LucyLesDreams

because they were of the opposite sex and we're falsified as the other one without any signs of being intersex?

What the fuck are you even talking about lol. Mesopotamian remains are just bones. How can you tell they were living as the opposite sex from bones?

Because we have table content of ancient scripts that were translated to find out stuff about for example, an ancient story that featured a trans man? Because when the colonialists arrived in America it took them 5 years and 326 different translators to understand that the indigenous people had more than two genders?

It's almost like legends exist. Indigenous people also believed in a giant turtle god. Do you think that's also biological reality?

Because psychics in the Pacific islands were always identified as mahu which is both male AND female???

Record store makes Tik Tok about their female only stock. Comments filled with people asking if they sell specific trans artists DESPITE them already confirming they have trans artists in their catalog.

Bonus comments. Also when they can’t prove them to be terfs, they pray for their downfall 🙃

A couple of weeks before one of these groups was set to leave for a tropical location, the teacher asked his students to write reflections on whether they were prepared for their trip. Out of the seven women in the group, five wrote that they weren’t ready because they had hoped to lose weight before leaving. They seemed more worried about how their bodies might appear than whether they had sufficiently reflected on the work they hoped to do during their trip. Not one man in the group wrote about his body “not being ready.”

How much more time do we spend getting ready for work every day compared to our male colleagues? When one of my most beloved mentors told a group that she wore a scarf every day because her aging neck was “too hideous to be seen,” why didn’t we question that type of talk?

A few years ago, I received an email from a Canadian woman who saw a TEDx talk I gave about beauty sickness. She confessed that she almost didn’t attend an important fundraising function for a children’s welfare organization because she felt she looked too fat in her clothes. After reframing her feelings in terms of beauty sickness, she decided she would “let her looks be a sideshow to who I really am.” This choice made a real difference in her life and in the lives of others. “If I hadn’t gone,” she wrote, “I wouldn’t have met some incredible people. I wouldn’t have bought raffle tickets to help children living in poverty be able to go to camp this summer. I wouldn’t have offered my time to help organize next year’s event.”

As a culture, we face a terrible loss when an entire group of promising citizens is spending so much time worrying about whether they are beautiful that they risk letting another generation go by without seeing the changes they hoped to see in the world. This obsession with appearance—this beauty sickness—turns women toward the mirror and away from a world that stands to benefit from a refocusing of their passions and efforts. How might women’s lives be different if they took the energy and concern aimed at their own appearance and aimed it out at the world instead?"

I have for the past 6 months put myself on a mind detox, not doing anything just for looks, not thinking about it, stepped away from conversations about looks. Instead focusing more on what my body can do for me, the joy it can bring me. climbing, dancing, swimming, playing football, living actual experiences. no self imposed limitations that will break you from the inside.

Straight kids are so gleeful about calling gay people slurs it's unnerving...

The International Union of Sex Workers (IUSW) is a UK-based union for sex workers, and became a part of GMB, another general workers union and Britain’s third largest union, in 2002 after a vote to become an affiliate. Like @feministclassicist mentioned before me in the thread, Douglas Fox is one of the many donors to the IUSW, and is also a part of Amnesty International, which I’ll address shortly. Fox owns the largest escort service in north-eastern England, and has dedicated a lot of time, money, and resources to lobby for the legalization of pimping, brothel-owning, and sexbuying.

In 2010, Douglas Fox published a post on the official IUSW website, wherein he routinely refers to women who are prostitutes as “whores,” claims that Julie Bindel and other anti-coercive sex industry feminists are not “true feminists”, claims prostitution does “not institutionalise the sexual objectification of women”, and states “the whore challenges social oppression of both men and women by refusing to conform to narrow oppressive role prescriptions.”

These statements are diametrically opposed to the lives and vocalized experiences/desires of the overwhelming majority of so-called “sex workers”, who want to leave these industries and find other sources of labor, but often don’t have the resources to do so. [2] [3]

In 2008, Douglas Fox proposed a motion for blanket decriminalisation of the sex trade at the Amnesty International (AI) Annual General Meeting, a proposal that became international AI policy seven years later.

In October of 2014, Alejandra Gil, the Vice President of the Global Network of Sex Work Projects (NSWP), was arrested for running a massive sex trafficking ring, using APROASE (a proclaimed sex-worker led sex work Union, for whom she was a co-chair member) as a front for her illegal activities. In March of 2015 she was charged. Despite that, the very NSWP article I linked paints Gil out to be a victim, and dismisses her guilt.

“Turn off the blue light” is a primarily European campaign, whose mission is “to raise awareness on the violence, crimes and discrimination against sex workers, a marginalized female group and mobilize public opinion and stakeholders in order to tackle these phenomena” Despite this self-proclaimed mission, the campaign is backed and funded by characters such as Peter McCormick, a convicted pimp who rakes in millions of Euros from his online prostitution service annually. Additionally, his son, who was convicted of running 6 brothels is another advocate for the campaign. TJ Carrol is yet another of these traffickers and pimps who supported the campaign. Carrol ran the largest trafficking/prostitution ring in Ireland, and utilized African gangs to traffick women and sell them into sexual slavery, where oftentimes they were horribly abused and unable to escape. Carrol and his associates used voodoo rituals to terrify African women into staying in the industry, and he also groomed his daughter into the business. Tony Linnane is yet another convicted pimp who backed the campaign. He was also connected to an incident wherein a woman was “threatened with being burned alive after gasoline was thrown on her.” Had enough yet? Mihai Selaru is a brother owner and pimp who plead guilty to beating the prostitutes forced to work for him, and threatened to starve a woman if she did not bring in more business.

Claudia Brizuela, a former leader of Asociacion de Mujeres Meretrices de Argentina (Association of Women Prostitutes of Argentina) (AMMAR) and a founder of the Latin American-Caribbean Female Sex Workers Network (LA-CFSWN), was arrested and charged with sex trafficking. The LA-CFSWN was represented by none other than Gil Alejandra.

Julie Bindel, through her fantastic and diligent research, discovered that the #notyourrescueproject hashtag and campaign, which claimed to be a “sex-worker-led” campaign was actually created and sustained by burner accounts of Dr. John Davies by women he had pimped and trafficked. Primarily, he posed as a disenfranchised woman from the Indian sub-continent named “Molli Desi.” All of the pictures of “Molli” were actually pictures of a woman he had trafficked from Bangladesh. Davies was a Visiting Research Fellow with the Centre for Migration Studies Department of Sussex University, where he routinely hid behind his respectability as a doctor in order to promote trafficking denialism. Davies was also involved in an adoption scheme called the King Solomon Foundation, which operated out of Romania, and where he sold the children of prostituted women for up to $20,000.

The spokespeople of this “sex workers” organisation are typically men (that’s all I’ve ever seen) and when they invade feminist protests we mostly see white men, lots of them in drag.

One spokesman is a “trans woman” who insults prostitution survivors very openly. I witnessed him saying “boo hoo, it wasn’t rape when you took the money though was it?” to a victim relating how she was raped and almost died, “too bad you didn’t die” he added. All this while the founders were laughing.

This lobby claims to be a sex workers union here to help “whores” but they mostly just harass feminists and protest in favour of legalising sexual exploitation. They refuse to say how many members they have now. Which wasn’t a lot, last time I checked.

Here is one of the founders trying to get elected with the french green party (and failing).

there are other reason to why I don't say "sex worker",

but my number 1: It has no clear meaning. It includes everyone that ears money on the sexual exploitation. Including a bouncer on a strip show, the pimps, the brothel owners, the traffickers. It refers to everyone in the rape industry.