Paper Cranes and Pride

yall keep saying "privilege" when the word you're actually looking for is "advantage"

I think trans women should be allowed to win competitions without being used as proof that trans women are “dominating” women’s sports and I think trans men should be allowed to have big roles in media without being used as proof that trans men benefit from male privilege. I think trans people should be allowed to succeed in life without being used as a way to claim that cis women are inherently the most disadvantaged, when usually those trans people fought just as hard (if not harder) to get where they are than their cisgendered peers. I don’t like how trans people have to fail in order to convince two-bit feminists not to attack us for a privilege that we don’t have.

Here’s an old aro meme from 2011, which was before the rise of the “Ace Discourse” around 2015 (which may have started out as backlash in response to The Trevor Project deciding to include asexual people around that time). This meme format uses an aardvark to represent aromantic people. At the time, axolotls were often used in similar memes to represent asexuals, so the aromantic aardvark was chosen as the aromantic equivalent of the asexual axolotl. Aardvarks were considered to be somewhat of a mascot for the aromantic community for some time, though they have become less popular as a symbol in recent years.

This reads like a museum guide showing one of the most prestigious pieces in an exhibit

similarly to how you can say "penis" or "vagina" instead of "male/female genitals" you can also say "testosterone/estrogen dominant endocrine system" instead of "male/female endocrine system" wow. amazing, we don't have to misgender trans ppl who aren't going to or haven't yet medically transitioned when we refer to hormones its just that easy

Something every bi aro knows is that being aro and being bi are extremely similar experiences, especially if you're alloaro

Perisex people trying to be “affirming” to intersex people: Society may see you as some freak third thing but you are simply an AMAB/AFAB with a birth defect ❤️ get back in the binary we need to define you ❤️ see doesnt that feel better to be forced into a binary so you dont get seen as some freak ❤️ what are your genitals like btw

Shoutout to my femboy transmasc and butch transfem homies. Everyone can dress and cut their hair however they want & you don’t owe gender conformity to others 👏

pls support trans girls and trans women who like traditionally masculine things

I bring a sort of "all the stereotypes surrounding trans men are based on kids who never made it to their twenties" vibe to the function that people who call us childish find rather off-putting.

the thing that other gender members don't understand is that members of my gender are constantly being judged and scrutinised by society and the world around us, so we often end up having to become very self-conscious as a survival mechanism; unlike other gender members who i presume probably float gently through life on a cloud of passive acceptance or something

The thing that trans people of the other gender don't understand is that trans people of my gender are pressured and bullied into conforming to our assigned gender which is mentally and often physically dangerous. We receive tacit approval for conforming to our assigned gender and are punished for conforming to our proper gender. Since I never experienced pressure in the opposite direction, clearly trans people of the other gender didn't either. Everyone in the world must have experienced this pressure in the same direction as me, so trans people of the opposite gender were receiving tacit approval and support for transitioning, and are not oppressed like trans people of my gender.

couldn’t this be used against literally any gender presentation at all? like being a woman is torture for some people being male is torture for some people being androgynous is torture for some people this just makes Existing Evil. unless someone’s specifically like, idk, going up to a trans woman and going “wow I love looking like a man why don’t you” or something I don’t see the issue. which is very different to experiencing gender euphoria in general!

if you tell a Black trans man that seeing him as inherently dangerous, angry, or violent is “gender affirming” you deserve to be hit over the head with an oversized mallet looney toons style