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Trans women deserve better. Stop making their existence about “pissing off TERFs.” The existence of trans women themselves should be enough for them to deserve to be loved and cared about in our community.

The fact that it took their oppressors making asses of themselves for us to give a shit shows some selfish and apathetic intentions.

Just some food for thought cuz I’ve seen a lot of non-transfems like, reblogging a trans womans selfies with “rb this to piss off a TERF.” You should be reblogging it because you think trans women are beings worthy of love and recognition, not to get some dumbass internet clout.

Protect trans women, love trans women, keep trans women safe. Don’t let yourself become one of the people exposing them to transmisogyny that they don’t need to see.

We need to do better. Trans women deserve better.

hormone replacement therapy in trans people provides a near complete overhaul of secondary sex characteristics, resulting in changes in body shape, musculature, hair growth patterns, voice deepening in trans men, breast growth in trans women, and genital changes. as discussed above, biological sex is first and foremost an observation of a whole host of characteristics. if a trans man goes on testosterone, and his voice deepens, his body fat redistributes, he grows facial hair, and testosterone is the dominant hormone in his body, is he really biologically female? i argue that he is not, because the female sex is observed as the characteristics of the estrogen-dominated body. genetically female? maybe. but as far as the inner hormonal workings and the external phenotypes resulting from T go, functionally he is biologically male.

no, you can’t change your chromosomes, which really is a moot point that transphobes repeat ad nauseum, because literally every trans person knows that. but as far as sex goes as a societal binary, chromosomes are irrelevant. who’s karyotyping you when they meet you? nobody, and even in medicine it’s very rare for a person to have their chromosomes tested. i’m willing to bet that you, the reader, have never been karyotyped, and neither have i. sex is both medical and societal, and because its display is based on hormones, it’s way more malleable than people think.

Some have warnings because no one deserves a trauma spook during Hallow-Month

Repo: This is…..oh man. You know how sometimes you find something and you’re like this is terrible, I love it??? That’s Repo. VERY GORY WATCH AT YOUR OWN RISK. It’s like a Italian opera but it’s gory as all hell and also there’s organ theft uh oh

The Devil’s Carnival: Imagine The Greatest Showman but they’re all in hell and Satan really likes fairytales. That’s this musical. Lots of bussy bops in this one I’m not gonna lie. The same people that made Repo made this one what do you expect. Listen to the sequel as well that ones really good too

Phantom Of The Paradise: Retelling of The Phantom Of The Opera, but this version is set in the 70s and the phantom really likes black lipstick. Rock and roll and also murder yeehaw

35 MM: A musical that’s literally based off of a bunch of different photos. Has a psychopathic high school bussy bop, a song about fucking vampires, Lindsay Mendez, it’s really just the whole package. WARNING: MENTIONS RAPE AND DOMESTIC ABUSE IN LEAVE LUANNE

Otherbody: This is literally my favourite musical of all time. It’s a retelling of The Outsider by HP Lovecraft but it’s a metaphor about racism and homophobia in modern day America which must make that horrible author’s ghost very unhappy it’s great

Jasper In Deadland: Local boy journeys to the underworld to save crush, doesn’t realize that he’s a massive idiot and is chugging idiot juice in the underworld with a bunch of ghosts when his crush is riGHT THERE SHE’S RIGHT THERE DAMMIT JASPER

Ghost Quartet: A really complicated musical about murder, ressurection, forgiveness, and love. It’s by Dave Malloy (NPATCO1812) and if you are looking to ease in gently into the sp00ky musical genre then I would suggest this one

Lizzie: An all-female rock retelling of The Lizzie Borden murders. Gay and very good. WARNING: MENTIONS CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE THROUGHOUT MUSICAL

Love Never Dies: It’s a sequel to The Phantom Of The Opera musical but you don’t have to like the first one in order to enjoy the second. Set ten years after its predecessor, this musical talks about love, murder, and what to do when you really are the baby daddy. Side note: Domestic abuse is subtly referenced in many parts of the musical but not all of it

The Addams Family: How could I make a scary musical list without mentioning The Addams Family? It’s not spooky, but we love it none the less

Into The Woods: Fairytales but dark as hell. First act is super happy but by the second you are literally sobbing your eyes out. You’ll never get Your Fault out of your head sorry. It mentions rape in some scenes but doesn’t go really full head on into it

Rocky Horror Picture Show: If you love musicals but haven’t seen this movie or heard its songs then I feel very bad for you. Sexy, gender explorative, and boptacular this musical is a gift to humanity. But whatever you do DON’T watch the live version from two years ago because it will take ten years off of your life it’s that bad

Carrie: A good musical about why bullying is bad. Has Christy Altmore and Derek Klena in it and they sing a love song it’s super cute. WARNING: HAS BULLYING AND CHILD ABUSE IN IT