three meals to anarchy

One of the most common tactics to incite violence and prejudice against trans women are accusations of pedophilia. Participating in these accusations is never ok. The frequency of these attacks and the willingness of people to lie means it is impossible for you to make any sort of informed judgement on any individual accusation. We all know this about internet callouts and accusations. Suddenly finding internet mud slinging credible because it's about a trans woman being a pedophile is not doing your due diligence, it's being a transmisogynistic ass.

And you certainly don't get to make fucking vague posts about trans feminists being pedophiles, what the fuck is wrong with some of you.

I highlight trans men in this instance because I've seen several cases of trans men who seem to think a person being transandrophobic justifies participating in pedophile accusations. It's not a lot, but it is enough to be a pattern. You cut that shit out right now. And more importantly, we make sure everyone knows responding to bigotry with more bigotry is unacceptable.

And don't come at me with that shit that sometimes it's justified, we all know you are talking about isuggestforcefemme and it's still bullshit. I don't like her, I think her politics are shit, but i actually read what she wrote and her crash out on the subject of pedophilia does not justify the harassment campaign against her. Suddenly everyone is tripping over themselves to shove as many bullshit conservative lies about trans women and pedophilia into their callout as possible because it is a convenient justification for harassing a trans woman you don't like.

Principles of not being a bigoted asshole still apply to people we don't like.

There is no reason to start it off comparing it to estrogen, especially since the estrogen section doesn't open up talking about how "unlike testosterone, estrogen is not a controlled substance and there isn't the same legal risk involved."

And then there's the downplaying of potential legal issues involved with DIY t. There is a difference in giving reassurance and acting like the consequences are no big deal actually, especially after mentioning how much easier to get it is than estrogen.

Why aren't we talking about how you probably shouldn't bring it on flights with you? How there are risks if you're taking it with you in your car on a trip, especially if you're a TPOC? And I know this is more niche, but how if you live with someone on probation, it getting found could have legal consequences for *them*.

Maybe a link to different states' and countries' laws about this so you can be fully informed instead of "trust me it's actually not big deal because they're not going after (cis, primarily white) gymbros."

It just feels like little snipes. Little "stop whining; you have an easier time than people going on e, actually!"

Here hey described it like this:

“One officer said, ‘It smells like you’ve been having a party in here. Is that right?’” Fransisco, a white nonbinary person in their 30s, told Filter. “He said, ‘Well, if you haven’t been having a party, you won’t mind if we check your car.’” Moving quickly, the officers violently handcuffed Fransisco, took their keys and called animal control to confiscate their dog. Then they searched the car. “One yelled, ‘Show me your track marks, you fucking junkie! We found your needles and drugs,’” Fransisco said. The cop held up their prescription bottle of testosterone. “I said, ‘Those aren’t drugs, that’s my medication. I’m trans.’”

"Legal issues might arise" this person was, again, sexually assaulted in a blatantly transphobic way, and also had their service dog taken away and had to pay to get it back, alongside having to pay $2,500 to get out of jail, something they could only do with help from friends/family. Not everyone can afford that.

And again, this is all when hey had a genuine legal prescription. If hey was traveling with illegal T, what fucking then?

And then there's also the level of how tracked testosterone is. That second article also talks about how testosterone prescriptions, because of its status, gets put in a database than clinicians and law enforcement can access. It includes an account of one trans man who was meeting a psychiatrist he had not come out to as trans, who he was outed to because she was able to see he was prescribed testosterone.

Is that not fucking dangerous? And what happens when your body is clearly androgenizing, but a doctor or cop can see you haven't been prescribed T? What happens when the trans person in question is Black or Latine or Native and there's more risk of these people deciding to treat them as a criminal?

I don't want the message from this to be "DIY T is always bad and you should never break the law!" because I don't agree with that. But my lord, the fucking dismissiveness just kills me. It feels so condescending? Like the author is writing this thinking "well I have to address this so no one can say I didn't, but I really want to emphasize that these risks are basically immaterial and as long as you aren't an idiot you'll be totally fine!"

And you know people would treat this all entirely differently if it wasn't transmascs affected. Folks are out here telling transfems to not go into certain careers because of the risk of transmisogyny, but genuinely think transmascs that they are being whiny birthday boys for literally just pointing out that there are real legal risks that should be acknowledged.

To be fully fucking honest, how the hell are we going to talk about how getting banned from tumblr will literally kill trans women, but testosterone being criminalized doesn't pose any unique or important dangers????????? Like I'm not even saying the bannings don't matter or can't genuinely deprive people of their only source of community or income. But you simply do not get to talk about how bannings are a form of social murder and also pull the "well you can just get it from gymbros and there's like noooo way anything bad will ever happen lol you are just being dramatic!"

If you get "T" at the gym you are getting TRENBOLONE, NOT TESTOSTERONE.

The people saying this shit about T being an easy to get street drug are LYING, and they are getting people KILLED with this lie.

Even if you are somehow, miraculously, able to access this highly controlled medication, you willalmost certainly be getting Aqua Testosterone not T. Propionate or T. Cypionate, which are the ones used for HRT.

Aqua Test, meanwhile, is used to dope before workouts or competitions because it only stays in the body for 4 hours. Even if you tried to transition with it by dosing 4+ times a day, you'd just end up ODing or with excessive estrogens that have other health risks in addition to slowing actual HRT transition.

But, hey! It's just those stinky transmascs getting forcibly detransitioned by these lies, so who cares, right?

This image is funny, I'll give you that, but maybe part of the reason no one ever knows when conservatives are talking about trans men is because its never taken seriously.

"Haha, they're talking about men being pregnant, isn't that funny. Anyway, its like conservatives always forget that trans men exist. Wonder why that is?"

Plenty of transphobic cis folks are green. Virtually every trans-positivity account is red except for the ones who are unapologetically transphobic to at least part of the community. Countless trans women who vocally uses the term transandrophobia are marked red. Several trans women who dont even use the term but have at least on one occasion defended or sympathized with trans men are red. Several trans women who are bigender/NB/Etc with inclusion of any "male" or masc terms are red regardless of whether they seem to have anything to say about trans men.

It is BLEAK. I've been trying to remove reds and greens as I assess, but it is really really gross that it was a pretty well-known soft rule a decade plus ago that you didn't mark trans people red at all even if they were shitheads, unless they were actual proud terfs, because the flagging was guaranteed to isolate them from community.

Inability to assess risk and a total aversion to narratives that contradict what you assume to be the case for others is getting people into a lot of trouble.

Turns out a lot of people just took the flag as gospel and when the moderation team reduced and also started espousing their own shitty beliefs, a red flag became less and less trustworthy.

No, we shouldn't outsource morality, but the initial use of the tool required collaboration from the start, and the shift from "oh this is a warning let me look into this" to "oh cool someone else did the work for me I don't need to check" to "anyone I dislike gets red now" is more to blame on the refusal of people to understand what the system was flagging in the first place and how to recognize radfeminist rhetoric (something the tool was never meant to replace in the first place) than on the tool itself, and now a new wave of radfems are using it to mark their critics.

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