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This is a set of resources for countering common myths about trans people, trans rights and trans healthcare, hosted by Resisting Transphobia in Edinburgh.

While committed anti-trans activists are extremely prominent in trans discourse, the bulk of people with worries about these things do not fall into that category. Many people simply have fears because they have been misinformed by politicians, the media and those prominent transphobes. With such people, it is worth correcting them on matters of fact, carefully and gently if you can. That is where this resource comes in: it provides a run-down of most of the common myths, with references where relevant.

Following the preamble, these are the facts in question. While this is a mythbusting resource, it avoids repeating the myths, since on some level that serves to reinforce them.

Sex is not binary.

Gender is a social construct, but that doesn’t mean it’s not real.

This is not a dispute between scientists and trans activists.

Feminism is fully compatible with trans inclusion.

Trans people do more to undermine gender stereotypes than to reinforce them.

Nobody is being silenced for saying sex is biological.

Nobody is taking away hard-won ‘sex-based rights’.

Trans people’s rights are definitely under threat.

The category of ‘woman’ is not being erased.

It is not too easy for kids to access trans healthcare.

Kids are not ‘being transed’.

Puberty blockers are largely reversible, and have been used and tested for decades.

Puberty blockers are not the same thing as cross-sex hormone treatments.

There has never been a gay or queer liberation movement without trans people.

‘Cis’ is not a slur.

‘Detransitioners’ are not being ignored.

There is no evidence for ‘Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria’.

Being transgender is not a kink.

Please share this around - we desperately need more cis allies, in particular, to be equipped to confidently correct their friends and family members who have picked up lies about trans people. We could also do with a lot more people writing to media organisations and regulators to flag up when they are sharing disinformation.

Thanks everyone!

I made this transparent PNG the night he died in preparation for one of the many ways I was going to memorialize him--a surface rug in his likeness that I planned on laying directly in the line of his favourite sunbeam. And I uploaded that PNG here, because this is the website where people post their cats.

I was not expecting the reception I got. Many people have pointed out that this post has more reblogs than likes, and how insane that is in 2025 when reblog culture is at an all time low. I didn't even talk about the fact that Burger passed away in the original post, it wasn't a tearjerker reblog bait or anything like that. People just loved Burger that much, in the same way I fell in love with him at first sight. He was such an ugly kitten.

Anyways, it's really special to me that so many people have reblogged my best friend. I made this PNG to memorialize him in a completely different way, and you all wound up doing just that in ways I never even imagined.

Thank you. Wherever he is, I know the sun is shining.

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i was wrong.

I saw a post about someone chiding Millennials for not knowing about JKRowlings transphobia, and asking how it is at all possible that people can exist in the world and the internet and, you know, not know.

Which I mean, I get. It is so present in so many of my online spaces that it seems astounding that someone could simply be ignorant! It feels impossible!

But let me tell you a story:

I went on a girls trip with a bunch of friends. All of us are rather incredibly liberal and all of us are incredibly online.

One girl would not stop talking about Harry Potter.

At one point, another girl asked her why she was ok with supporting it, and she had no real clue that JK Rowling was at all transphobic. She had heard that she likes to support Lesbian causes and thought “oh ok cool!” And that was it. She was AGOG with the news and rather horrified.

I must once again emphasize that she was an incredibly online person. She’s a foodie and a restaurant blogger.

Later in the trip we were picking restaurants and I suggested one I found on Google, and she gasped at me. Actually gasped, asking how I could ever be okay picking that one.

The shock must’ve been on my face, because she then told me all of the shitty things that restaurateur does. He abuses staff. Underpays them. Fires them on a whim. Is known for being one of the worst people to his employees in the entire restaurant business on this coast.

And she was so shocked I had never heard of this. Because in her mind, I was just as online as her. And in her online world, EVERYONE knew about this guy.

So I think the moral of this story is: always approach the other person with some empathy. Even online people, even people you think MUST know about how bad people are, may not have heard. It may truly be just them being on a different sphere of the internet than you.

So be gentle, be kind when letting people know they might not have heard about the cancellation of XYZ person. Don’t assume that everyone knows all the same info as you.