Duck 🦆

I absolutely understand this, and I have some stories for you.

For articles:

George Everett Klippert tells the story of a man who changed the shape of a country because he was loved.

Jackie Shane tells the story of a trans woman of colour in the fifties who had a happier story than you'd expect.

Simon Tseko Nkoli tells the story of a man who fought back.

Elvira de la Fuente Chaudoir, A.K.A Agent Bronx tells the story of a woman who survived.

For books (affiliate links below) :

The Women's House of Detention

A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison

Hugh Ryan

The Freaks Came Out to Write

The Definitive History of the Village Voice, the Radical Paper That Changed American Culture

Tricia Romano

Liberated

The Radical Art and Life of Claude Cahun

Kaz Rowe 

Nothing Ever Just Disappears

Seven Hidden Queer Histories

Diarmuid Hester 

The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions

Larry Mitchell (Author), Ned Asta (Illustrator)

Double Cross

The True Story of the D-Day Spies

Ben MacIntyre

The New Queer Conscience

Adam Eli 

Punched me in the face when she had a literal Nazi quote for this

please remember us when talking about neurodiversity. ocd, dyslexia, dyscaculia, personality disorders, tourettes, intellectual disabilities, schizo-spec disorders, etc. all fall under neurodiversity.

please stop saying neurodivergent when you mean "autism and adhd."

intersexuality is not exclusively about sexual organs. hyperandrogenism has long been considered intersex because it greatly affects secondary sex characteristics. it's a major feature of several other intersex variations.

interACT includes PCOS as an intersex variation. are you really going to argue with a widely respected intersex activist organization because you're a little gatekeepy piece of shit???

[ID: a question on a survey asking "What if your biological sex?" with only two answers: male and female]

neither. none of the above.

Non passing trans men don't benefit from misogyny whatsoever, besides possibly on the internet. If they are seen as a woman in someone's eyes, especially legally, they do not benefit from it. If you are not seen as a man by society, regardless of if you are or not, you do not benefit from misogyny.

or, alternatively, it's being percieved as a man. which means perisex cis butch women have male privelege. because masculinity=male privelege now?

but if you point out the flaws with either of these they get mad at you, think YOU'RE the one saying this instead of just pointing out what their rhetoric inherently implies, & then say "no it's entirely different" with no further reasoning

From Cork who got limericks

Who liked to compose limericks

But he failed at the sport

and when i see

this tumblr post

it gives me glee

i think real hard

for words to pick

so i can fail

Whose [body part] was [special case].

When [event] would occur,

It would cause [him or her]

the issue with sexual assault is the sexual assault, and it's wrong no matter where it takes place and no matter what genders of people are involved

not every trans person is a man or a woman and they also need places to relieve themselves.

people of all genders need assistance with relieving themselves and the people who assist them may be any gender. this applies for babies, young children, disabled people of all ages, people who are incapacitated by substance use, sickness, or injury, etc. It is ridiculous to expect people to only be able to relieve themselves if the person they trust to help them is their same gender

this is also happening with trans healthcare. puberty blockers used to be a compromise! the original demand was for adolescents to have bodily autonomy over what kind of puberty to experience. then cis people fearmongered about kids not being old enough to know their gender, and so there was an effort to be like "okay well for kids who need more time before puberty, we can use this already existing treatment to delay puberty." now cis people fearmonger about the puberty blockers.