They're so delulu it's almost cute

FWIW, I definitely get why a lot of trans men and trans mascs want or need to keep their communities in "women's spaces" (I came up in Feminist Media, LOL) but I do not think it's fair to take advantage of that without actively working to make those "women's spaces" inclusive of trans women.

Like with everything else about being a dude, maybe you didn't create the double standard, but you definitely have a choice about how much you want to uphold it

I think working for Raytheon is bad and so is making yourself into a walking, talking advert for the segregation of trans people in society.

I think a crucial thing is to understand that this is, in effect, a patriarchal bargain being made. And that we can analyse it without having to pretend it doesn't confer benefits just because it is a poisoned chalice. Privileged groups within minorities do this all the time.

Going full Bush-era AntiAmerican over on twitter and it's so fucking fun I'm not gonna lie.

Reading theory

I adore trans women. My god what a breed we are

I don't think most British people realise just what a state of anti-trans extremism they labour under and how normalised it is. The UK literally would not be able to join the EU as it doesn't meet its minimum human rights obligations. You're Europe's Florida.

🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈⚖️🇭🇺 A legal earthquake - CJEU finds Hungary to have violated EU law on multiple counts with its anti-LGBT+ legislation (as expected) but also for the first time in history, in an EU law-reshaping precedent, finds Hungary to violate Art 2 TEU in a self-standing manner.

Looking for people who were around (read: older than 12 like me) for online trans women's spaces in the 2000s. Particularly those with knowledge and insight into "Harry Benjamin Syndrome" and how it links to Susan's Place and other areas of interest. Trying to work some things out.

If you fit the description, please help Alice out!

Looking for people who were around (read: older than 12 like me) for online trans women's spaces in the 2000s. Particularly those with knowledge and insight into "Harry Benjamin Syndrome" and how it links to Susan's Place and other areas of interest. Trying to work some things out.

A second essay may be in the works.

I would be more sad about the BBC if their news and current affairs teams hadn’t spent years fermenting a moral panic against a minority while firing everyone who tried to report on the transphobic conspiracy theories. No job losses are good news but I don’t need tax-funded anti trans content.

Bu-but they all turned into evil right wing propagandists just like their masters demanded. Surely they'd be rewarded forever for it.

Holy shit I actually killed COGIATI.

No, man who I spent years helping out only to have you sexually assault me, I don't think will approve that request.

It is, however, striking how clueless and cruel these questions are for people for whom gender is not an easy, settled issue. And just clumsy writing/reasoning.

I'm cis and I got "Your COGIATI result value is: 50 Which means that you fall within the following category: COGIATI classification THREE, ANDROGYNE" which... might be because I couldn't decide if I should pretend I was "in a male body" or something. Also I don't drive and never have, sooooo

2 decades postop

Nah.

got a 130 (Probable Transsexual) on this test, and: it's weird being 14 years old in 2009 and having this test and Gen X trans women's tragic blogs about their lives as, like, internal roadmaps for your own transition. i'm kinda glad i went off-roading, so to speak.

Average Susan's Place poster upon hearing that their actions have consequences.

I am in reality a cis-female butch. For question about like crossdressing etc i took it as being about how i feel about feminine expression, and i said i am on hrt since i am on intrinsic estrogen.

quiet androgynes, a probable transsexual is talking

yeah i (nb lesbian) got "androgyne" w/ this fun sentence: "it is recommended that you recognize that your gender issues are real, but that extreme action regarding them should be viewed with great caution." which feels like an old school way of saying nb ppl shouldn't transition lol.

It's striking that AGP has taken off even in "moderate" circles considering its one of the worst scientific theories I have ever encountered

Oh god not the whole 'AGP vs homosexual transsexual' nonsense (IYKYK). As someone who was 'early' onset has had a vaginoplasty and happens to have only dated men, there's nothing more misogynistic and vile to me than the idea that I only transitioned to 'get' straight men.

Very possible I WOULD have transitioned earlier if not for that particular cognitohazard so yeah uh I have FEELINGS about Brianna Wu and Susan's

Alright Brianna, let's look at exactly what you're talking about here.

the person the quote tweets about, incidentally, is gay, and this ruling was absolutely about gay kids too

I don't think a Supreme Court decision defining conversion therapy as protected speech is a trans specific issue. I think we might be losing sight of a few things here.

I really have so little patience for birthday boy routines. If you're going to come to my comments to do some kind of birthday boyesque "I'm just a little guy, with glasses" justification, I'm not going to be polite about it.

there's absolutely nothing funny about Kristi Noem's chud husband putting two canteloupes down his shirt and making the 2015 instagram face. it's very important that you dont laugh at the dog looking on in horror, knowing its fate is sealed. it's Important for the trans community somehow

He is not your daddy and you are not his children. The solution is to read words as they are written and process them in the language centres of your brain like a grown up.

We may need to consider that bluesky culture, particularly trans bluesky culture, is in need of a course correction. Wanting him to word every post so perfectly that even an adversary couldn't find another meaning in a statement is not a standard you can reasonably hold anybody to.

I need gen z girls to understand that millennial women in their thirties were never cultural hegemons. Most of the loudest feminist voices were just raped women. And that sex positivity was collective therapy to try and show everyone that those raped women weren't to blame for being raped.

The AFAB bumhole discourse on twitter has revealed the extent of the cultfem detachment from reality. Mass hallucinations that slutwalks were promoting having lots of sex and being kinked out or whatever and not explicitly a protest against "what was she wearing" rape culture. Delusional stuff.

I think I'm done watching cis people run around in idiot circles and the delusions they ask us to take part in as part of it. Fuck this. Hope it all rots.

You posted no facts. You just invented reasoning based out of your ideological investment in fairy tales about the immutability of sex. You cannot demonstrate any real world advantage. All evidence points to cis women having massive sporting advantages over trans women. Not the other way around.

okay i’ll be real, i need people to stop being like “this trans sports ban isn’t going to affect any trans women, it’s going to affect mostly cis women because there’s no trans athletes…” like 1) there’s a reason for that and 2) it’s not actually about sports and yes it does affect trans women

when institutions like the IOC make proclamations banning trans women from the olympics and give poorly cited “research” to justify the decision… including erroneously saying “there’s no evidence that testosterone suppression or gender affirming care reduces the advantages of testosterone puberty…”

we really just need to ban professional sports at this point i s2g like ppl are rotting their brains out by thinking of everyone as like olympic gold medalists

Story in three, very short parts. Cis people and their ideological, emotional commitment to ignoring facts and reality, huh.

It's unsurprising that daycare for rich kids too useless to get a real job is headed by fascists who have no belief in science, justice, or equality.