Uma Mulher Trans, que também é empresária tailandesa, Jakkaphong Anne Jakrajutatip, comprou a Organização Miss Universo por US$ 20 milhões (RM 94,38 milhões). Jakkapong, que também é um magnata das celebridades da mídia, é uma defensora dos direitos da Comunidade Trans, que estrelou a versão tailandesa do reality show Project Runway e Shark Tank. Ela também fala abertamente sobre suas experiências como trans ao estabelecer a Life Inspired For Thailand Foundation... Segundo a Forbes , ela é considerada uma das empresárias mais ricas da Ásia e com esse novo passo haverá uma nova era no concurso de beleza que é muito famoso entre asiáticas e latinas. Em suas redes sociais, ele enviou uma mensagem a todos os seus admiradores que ficaram surpresos com a notícia de que a empresária foi quem comprou a referida organização. "Estamos incrivelmente honrados em adquirir a Organização Miss Universo e trabalhar com sua equipe de liderança visionária", disse Jakrajutatip. A partir do ano que vem, a competição anual aceitará mulheres e mães casadas. Anteriormente, apenas mulheres solteiras, entre 18 e 28 anos, que nunca haviam sido casadas ou tinham filhos, podiam se inscrever.

There's something I've been meaning to talk about for a while now.

It's the impact of the trans rights movement on the Romani feminist and gay rights movements.

Now, most Romani rights organizations are very disconnected from the Romani masses. They really don't speak for us at all. Most of them get private fundings from the EU and billionaires like Soros (x). That's what leads a lot of Romani feminist groups to supporting the sex trade (x), despite Romani women being among the first victims of sex trafficking in Europe (x).

With the trans rights movement, we've got Romani feminist groups praising Romani men for taking the place of Romani women. Antonella Lerca Duda, a Romanian Romani transwoman, is featured on many Romani feminist posts whose aim is to present empowering Romani women (x) (x). Antonella Lerca Duda is "the first transexual Romani woman to run for mayor in Romania".

German Romani feminist organization RomaniPhen even chose to include his portrait in their post about powerful Romani women - instead of chosing to picture an actual Romani woman (x). Duda also created a "sex work" organization that fights for the decriminalization of prostitution. He's not our sister and he doesn't fight for Romani women. Yet he was even invited to co-write and star in a play from the only female-only Romani theater troup in the world, Giuvlipen, once again taking the job that could have gone to an actual Romani female playwright and to an actual Romani female actress (x).

In Spain, the trans movement is piggybacking on the back of the Romani rights movement. "Trans women" and "Gitanas" are associated in a manner much similar to what the TRA movement is doing in the US by associating "Trans people" and "Black women". Thus Spanish Senator Teresa Ruiz-Sillero recently said that ""Personas LGTBI (en particular trans), inmigrantes, personas gitanas" se considerarán "colectivos vulnerables de atención prioritaria"." ("LGBTI people (trans in particular), immigrants, romani people" will be considered "vulnerable groups to give a priority attention to") (x)

Many tweets from popular TRA Spanish accounts associate Romani women and trans women (I'm only gonna add three examples because this post is already long; you can look up "gitanas + trans" on twitter to judge by yourself):

And many Spanish Romani activists and organizations are denouncing TERFs as fascist and fighting for self-ID laws

Nevermind the fact that Romani women desperately need sex-segregated spaces considering that Romani women are particularly vulnerable to domestic violence and sexual assaults (x). Nevermind the fact that saying Romani women are not female because we're Romani is inherently racist.

But it's even worse when we think about the Romani gay rights movement. As opposed to many other gay rights movements, the Romani one is very recent. Which means we never got to build up a proper LGB Romani movement detached from "queer theory". We never got a movement only dedicated to SSA Roma, because trans and queer activists are behind all our LGBT groups. Gender rhetoric is deeply embedded in the Romani gay rights movement.

Here's a clip from the ERRC, the largest Romani rights organization in Europe, organizing a workshop on LGBTIQ Roma in the Balkan and in Spain. No lesbian or bi woman is present in this video. There's only one (straight) woman. The person with the longest speaking time is a TIM. This is particularly bad considering Romani orgs have a tendency to ignore Romani women's voices (x).

Ara Art is one of the largest Romani LGBT organization in Europe. On their website, they have interviews with trans Roma. These interviews are deeply sexist and homophobic: here's one in which a gay boy raised in a homophobic family comes out as a trans woman. This story is framed in a positive light.

Romani organizations are repeating the lie that Stonewall was started by "trans women" and are further erasing gay men and lesbians from their own history (x). They publish articles framing LGB Roma's sexuality as "sexual dissidence" (x). By supporting the trans rights movement, orgs like Ververipen, Ara Art and ERRC are supporting the sterilization of LGB Roma. All over Europe, Romani organizations hold conferences to discuss "LGBTIQ rights" (x) and are interviewing Romani TRAs (x), all in order to fight for trans rights (that last link even includes an interview with a biromantic asexual transman lmao). There's no LGB rights movement that exists outside of the gender realm for Roma.

source: Asociacion Gitanas Feministas por la Diversidad (x) and E-Romnja, one of the largest Romani feminist org in Romania (x)

Gadje newspapers are writing articles about "Queer Roma" (x). Gadje academics are writing gender theory thesis about "Queer Roma" (x).

This doesn't help LGB Roma. In my so-called progressive, Western European country, my Romani relatives used to tell me that LGBs were deviant perverts while I was growing up. My local Romani community openly calls for the lynching of LGB Roma. Most European Roma are deeply religious (muslim or christian), sometimes to the point of being fundamentalists. The vast majority of European Roma are working class and don't care about "queer theory".

Yet the associations that are supposed to be fighting for us are reinforcing the idea that LGBs are perverts and that not supporting the homophobic trans ideology makes you a fascist. Since Romani rights groups are all very recent, we never even got the chance to make our own movements before we got swipped into the gender trend.

The trans rights movement is actively harming Romani women, LGB Roma, Romani feminist and Romani gay rights movements.

Been a while since I updated this, and since it's pride month... From left to right: (I'm largely assuming people who know Vampires Don't Belong in Fairytales are the ones reading this but I'll add the briefest of descriptions I guess??) Louis: An actual gay fairy. Do not try to use that as an insult anywhere near him. I mean just don't use that an insult. Like, wtf. Tyrian: Bi. And polyamorous. Vampire fairy king. I'm not sorry. Will: Demi. Human. Court jester. Likes Shakespeare. Worries he is a 'billionaire romance' protagonist. He is right to be worried. (I mean, he's not, but he is???) Sara: Ace. Elf queen of Sheva. Led a rebellion to depose a tyrant. Runs not-a-guild to rent out heroes and other story people. Aurelia: Aromantic. Cat yokai. Ex-fool. Basically a bodyguard for Tyrian, and his best friend. Azalea: Lesbian. Succubus. Love potion dealer. Yes, love potions are illegal.   Senna. Lesbian. Djinni. I .. spoilers??? Kiko: transwoman. Fox yokai. Runs a yokai bar for foreign types in the Dark Realm capital of Fairyland. Hettie: Lesbian. Vampire human. Can't be doing with this vampire lark. Training to be the Otherworlds' first magical girl. Hugo: Demi. Vampire human. Privateer - which in this universe means 'pirate hunter'. Unlike other vampires, can't do magic at all. He doesn't care. Punching works fine. Rosie: Demi. Human. Witch. Lives in the middle of an enchanted woodland in a cottage covered in flowers. Doesn't like people much. Originally from Earth. On the verge of vampirism and Not Okay with it. Zaran: Non-binary (and intersex). Human.  Paral of Gandar. (Paral is the Gandarian non binary equivalent of prince/princess) Likes horses. Likes painting. Doesn't like country getting conquered by a warlord. Doing something about it. all characters (c) Alicia L. Wright Vampires Don't Belong in Fairytales (c) Alicia L. Wright Miss Prince, The Map is the Treasure, Vampires Don't Belong in Fairyland, Magic and Other Things in Bottles and Fairy Roots (c) Alicia L. Wright

Yeah, Trump released that video. Yeah, it's awful. Yeah, the latest assault on trans rights is horrifying. . But it's clearly not working. . Take a look at UK currently. As I write this, half a million people in Britain have taken the streets in London to demand changes. The cost of living there is skyrocketing, and wages aren't keeping up. . The working class is being squeezed tighter than ever before, and at least in UK, people are fed up and taking action. . It's not in the news, because of course it isn't. But guess what is? The nonstop coverage of trans issues. Trans people and our allies are outraged at it all - and rightfully so. But the more we have to focus on protecting trans rights, the less we focus on the thousands of ways the billionaire class is fucking the 99.9% of humanity every single day. . Based on polling in both the US and UK, few seem to be swayed one way or another by the onslaught on trans rights. Allies are still allies, transphobes are still transphobes. But I think the former is starting to realize they have more in common with a blue haired they/them than they do the billionaire class. . They're screwing us all, and the only way they can keep doing that is the divide and conquer approach. . It's not working. We're going to beat these bastards. . . . . . . #transbeauty #transwomen #transgirls #transgirlsrock #transgendergirl #transgenders #transgenderpride🌈 #transgenderfemale #transgenderwomen #transgenderawareness #transgendercommunity #transwriter #writersofig #writersofinstagram #writersden #queerlove #queerwomen #queerfemme #queergirl #questioninggender #lgbtaccount #lgbtq2s #queerwriters #transwomanofinstagram #transwoman #questioningmygender #transwriters #transgirlsarerealgirls #transmotivation https://www.instagram.com/p/CoLAVS7O1xB/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Mjestamode Student ~ Paris Newville

Art by @fumikomiyasaki

Theme song to listen to while reading ^^

Name: Paris Newville

Gender: Transwoman

Pronouns: She/Her

Age: 18

Species: Poodle Beastwoman

Orientation: Bisexual

Twisted from: Georgette from Oliver and Company

Birthday: 11/22

Zodiac: Scorpio

Height: 195cm

Eye Color: Diamond Blue

Hair Color: Pearl White

Homeland: Queendom of Roses

Dorm: Mjestamode

School Year: 3rd

Occupation: Fashion Model

Club: Fashion Club

Best Subject: Art

Dominant Hand: Right

Favorite Food: Bleu Cheese Chicken Caesar Salad

Least Favorite Food: Anything Cheap

Dislikes: Being Basic,Cheap Makeup,Stores not having her shoe size

Hobby: Collecting Pink Clothes,Social Media,Being Extra,Pour Painting,Designer Shoe Collector

Talents: Makeup,Catwalking,Seduction,Outfit Picking

Elemental Magic: Water

Unique Magic: "Wrapped Pretty" - Focused on one person and if hit with pink beam turns the person's outfit into whatever Paris wants them to be wearing and they can't remove it for two hours.

OC’s Lore Summary: Gorgeous spoiled girl from a family of models,actors/actresses,billionaire/royalty spouses,and pop music artists. Paris was born in luxury and has never wanted for long. Works as a model for Étoile chérie,Fashion label owned by the Walter twins's mother. Tends to always be over the top and sexy to keep up her image. Known to create Expressionism art with just pouring paint that sells for stupid amounts cause of her family name on the pieces.

Personality: Spoiled but not fully vain. She is kind and caring to others til they may be showing they trying to be better then her. Also has a sensual side as thats her model image so she will be lewd sometimes if she needs to be.

Fun Facts: Paris is already known for being controversial as when 7 she told her parents she was not a boy and they fully supported her in public which made others upset since she was so young.

Her shoe size is 14(US size like) which is hard to find in stores and one of the things that will get her angry as she loves shoes.

Takes 2hrs to get her hair,skin,makeup, and uniform ready to go to class and is always late for homeroom but looks fabulous.

Maker of the 5mil viewed blog list of "Hot Boys of NRC" she made. All the boys on this list are aware of it.

She flirts with alot of people at NRC. Her current objective is Kreo as she likes the idea of being the wife of the soon to be owner of a fashion label. He isn't repulsed by her as he finds her insight valuable and having a model so close by convenient. They tend to exchange suggestive words but its more Kreo just entertaining her....maybe.

Family

The Newvilles are a well known family of producing women who are beautiful and tend to enter the high society lifestyle.

They started as retail workers shockingly to being as they are now.

Paris is the granddaughter of the current heads of the family who spoil her more then her parents.

One of the richest families in the Queendom of Roses.

Owns a makeup brand

Tends to only support those with Newville blood or ties. Rarely does charity unless it helps their image if they need the upkeep.

Criticized alot that they expose their young teen family members to things way too soon.

Unknowingly to Paris her mother been using her transgender journey like a PR stunt to make money as her mother knows it causes drama.

some good articles i’ve read this year

monica lewinsky gets the last laugh

enjoli

we considered ourselves to be a powerful culture

i was caroline calloway

frasier has always had a maris problem

cheer is built on a pyramid of broken bodies

do economists actually know what wealth is?

why do women bully each other at work?

love after life: nobel-winning physicist richard feynman’s extraordinary letter to his departed wife

robert pattinson: a dispatch from isolation

you want a confederate monument? my body is a confederate monument

has harvard’s david sinclar found the fountain of youth?

the race for 57th place: china’s unrecognized ethnic minority

inside kylie jenner’s web of lies - and why she’s no longer a billionaire

mean girls of the er: the alarming nurse culture of bullying and hazing

“emily in paris” and the rise of ambient tv

i am a transwoman. i am in the closet. i am not coming out. (this made me cry. it’s very powerful, but it made me cry)

my family’s slave (this also made me cry)

As a transwoman frim Scotland i took one hard look at jk and all i thino about them is "wank stain"

I see ‘bored billionaire trying to stay relevant’

Cancel culture is real. And it’s conservative.

Osita Enwanevu  has a rather baffling piece up The New Republic that’s garnering a lot of responses. Titled “The Cancel Culture Con,” the essay makes a few points:

1. Cancel culture doesn’t seem to accomplish anything, since all the higher-profile instances of cancellation haven’t led to anyone’s career actually being ruined. 

2. Cancel culture should be understood simply as newly empowered groups seeking to express their righteous anger.

3. Conservatives do cancel culture-isms all the time, even though they’re not commonly regarded as such (Berri Weiss’ work demonizing BDS is held up as a fitting example).

4. The only people who complain about cancel culture is just jealous hypocrites and therefore Dave Chappelle is the same as Berri Weiss. (Also even though Dave Chappelle is making tons of money and beloved by millions he is actually unfunny and no longer relevant.)

5. In spite of not being a big deal, cancel culture is good because marginalized groups still suffer in today’s America (to prove this point, he ends with a graphic description of the beating of Muhlaysia Booker, a transwoman whose assault was livestreamed by rednecks and who was later found murdered).  

Now what makes this baffling is the pace of Enwanevu’s self-contradictions. As others have pointed out repeatedly, this argument just doesn’t make sense. If cancelling really doesn’t work--which its advocates proudly insist is the case--and if cancel culture is actually so bad at what it’s purported to do that cancelled people seem to benefit from cancellation, then why bother defending it? Is this defeatism, or something more sinister?

Enwanevu gets to the verge of admitting that something more sinister is afoot, but he pulls back before coming to grips with such a realization. This comes with his criticism of the contemptible Berri Weiss. Berri’s a whiner and an idiot, and, notably, a huge fucking hypocrite. She’ll oink sadly about celebrity cancellation, but then demand punitive censorship against those who dare support actions protesting Israel’s apartheid. 

The point here--obvious, but somehow unacknowledged--is that cancel culture actually does hurt people and censor thoughts, but such harm is inflicted almost entirely upon leftists or others who seek to materially disrupt the status quo. Efforts are underway to formally criminalize participation in BDS. The Obama administration viciously prosecuted drone pilots who attempted to whistleblow US war crimes, going so far as to freeze their bank accounts to prevent them access to legal defense. That is literal, direct government censorship. And, no surprise, it was initiated by a putatively woke politician, the sort of cool liberal who would never use bad words in public.

The widespread embrace of cancel culture is the natural result of the rightward slide of mainstream liberalism. It provides catharsis for its purveyors, a sense of doing something, anything in the face of abject of hopelessness (or, more cynically, gaining momentary satisfaction by censuring someone you don’t like, larger goals be damned). It’s been allowed to thrive precisely because the powerful are insulated from its effects. And it’s come with the added bonus of providing the powers that be a new means of selectively silencing anyone who gets a little too close to actually changing stuff. 

Consider three examples: Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton, and Donald Trump. Trump was subjected to the process of cancellation approximately forty five thousand times during the 2016 campaign. He suffered nothing. Even if he had lost, he’d still be a billionaire, still exist above the rule of law, and still be regular fixture in American media. Hillary Clinton had an appalling civil rights record and repeatedly worked to cover up sexual assaults committed by her husband--precisely the sort of once-tolerated behaviors cancellers claim to seek to de-normalize. But outside of a few hard-left attempts that gained zero mainstream traction, no efforts were made to cancel Clinton. Indeed, those who attempted to bring up her shameful past were themselves subject to cancellation. Sanders, meanwhile, has about the best civil rights record imaginable for an American man in his 70’s. He and his supporters are nonetheless popularly compared to Trump--cancelled via the transitive property of wokeness--not because of anything Sanders has done or said, but because of his tone and posture.��

This is how things work because it’s how the system is designed to work. This is why cancel culture has become so pervasive so quickly: because it is conservative. 

We can argue as to whether cancel culture is reactionary or simply nihilistic. (I think it can be both, depending on its particular iteration). The effect, however, is always the same: an abandonment of left-material goals in favor of a superficial “politics” which views language policing as a means and an end. This is why Enwanevu can blithely dismiss criticisms of the ineffectiveness of cancelling, even as his essay is centered upon delineating examples of such ineffectiveness: he is simply unconcerned with the actual effects of cancelling. He therefore sees fit to end his piece with a description of the brutal beating of a trans woman--not because he wishes to advocate for policies that would make such violence occur less frequently, but to appropriate the woman’s pain and eventual death to serve as a backdrop validating the righteous anger of those who seek to cancel others. It’s not about effects. It’s not about winning. It’s about feeling right. And when the only option liberals have for political engagement is to join a movement based upon the embrace of defeat… well, that’s conservatism. 

John, I’m going to start with the news. I wanted you to hear it straight from me: today, I’m suspending our campaign for president. From the bottom of my heart, thank you for everything you have poured into this campaign. I know that when we set out, this was not the news you ever wanted to hear. It is not the news I ever wanted to share. But I refuse to let disappointment blind me — or you — to what we’ve accomplished. We didn’t reach our goal, but what we have done together — what you have done — has made a lasting difference. It’s not the scale of the difference we wanted to make, but it matters — and the changes will have ripples for years to come. What we have done — and the ideas we have launched into the world, the way we have fought this fight, the relationships we have built — will carry through for the rest of this election, and the one after that, and the one after that. So think about it: We have shown that it is possible to build a grassroots movement that is accountable to supporters and activists and not to wealthy donors — and to do it fast enough for a first-time candidate to build a viable campaign. Never again can anyone say that the only way that a newcomer can get a chance to be a plausible candidate is to take money from corporate executives and billionaires. That’s done. We have shown that it is possible to inspire people with big ideas, possible to call out what’s wrong and to lay out a path to make this country live up to its promise. We have shown that race and justice — economic justice, social justice, environmental justice, criminal justice — are not an afterthought, but are at the heart of everything that we do. We have shown that a woman can stand up, hold her ground, and stay true to herself — no matter what. We have shown that we can build plans in collaboration with the people who are most affected. This campaign became something special, and it wasn’t because of me. It was because of you. I am so proud of how you fought this fight alongside me: you fought it with empathy and kindness and generosity — and of course, with enormous passion and grit. Some of you may remember that long before I got into electoral politics, I was asked if I would accept a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau that was weak and toothless. And I replied that my first choice was a consumer agency that could get real stuff done, and my second choice was no agency and lots of blood and teeth left on the floor. In this campaign, we have been willing to fight, and, when necessary, we left plenty of blood and teeth on the floor. I can think of one billionaire who has been denied the chance to buy this election. And we did all of this without selling access for money. Together, you and 1,250,000 people gave more than $112 million dollars to support this campaign. And we did it without selling one minute of my time to the highest bidder. People said that would be impossible. But you did that. Together, we built a grassroots campaign that had some of the most ambitious organizing targets ever — and then we turned around and surpassed them. Our staff and volunteers on the ground knocked on over 22 million doors across the country. We made 20 million phone calls and sent more than 42 million texts to voters. That’s truly astonishing. It is. We also advocated for fixing our rigged system in a way that will make it work better for everyone. A year ago, people weren’t talking about a two-cent wealth tax, Universal Child Care, cancelling student loan debt for 43 million Americans while reducing the racial wealth gap, breaking up big tech, or expanding Social Security. And now they are. And because we did the work of building broad support for all of those ideas across this country, these changes could actually be implemented by the next president. A year ago, people weren’t talking about corruption, and they still aren’t talking about it enough — but we’ve moved the needle, and a hunk of our anti-corruption plan is already embedded in a House bill that is ready to go when we get a Democratic Senate. And we also did it by having fun and by staying true to ourselves. We ran from the heart. We ran on our values. We ran on treating everyone with respect and dignity. But it was so much more. Four-hour selfie lines and pinky promises with little girls. A wedding at one of our town halls. And we were joyful and positive through all of it. We ran a campaign not to put people down, but to lift them up — and I loved pretty much every minute of it. I may not be in the race for president in 2020, but this fight — our fight — is not over. And our place in this fight has not ended. Because for every young person who is drowning in student debt, for every family struggling to pay the bills on two incomes, for every mom worried about paying for prescriptions or putting food on the table, this fight goes on. For every immigrant and African American and Muslim and Jewish person and Latinx and transwoman who sees the rise in attacks on people who look or sound or worship like them, this fight goes on. For every person alarmed by the speed with which climate change is bearing down upon us, this fight goes on. And for every American who desperately wants to see our nation healed and some decency and honor restored to our government, this fight goes on. When I voted on Tuesday at the elementary school down the street, a mom came up to me. She said she has two small children, and they have a nightly ritual. After the kids have brushed teeth and read books and gotten that last sip of water and done all the other bedtime routines, they do one last thing before the two little ones go to sleep: Mama leans over them and whispers, “Dream big.” And the children together reply, “Fight hard.” So if you leave with only one thing, it must be this: Choose to fight only righteous fights, because then when things get tough — and they will — you will know that there is only option ahead of you: nevertheless, you must persist. You should be so proud of what we’ve done together — what you have done over this past year. Our work continues, the fight goes on, and big dreams never die. Thanks for being a part of this, Elizabeth

But Musk and his colleagues should heed the warning that the Italian Futurist movement provides. This love of disruption and progress at all costs led Marinetti and his fellow artists to construct what some call a “a church of speed and violence.” They embraced fascism, pushed aside the idea of morality, and argued that innovation must never, for any reason, be hindered. Marinetti and his movement cheered, for example, when Italy invaded Northern Africa. “Italian bombardment of Tripoli from biplanes and dirigibles was the first air bombardment in the history of the world, and thus a major technological innovation,” writes Eugene Ostashevsky. Today, some technologists praise drone warfare with similar language. “Though they painted themselves as scions of a new age, the Fascists and Futurists were really ultraconservatives ideologically,” writes Gabriel T. Rubin. Again, sound familiar? In their never-ending quest for progress at any cost, today’s companies are flirting with fascism themselves.

I invite you to read this article alongside this NY Mag article about Martine Rothblatt, formerly Martin Rothblatt, the now transwoman founder of Sirius XM, who is often cited as the “highest paid female CEO”. Rothblatt is well-known for not only being a entrepreneur but for her commitment to transhumanist thought; she often makes the news for her religious transhumanist organization, the Terasem Movement, which advocates for extending human life through transferring consciousness outside the body, and for her attempt to make a sentient robot that is a perfect mimic both physically and “mentally” of her wife (known as BINA48). Rothblatt founded a biotechnology company (United Therapeutics) specializing in transplantation technology, including research into manufacturing human-compatible organs by cloning pigs. Rothblatt is often praised for charitably founding this company after her daughter was diagnosed with a life threatening lung disease, but United Therapeutics was recently sued for creating contracts with suppliers that blocked the release of a generic version of the same life-saving drug used to treat his daughter’s condition. While I don’t support the Federalist’s disruptive right-wing agenda, this piece on their website by the deplatformed feminist Jennifer Bilek is one of the most comprehensive articles tracking the very wealthy male people funding transgender causes, which tend not to include direct and effective medical assistance to transgender people nor advocacy for the real human rights issues that severely gender non-conforming people face, but instead lobbying for laws that obfuscate sex-based rights and the creation of capitalist medical infrastructure that affirms the gender related lifestyle choices that older, usually white males make, expanding the elective medical services market to new populations (such as children and lesbians). She notes Martine Rothblatt, among others, being one of the billionaires both financially and personally invested in the expansion of medical technology companies and pharmaceutical markets, who can “pull strings” behind the public scenes among upper class political and business networks to advance her favorite causes. I leave you with this quote from the NY Mag article, from Rothblatt’s son, Gabriel, which should chill you given Rothblatt’s simultaneous power and hubris and the history recorded above of people who have believed intensely that human limitations were an unfair restriction on their infinite wills, to be broken as a matter of principle. If you are transgender I ask you to think very carefully about whether this philosophy and its historical precedent is something you wish to guide legal advocacy for your rights and the medical infrastructure that you must interface with to access gender transition: As adults, the siblings have hashed over Martine’s choice, Gabriel says. If genitalia aren’t defining, then why put yourself and the people you love through such a painful process? Gabriel says he long ago made peace with Martine’s decision: “She did what she felt was right, the right choice for her.” But he also sees that it may have sprung as much from her lifelong determination to cross all borders as from a compulsion that was bred in the bone. “Sometimes it’s necessary to be a living example,” Gabriel told me. “If the point was just rhetorical, if this was just some philosophical scrabbling, the message wouldn’t have been as strong.” Then he brings up what he calls the familiar joke about why the libertarian chicken crossed the road. “The libertarian chicken dreams of the day when no one asks them why they crossed the road. It’s your body. It’s your choice what you choose to do with it. It’s not even our place or our business to be judging them or asking them why.”

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Well I'm trying to live my life as I'm extremely vulnerable and been in 4 different psychiatric hospitals for a total of 10 admissions ranging from a week to 45 days and I've visited the psychiatric ward with police visits to my house approximately 40 times so I'm very mentally ill and I have to shield myself from people literally otherwise I could have a full blown nervous breakdown and I'm very concerned about my finances and 35 years of working only got me extremely ill. I earned my SSD and I don't need the Republicans to take away what I worked hard for so they can find tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires! #emilyiannielli #taxbreaks #millionaire #billionaire #bipolardisorder #transgender #jobloss #discrimination #transwoman #maletofemale #socialsecurity #socialsecuritydisability #medicare #autism #feminine #femininefashion #psychiatry #psychiatrichospital #police #emt #suicideattempt #suicide #financialworries #republican #republicanssuck #donaldtrumpsucks (at Levittown, New York)

Conversations about transness are difficult to have. . We're under constant attack from hateful reactionaries who want to use us as a scapegoat to distract from the thousands of ways their billionaire masters are destroying the world and making a peaceful life more difficult. . As a result, discourse is largely focused on protecting each other. . Discussions around the various intersections of privilege and personal history become rigid, dogmatic, orthodox, because any step outside can - and will - give the hateful reactionaries more fuel to dump on the fire. . I don't disagree that such orthodoxy - for now - is necessary, and as a result I will not engage with any discussion on the ways I disagree with the overarching trans narratives (and I encourage you not to either, especially not in replying to this post). Instead, I will only lament the position we've been forced into. . The transgender experience is diverse, and the more we have to close ranks, the less we're able to explore the various ways we're affected by our transness in a nuanced way. . It's a drag, yo. . . . . . #transbeauty #transwomen #transgirls #transgirlsrock #transgendergirl #transgenders #transgenderpride🌈 #transgenderfemale #transgenderwomen #transgenderawareness #transgendercommunity #transwriter #writersofig #writersofinstagram #writersden #queerlove #queerwomen #queerfemme #queergirl #questioninggender #lgbtaccount #lgbtq2s #queerwriters #transwomanofinstagram #transwoman #questioningmygender #transwriters #transgirlsarerealgirls #transmotivation https://www.instagram.com/p/CcDfraDOSAo/?utm_medium=tumblr

If you're a cis person, and you find yourself debating anything to do with transgender people, take a step back and ask yourself why you care. . Did you care about the integrity of women's sports, about who used what washroom, about the healthcare children receive, before the fancy man on tv told you to care about it? . The billionaire class is pillaging this planet. They have been for a lot longer than you've been alive. And the millionaire class are their pawns. . The fancy man on tv doesn't care about you. He doesn't care about women's sports. And he certainly doesn't care about trans people. He's making millions of dollars a year spreading hatred, he has no incentive to stop. But he doesn't care either way. . The billionaire class doesn't care either. They encourage the spread of hatred only because it distracts you from actually making your life better by pushing back against their greed. . Meanwhile, trans people, whom as a whole should be your fiercest allies in the fight to secure a good life for working class people around the world, are forced to constantly be on the defensive. Against you. Against your bigotry. . And all the while, our mutual enemy laughs as he counts his billions. . You're a useful idiot, at best. . (Link in my bio for more of my work) . . . . . #transbeauty #transwomen #transgirls #transgirlsrock #transgendergirl #transgenders #transgenderpride🌈 #transgenderfemale #transgenderwomen #transgenderawareness #transgendercommunity #transwriter #writersofig #writersofinstagram #writersden #queerlove #queerwomen #queerfemme #queergirl #questioninggender #lgbtaccount #lgbtq2s #queerwriters #transwomanofinstagram #transwoman #questioningmygender #transwriters #transgirlsarerealgirls #transmotivation https://www.instagram.com/p/CbcrnfUOQyj/?utm_medium=tumblr

There's so much pain and hurt in the trans community. It's ongoing. It's ramping up. . Each of us reacts to it in different ways. . For me, I isolate. I cry, a lot. I shut down. . For others, we sometimes end up lashing out at each other. . We've all been there before. We've been a jerk to our partner or roommate after having a crummy day. But this is on a much broader scale, about much deeper societal woes. . In times like this, it helps to remember that absolutely none of it is any of our faults. . Not the transgender athletes. They're as worthy of pursuing their sport as their cis opponents. . Not the people who don't fit the binary. Their genders are just as real as binary ones. . Not the xenogenders. Inarticulate as they may sometimes be, they're discovering new ways to break free of the binary and that's cool. . Not the trans women and men who can't pass, or don't care to. . The bigotry, the violence, the coordinated attacks by the ruling class - the fault lies squarely on the fear and hatred sowed by millionaire right wing talking heads and politicians to keep us fighting among ourselves while their billionaire handlers continue to destroy the world around us. . In the face of such devastation, such horror, it's easy to take out our very real feelings on each other. But that's not fair. . The best we can do is to love each other through it all, and remember that we're all hurting. . I love you. . . . . . (Link in my bio for more of my work) . . . . . #transbeauty #transwomen #transgirls #transgirlsrock #transgendergirl #transgenders #transgenderpride🌈 #transgenderfemale #transgenderwomen #transgenderawareness #transgendercommunity #transwriter #writersofig #writersofinstagram #writersden #queerlove #queerwomen #queerfemme #queergirl #questioninggender #lgbtaccount #lgbtq2s #queerwriters #transwomanofinstagram #transwoman #questioningmygender #transwriters #transgirlsarerealgirls #transmotivation https://www.instagram.com/p/CalO_5tuzMC/?utm_medium=tumblr

A trans woman piloting a ship full of sleeping billionaires faces a dilemma: Is it ethical to help rich people escape the dying earth? And what can she do about it? . Y'all I am SO JAZZED to announce my latest published work, More Efficient Than A Guillotine, was published in @queer_spec new journal Decoded Pride #2, a journal of queer speculative fiction. . I'm also excited because it came with its own cover art! This is the first time any if my work has had a unique piece of art to go with it, which is so cool. Thanks to the talented Sara Century for illustrating - I love it 😁 . Like most of my writing, this one came about as a result of my frustration and sadness about the state of things. Unlike most of my writing, though, I wrote it in one sitting, except for a bit of polishing and editing. Usually it takes at least a couple of weeks for me to fully conceptualize a story, but this one practically poured out of me. . Check out the link in my story to grab your copy and give it a read! . . . . . #transisbeautiful #transgender #trans #transwoman #transwomen #transgal #transandproud #transcommunity #transrights #girlslikeus #transbeauty #instatrans #lgbt #queer #queerwoman #questioning #writer #writerssociety #writingofinstagram #writingsociety #instawriter #igwriter #writersoninstagram #authorsofinstagram #writersofinstagram #writerswrite #writerslife #writers_den #writerscommunityofinstagram https://www.instagram.com/p/CQlugZxnTcL/?utm_medium=tumblr