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These gentle, 400-pound giants are splashing back from the brink of extinction.
Green sea turtles have been an iconic endangered species since the 1980s, mostly due to bycatch in fishing nets and taking adults and eggs for food. I have core childhood memories of watching Steve Irwin talk about sea turtle conservation in front of a beach full of nesting green sea turtles.
After 45 years of conservation efforts, their population now meets the IUCN criteria for Least Concern rather than Endangered.
For a species with such a slow life history (it takes green sea turtles decades to reach sexual maturity) and a nearly global population, this is a Really Big Deal. This is the kind of long term conservation victory that many of the amazing humans who started working on green sea turtle conservation back in the 80s didn't live to see.
Just because something isn't fixed right away doesn't mean it won't ever be fixed. Just because the work is slow doesn't mean it isn't worth doing.
When you said in your Katherine Hepburn post that you wonder how many transmasculine people kept their identities close to their chest to be the wife or mother that they were supposed to be, I always think of my neighbor.
I live in an extremely Mormon community in rural Northern Utah. I came out as a trans man as a teenager, about 10 years ago. My neighbor— someone who I had always known as a traditional Mormon woman in her early 40s, a devout housewife, a mother of several children, a valued community member from a very important family in our area (her brother is literally the mayor of our town), and at most SLIGHTLY more reclusive and quiet than most of the bigshots in our community— quietly told me on their front porch one evening that they have always seen themself as a man.
They wistfully told me about their college years, where they were involved in the lesbian community, before in their early 20s realizing that it was “more” than that. About how they only moved back home and got married after their college degree because the thought of being a disappointment to their family, and being disowned, felt impossible to cope with. So they got married to a man that they admit they don’t feel any ounce of attraction towards, and had several kids, and they’re not quite the pride to their parents as their siblings (due to being slightly more reclusive, not really having friends to speak of that aren’t just church ladies that they work with, and, admittedly, always seeming a bit depressed to me). They said that they were proud of me for doing what I needed to do, though, and they were happy that my family at least wasn’t disowning me.
Nobody else in our community knows. Not their family, not their husband, not their kids, not the people they do church outreach with.
And whenever I read stories of forgotten trans men, I always think of them. They’re still alive! They’re still here! And nobody but me will probably ever know! And if I hadn’t come out in this tiny little community, I’d never know either!
Idk. Sorry for the vent/rant. Thank you for listening. It crushes me to be the only one who knows them as a man, sometimes.
Thank you for sharing. These are the transmasculine stories we need to be telling more and louder.
Never not thinking about Lou Sullivan's mom, Nancy Louise Sullivan — a homemaker in a devout Catholic family, raised 6 children in the 1940s-70s iirc. Never did transition, but was very supportive of Lou.
there are more trans men and transmasc folks who lived and died as women than the world will ever know about. i cannot tell you how many stories I've heard of people's mothers and grandmothers telling their trans kids and grandkids that they probably would have transitioned if it had been a real option for them when they were young, because there's so many that counting would be pointless. Not just to escape womanhood, but because they wanted more than anything to live how they felt comfortable without judgement from their friends and family. And because they knew they couldn't do that without being ostracized, they gave up and conformed to expectations as best as they were able to.
The sunk cost of life as a woman is the main thing that stops them from transitioning as adults. Marriage, kids, the exhausting process that is going through a second puberty, the expense and physical strain of something like surgery alongside having every choice they've ever made held against them. They know transitioning means their husbands will most likely abandon them, their kids most likely won't support them. Loss of friendships and the supportive spaces meant for women, despite having lived as a woman for decades. And most people can't take that kind of total societal rejection.
also want to add to this conversation that Matthew Shannon's study of the USTS data found "a negative association exists between income and MTFs who transitioned to female earlier, and FTMs who transitioned to male later," meaning trans men who come out later in life are more negatively economically affected that trans men who come out earlier in life.
and being a housewife in a conservative environment is pretty important here as well; both anon's Mormon friend and Lou's mother were in a culture where the pressure to be a wife and mother were very strong and the expectation to get married and have children as soon as possible is heavy. in many cases (historically in the US and historically and presently in other places) people classed as women were legally discriminated against in terms of having a bank account, getting a credit card, taking out loans, or even being able to travel without a male relative. and that last one also IMMENSELY limits the ability for transmasculine people in such regions to organize communally as well.
so a trans man in this environment is in a situation where he is the primary caretaker of a child if not multiple children as well as performing the duties of a wife, having little to no formal work experience (only years of unpaid domestic and reproductive labor #WAGESFORHOUSEWORK), is entirely dependent on his husband and community who will reject him, if not subject him to corrective/punitive violence, should he come out, not to mention the economic burden of divorce. and then either have his children taken away from him and told their mother is schizophrenic or possessed by demons, or try to raise his children on his own as a single parent?
its not a shocker that a lot of trans men simply choose not to. or don't figure its a choice at all; how many have been trained from childhood out of expecting autonomy over their life or body in the first place? that you put your husband and children and community and god before yourself and your selfish wants, especially when those wants are perceived as diseased and unnatural?
i think genuinely one of the biggest political weak spots on the trans community in terms of actually pursuing liberation is people's aversion to meaningfully challenging the gender binary because it is personally gender affirming for them. so much reactionary bullshit in this community is intimately tied to exorsexism and transmedicalism/
and like. i also don't want to downplay why people would feel like that. you spend your entire life suffering because of being denied your gender. it impacts your identity and your relationships and your work and your everything. and then when there's finally a chance that you may actually be able to cross the great divide that separates the group you are forced to be to and the group you have always felt you belonged in, there is all of this talk about how we should dismantle the groups entirely, when you have barely - if at all - gotten a chance to even exist in a way that doesn't make you want to kill yourself, when the groups are still influencing everything about the world all the time.
but the thing is! we feel this way primarily because in our present culture, to be gendered as cis-binary is to be made human. it is to socially exist, to be seen, to be loved, to have existential, ontological meaning as a person. and nonbinary people do not get to pursue gender euphoria that also makes us human, you understand? nb/gq/gnc people do not have the option of pursuing being socially recognized as you truly feel you are and not wanting to kill yourself. some people can be happy on either side of the chasm and carve out space for themselves there, but too often only on the precarious edge. and the rest of us can only jump off or wait to be shoved off.
do you understand? we don't have the option. our insistence on fighting and deconstructing the binary is not an abstract political choice based on what we speculate would be the most #radical. it is as much a choice made out of trans survival as any binary trans man or woman's pursuit of a passing and stealth life. and plenty of us also do not want the concept of "man" or "woman" to be erased entirely; many of nb/gq/gnc people are men and women! sometimes both at the same time! others want to see new concepts to gain acceptance and social recognition!
but that is the problem with the community's exorsexism when it comes down to it. it is binary gender ideology which provides the foundation for patriarchal ideology and power as a whole, and so as feminists it is the binary we need to challenge (early radical feminists circled this realization, although they failed to develop it productively; intersectional feminism leads us to challenging the gender binary by challenging the related privileged oppressor/powerless oppressed binary). nb/gq/gnc people strain under a binary system and binary culture, and so tend to be more conscious of the binary and the need to challenge it, just like cis perisex women are more likely to be conscious of patriarchy than cis perisex men because they experience a lot more direct and obvious strain under it. all trans people are ultimately oppressed by gender binary ideology and exorsexism, and it goes against trans people's class interests to support it. but a lot of trans people who identify strongly with the binary have, for decades at this point, actively decided to sacrifice the pursuit of trans liberation and liberation from patriarchy as a whole, in favor of keeping the binary in place so they can experience being the ones who benefit from it and wield it against others. like lower-middle class people being fierce defenders of capitalism and taking great pride in self-sufficiency and financial sense and not relying on handouts.
#THIS#had a convo with some binary trans friends awhile ago about something similar#they were saying that if you met someone who isn’t obviously fem or masc and didn’t get to ask their pronouns#you should take your best guess at what they’re trying to present as and choose she/her or he/him#and if you’re corrected change of course#which is Such a binary way of thinking about it#and might be affirming for binary trans people sometimes#but ensures people who use they/them are literally never gendered correctly#and assumes that everyone is trying to perform their gender according to gender roles#trans femboys and butches aren’t going to get gendered correctly either that way#like. i understand#you would want other people to do that for you#but a Lot of people don’t want you to do that for them
& there is a real sick irony here right. binary trans men and women like your friends think its reasonable for everyone's habits regarding strangers' pronouns to follow what would help them the most, protect them from being misgendered. without seeming to register at all that nonbinary/genderqueer/gnc people get constantly misgendered by both cis and binary assumptions.
when one thinks "people should always try to guess if someone uses she/her or he/him if you can't ask, because that way a trans person whose trying to pass might be gendered correctly" implicit in that statement, to me, is the belief that we see reoccurring constantly, that it doesn't matter when nb/gq/gnc people get misgendered. it hurts us less, but more importantly it hurts other people less. its less uncomfortable to see us get misgendered. its more normal. there's all of this cultural background that makes us immediately understand why denying a man his manhood by calling him a woman is hurtful, why denying a woman her womanhood by calling her a men is hurtful. but nonbinarity is culturally seen as un-human, or ugly and monstrous. so when someone's nonbinarity/genderqueerness is denied there's no implicit sympathy, there's no understanding that this would be just as hurtful. because a lot of people see the problem with misgendering not as denying a person's gendered existence, but forcing a man to be a woman and a woman to be a man, forcing them to be at odds with the gender binary that defines our social personhood.
sorry to get all deep about it but like. this is what i mean about the community's exorsexism! there is an implicit understanding a lot of people have - and i say implicit because its often not out of active malice - that they simply do not need to care as much or feel as bad when a nonbinary/genderqueer/gnc person gets misgendered. we get toleration and non-hostility, not sympathy; sympathy, like humanity, belongs to the belonging to the binary.
Hey. If people aren't aware, Microsoft admitted they know who you and where you are at all times and will give your info to the police.
They have a Global Device Identifier (GDID) Tracker that functions as a fingerprint for your PC that can surpass VPNs, proxy servers and countries. Although it can't survive a clean reinstall of Windows (it can survive updates), because Microsoft forces you to go to the internet and log in into a Microsoft account, they will be able to get to you.
Microsoft kept it secret and it was only found out when the FBI tracked a hacker thanks to the information Microsoft gave them.
You should be paying attention to this, and possibly consider moving away from Windows. If a government, especially the US government, doesn't like you for some reason, this could be seriously concerning.
This article specifically notes:
For journalism, activism, or domestic abuse situations, skip Windows and use Linux routed through Tor instead of a commercial VPN. A GDID doesn’t care which VPN you use, only that it’s still the same Windows installation.
GDID is the persistent Windows ID that helped FBI trace a Scattered Spider hacker despite VPNs. Here's how it works and how to limit it.
Other important quotes:
What has researchers uneasy is everything else the case reveals. Costin Raiu, a well-known malware researcher, asked on the Three Buddy Problem podcast how much of this exists on other platforms, and whether it is linked more permanently to hardware. Matthew Hickey, another security researcher, called Windows “surveillance software”.
Two things back that up:
There’s no consent screen. A GDID gets assigned when you sign into a Microsoft Account. Apple’s advertising identifier needs an App Tracking Transparency prompt and a visible reset; Android’s works the same way. GDID has neither, and a Windows reinstall only gets you a new number Microsoft can still get back to the same account.
Then there’s activation. Massgrave, the group behind Microsoft Activation Scripts, notes that Windows setup sends hardware info to Microsoft and gets identifiers back, the same tokens later used for Store access and licensing: “It’s impossible to prevent Windows from getting a GDID without breaking activation and UWP app[s].” Anyone who lost a license after swapping a motherboard has already met a smaller version of this.
Here's the complaint filed to the court, the primary source for the case mentioned in the article. You can find mentions of GDID on page 30 of the document or 34 of the PDF.
You can get and use windows 11 without logging in with a microsoft account, as of five days ago. I am a local user on my computer. Don't ask me how to do it, because my computer repair guy did it when he reinstalled windows, but there are tutorials out there. Refuse to connect to internet until you're set up and can use the computer freely.
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thing about misogyny no one talks about is that when "good" womanhood and femininity are defined around sexual chastity and purity, and when manhood and masculinity are associated with sexual desire and sexual action, being seen as a slut/whore crosses the line into gender nonconformity and the violence directed at such people has a lot of similarities with, and in many cases is inseparable from, anti-transmasculinity - specifically how the violence is justified by this idea that as a "fallen woman," one has forfeited one's claim to being something vulnerable which is owed protection from men in some way, even out of pity - you have forced yourself into the masculinized public world while failing to be a "real man," and so have made yourself deserving of violence from "real men." its the "well if you say you are a guy, then i get to beat you up" mindset. post with examples for those curious
i just think we should talk about this more. people find it really easy to talk about how failing masculinity moves one towards being seen as feminine, because women are the antithesis of men under patriarchy. but people are very reluctant to acknowledge the reverse, that failing femininity moves one towards masculinity, that men could be the antithesis of women. and ironically i feel like this reluctance stems from the very idea that "woman" is defined by lack, is just a negative reflection of manhood, that there isn't any complicated substance to the category and how it is socially constructed. "woman" and "female" are concepts that people put a LOT of work into making seem natural and inevitable, and that influences how certain forms of misogyny (like that which lead to anti-transmasculinity) are erased.
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