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If you can, please reblog this. I don’t have proof so you can choose to take my word for it or not.

it's a venn diagram with a massive overlap in the middle. i'm not saying EVERY butch is a trans guy and EVERY trans guy is a butch dyke , i'm just saying it looks more like this:

these are not "mutually exclusive" terms- they do not mean the same thing, but we can be the same people, an very often are. there is a long history of butches who identify as FTM, trans men, drag kings, genderqueer, genderfluid, transmasculine, male, polygender, and two-spirit lesbians, and so much more. the relationship between lesbianism and queer masculinity is inseparable and the only people telling you that butches and trans men need to violently separate from one another and be at each other's throats are terfs. even if we do not share identities, we share our struggle together as heavily misunderstood and unseen masculine queers.

we stand up for each other when our identities get confused by strangers, and we get misgendered. we stand up for each other when terfs and terfpilled people tell us that transmasculine people and men can't be lesbians, when people say "butches just want to be men", when people say "butches aren't real women", when people call each of us bull dykes and trannies, when people mock the way FTMs walk and talk and look, and when people tell trans men they're "just butch dykes in denial". we stand up for each other and understand each others struggles.

whenever a butch lesbian asserts they're a woman no matter how masc they are, whenever a trans man asserts that they are a man and not a butch, whenever a butch struggles to be seen as both a man and a lesbian, and whenever a trans man returns to the lesbian community while embracing their manhood, we are part of the same community, we share the same struggles, and we owe it to each other to stay strong.

It's almost as if it's an isolation tactic, hmmm,, Where have I seen this before?

Oh right! The ugly laws that went on all the way until the 70s! Where we were hidden from the public to make it appear that we did not exist because just being alive makes ableds uncomfortable! And because this happened, so much information about phys disability has been either lost to time or is extremely behind on up-to-date modern documentation!!! It's also a reason why the medical industry is such a mess and is filled with malpractice!!!! That's terrifying!!!

I know this isn't nowhere near as big of a scale as those atrocities, but you can't deny that in simple terms, that's exactly what y'all are doing, because even if we did make a NEW space for strictly phys disabled, y'all would drop cripplepunk in a heartbeat to sink your claws into the new one too. I also wouldn't be surprised if y'all demonized it to shame phys disabled people from seeking it out.

It's not about the label, it's about shutting physically disabled people out.

That "MERDs" bullshit is to demonize phys disabled people who fight back. It is absolutely just an opening to harass the outspoken members of our community and to eventually silence us all, I can see right through this thinly veiled "discourse".

And I know damn well that's what this is because y'all don't act like this towards neuropunk or madpunk.

Yeah, sure, I guess. It's not on the same level as, "I am going to come to your house and choke you."

But it's also not...great? You're telling a real human being to go choke and presumably die. You're telling a real human being that they deserve to be caused physical harm and even have their life ended because...what? They do some shit with fictional characters? They make content that makes you uncomfortable?

I feel like a lot of antis need to realize that people are going to do stuff that makes them uncomfortable and they dislike. But when that thing isn't hurting anyone, they should fuck off and leave them alone.

It's not okay to tell real people to die. I hate that young teens online get sucked into the antiship mindset and get taught that it's okay and not that big of a deal to tell people they deserve to experience physical and/or mental harm or die.

It's not funny, quirky, or righteous.

It's dangerous and cruel and should always be seen that way.

Person A - "Person B DNI, I'll kill you if you even glance at my blog!!"

Person A likes person B's post

Persona A reblogs person b's post

Person A likes person B's post

Person A likes person B's post

Person A follows person B

Person B actively avoids interacting with person A ( OR DMS A and lets them know they're on A's DNI list).

Person A realises Person B is in their Dni and sends hateful anon asks to person B for 'interacting' with them or makes a callout post about person B being evil and hiding their true opinions.

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i'm in Ireland and the search for that bastards name is still blocked and hidden... the legnths the british go to defend and protect their instruments of colonialism and violence is beyond belief. no justice for the victims and yet every measure taken to protect David James Cleary and his fellow murderers.

The school system I grew up in put an absolutely ungodly amount of pressure on kids to Show Up Every Day No Matter What. Many schools are like this, but looking back, my town’s was borderline fucking dystopian. They asked me why I didn’t just “postpone” a surgery at one point— when I was fifteen— to give you an idea of how monumentally obtuse these people were.

So, in elementary school, I started having chicken pox symptoms, right? They were mild because I was vaccinated (yay!) but my mom recognized them quickly and took me to the doctor, because my mom is a reasonable human being with standards. The doctor said “yup, you’ve got those pox, it may seem mild but please for the love of god DO NOT take her to school, she is very contagious even though she may FEEL okay.”

So I had to stay home from school until I got clearance from my doctor to go back. I was an angry little gremlin the whole time, because I wanted to go to the school library and read books about the human skull, but my mother said, “no, you cannot leave this house, and do not scratch the bumps please.” So I sat at home and tried not to scratch the bumps, like a good little gremlin.

A few days into my Chicken Pox Related House Arrest, we got a letter from the school. I was far from the only person with chicken pox, as it so happened. Like… a tenth of my second grade class had Confirmed Pox. We all fell ill within DAYS of each other.

So how did this happen, you ask? Well, a kid had chicken pox, and he came to school anyway. “Ah, well perhaps they didn’t know,” you may very well say. “Maybe his parents didn’t notice!” No. No, they noticed. In fact they KNEW it was CHICKEN POX. They sent him to school anyway.

The kid’s parents…….. were, in fact, teachers at the school. And they KNOWINGLY made him go to school sick, because they didn’t want to risk hurting his precious “perfect attendance” record. They figured that since he wasn’t, like, Literally Dying, it was better for him not to miss school. Never mind the fact that they were actively endangering hundreds of little kids.

Fast forward to my freshman year of college. A kid came to class with mumps because he ‘couldn’t afford to miss’. Guess what happened? Mumps outbreak! Diseases are, as it turns out, good at being diseases! Vaccinations are phenomenal, but they can only do so much, and some people rely on herd immunity to not be killed by preventable illness.

This entire attitude needs to die. It’s dangerous. Food service workers are forced to show up sick, little kids are forced to show up sick, college students show up sick because they’re afraid of flunking out.