This is exactly what I was afraid of when I saw those posts floating around last night. This is exactly what the “danger” flashing lights in my head were going off about.

THIS IS A TERF RECRUITMENT POINT

I’ve sat on this ask all day because there is a lot of pressure on me in how I answer this because it’s a TERF recruitment point. I don’t know if the person who sent this ask is aware of that, but it is.

Because, at face value, I agree. No one should have to preface talking about their own experiences by acknowledging another group first.

BUT

This - people being shut down because they didn’t say “of course trans women have it worse but-” - is not a widespread issue. This happens occasionally. There are individual instances of it happening, like last night. But agreeing, at face value with the original statement is like agreeing with the statement “aces shouldn’t go around LGBT+/queer spaces bragging about how pure they are for not having sex”. Sure. And there are probably instances of tumblr posts you could pull of individuals doing this, but it isn’t the enormously widespread problem aphobes make it out to be.

Agreeing at face value with the first statement has their foot in the door, and that’s all it takes to go from “aces shouldn’t brag about their purity” to “maybe we shouldn’t include aces at all to protect our community” to “who else is invading our communities?” And there starts the radicalization. This is an example of how they target people within the LGBT+ community to gradually radicalize them.

AND

I have a (maybe not the healthiest, but it’s useful, so whatever) of trawling radfem tags to preemptively block any that I find before they can find me, because curate your own online experience and all that. Anyway, because of that, I see the trends in radfem talking points.

Right now? There’s a huge amount of “trans women are so mean to TMEs, they obviously don’t support you and we would support you more!” from radfems aimed at transmascs and other AFAB nonbinary people - people who don’t experience transmisogyny. And to get their targets to a point where they can believe that, they need to start somewhere.

And here is where that is. Find an instance of a transmasc being targeted by, in this case, an aphobe [x], but it could be by any of their indoctrination offshoots, by way of pulling out a false transmisogyny accusation that, in this case, was fabricated based on people putting words in other peoples’ mouths, and then other people coming in without the full context and so misinterpreting the situation [x], and then start worming in these more broad statements like this ask, which imply a much larger problem than there is, and there’s your starting point of radicalization.

BE CAREFUL, CHECK YOUR TARGETS

We should not be trying to talk to each other about issues between different communities within the LGBT+ community while framing it as though we are or should be hostile toward each other. We especially shouldn’t be talking about the issues between AMAB and AFAB trans people, or any different groups trans people can be separated out into, in that way. Ask yourself who you’re being prompted to be angry at and why. Ask yourself if they’re actually your enemy.

kindnessoverperfection:

everyone’s all for disabled rights & anti-capitalism until your co-worker does the dishes slowly, or gets confused when given directions, or needs to be trained on how to do something that you think is fairly simple, or this or that or whatever lack of ability they have that makes you start to devalue them as a person and call them “useless” for not being a perfect cog in the capitalist machine

like sorry my existing makes your job harder but maybe direct your anger & aggression upwards instead of stamping down vulnerable groups who are just trying to survive and have gone their whole life being abused and screamed at for not being “good enough” or for being Inconvenient or a Burden

booksandwords:

“As I pondered a pronoun change I began to think of gender less as a scale and more as a landscape. Some people are born in the mountains, while others are born by the sea. Some people are happy to live in the place they were born, while others must make a journey to reach the climate in which they can flourish and grow. Between the ocean and the mountains is a wild forest. That is where I want to make my home.”

— Maia Kobabe, Gender Queer

enby-who-is-secretly-a-tree:

All trans people want to be respected for who they are - and that’s pretty much the only generalization you can make about us.

Trans people use different terminology and refer to themselves in different ways. Trans people are of all races, nationalities, and religious beliefs. Trans people come from all socio-economic backgrounds and have all different experiences. That’s why we can’t keep generalizing the needs and preferences of the trans community, especially when such generalizations tend to focus on white, able-bodied, well-off trans people and ignore many marginalized groups.

When we work together as a community, we need to make sure that the needs of everyone are heard, and generalizations prevent us from doing this. Instead, let’s celebrate the diversity of the trans community and try to highlight as many different voices as possible!

thedreadvampy:

just for the record things looking just fuckin fantastic here on a Rainy Fascist Island

the Police, Crime and Sentencing Bill passed through Commons this week and it includes:

• a ban on protests that are ‘too noisy’ or 'alarm the public’ (as judged by the police)
• defacing statues or monuments is punishable by up to 10 years imprisonment
• preventing protests near enough Parliament to disrupt the free access of minister’s cars in any way
• Police can start to disperse any protests that 'disrupt the activities of an organisation’
• Police have the power to impose and enforce start and finish times on any protest
• The Home Secretary, Priti Fucking Patel, will have the power to create new laws on the fly without parliamentary consent to define what counts as “serious disruption” and what protests and public actions are illegal (which is. unhinged)
• Stop and search powers are widened
• (this is a different bill, but also there’s another law in the works which will make it impossible to convict police for any crimes committed while undercover)

It also contains a raft of “anti-trespassing laws” that specifically target GRT (Gypsy, Roma and Traveller) families, including:

• Police will have the power to stop, sieze and destroy anybody stopped by the road “with intent to reside” (meaning in practise that if you have no fixed address then you’re at risk)
• “Trespassing” on any land, including public or unowned land, with “intent to reside” is, again, a crime which gives police the right to arrest you and confiscate and destroy tents, caravans, mobile homes, cars etc.
• This means it’s only legal to camp on registered pitch sites, which the GRT Alliance says there are 1,700 families on the waiting list for and only 59 of
• Offenders under this trespassing clause can be fined (heavily) on the spot or imprisoned and have their families taken into care
• Previously in order for trespass and public camping to be illegal you had to be committing a crime or creating an active disruption or damage to the land (which certainly has been misused to target GRT people, bc people tend to pin any crimes in the area on GRT encampments even though in my experience as someone living on a major Traveler route it’s mostly that local people commit more crime when Travelers are paying through then try to frame the Travelers) - now the police will be able to raid a camp without any prior complaint just for being on the land

In short, #KillTheBill and fuck every MP complicit in allowing this authoritarian bullshit to reach the Lords despite massive and sustained public protest for the past year.

shriek-of-the-vermin:

people who have issues with the gay man flag existing shut up challenge nobody wants to talk to you

people who have issues with it being blue for boys shut up literally every other flag in the big four letters use pink and/or blue for a reason its colour association its fucking shorthand you mug nobody wants to talk to you

people who have issues that it looks like the lesbian flag gEE WHIZ IT’S ALMOST LIKE GAY MEN AND LESBIANS ARE REALLY GOD DAMN SIMILAR IN THAT WE’RE BOTH HOMOSEXUAL AND HAVE ALWAYS HAD AN INTERTWINED HISTORY LIKE JUMPING JUPITER’S BATMAN nobody wants to talk to you

eroticcannibal:

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But seriously if u all keep going on about the money wrt trans health care it will NEVER get better. You will just be able to be turned down a few more times before you die. That is all you will get. Address the problem or die without hormones.

Honestly I think this problem comes down to so many people not even having got through the wait list so I’m sure it makes sense to you that it’s about the money but it isnt! I am approaching the end of my second go! I’ve been doing this for nearly a decade! I’ve been on the shorter waitlists and it is no better! The shit they put people through kills people. That is what you are facing. That is what needs to change.

I never reblog beg but reblog this. People will keep dying if people dont realise what the problem is. I have been shouting at a brick wall for a decade no one wants to listen because arguing for money is easier. If this shit doesnt get fixed before my kid is old enough to use these services. Idk what I will do. Please start caring about this.

silly-stickman-comics:

ID: title of picture says “How can someone have so many disorders?” with a picture of a stick man and a question mark. The stick man asks questions like “This user has 8 disorders? Huh?”, “Are they faking?”, “Why do they have some diagnosed and some self-diagnosed disorders?”, and “3 types of neurodivergancies in 1 person? Aren’t the odds of that happening way too rare?”. The text below the stick man says, “If you’re active in mental health groups or if you yourself have a lot of diagnoses then you may be wondering what are the odds that someone has this many disorders?”. The picture below is a red stick figure holding up a paper marked as “info” in front of the original stick man. The text at the very bottom says “But it’s actually more common than you think! Keep these things in mind!”.

ID: A red piece of paper labeled as “info” with multiple jot notes. The jot notes say “lots of disorders are comorbid, meaning if you have one then you’re likely to have another (examples; anxiety & depression, autism & OCD, neurotic disorders & mood disorders, etc.)”, “the stigma and ableism one may face for having one disorder can result in trauma or major anxiety”, “If said trauma is experienced at a young age, it can develope into a more complex trauma-related disorder (DID, OSDD, personality disorders, Complex PTSD, etc)”, and “Untreated disorders can result in someone forming unhealthy coping mechanisms & more disorders (addiction, self harm, eating disorders, maladaptive daydreaming, etc)”.

Image ID: A red baby titled “born autistic & OCD” who grows into a child titled “developed trauma due to ableist bullying”. The child grows into a teen titled “copes via drugs” who then grows into an adult titled “Adult with many disorders”. The red adult is saying “shit”. Their diagnoses appear beside them, saying; Autistic, OCD, drug-induced psychosis, social phobia, depression, and stress-related chronic pain. Beneath them is a blue baby titled “born into abusive home” who then grows into a child titled “learned unhealthy behaviors to escape abuse”. The kid grows into a teen titled “uses sex, drugs, and fantasy as an escape” and then grows into an adult titled “adult with many disorders”. The disorders listed next to them are PTSD, BPD, DID, maladaptive daydreaming, hypersexual, and depression.

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airyairyaucontraire:

It bugs me every time I hear people getting angry about “humanising” someone who did terrible things, as if “humanise” means “forgive” or “sympathise with.” If you think bad or cruel or dangerous people aren’t human or shouldn’t be treated like humans you blind yourself to your own capacity to do wrong and you give up the opportunity to prevent further harm by understanding why people do these things and thus giving us a better chance to divert them from that path before they can do more damage.

Also how freaking old are you

guerrillatech: