Shout out to the terf that complained about the term neuroqueer, which led me to read the book Neuroqueer Heresies by Nick Walker (through the queer liberation library/@queerliblib). I wouldn't have found a very good resource otherwise!

"First they came for trans people"

They definitely came for undocumented immigrants and asylum seekers before trans people. I'm trans and a US born citizen, and I definitely remember immigration being first.

It bothers me that we're casually "forgetting" that. Like, immigration and "build a wall" was what Trump ran on in 2016.

They are still putting undocumented migrants on the chopping block. I looked up DACA as an example of how it stopped taking applicants during the Trump presidency to learn that it may go to the Supreme Court from a Texas judge ruling it to be unlawful.

It's just upsetting. They did not come for trans people first, I doubt they even came for us second (disability, those in poverty, BIPOC). Every marginalized group was threatened by the Trump administration and continues to be from the politics that remain. Many of us are targeted at the same time.

But it was not trans rights that started the conservative kick off, it was immigration. Do not forget the human rights that were hacked at in broad daylight.

Cops only exist to enforce laws that, if broken, would be a blue-collar crime. They exist for shoplifting, murder, illegal drug use, protests, an in-progress robbery, and more extreme cases of domestic violence, you get the picture. This service is paid for by taxes, and it's supposedly free to all citizens, but we all know that POC and other minorities fear calling the police.

Police exist to enforce crime associated with the working class. White-collar crime doesn't involve the police. You have to enforce that yourself and pay hundreds to thousands of dollars for a lawyer. You can be put in physical danger at your job, but the police do not handle that. They handle when you are put in physical danger at home, and that's even if the police always gave a shit and did their jobs correctly.

The police are not there to enforce all law equally, they are there to enforce laws that are broken by the marginalized. They are not there for you being denied housing, fired from work, hurt on the job, assaulted by your employer, going unpaid for your work, etc. They do not target the upper classes, that is not in their job description.

Cops exist and have always existed to maintain the current power structure. This is one of the reasons why the system needs to be removed entirely.

"Sex based pronouns" yeah okay let me take out my sex based clothing too or my sex based name. I'll dip some sex based cookies in sex based milk and go to sleep in my sex based bed.

Hello fellow trans and possible sex perverts. I got a dildo that I didn't check the material on before ordering and it's apparently made with hazardous (carcinogenic) material. I have not used it, but obviously these things aren't returnable.

But I want my money back and am willing to beat the ceo with the thing to do it.

I finally looked through the transphobe emails that were leaked by Maia. I wanted to add it to TERF Records because the Women's Liberation Front was included in the list.

I want to highlight this (Bold added by me):

I've seen Cathy Brennan criticizing WOLF for working with conservatives and religious elements, but that's the only way I see forward. It's also the only way I see to win this. And it's my strategy. I know there's all sorts of talk about "losing gay marriage," but the way this is going there isn't going to be a lesbian community if the trans problem isn't stopped. As people fight over something that "might happen," more and more women just like the person close to you are getting sucked in and harmed. I feel like people need to start recognizing this immediate harm over the "possible harm." My strategy is I am going to continue to build activism bridges and inroads with the right. I've come to believe they realize the trans problem is far more sinister than anything gay people are doing. They've definitely had my back and they've been using me to do as much damage as they can. You've no doubt seen that in the news. We shouldn't treat them like they're incapable of change.

So yeah, literally making active strategies with right-wingers in the name of women's and gay rights as they're under attack by right-wingers.

Trans person: I'm pretty sure I sprained my ankle

Doctors: Do you think you sprained it because of HRT?

"She goes by they/them" kind of shit here.

Like, obviously the person they're describing here is a fucking TERF (a different way to take terf beliefs, but still a terf) but if they say that they don't like the terms agender and nonbinary, don't describe them that way! Like later on the author called them agender too! My friend, you cannot be writing about binary notions of sex, gender, and forced labels while forcing a label onto someone!

Whenever a transphobe talks about how trans people are putting on a mask and pretending to be something we're not I think of what I wrote as a closeted 15-year-old as my gender dysphoria was leading me to disassociate while at school.

"This isn't us. This is a mask. This is a script. And everything we do is all part of an act."

Like... Maybe you think that you would feel like you're pretending to be something you're not but it's kind of the opposite.

"There's not enough research on the long-term effects of HRT for trans people! So we should make HRT unavailable or incredibly difficult to get!"

Here's an idea: how about we actually provide funding to that research? It costs a lot of money to do research like that. It takes a lot of time to do research like that. Grant money is usually used to undertake bigger research projects.

Oh right, because the people who say this don't actually care about the health of trans people. Like, you think we like taking meds that no one has been able to do a long term study on about risks and side effects? That despite transition being a thing in the US since the 1960's there has yet to be decent research because of marginalization? We don't!

I haven't said much about Somerton on here, but I'm frustrated that he wiped his online presence completely.

I asked myself, why? I should be happy that he fucking disappeared.

Then I realized in all my bitterness, I wanted to see this guy flop around like a fish. I don't want him to get death threats or harassed, I wanted to watch him be pathetic as possible.

Best case scenario he started giving money back to his patrons if not the people he fucking stole from, but that's far from ever happening.

I wanted to see the fear in his eyes though. Sometimes I do get angry to the point of just wanting to see the face of someone who's life is crashing before their eyes.

I want to ask-

This won't be given a day it's given an hour and however long my room stays warm.

Trans people really can't talk about jack shit without it being used against us in a transphobic way.

Sexual assault? That made you trans. Homophobia experienced prior to transition? Made you trans. Had any issues with mental health? Made you trans. Had a sexuality at all? Made you trans. Go through any sort of trauma? Made you trans.

We can't even talk about medical transition and any concerns between ourselves online because that'll be taken and used to say that we shouldn't be allowed access to it.

Every little thing we say is weaponized. We're intently listened to until we speak up for ourselves and messages we want our stories to leave. That part is thrown aside as we're called crazy and told we can't think for ourselves.

It's tiring. It's worrying.

Around 2015, or when I was about 13 or 14, I was on a bus with the friend who introduced me to the existence of trans people, as they were trans themselves (unsure of their pronouns as of current).

On that bus ride home, they told me about how some trans people go through medical transition, such as hrt and surgery. And that sometimes they need that care to survive.

I felt myself get incredibly excited about the fact that such a thing was possible. I wanted it the second I heard it.

That feeling was instantly followed by shame and dread.

I walked home from the bus stop screaming at myself in my head. That I was a freak for wanting something like that, that I'd be more of a freak for doing it. That there must have been something incredibly wrong with me for wanting that.

I got home and cried. I locked myself in a room to cry, I looked in the mirror, said it to myself again, and cried harder.

I don't hear about this experience from others in my generation much, and honestly, that's relieving. I'm happy that not everyone had an experience like that, not everyone had a gut twisting reaction to trans medical care while figuring themselves out. I know that I can't be the only one though.

Today, I look at myself and my body of mixed sex characteristics, and I'm proud. I've slowly learned to love what I will become and what I have become. I'm not a freak, but if I am, then so be it. I'm proud either way.

This has required the help of the people I surround myself with and the trans community as a whole. It's taken a lot of time, but it's beautiful in a way. How the love and care of others can help heal wounds you never knew you had before.

That said, happy trans day of visibility. Our bodies and minds are wonderful, even if it takes a while to remove all the shit that says they're not. Thank you, all of you, for being visible and helping others to realize that 🏳️‍⚧️💕

Being a trans man can be weird at times because, where I am in my transition, I get seen as a man and often pass as cis until I mention I'm trans.

But I still remember a bit what it was like to be a girl. Especially with how much appearance was valued and how having any above average weight was seen as unforgivable, with the average being unhealthy. How much I'd be talked over and shit.

And that experience influences who I am today, but if I say that, then people get suspicious. I can say that I'm agnostic but grew up Lutheran, and my Lutheran Christian upbringing has an influence of who I am today, and that I still have a good bit of knowledge from it, and that's expected. But when I do it with gender then there's an issue.

I make that comparison because learning that I'm queer in general was what made it so I had to cut myself from Christianity, by the way. It's not comparable generally, but its at the same point in my life where change was made.

And a part of this is being outspoken. I was very quiet before and kept to myself, mainly due to social anxiety and gender dysphoria, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was also due to being talked over. Right now, that's taken to others as male privilege when I literally had to work and change radically to be able to have any confidence to say what I think. And it rolls into neurodiversity too, since I'm also blunt and share what I think because that way people don't have to guess, and they know they can do it with me too, so I don't have to guess.

This rant is everywhere, but I hope I got the point across that its just weird. I don't feel discounted as much as I do in a blind spot, where I can be looked at directly but missed.

Trans and intersex rights regarding healthcare are usually framed as if they're polar opposites. Makes sense in basics, trans people often are denied gender affirming care while intersex people have medical procedures forced onto them (intersex genital mutilation, for instance).

But they seem more similar when you realize that both are specifically aiming for bodily autonomy. Both are for being able to deem when you want to alter your body and when you don't. Trans liberation includes trans people who do not want to alter their bodies at all. It fights for trans people to be able to change their gender legally without needing to go through medical procedures. And while I am not nearly as knowledge of intersex justice and liberation as I am with trans, I don't see condemnation of transition from intersex rights groups or gender affirming care for trans, ipso, or cis intersex people.

What's valued is bodily autonomy. That should be the focus much more than seeing medicine as good or bad.