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#bioessentialism
modify-and-sever · 2 months
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if gender is what's in my pants then my gender is YOUR MOM lol anyway yeah I heard you're nonbinary do you have a penis. are you girl agender or boy agender. are you girl nonbinary or boy nonbinary. you have multiple genders but like are you more girl or boy. ok you're neither but are you more boy or girl. no haha I get it like no gender lol but seriously do you have a penis. is it a boy penis or a girl penis. it's honestly really weird that you don't want to answer this question honestly I'm just going to assume you have a dangerous male penis and tell all my friends that you're a bad person
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ablueberryblogs · 6 months
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I don't know what trans man need to hear this but you're allowed to be angry. It doesn't make you evil. You are allowed to experience all possible emotions without apology and still be a good man.
*this is about trans men specifically, do not derail. You are free to make your own post*
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fixing-bad-posts · 2 months
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It's super sexist to define "women" by having a vagina
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uncanny-tranny · 11 months
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I don't care if somebody was "born a man" or "born a woman"
We were fucking born as babies, I frankly don't care what you were "born to be," so long as you are happy in the here and now. That's what matters more, not this bioessentialist "you're born this way, and nothing you do or say matters more than how you were born"
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dabwax · 18 days
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Cw for a mention of medical rape and talk of all sorts of abuse centering around intersexism:
I get that people have trauma with men and everything. I, too, was chased for an hour by a man in a car at age 11 calling me a bitch and telling me to get in; I, too, have had a group of adult men discussing physically harming me in public; I, too, have had B*n S*apiro steal one of my tiktoks to throw me to the harassment of his audience
But why are yall so afraid of strange men and not strange women? My experience as an intersex little girl was extreme social torment by little girls and adult women and my own mom and the first person to rape me was a pretty blonde female obgyn who wanted to punish and humiliate me for clearly being sexually active at a young age since I was shaving and not having periods (you know. Bc of the high T puberty)
One of the things that drove me into hiding before covid locked everything down was going out to a carnival with a few friends and having a woman loudly and angrily start harassing me in line for a ride in front of fifty people, threatening to beat me for asking her to stop, asking why i thought it was okay for people like me to leave the house, and neither of my friends said anything, nor did anyone else! The only person who did was her boyfriend who told her to shut the fuck up and apologized to me for her lmao!! I am a dyke who loves being a woman and loves women and women have overwhelmingly traumatized me more than fucking any other demographic. Family, friends, moms and grandma's of friends, women in church, and total strangers in a multitude of settings for most of my fucking life
So when people are talking about how folks that look like me are scary bc I look like a man and men are inherently the scarier ones I have to fucking laugh and then feel miserable and alone because everyone acts like it should be so obvious that of course people are more afraid of men! I was a little girl in the 90s and grew up a girl on the internet and I should totally understand!
But for me, I'm not safe around fucking goddamn anyone and people act like bc I'm an afab woman I must be safe among cis women. It's fucking suffocating. The first person to inappropriately touch me was a girl my own age whose mom regularly beat her and abused her dad and I'm so sick of having it shoved down my throat that we have to be so fucking afraid of men, as queer people, because they are naturally and inherently more abusive and any woman would naturally understand. To the point of openly admitting to fearing people who LOOK what passes as masculine in queer spaces, regardless of their actual identity or gender
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katrafiy · 1 year
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Hiya tumblr! Let's have a talk about bioessentialist enbyphobia, transmisogyny, and how to make sure transfeminine people, enby or not, feel completely unsafe and unwelcome at your events. First take a look at this group description, and then lets get into it.
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First some context. Those of you who know me know about the kinds of clubs I go to. This screenshot was taken from a local event page, and I've blocked out their name because in the months since this event was hosted the group has updated their description to be more inclusive.
Seeing that description, I avoided going to events hosted by that group.
"But Kat, why? You're a woman and it says women are allowed!"
It also implicitly lumps all nonbinary people who were assigned male at birth with men and calls them males.
So why is this a problem for me? Well, if this group sees all AMAB nonbinary people as "male" then it says a lot of things about the ways the see trans women.
Many, and I would venture to assume most, trans women know well the feeling of our womanhood treated as conditional, subject to immediate revocation without warning.
Spaces that are "Women and AFAB exclusive" are often rife with this, and often lead to a lot of really gross and abusive power dynamics where transfems get treated as second class to anyone who was assigned female at birth.
(Side note: Gretchen Felker-Martin did, I believe, a masterful job of portraying this sort of dynamic in her book Manhunt)
If you are a trans woman in one of these spaces, you quickly learn that you are on the thinnest of ice.
Laugh a little too loud? You're male.
Sit or stand a little too close? You're threatening.
Smile at the wrong person? You're making other people uncomfortable.
Transfems, in these spaces, quickly learn that standing up for ourselves in the face of flagrant abuse is verboten, and will be met with swift and decisive punishment and exile.
I personally don't like the word "theyfab" and don't use it. I'm writing this thread to hopefully help people better understand the social dynamics that were being addressed when that term was coined.
It was coined because transfems are forced to navigate a community of things like "afab only" apartment rentals.
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It was coined because transfems constantly have to listen to other trans people implicitly describe us as disgusting, hideous freaks.
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In short and in closing: consider that the reason why the term "theyfab" exists and "theymab" really doesn't probably lies somewhere in the fact that the sort of person who would call someone a "theymab" doesn't need to, because they *already* just call AMAB trans people "male".
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genderqueerdykes · 2 months
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the way we police bodies in our modern era is just insane to me. like for example i'm thinking about muscles. literally everyone has them. why are muscular bodies "masculine"? every single person on this earth has muscles and can have them be in any size and tone. like, have you ever met or seen a woman who's a carpenter? a construction worker? a farmer? a warehouse or factory worker? an athlete? a firefighter? an emt? a powerlifter? a body builder?
women can be absolutely stacked. women can be fucking ripped. some women are born with absolutely jacked muscle structure without any working out involved. women get muscular and people act like every single woman is some waifish leaf blowing in the wind- wake up, open your eyes, what are you even saying? look at the world around you, where are you living?
i feel insane living in a world where we either think women don't have muscles at all, or they have muscles but they can't ever get big and are inherently pathetically weak. we have modern science and photographs and videos at our fingertips and yet here we are really out here still believing that men strong women weak. it hurts my brain.
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thewarmvoid · 9 months
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Many people will be like “I don’t care about what’s in your pants or what your agab was” and then start pissing and throwing up if you use a label for your gender or sexuality that they don’t perceive as being in alignment with the genitalia they’re projecting onto you
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butch-reidentified · 3 months
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as you can see, reblogs and replies are now turned off for this mind-numbingly braindead post, but I couldn't resist sharing some of the batshit content in the notes.
typing in color so it's easier to tell my commentary apart from the screenshots
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radfems are insane because... we think "all women matter" doesn't include males. incredible insight. I also love "leave my sisters alone. and leave me and my brothers alone, fuckers," as if that's the direction the harassment is typically occuring in. as if radfems are hunting trans people for sport simply by not believing in or supporting the gender construct. yes. we are clearly the insane party here.
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more evidence we're the insane ones, as this person claims men aren't an oppressor class and that somehow believing that they are will lead to... believing butch lesbians are an oppressor 💀 this is your brain on gender - completely unable to even consider sex, only "masc presentation," which is how they come to the batshit conclusion that acknowledging men are an oppressor class will ultimately come to include butch lesbians.
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... girl. what.
however........ there's one reblog that really stands above all others. It is so long and so unhinged that it surpasses tumblr's image cap, so I'm going to have to do a part 2 of this post. but here's a sneak peek:
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Gender worshippers learn what gender essentialism & bioessentialism actually mean challenge: impossible
Seriously. Y'all loooove redefining shit so much, but these terms were created for specific reasons and you can't just rewrite any word or term you want to suit your beliefs. Gender essentialism refers to the commonly held belief that gendered traits are biologically determined by sex rather than learned. The idea that women are "naturally" or "biologically" homemakers, more nurturing, less confrontational, and more emotional, that little girls "naturally" or "biologically" prefer dolls over toy trucks, that women "naturally" or "biologically" feel driven to have babies and there's no such thing as a happy childfree woman, that sex is inherently more emotional and meaningful for women, that men are more logical, better at STEM subjects, better drivers, that it's "natural" for men to cheat but not for women to, that men are "naturally" or "biologically" more aggressive, that paintball and Call of Duty are naturally "for boys," and a thousand other ridiculous things way too many people believe.
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But oh shit, what's that? The people who really started fighting back against gender essentialism and arguing that gender is a social construct were... second wave feminists???!!! the very movement radical feminism is born from and shares most of its tenets with???!!! it's... it's almost like... radfems are the literal opposite of essentialists 😱
Meanwhile, today's trans community will tell gender-nonconforming people they're "eggs" and "totally going to come out as trans any day now" while simultaneously claiming not to define gender by stereotypes 🤡 like, OK...
check notes for Part 2!
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Until all the radfem ideology and gender essentialism is gone, I will forever feel unsafe in the trans community as a trans man.
To any trans men who also feel unsafe: I love you. It will get better. People who bully trans men will one day be shunned, trust me. Keep going. You are amazing and wonderful. For every trans person that bullies and harasses transmascs, there are 10 more that love and support us.
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repro-man · 8 months
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The next time you see an ftm, you need to do the world a favor and come inside her. Hold her down and force her if you have to.
Of course she'll get pregnant, her testosterone isn't birth control. And of course she'll feel conflicted, she wants to continue her transition, but she also doesn't want to hurt the baby. She'll debate getting an abortion- but she won't. She feels an instinctive protectiveness over the invader you planted in her womb.
Now that she's pregnant, nature just needs to take its course. Watch how soon her maternal instinct comes in once she can feel your baby squirm inside her womb. After she starts rubbing her newfound bump and cooing to it, she's destined to abandon these delusions of being a real man.
The perfect little wife, ready to have babies for the rest of her life.
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tenaciousgay · 9 months
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“i don’t like sports does that mean i’m not a man” no gender critical person thinks that, in fact we believe the exact opposite.
the only thing that makes someone a man or a woman is their biological sex, regardless of how they dress, what their interests are, etc. femininity and masculinity are oppressive constructs, they don’t mean anything about us as people. gender is not real, but sex is.
so if you are an adult human male, you are a man regardless of whether you like sports or not.
Bioessentialist argument, therefore a terf.
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cistematicchaos · 1 year
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Its amazing how many people on here claim not to believe in "male socialization" (as inherent) and then go around talking about "AFAB exclusive" experiences based on socialization. It really just goes to show how many of you will memorize dog whistles but won't examine the genuine bigotry behind them in order to actually unlearn it, much less fight against it.
Anyways, if y'all could be a little less transmisogynistic, that'd be grand. Stop doing this type of shit.
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radsplain · 11 months
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It’s so hilarious how radfems get the insult lobbed at us that we’re all bioessentialists and that we “reduce people down to their genitals” by stating that women are adult human females and men are adult human males, when what’s really bioessentialist is their categorization of man and woman. It’s them who believe that what makes you a woman or man is adopting certain norms, roles, dress, activities and demeanor deemed as “feminine” or “masculine”. It’s them who believe that if you don’t align with or uphold a set of arbitrary, patriarchal rules that are imposed upon your birth sex, that somehow you are not that sex and should therefore undergo transition to “align” your body with made up, sexist stereotypes. The hypocrisy is mind-blowing and it’s wild how they’ve tried to gaslight everyone who disagrees with their ideology that we’re the ones who are trying to uphold a restrictive view of sex and gender.
Being a bioessentialist means believing that your sex is the determining factor in the roles you “naturally” conform to. For instance, that women are natural nurturers and that motherhood comes easily and instinctively to them, whereas it doesn’t for men. That men are natural “leaders” and should thus be at the helm of family, politics, business, public life, etc. That’s what actual bioessentialism is. If you knew anything about radical feminism you would know that’s precisely what we are against.
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uncanny-tranny · 5 months
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I think many people conceptualize manhood as destruction and womanhood as creation in such a way that transition has been really wild to parse my experiences and how they fit.
I am simultaneously creating the self and destroying the self in such a way that people don't... know how to react sometimes. I've really noticed this as I've given less and less care as to what I present myself as, because now, I am truly only concerned with myself rather than my perception. Once I got over the bioessentialist idea that to be a man was to destroy, and I can't create because that's only for women (or, for those forced to create), I started caring much less.
I think that's interesting, is all
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hadeantaiga · 2 years
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I really need people to truly understand how poisonous this extension of feminism and bioessentialism is. Incoming hatred against literal children for being born male:
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Children. Innocent children, whose only "crime" is being XY, are being demonized by this author.
THIS is why we call radfems dangerous. This is why we call bioessentialism dangerous.
If you identify as a radfem who genuinely believes that socialization and not biology is the source of men's violence, I desperately need you to read works by intersectional feminists. I desperately need you to leave radfeminism, because this is what a lot of your compatriots are pushing for. Complete female separation. Complete segregation of an entire sex based on the false belief they are "inherently violent".
This is horrific. If this doesn't horrify you, if the thought of someone calling a toddler "dangerous" to his playmates based on his biology doesn't fill you with revulsion, if it doesn't bring up other ways "biology" has been used to justify horrors of human rights, you are too far gone to help.
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