Stolen Phrases and Slogans
I used to have a much bigger post with many more receipts so forgive me for it being a slow-growing post. I will try to add as much as I can when I can. Please check the original post for updates.
Youâre free to comment or message me with additional slogans I may have forgotten, particularly if you have sources of them saying this. I will give you credit for your additions unless asked not to tag you.
Most recent update: 20/08/2022
(Black) Trans Lives Matter
Stolen directly from Black Lives Matter.
Black Trans Lives Matter March
Medium article titled TLM
Trans Rights Are Human Rights
Stolen from feminism. Original phrase: Womenâs Rights are Human Rights. Source suggesting it dates back to the 80s/90s
Literally a site called TRAHR
Stolen directly from Stop Asian Hate.
Stolen from Black Lives Matter. Original phrase: Walking While Black.
Article on âwalking while transâ
Stolen from the LGB Community. Original phrase: Gay Panic.
Originally used as a murder or assault defence where a man could blame his violent outburst on being shocked/frightened by the unwanted sexual advances from another man. Trans panic is a similar defence with the difference being that the assault was due to not knowing that the person they were having sex with/had sex with/wanted to have sex with was a trans person.
Stolen from the LGB community.
Originally only applied to forcibly âcorrectingâ someoneâs sexuality but has been more widely appropriated to also mean forcing someone to identify with their birth sex.
AMAB/AFAB/AGAB (or alternatively (CAMAB/CAFAB)
Stolen from the intersex community.
Assigned Male/Female At Birth (or Coercively Assigned Male/Female At Birth) was a phrase from the intersex community used to label themselves and the fact that they were assigned a certain sex in circumstances where their sex was unclear due to their intersex disorder. It was then appropriated by the trans community to label themselves and ignore the fact that they are a certain sex, with some going as far as believing that these labels are arbitrary and not a recognition of someoneâs biological sex in the vast majority of cases.
Stolen from the Civil Rights Movement. Original phrase: Black is Beautiful.
The Future is Trans/Genderfree/Etc
Stolen from feminism. Original phrase: The Future is Female. Source suggesting it dates back to 1975 and resurfaced in 2015.
Article about a documentary
Article titled The Future is Trans
âThe Future is femaleâ is problematic
Credit: @opabiniawillreturn
Stolen from people of colour?
Stolen from the fat positivity movement?
Stolen directly from intersectional feminism.
Credit: @ialmostdroppedmycrossiant
Stolen from an anti-trafficking movement.
Credit: @opabiniawillreturn
Stolen from intersectional and black feminism. Original phrase: Black Girls Magic.
Not so much a phrase but the colours are almost identical to the original suffragette colours.
Coloured with Green, White, and Violet which represents Give Women the Vote.
Stolen from feminism. Original phrase: Glass Ceiling.
Glass ceiling was inverted by feminists to describe the phenomenon of women being unable to progress past certain milestones in their careers as a result of misogyny. The glass ceiling represented the invisible barrier which prevented women from progressing higher in their careers. Cotton ceiling was later coined to say that trans womenâs biggest barrier to womanhood was lesbians refusing to sleep with them due to not seeing them as being complete/real women. The cotton represents lesbianâs underwear as the âbarrierâ to trans womenâs womanhood.
Stolen from feminism and victims of femicide.
Mexican pink is a hot pink colour used to paint over the crosses of the graves of women who were victims of femicide. It was appropriated by a trans woman to mean alliance with trans women.