Claire 🏳️‍⚧️

the state does not need to assign you a sex, nor does it need to keep inalterable record of it btw

a very interesting terf objection to this one boils down to "but how would the state know who to protect?" because it speaks to the incredible privilege of being in a class the state actually ever remotely wants to protect. most oppressed groups do not want the state to have a registry of them, lol

the patriarchy has done a great job convincing white cisgender women that it's in their best interests to maintain it

When the topic becomes about racism between children you very quickly realise children of colour aren't seen as children but as some other thing that should just take the abuse and then forgive the Real White Children because they didn't know better. They don't understand it but children of colour can and will very early in their youth.

"mtf" and "amab" voted worst acronyms of all time

we don't need "leftist" ways of calling trans women male actually

you can say trans woman. you can just say trans woman

people will criticize tme/tma calling it "the new gender binary" and then go around calling people amab and afab as if they just ran a find and replace in their vocabulary for "male" and "female"

"um making a distinction between transfems and the entire rest of the population? isn't that just inventing a new gender binary? typical male amab behavior 😒"

this one's much rarer but I've also heard "wolffian" and "müllerian" used as stand-ins for "male" and "female." they're supposed to refer to the names of fetal development pathways, but it's very funny that some people are calling trans women "male" using a word that also has the name of a predatory animal in it. like sure, terfs are going around calling trans women "wolves in sheeps' clothing" but no yeah totally we should call trans women "wolffian"

you're not gonna find a woke way to refer to trans people by their genitalia, stop trying. the problem isn't the specific language being used, the problem is you won't let go of the bioessentialist desire to categorize others via the sex binary. you don't need to know what's in someone's pants, and you especially don't need to know what genitals a doctor decided theirs most resembled (or what they should be nonconsensually, surgically reconfigured to resemble) when they were born

bomb that makes all TMEs experience what it's like being a trans woman in queer spaces

"mtf" and "amab" voted worst acronyms of all time

we don't need "leftist" ways of calling trans women male actually

you can say trans woman. you can just say trans woman

people will criticize tme/tma calling it "the new gender binary" and then go around calling people amab and afab as if they just ran a find and replace in their vocabulary for "male" and "female"

genuinely why are so many trans men selling this kind of rhetoric. is it just me or was it not that long ago that it was pretty widely understood among trans people that sex is not a simplistic binary determined entirely by chromosomes???? I'm pacing around in my enclosure losing my mind

buzzfeed come back I'm sorry we made fun of you

"trans women can just detransition to get male privilege" coming from transandrobros is honestly an incredible level of projection coming from guys who seem to think clinging to their agab grants them some kind of holy moral purity that absolves them of their own misogyny. like man I don't know about you but for me, my transition is permanent and it's based in respect for myself, it's not a decision I can walk back at any given moment when it's rhetorically convenient

can we stop pretending that anyone assigned female at birth has some mystical connection to womanhood or lesbianism. it’s such a conservative outlook on identity i can’t believe we have to even pretend to entertain it.