Recycled Stardust and Borrowed Energy

First: What if a trans kid asks their parents to show their support by attending Pride with them? What if a lesbian can only attend pride if she gets a ride from someone and the only person willing and able to drive her is her straight brother? What if a bi disabled person can't attend a large outdoor event without hands-on assistance from their straight partner? What if someone just wants to bring their fucking friends? What if, contrary to popular tumblr discourse, most queers don't inhabit perfectly pure social bubbles populated only by other queers?

Cishet people are going to go to pride and you won't be able to differentiate them from less visible forms of queerness. Cishet couples are going to bring their young kids to pride because they support the LGBTQ+ community and because pride parades are fun and colorful, and those children will grow up thinking about the LGBTQ+ community as a fun and normal part of life. That is a good thing.

A male human and a female human are roughly the same size and same coloration.

Meanwhile, male black widow spiders are brown and a tenth the size of females. Anglerfish females are a full foot long and have a bioluminescent protrusion on their heads; males are barely half an inch long with no bioluminescence or protrusions. Male elephant seals are ten times bigger than females and have massive snouts. Male orangutans have big jowls and neck sacs that look like goiters, while females look more like other apes. Peacocks have flashy coloration and a long tail that they can display. The females are brown and simple.

Lowland Gorilla males tend to be 2.38x on average the mass of Lowland Gorilla females. Humans? That ratio is something line 1.15.

Male gorilla canines tend to be about 2 inches long, easily twice the length of some of their other teeth. Male humans have canines the exact same length as human female canines and the exact same length as the rest of our teeth.

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but then because reproductive injustice and the centrality of controlling pregnancy to misogyny and patriarchy, perhaps the one (or at least most obvious) area where you cannot pretend that trans men have male privilege, is when it comes to the uterus. and so people are now having this reactionary backlash to the discussion of abortion rights or pregnancy or menstruation - NOT ON CIS WOMEN'S POST, mind you, only when trans men talk about it, while at the same time trans men are told they are "derailing" posts about misogyny by bringing up their experiences, trans and intersex people in general are told they are being selfish males by insisting that gender-inclusive reproductive language is vital. if you cannot see how anti-feminist this growing sentiment is, you need to work on that.

and i will not deny that some trans men absolutely do get bioessentialist about it. i have myself made posts calling out some anti-science, anti-transfeminine, intersexist posts made recently that act as though the uterus & disorders relating to it are solely and exclusively the purview of people assigned female. i am not saying there is never ever ever any bioessentialism in how trans men or nonbinary people assigned female talk about their experiences with sexual misogyny. there is and its important we are vigilant about it (although this is true for all trans people, none of us are immune to appealing to cissexist feminism at the expense of other trans people to get our suffering heard, not that these people ever wanna talk about that)

but it is VERY obvious that because of the anti-transmasculinity on this site, people have become genuinely anti-feminist in their hostility to anything that ever discusses abortion or pregnancy or anything relating to the uterus and how it ties into people's oppression. the fact that there are people on this site who call themselves transfeminists, and then insist that trans men who talk about how they are affected by attacks on abortion rights, or birth control, or forced pregnancy, are being bioessentialist and should shut up... i am sorry but THIS is anti-feminism. these are not good faith criticisms, they are soaked to the goddamn teeth in anti-transmasculinity just as much as some people's posts about how trans women who say they have endometriosis are valor-stealing liars are soaked in anti-transfemininity.

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.

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.

It also goes without saying that bioessentialism inherently can’t be trans inclusive no matter how hard you try. “All men including trans men—” probably not. “This is only a woman’s issue—” is it really? “Afabs only—” why? “All trans men are like—” what? what are they like? finish the sentence i dare you.