only to be exposed to this hatred of their identities.

Please reblog.

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