Observant, Reflective, Wrath

right to comfort as in: I need you to be comfortable around me. My behavior may go against every single one of your values but I have the right to your placid and friendly perpetual good will. Leveling the mildest of criticisms towards me is a hateful and hostile attack. Decentering me or seeking to distance yourself from me is a hateful and hostile attack. I am entitled to close friendly comfortable contact with you. Withholding your approval is violence.

right to comfort as in: l exist in a state of such precariousness that the cultivation and maintenance of my positive image is the only way I gain access to income. criticizing my behavior in any way endangers my survival. If you don’t promise to stay quiet about what I did to you I lose access to that source of support. my safety deserves to be protected by your silence.

[“Whenever I teach about encouraging the divergent voice as a facilitator, there’s often some fear that this will create conflict and instability. If we treat the divergent voice as dangerous to our movements, then it becomes dangerous to our movements. If we frame the divergent voice as an opportunity to seek deeper understanding and learn more about one another, the mood changes and divergence becomes less scary and more fun.”]

Hbomberguy vaguing his ex friend who already gets harassed a lot makes me lose respect for him bc like you have a billion followers and also can trash talk anyone you want to your numerous friends who you surely have private messages with. Its one thing when its like a serial liar or sexual harasser but its some woman already subject to harassment who said kind of a badly phrased take about not thinking lolicon should be illegal

transmisogyny is so normalized that even in this joke post about the lesbian spectrum, trans women go completely unmentioned while trans mascs are included. it really is that pervasive and everywhere. I feel like I'm fucking losing it here.

sorry, but you were socialized christian. I just can't trust you in a trans space

they literally taught you that trans people were subhuman and that you were better than them. I don't know if you can be trusted around other trans people

they scapegoated and abused you for showing signs of transness? uh... no? christianity is the most privileged religion there is. stop whining

Support our trans sisters. We are privileged in that we are seen as “desiring the superior” (masculinity) rather than the supposedly illogical “desire for the inferior” (femininity). Those in power can make sense of trans men, because men hold more relative power— but seeing womanhood as desirable, despite all the barriers set up by society and all the discrimination levied upon feminine people? That breaks the system entirely. Our trans sisters are out here fighting the system at its roots. The least we can do is speak out for their cause, as well. All or nothing, folks. Our causes are interconnected in the face of tearing down patriarchy and rigid social norms based on biological sex. What happened to “injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere”

yeah? you think so?

idk which transgender bitch needs to hear this but u are better than everyone else

she says in the article that she was inspired to think this way about autism after she started reporting on detransitioners. Her Twitter mentions are filled with prominent voices in the detrans terf movement. This isn't just similar, It is quite self-consciously an extension of the same movement.

it’s actually not misogynistic to say astrology is bogus, and it is indeed way way more misogynistic to believe that things that can’t be proven rationally through science are More Female.

a transgender woman is no less delicate, no less soft, no less sensitive than anyone else. please treat her gently

she has emotions, she can feel pain, she knows fear far too well. she carries trauma, she can be broken if you're too rough with her. she needs hugs, people to talk with, people to laugh with, to feel safe with. all of the pain she's been put through has been 100% real, but so too is all of the love you can show her

If that trans girl gets super weirdly apologetic, like is borderline apologizing for breathing or is apologizing for things that are basically nothing/happened forever ago, whatever you do, do not leave her alone. Chances are it's one of two things, and neither of them are good; she's either bordering on a breakdown and thinks basically everything she does is wrong, or is past that point and desperately wants to make sure no one's angry at her before she hurts herself/takes her own life. You might think it's weird, you might get tired of it and want to push her away, but for the love of god do not do that. Her apologizing every 0.5 seconds is because she's been taught not to value her own emotions, but they're overpowering her and she doesn't know what to do other than apologize like her life depends on it. Her life might not depend on it, but it very well could depend on how you respond to her heart's most desperate cries for help

Many lgbt teenagers and young adults growing up on the internet today have socially conservative beliefs that they voice at all times that they got from their conservative parents which they’ve never challenged because they think the life experience of being gay or trans makes them politically progressive

This is why I hate it when people say something homophobic and then go “so you’re really accusing me, a whole ass lesbian, of being homophobic 🙄” like yeah

the state does not need to assign you a sex, nor does it need to keep inalterable record of it btw