Posts tagged trans issues

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Posted 2 months ago
Transgender youth: 33% have attempted suicide; 78% have been verbally harassed; 48% have been victims of assault. (And these problems don’t magically get better when they turn 18.) Stop the violence. Zoom

Transgender youth: 33% have attempted suicide; 78% have been verbally harassed; 48% have been victims of assault. (And these problems don’t magically get better when they turn 18.) Stop the violence.

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Posted 4 months ago
Transphobia, homophobia, and misogyny are all twisted together at the root, and the root is the idea of conventional gender expression. Women are like this. Men are like that. Girls don’t do this. Boys don’t do that. Whenever transphobic feminists tell me that a trans woman can’t be a real woman because she won’t have the following real-women experiences (such as: pregnancy: vaginal sex with men: rape: domestic abuse: disabling period cramps) often - as in that list - the “real-women experiences” are nothing like my own: often - as with rape and domestic abuse - trans women do experience them.
Jane Carnall, Feminist has a T
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Posted 4 months ago
People who are trans seem to me to have a particularly hard journey: The eventual recognition of the disconnect between the gender their bodies have and the gender they sense themselves as being, the years of dealing with that disconnect, the hard choice to rebuild their lives and all the repercussions of that choice, and having to do all of that with much of the rest of the world looking on and judging. That’s a hell of a road to walk. So the first question to ask is simply: Why make it harder for them? I can’t think of any good reason for it; for me that solves that. The second question is: What would I want if that were my road to walk? If nothing else, I would want people to accept that even if my road is rough, where I’m going is somewhere I think is worthwhile and will help me be the person I want to be, for myself and for everyone else. That being the case, by the principle of the Golden Rule, that’s what I should do for transfolk, if nothing else. (Note, if you will, that this is not a cookie-bearing statement. I am saying I try to be a decent person to transfolk. You don’t get extra credit for trying to be a decent human being. That should be your default setting.)

On Transfolk – Whatever

A hell of a contrast in attitude between the Pope and a science-fiction writer. John Scalzi, I salute you. You are the better man.

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Posted 6 months ago
Useful hints on ways to talk about transgender and intersex people, genital reconstruction surgery, and transitioning. transstudent: Gender Grammar! To learn more, click here! Click here to repost on Facebook! Click here to retweet! Zoom

Useful hints on ways to talk about transgender and intersex people, genital reconstruction surgery, and transitioning.

transstudent:

Gender Grammar! To learn more, click here!

Click here to repost on Facebook!

Click here to retweet!

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Posted 8 months ago
“It is high time for gender-anxious cissexuals to look deep within themselves and ask why they choose to view transsexual bodies as unsettling or disturbing. How can they consider a physical body to be attractive or innocuous when it is assumed to be cissexual, then suddenly find it to be horrific or threatening upon the discoveryt that it is transsexual? And if such dramatically different responses can be elicited by the same human being under different circumstances, doesn’t that indicate that the real difference resides in the cissexual mind and not in the transsexual body?” The quotation is from the fabulous Julia Serano. Her book Whipping Girl is essential reading about gender, culture, and femininity. gramina: oppressionisyucky: mamamantis: fuckingscreaming: This is honestly the most amazing thing that I have ever seen on Tumblr. YES YES YES boom. Bingo. Zoom

“It is high time for gender-anxious cissexuals to look deep within themselves and ask why they choose to view transsexual bodies as unsettling or disturbing. How can they consider a physical body to be attractive or innocuous when it is assumed to be cissexual, then suddenly find it to be horrific or threatening upon the discoveryt that it is transsexual? And if such dramatically different responses can be elicited by the same human being under different circumstances, doesn’t that indicate that the real difference resides in the cissexual mind and not in the transsexual body?”

The quotation is from the fabulous Julia Serano. Her book Whipping Girl is essential reading about gender, culture, and femininity.

gramina:

oppressionisyucky:

mamamantis:

fuckingscreaming:

This is honestly the most amazing thing that I have ever seen on Tumblr.

YES

YES

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Bingo.

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Posted 1 year ago
So this is how yet another (and another, and another and another) transgender woman dies; a victim simultaneously of hatred and a conspiracy of silence.
Daily Kos: Transgender Woman Murdered in Oakland. Nobody Cares.
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Posted 1 year ago

Land of the free as long as you’re cisgendered. It’s still legal to be fired for being trans in the following states:

Alabama
Alaska
Arizona
Arkansas
Connecticut
Delaware
Florida
Georgia
Hawaii
Idaho
Indiana
Kansas
Kentucky
Louisiana
Maryland
Massachusetts
Michigan
Mississippi
Missouri
Montana
Nebraska
Nevada
New Hampshire
New York
North Carolina
North Dakota
Oklahoma
Oregon
Pennsylvania
South Carolina
South Dakota
Tennessee
Texas
Utah
West Virginia
Wisconsin

(Source: socialistexan)

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Posted 1 year ago

Girl Talk 2012: Gina de Vries, "Heroes"

I missed Girl Talk this year, but @queershoulder is ALWAYS fabulous.

queershoulder:

My performance at Girl Talk this year! I was the opening act, so there was a bit going on before me. If you wanna skip right to Elena Rose’s intro, go to 5:20. If you wanna skip right to my performance, go to 8:50.

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Posted 1 year ago

Want @queershoulder scathing or warm and tender? Vote now!

queershoulder:

Girl Talk audience members: Do you want me at my ranty bitchy scathing best, discussing Current Events? Or do you want some tenderheart memoir about late-90s queer & trans punk kids, one of my best friends in high school, all-night diners, and sneaking into the Anarchist Bookstore & Anubis Warpus to buy porn? I’d been planning on the former, but I’m kinda getting more excited about the latter. PLEASE TO ADVISE.

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Posted 1 year ago

Talkin' About My Crotch: a guy assigned female at birth explains bottom surgery

Smart, thoughtful, courageous look at what surgery does physically and emotionally, from a friend of mine.