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remember the like tiny sliver of time when there was a real push to just say "people who have a uterus" or "people with testicles" or whatever when that was what you meant, and then faux-progressives who were willing to cave to terfism to avoid saying icky anatomy words ruined it with "AFAB-bodied"

literally just say dick when you mean dick. feeling uncomfortable with body parts and getting all euphemistic about it is conservatism by default.

Through the magic of specifying, for instance, "if you have a cock and balls then you may sometimes struggle with accidentally squeezing them in painful ways when sitting down" you also account for someone who got rid of her cock and balls surgically. Because get this. She No Longer Has That Anatomy. She is now outside the group defined as "people with cocks and balls".

On the other hand, instead of trying to contrive some anatomical grouping when what you really want to say is "trans women and cis men" without owning up to how awkward it is that you're making that particular grouping of identities, through the magic of introspection, you can think about why you're so desperate to do that!

i kinda hate that "radfem" became shorthand for terf which is already short for twerf (trans woman exclusionary radical feminist) it really feels like people largely problematized the feminist part and not the part where their "feminism" is in opposition to trans women. right now you've got a bunch of people trying to appropriate the terf acronym on any trans woman whose feminism is a bit too outspoken (i've seen trf; trans radfem, tirf; trans-inclusive radfem, or just straightforwardly calling trans women terfs) and it kinda reveals they just kinda hate feminists

turning my grief into anger at racial healthcare disparities bc why the fuck was a fucking DOCTOR mocking my grandmother who had Just been diagnosed with fucking stomach cancer about what he assumed her diet to be!! "oh i bet you eat plenty of hamhock and fried chicken and pork chops 🤗" and the nurses neglecting her bc "oh you're independent you can do this yourself ☺️". we know that if she'd gone to see someone as soon as she had symptoms they would have dismissed everything outta hand. no fucking wonder she waited so. fucking. long bc she knew Exactly how black people (Especially black women) are treated in by the majority of medical professionals: like god damn animals.

like wow ok. the concept of "medicine" is just a another tool this country uses to demoralize, dehumanize, and kill black people all while shaking them upside down until the money stops falling out.

i saw a post abouts lesbians in healthcare that was like "it sucks but ive received more comprehensive care when i lie about wanting to get pregnant" and for fat people "tell me what your diagnosis would be if i was 50, 100, 150 lbs lighter" and black people dont get that!! we cant lie and say "treat me as if i was three shades lighter" bc the biases from even seeing dark skin are so deeply embedded in the way people learn about medicine!!

Reminder: Ranked Competitive Breast Growth is not a Goncharov situation. It's a real story that my friend and I wrote. That text with the underscore right there? It's a link you can click, and it will take you to the actual first chapter of Ranked Competitive Breast Growth, which I repeat, is a work of fiction that exists

engaging with a lot of archival lesbian stuff feels extremely fraught. I see myself, but only partially, and I know that my exclusion is often not accidental. nitrate kisses, a documentary largely about erasure, opens with an adrienne rich quote and does not at any point talk about transsexuals. still, I take a strong interest in this history, and there are parts of it that resonate intensely on certain levels, and so I can’t simply write it off even when it’s incomplete.

anyways littlepuss press just reprinted all of gendertrash from hell, a zine by and for ts dyke sex workers. go check it out

Anyone with two eyes should be able to see that "we are all faggots to the state" is blatantly not true in between how transmisogyny-exempt LGBT people have primarily focused on assimilation as a political goal in the US as of the past solid decade along with the fact that the overwhelming majority of legislature aiming to eliminate us has been primarily focused on trans women.

Please help me and donate to me and also share this post because I am the closest person to me and I ask him for help. Please my dear friend, I do not want my dignity to be wasted in vain. Just donate to me, please, to save my family. Please donate.

Please, please, my dear friend, donate to him and do not ignore him. I am literally suffering like him because I literally know the details of his life. Please donate to him.

Hmm I don't think anyone really donated this is terrible why are you silent while the killing is still going on why is no one donating do you think he wants to play with the money he lost he just wants to live please donate to him

I do have to wonder how many zionists realize that they’re permanently giving the term antisemitism boy who cried wolf connotations. The word is tainted to the point that I’m not sure it’s viable in discussions of actual antisemitism anymore. It’s really grim to be in a position as a Jew where every time I see someone describe something as antisemitic I have to spend 5 minutes digging through their profile before I can know if they’re being genuine

Btw I guarantee that if zionists on here find this post they’ll characterize me as a kapo who thinks antisemitism doesn’t exist

I can’t emphasize this enough: zionists are the biggest factor in modern day antisemitism. They are doing everything possible to paint the rest of us collectively as baby killing genocidal monsters, all while doing everything possible to silence opposition in a way that lends itself incredibly well to the antisemitic narrative that we control the media

It's actually bewildering how much people hate trans women. It's not just people being cartoonishly transphobic. Touch grass you tell the online transfem, but she leaves her house and people scorn her. They grab their children and pull them away from her. They furrow their brow and spit in her direction. They whisper unkind words under their breath, sometimes heard and sometimes not. They see her and turn around desperately looking for another way out of the grocery store. The world hates trans women and even the ones that aren't cartoonishly evil avoid us like the plague. We are blamed for everything evil in the world and so when people see us they think of evil.

remember when the tumblr ceo stalked a random trans woman offsite and posted about her on his blog and nothing of consequence for him ever happened of that. and tumblr admitting that they were banning trans women unfairly and then they kept doing that. like transfems you follow will suddenly disappear one day and sometimes the ones with bigger followings will reappear and get spread but you still will have mutuals who you just haven't seen for years because they were deleted without warning. and like shit just continues as if that didn't happen and it isn't still happening

idk how many people remember in 2023 when I randomly got this blog deleted but it was completely devastating for me, and I am extremely lucky in that I got it reinstated after I @'d tumblr support about the issue on twitter. I can't imagine that I would have been that lucky if I had been a trans woman in that same situation, which makes me furious at the injustice of it all. like these accounts aren't just stupid internet things, they're logs of your relationships and interests that often cover over a decade of someone's life, it is extremely upsetting to one day see that those accounts are gone with no reason or explanation

on a simpler level it’s just kind of nightmarishly disgusting to me that we all reblog like 20 posts a day about the variety and depth of nonbinary identities and potential within questioning but everyone so obviously exclusively brings this acceptance to nonbinary people who were afab, to the point that a lot of people don’t even blink at the “oh yeah he has pronouns but it’s just performative so people think he’s progressive” shtick and just nod along unquestioningly. like this shit is soooo fucking common with so many people suffering from it it’s an absolutely maddening double standard that everyone just pretends doesn’t happen