Can The Monster Speak?, Paul B Preciado, trans. Frank Wynne 2020

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There are a lot of trans people who are just as deeply terrified of the true incoherence of gender as cis people

Paul B Preciado in “Can the Monster Speak?” stated that in order to transform, he set two laws greater than all rules instilled by patriarchal-colonial society: 1. Do away with the fear of being abnormal. This fear needs to be identified, quarantined, and eliminated from memory.

marginalized men bear the brunt of anti-masculinity in a way that removes that burden from white cishet men

One bad faith fascist went "some trans people don't require HRT so it must be taken away" And then you gringas went "let's call some trans people cissexual, that will fix things" Bitches, you can't out-gotcha semantics with fascists

Increíble cómo Jack Halberstam ha transicionado a Takeshi Kitano el género es una cosa loquísima

Cipheramnesia dunks on the word "theyfab" for a thread

Transfeminism will never get anywhere until more people internalize that misogyny really does harm people who are not women as deeply as it harms women and in many cases IN THE EXACT SAME WAY youll know it happens when people stop getting mad at trans men for experiencing the same misogyny as women

Adding Paul Preciado to this bc I saw someone accuse him of transmisogyny for talking about getting fucked by his cis lesbian girlfriend in Testo Junkie. Tired of trans people reading transmasc theorists in bad faith, rejecting them, and then asserting transmasculine epistemological nonexistence

the prevalence of radical feminism within the online trans community over other varieties of feminism, and the attempt to co-opt transfeminism for a radical feminist agenda just exposes how much even trans people cling to the binary to give their gender "meaning"

funny how binary transsexual exorsexist rhetoric likes to accuse nonbinary people of being elites getting pandered to because they "just change their outfit and pronouns" when the most common stereotype of an nb is a working class barista.

I can't legitimate it to myself because it would be an entirely id-soothing exercise but I am sorely tempted to make a biased "People Who Are Fucking Weird About Jack Halberstam, Leslie Feinberg, and Judith Butler"

actually no i kinda don't want to read a journal by someone who was in opposition to "Halberstam types" and "Leslie Feinberg and hir ilk" and thought you needed surgery to be trans

There's very real correlation between unending discoursing and being anglophone btw. "The enby cissexuals materially oppress me" My sister in transness, you're an American who never stops posting, you materially oppress most of the world far more than random enby from my trans charity ever could.

marginalized men and mascs should be able to engage with the way that white cis theory can be weaponized to decontextualize marginalized men and present them as the most privileged member of their class, but every time I open my mouth someone wants to reinstate the binary I am trying to trouble

a cis white lesbian can sure oppress a gay black trans man AND his oppression will be distinctly gendered as well as racialized. *jazz hands* INTERSECTIONALITY *jazz hands*

this is what omegaverse took from you

It would behoove a lot of trans people to remember that "privilege" was formulated by a cis white woman who, IN HER ORIGINAL WORK, says: "Please do not generalize from my papers" and "every participant has an intricate "politics of location" (Adrienne Rich) within the systems of social power"

honestly bizarre to me to think antitransmasculinity isn't "intersectional" patriarchy has made everyone androcentric, even when it is incredibly obvious that "transphobia" and "transphobia as affected by perceived sex and gender (even when that gender is Man)" are different

i perceive shrimps colours of trans microbeef that the cis mind could never comprehend

Oh, and radical feminism can never be truly trans-affirming

Trans men, trans women, and nonbinary people all encounter transmisogyny, transandrophobia, and exorsexism in varying and constantly changing amounts based on context and other external factors, and ungendered "transphobia" is the Venn diagram of all three, not a thing in itself.

This is gaslighting-- if you call a trans person "cis" you are openly questioning whether they are trans enough.

bro biologists won't even agree on the definition of "alive" you think you can get them to back you on "two genders" lmao

The thing about terminological arguments is that terminology doesn't actually matter but solidarity and respect for other trans people do. And a lot of people use the former to signal the absence of the latter.

o cute they think I was ever part of the transsexual mean girl clique

"Facts don't care about your feelings" is the most ironic way for a transsexual to respond to another trans person saying "sex is pattern recognition not a real single thing that your endocrine system changes"

no no trust me THIS system of categorizing people into one of two categories with no nuance will work perfectly

you know, I like the knight aesthetic as much as the next pre-raphaelite fan, but one of these days we gotta work on getting ourselves some non-dynamics-play dyke narratives

I am happy to add you to my lists, if any of them call to you. I'd rather all the people with these opinions go hang out together in a place where other trans people can avoid it as needed

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