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TRANSGENDER people always existed

Hey gang, who is in Chicago? I will be there last week of September, looking for speaking opportunities. Would love to discuss this—the subject of my upcoming book—especially as it’s an election year. The history of trans people goes as far back as, well, people. And the current attacks on trans people have ugly precedent among fascists and right wingers. I have the receipts, and I’ll be in town anyway for a friend… love to set up a gig (helps defray expense of travel).

Did he end the world twice, yes. Did he make things worse for his family by trying to save Harlan, yes. Do I love this man, yes.

I know there’s a lot of bad things happening in the world right now. I know there’s some things that are absolutely horrible and terrible and terrifying.

I also know that you, the person reading this, are loved. And you know what? Love isn’t about deserving. It’s not about worth or earning it or whatever. I can love a spot on the wall. That spot hasn’t done shit. It is, in fact, water damage. It is actively marring the wall. But I love that spot anyways. And I don’t need a reason. Just like you don’t need a reason to be loved.

You are loved.

here's to every trans masc who just had the "big haircut". you look amazing <3

Know what? Imma speak out about something rq

With how many people I see who use they/them and/or binary pronouns next to neopronouns, there is an equal, if not moreso amount of people not using or disrespecting that person's neos.

I would know. Whether or not people intend to -- nobody uses my neos. When I actually prefer them over my other pronouns.

'Then why'd you put your most preferred pronouns, vi/vir, and the other neos, at the end of your pronouns list? And why do you not say those are your pronouns in real life?'

I put them on the end because I used to prioritize vi/vir in the front, but it simply confused people. Plus, I don't want people to feel obligated to use my neos if they do not know how to use them. Most people looked at 'vi/they/he' and just used 'they' anyways. People usually only use they! Nobody uses my other pronouns, because 'they' is in the front of my pronouns list. My real life friends only use 'he' because I introduced my pronouns as 'they or he', and we have a transgender friend and he uses 'he/him', so they use that on me to avoid confusion apparently.

And the reason I never say my neos in real life is because I'm afraid. I can simply mention vi/vir on RecRoom and get brutally harassed until they kick me from the server, (infront of my friend, who happens to be the first trans person on RecRoom! And she has even admitted to me she almost wanted to use neopronouns at one point and she respects them), even though I'm a well-known creator and club leader on that game, (I run the official Security Breach Club on the front page of a FNaF club search), all because of my pronouns. People on that game refused to acknowledge they were legitimate pronouns, some even called the pronouns 'fake' and said I was transphobic for using the pronouns.

What would happen in real life? In a school filled with people who fucking hate me anyways? Would it make the very few people who respect me, lose that respect? Would they hate me; would they think I'm nothing but a faker asshole aswell?

Why can't the only place I'm able to use these pronouns comfortably, be the place where people respect them?

And for the record, some people only use neos, and I have seen that on the RecRoom game too! I've respected their pronouns and they nearly fucking exploded. Most people just use they/them on these people, which is not the pronouns they want used and they make that clear. Only use they/them if you don't know their pronouns, not in a deliberate fashion to disrespect them! That's not why we use gender neutral pronouns in the first place!

Please, if someone has xe/hir pronouns, use hir pronouns. If someone uses they/it/zir pronouns, be respectful to them, and make its day by saying one word, one damn thing, to show people that you respect zir pronouns -- and you will die on that hill. If someone uses she/they pronouns, use her pronouns, and show them you care!

And in my case, if I use they/he/vi/zie/fae pronouns, use them. You don't have to use all, I don't want to pressure people, but please..don't just use one. Vi/vir are the pronouns I really love here, they were my first neos. Only 3 people have ever used them in the few years I've used them, and they majorly fucked up. But you know what? I almost cried. Why?

Because they tried to use my correct pronouns and respect me.

HAPPY PRIDE MONTH Y’ALL! 🌈 I’ve been building a flock of pride inspired birds to explore some pride mindfullness going into June this year. Support the LGBTQIA+ Flock all this month by supporting Queer Folks by standing up to anti-LGBTQ and anti-Trans legislation, buying from LGBTQ+ owned shops and artists, and celebrating LGBTQIA+ voices and history. There are a ton of great queer organizations out there to support @pointofprideorg is one of many to check out. Thank you! Love to y’all. 💖

Just had a fucking terf reblog one of my posts. Please be patient as I flood my MDZS blog with trans right support. If you don't support trans rights, get the fuck off my page.

I love all my trans siblings, and all my trans brothers who are like the little fairies that surround me, and help me be a strong, confident boy <3

Navigating this world as a trans person does not have to be a path that you tread alone. You will always have your trans sibs, peers, parents, and elders to guide and support you :)

I know I need to hear these words some days, so I want everyone to feel the love :3

If ever there was an argument against 'bathroom polices' for trans people other than "leave us the fuck alone", it would be the murder of Nex Benedict, a 16 year old who was Two Spirit. Go ahead and look it up. I recommend the article by Teen Vouge, it lays everything plain and simple.

They were 16. I'm only 17. I'm lucky enough to live in California, where trans rights have decent protections, but this country will not be safe for me or people like me until our rights are guaranteed nationwide.

This has to stop.

It has to fucking stop.

Please, please, please make this stop.

Perfect ass, don’t care🥵🥰😘

The Forgotten History of the World’s First Transgender Clinic

I finished the first round of edits on my nonfiction history of trans rights today. It will publish with Norton in 2025, but I decided, because I feel so much of my community is here, to provide a bit of the introduction.

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The Institute for Sexual Sciences had offered safe haven to homosexuals and those we today consider transgender for nearly two decades. It had been built on scientific and humanitarian principles established at the end of the 19th century and which blossomed into the sexology of the early 20th. Founded by Magnus Hirschfeld, a Jewish homosexual, the Institute supported tolerance, feminism, diversity, and science. As a result, it became a chief target for Nazi destruction: “It is our pride,” they declared, to strike a blow against the Institute. As for Magnus Hirschfeld, Hitler would label him the “most dangerous Jew in Germany.”6 It was his face Hitler put on his antisemitic propaganda; his likeness that became a target; his bust committed to the flames on the Opernplatz. You have seen the images. You have watched the towering inferno that roared into the night. The burning of Hirschfeld’s library has been immortalized on film reels and in photographs, representative of the Nazi imperative, symbolic of all they would destroy. Yet few remember what they were burning—or why.

Magnus Hirschfeld had built his Institute on powerful ideas, yet in their infancy: that sex and gender characteristics existed upon a vast spectrum, that people could be born this way, and that, as with any other diversity of nature, these identities should be accepted. He would call them Intermediaries.

Intermediaries carried no stigma and no shame; these sexual and Gender nonconformists had a right to live, a right to thrive. They also had a right to joy. Science would lead the way, but this history unfolds as an interwar thriller—patients and physicians risking their lives to be seen and heard even as Hitler began his rise to power. Many weren’t famous; their lives haven’t been celebrated in fiction or film. Born into a late-nineteenth-century world steeped in the “deep anxieties of men about the shifting work, social roles, and power of men over women,” they came into her own just as sexual science entered the crosshairs of prejudice and hate. The Institute’s own community faced abuse, blackmail, and political machinations; they responded with secret publishing campaigns, leaflet drops, pro-homosexual propaganda, and alignments with rebel factions of Berlin’s literati. They also developed groundbreaking gender affirmation surgeries and the first hormone cocktail for supportive gender therapy.

Nothing like the Institute for Sexual Sciences had ever existed before it opened its doors—and despite a hundred years of progress, there has been nothing like it since. Retrieving this tale has been an exercise in pursuing history at its edges and fringes, in ephemera and letters, in medal texts, in translations. Understanding why it became such a target for hatred tells us everything about our present moment, about a world that has not made peace with difference, that still refuses the light of scientific evidence most especially as it concerns sexual and reproductive rights.

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I wanted to add a note here: so many people have come together to make this possible. Like Ralf Dose of the Magnus-Hirschfeld-Gesellschaft (Magnus Hirschfeld Archive), Berlin, and Erin Reed, American journalist and transgender rights activist—Katie Sutton, Heike Bauer. I am also deeply indebted to historian, filmmaker and formative theorist Susan Stryker for her feedback, scholarship, and encouragement all along the way. And Laura Helmuth, editor of Scientific American, whose enthusiasm for a short article helped bring the book into being. So many LGBTQ+ historians, archivists, librarians, and activists made the work possible, that its publication testifies to the power of the queer community and its dedication to preserving and celebrating history. But I ALSO want to mention you, folks here on tumblr who have watched and encouraged and supported over the 18 months it took to write it (among other books and projects). @neil-gaiman has been especially wonderful, and @always-coffee too: thank you.

The support of this community has been important as I’ve faced backlash in other quarters. Thank you, all.

NOTE: they are attempting to rebuild the lost library, and you can help: https://magnus-hirschfeld.de/archivzentrum/archive-center/

Become a briarwood, and cultivate a space where blossoms can thrive.

Americans: Real men don’t wear unbifurcated garments.

Scots: HOLD MY SCOTCH

Support everyone’s right to wear trousers or not. Everyone should wear anything they damned well please. Fabric doesn’t have genders. IT’S LITERALLY FIBRE. Get over it.

I don't understand how people can't see trans women as women? What is their confusion? I was watching Bill Maher, him and Piers Morgan was discussing trans women in sports and how unfair it is that they can compete against biological women. They spouting all the bs one would think they would. It was just enraging me so much! That these two over 50 white men don't have the capacity or even the want to try to empathize what trans people in general go through. How much adversity they have struggle through just to exist in our world that is constantly against them. How they do with strength, dignity, grace, wisdom and this deep will power to be their true selves.

Those two over 50 white males were up there cracking such inappropriate jokes. And I'll admit I wanted to crack their heads.

Just I don't understand how people can be transphobic, I don't understand what their scared of exactly? It's nonsense... but what I do know is as long as we don't educate people about trans people and get rid of this horrible narrative that bs like Fox News and Bill Maher are saying it's not going to get better.

I'll end with I support trans people, trans women, trans men, trans kids, trans youth, trans everyone. May one day in the future we won't have use the word trans in front of any of it. 🏳️‍⚧️

Ima go Hard for those who stay down for me when I was down 💯