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#trans day of resistance#boston#massachusetts#photography#photojournalism#trans rights#transgender#stop trans genocide#trans rights are human rights#trans#non binary#lgbtq#trans lives matter#protect trans lives#protest photography#protect trans youth#protect trans kids#antifascists#antifascist
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While the state of Washington is one of the safest places in the country for gender-diverse individuals, Spokane leaves much to be desired. With Proud Boys from Idaho only a half-hour away and with conservative politicians influencing policy, we face threats from many angles.
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This might be a very specific experience, but I think a huge reason I didn't even realize or even want to be bisexual was specifically because of this intersection of my manhood and the way it's viewed
There's this toxic merry-go-round I find myself riding where I am so desperate to not be one of those guys to a woman that it winds up being an inability to connect to women* because of this hyperpolicing I end up doing. For the longest time, I repressed myself because of this impulse, and I find it interesting. It's interesting seeing how this aspect of patriarchy impact me in such a way that I was too afraid of myself and the people around me.
As a trans man, I felt the pressure to prove both that I'm not one of those men, but also, that I wasn't this predatory trans man, that anything I did was in service to proving why I should (or should not) continue to exist. Simultaneously, I am both not a man, but also a predatory man because of my transness, a threat to be contained. I felt this before as somebody who is multisexual, but it somehow affects me more in the aspect of how I interact with women* and womanhood* from the outside.
There isn't an overarching theme to this post, a message about what you can do. It's mostly reflecting on my experiences and thinking about where my impulse to think myself as guilty until proven innocent plays into how I've started viewing myself. I don't want to overgeneralize, but I've seen this expressed by many a trans man*.
#trans#transgender#bi#bisexual#lgbt#lgbtq#ftm#nonbinary#internalized transphobia#internalized queerphobia#i definitely had to work through ingernalized homophobia but i have been actively trying to combat that so it isn't ALWAYS a problem#and i of course get why this is also not good - i think it's a reminder that (though it looks different) patriarchy hurts ALL of us#i'm not saying that my experiences are the same as everybody else - but i do notice this transphobic narrative around my fellow (trans) man#for the longest i didn't /want/ to be bi+ because it felt like i was addong another layer of respectability...#...like in my mind it was bad enough being gay and trans but adding another group of people who'd be forced to see me? miss me with that#that was my thought process in it all because i have had so much transphobic rhetoric regurgitated at me that it just got hard to resist#and that's a shameful thing - to admit that you're Struggling and it is Not Pretty#so i think that's part of why i decided to talk about this. i think it's a wound some people have learned to hide but not treat#massive déjà vu right now because i feel like this So Often. some days are better than others but it's hard to soldier through
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Martyr’s don’t kill innocents including children. Content warning: it’s about a school shooting and people posting pictures of themselves holding weapons.
Controversial group behind 'Trans Day of Vengeance' raised money for firearms training - as other trans protestors pose with guns ahead of march in DC on Saturday
The protest was rebranded before the Nashville tragedy from 'visibility' to 'vengeance' by the Trans Radical Activist Network
But some social media users appear to have taken the protest to another level and have posed with powerful firearms posted along with the hashtag
Twitter has since removed more than 5,000 posts that have used the flyer for the event on April 1
Despite three nine-year-olds being gunned down by a transgender shooter at a private Christian school in Nashville, activists are still rallying the troops to protest for a 'Trans Day of Vengeance' - months after raising money for firearms training.
Transgender shooter Audrey Hale opened fire on the Covenant School in Nashville at 10.30am on Monday, killing Hallie Scruggs, William Kinney and Evelyn Dieckhaus during her rampage at the school.
But despite rising political tensions across the country, which saw a press secretary for Arizona Democrat Governor post a Tweet about shooting transphobes, the Trans Radical Activist Network (TRAN) is pushing forward with their protest in DC.
The Virginia chapter of the group held a 'dance party fundraiser' in Richmond 'benefiting firearm/self-defense training for trans-Virginians' on March 7, before the mass shooting had taken place.
In statements, the group has taken pains to distance themselves from Hale, and her actions, and changed the name of the protest before the brutal slayings.
The protest on Saturday was initially meant to be called a 'day of visibility' but rebranded before the shooting to vengeance because it means 'fighting back with vehemence' – though the group was quick to say they do not 'encourage or promote violence' when contacted by DailyMail.com.
But one person posing as an activist appears to have taken the movement to the next level, posting a picture of a heavily armed person with an assault rifle and threatening to 'kill christcucks' - as Twitter removed thousands of posts with flyers for the event.
Twitter has been removing the posts that could be deemed threatening or involve guns associated with the 'TransDayofVengeance' hashtag - but it is unclear exactly how many were others posing with weapons as they have since been deleted.
Ella Irwin, Twitter's head of trust and safety, wrote that the company removed more than 5,000 tweets that included a poster for the event.
She said: 'We do not support tweets that incite violence irrespective of who posts them.
'Vengeance' does not imply peaceful protest. Organizing or support for peaceful protests is ok.'
Two other trans activists have since posted footage and photos of themselves with rifles, which appear to be in direct response to the Nashville shooting.
One says that she will use the weapon for 'protection' against 'transphobes' who target them.
Kayla Denker, who describes themselves as a ‘communist, archaeologist and writer, posted the video of herself with her gun after the incident in Nashville – despite saying ‘advocating for trans people to arm ourselves is not any kind of a solution to the genocide we are facing’.
She is also appealing for help with the medical bills for her transition on her social media, which has now been locked down.
Republican Representative Marjorie Taylor Green also saw her account removed after she launched several anti-trans attacks on Twitter.
Greene claimed that 'Antifa' was organizing the alleged event, and reposted a poster for the protest while complaining Twitter kept removing her posts before she was ultimately suspended.
Activists are being encouraged to 'bring a buddy' and wear a mask at the event outside of the Supreme Court in DC on April 1, and is billed as avenging a 'trans genocide.'
Organizers did not respond when asked questions about the safety of protests amid the increasing pressure between the two sides of the political spectrum.
Websites such as Etsy are still being used to sell pro-gun and trans merchandise, with stickers that say 'defend equality' with assault rifles on as well as t-shirts and other items emblazoned with 'Trans rights… or else' which also have the high-powered guns in pink, white and blue – the Trans colors – on them.
TRAN is run by three co-founders, one of whom is a former staffer for the Virginia Democrats and stepped down to work with the group.
Bo Belotti, the national recruitment director, is a 'trans masculine non-binary person' and helped the Virginia chapter of the group to raise money to go on guns and self-defence.
On March 7, the Virginia chapter held a 'dance party fundraiser' in Richmond 'benefiting firearm/self-defense training for trans-Virginians. Come boogie with us and defend trans life!'
Belotti worked as a fellow for Del. Elizabeth Guzman, and Del. Joshua Cole as a legislative aide and helped draft HB 145, which required the state to create model transgender policies for public schools.
His bio on the website adds: 'While working in their state's legislators they helped craft trans-affirming statewide policies.'
Another co-founder is non-binary Tsukuru, who had been posting updates on the protest before locking down their account following the backlash in the aftermath of the mass shooting.
Their bio states that they were a 'graduate of a high school in Hiroshima where 350 young lives were brutally taken on August 6, 1945, Tsukuru is an anti-nuclear/anti-war/human rights activist.'
It adds: 'After his brief marriage to his best friend and the birth of his child, he first came out as lesbian at age 29 and as a transgender man at age 50.'
The final founder is Noah Buchanan who helped to set up Tran initially, writing on the website: 'Noah Buchanan; I am a transgender male and have been out since 2018. I have 10+ years of working in the mental health field.
'What motivated me to start TRAN was the fact I was bullied to the point where I attempted to end my own life. The person that bullied me was a fellow member of the LGBTIA+.'
In a statement to DailyMail.com Buchanan said: 'What I will say is that this protest was not about encouraging or promoting violence.
This protest is about uniting and letting people know that we are human beings, we exist, and love conquers hate.'
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#Trans cult and weapons#Nashville#Trans Resistance Network#Trans Day of Vengeance#Trans Radical Activist Network#April 1#Twitter#HB 145
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Made this for all those who need to hear it. Kinda of a late post, but I made this piece for Trans Day of Remembrance.
[Image Description: In the center of the art piece is Rita Hester. To the right and behind her is Gwen Amber Rose Araujo and E.J. Boykin. To the left and behind Rita is Kelly Stough and Brandon Teena. Above the figures it reads "Through your Existence" and continued below them it reads "you honor you Trans Ancestors". Behind both the text and the figures is the trans flag. End Image Description.]
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You’ve been visited by the LEGO BLAHAJ! Remember that if you ever fall apart, you can always put yourself back together!
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#trans#transgirl#street transvestites action revolutionaries#stonewall#trans rights#lgbtq#trans awareness day#fiifii threw the first brick#trans pride#resistance#resist#occupy#trans history#transgender#revolutionaries
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sudden vivid memory of being 14-15 years old and daring to wear knee-length boy’s shorts to a local summer festival in one of my first public acts of transgenderism and despite that being the most mundane thing on earth (especially considering I was still not allowed to cut my hair at that point so i by no means looked mistakably like a guy or anything) being verbally torn to shreds to the point of sobbing by my mother upon getting home because I was apparently making myself (and her by association) look bad and being a flagrant humiliation in front of my friends’ parents. i guess sometimes i forget how scarring and often terrifying simply Existing as a trans kid was lol
#cw transphobia#my mom’s said some of the worst things you can imagine to me re: my gender over the span of my life#but at least now I’m an adult with some autonomy and years of built-up resistance and im not as young and impressionable and whatever#i remember this sort of thing and how legit terrifying it was and just go hm. impressive i never killed myself but boy do i live with the#mental reprocussions of living through it#im just glad im on t now and i pass and I don’t hate looking at myself in the mirror or feel like I want to rip my body apart#god being a teenager was just fucking awful#my friend asked the other day what I’d do if I had to re-live my teens again and while she was like hell yeah I’d be so smart and I’d do#everything right this time around and etc. I just. still sat there like oh yeah no I’d kill myself#getting through those years as a trans kid + family issues + mental illness + etc was like being hauled over broken glass#and I would rather die than have all the effort and endurance go to waste just to do it again#anyway sorry this was random and sad#i need to get up and eat that’s probably why I’m. like this right now#kibumblabs
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happy trans day of visibility :) here are my personal favorite moments of trans joy.
i remember the first time i wore a men’s shirt. my mom could see me staring at those button down shirts in target. staring like i used to stare at the pride section, always looking away like it was taboo. she asked me if i wanted one, and i shrugged, trying not to show how much this mattered to me. she told me to pick one out and go try it on. i grabbed a simple navy blue button down with a little star pattern. in that dressing room, i was so nervous. i looked in the mirror and everything just clicked into focus. that was me, finally, that was ME in the mirror! i flapped my hands as i left the dressing room and showed my family, and my mom says to this day that was the happiest she’d ever seen me. she still has that picture of me beaming under my mask.
i came out to my extended family early december of 2021. i was so fucking scared, but it was good. it was good. i was especially worried about my christian grandmother who had always adored me and sang to me since i was a baby. i felt like i was disappointing her. like i was disappointing everyone. like my existence as a trans person was something the people around me settled for. she responded to my email with “my dearest,” and she used my chosen name. her dearest. she told me god had made me like this, god had made me trans, and that was a beautiful thing.
i still feel a rush every time i hear my name. it’s normal now, so so normal, but still there are so many times someone says my name and i freeze. that’s me! that’s me!!! that’s my name!!!!!
i told my friends i was switching from they/them to he/they pronouns. i was nervous, for reasons i couldn’t quite understand. she’s much like me, she hates feeling like an “inconvenience.” she told me i had no reason to apologize, discovering new things about my gender was never an inconvenience, only a cause for celebration.
we went to this trans-centric clinic. half the people working there used some form of they/them pronouns. i was never deadnamed, never misgendered. the doctor asked if i binded and i was struck with the realization that i had never not had to explain what that was to a doctor. they all knew. for the first time, i didn’t feel like i knew astronomically more about the existence of trans people than my doctor. the nonbinary nurse asked before touching me and made sure to explain everything, even something as simple as taking my blood pressure. they noticed i was nervous and went to grab me a stim toy, asking if i wanted juice or a snack. i felt safe.
#stuff is hard right now but trans joy is real and important#trans joy#trans joy is resistance#tdov#trans day of visibility
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that trans femme feel when you have a chest cold and it lowers your voice back down to pre-training levels so you feel wretched anytime you have to speak
#trans#that trans feel#that trans feeling#lgbtia#lgbtqplus#queer#feel#this is the worst for me#i have it right now where my throat is all gummy and im an octave lower than i want to be#i dont really sound mannish but i feeeel mannish if that makes sense#ive worked so hard to escape this voice and sound and it sucks to get dragged back by a stupid cold#also being sick generally reduces my ability to resist the dysphoria demons#i hope you have a good day#mwah
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This is the age of authenticity.
Performativity is dead.
👻🖤🏳️🌈🍉
What does your personal action for community look like?
Peace and love, everyone.
#trans day of visibility#intersectionality#its all connected#activism#acceptance#action#capitalism#feminism#resistance#living historical events#current events#coffee revolution#lgbt#easter#palestine#civil liberties#racism#community#performative activism#performative allyship#truth#your power#your voice#authenticity
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Today is Trans Day of Visibility. We will not be silenced or erased. We are here, we were always here and we always will be here.
Trying to destroy us will only result in your own impending destruction and doom.
As for my trans siblings, I love you. Be proud, be loud and keep fighting. The world is hostile to us, but we're stronger together.
#trans pride#trans day of visibility#tdov 2024#trans resistance#war on transphobia#trans folks are cool as fuck
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One day in 2019, I had pain so bad I went to the ER.
My gut felt like there were red hot needles and knifes being stabbed into it. I felt nauseous. I felt faint. I very nearly threw up.
It was not the first time I felt this way but it was the worst I’d ever felt. I’d been getting increasingly bad pain for over a year and I had gone to countless doctors trying to determine what it was.
The doctors at the ER — thankfully — took me seriously. They determined I had a severely infected gallbladder and the only way to save my life was to have surgery to remove it.
I still had to give consent before the surgery.
I remember being terrified. I was alone. There was no one to help me. And somehow, even though the only course of action I could take was to consent to the surgery the fact that I had to before they could take action made it all the more terrifying. The consequences of the surgery would mean I would live, but I’d never quite be the same. I felt cheated by my own body. Why was it this way? Why couldn’t I be healthy? Functional? Why wasn’t my body working with me?
The nurses, doctors, and surgeons there were all incredibly kind to me.
One surgeon in particular — the one who ended up operating on me — said something that will stick with me for the rest of my life. “Your body is there to help you. Sometimes, when part of the body is no longer helping you, the best thing to do is cut it away. You’ll be so much happier after the surgery. You won’t be in pain anymore.”
I think about that a lot.
I think about it a lot when I see trans men begging for help to get top surgery and are met with resistance or well meaning but ignorant messages begging back to not “mutilate” their body.
I think about my surgeon, who was so kind to me and knew what to say when I was scared and crying and alone in my hospital bed.
Your body is there to help you.
Sometimes, when part of the body is no longer helping you, the best thing to do is cut it away.
You’ll be so much happier after the surgery.
You won’t be in pain anymore.
I hope you get your top surgery.
I hope you will be so much happier.
And I hope the pain will end.
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HAPPY TRANS DAY OF VISABLITY
Happy trans day to all you beautiful people! I hope you all have a good day! I myself made some cookies to celebrate, but I hope you all find a way to celebrate in your own way! I'm proud of you all, surviving in today's world isn't easy for us. This world is easier and better for all of us with you in it. You are all beautiful, creative, clever, brave and powerful people, and I'm proud of you all. Keep fighting
#lgbt#trans#trans joy#transgender#trans pride#trans joy is resistance#stay safe and take care of yourselves kiddos#trans day of visibility#finch rambles
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yesterday was world poetry day so i wrote a love letter to my beautiful trans friends and siblings <3
IG didn't like this post so i'm hoping tumblr will!
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