Remember to take breaks and cool down! You're not lazy, rude, or invalid for needing to disengage from stressors of any kind. Discourse is not easy.
Pinned Post (explanations on what you're working with here):
This Blog:
The ask box is open, and I'll happily have a civil discussion-- one free of ad hominem remarks, and where all involved parties are aware they may be disagreed with-- from all sides of any discourse, barring plurality discourse. I don't do anons anymore.
Tagged "#muted notifications," I occasionally have to mute notifications for various posts of mine. So, don't try getting my attention on anything I've given that tag.
OP:
I'm a disabled, perisex, bigender adult living in the USA. When referring to me, do so with (he/him) and (she/her) pronouns, and call me either OP or Sage.
One such disability of mine is albinism, and I'd love it if people were to ask me questions about the condition. I wish more people cared about albinism beyond the aesthetic, or would at the very least get the aesthetic right.
Due to anti-transgender aggression where I live, I'm birth-stealth to all but my closest friends offline. Still, I call myself transmasculine, and I someday hope to evolve to transfeminine as well-- a femininity that is achievable only after masculine transition, that doesn't give me dysphoria, that meshes in beautifully with my being. (These are my own feelings with my gender; I'm not labelling anyone else.)
Lastly, I'll never ever disclose here whether I'm "TMA" or "TME." I have many reasons, but my biggest one is that I love it when bioessentialists don't know whether to treat me like a fucked-up "female" or "male." I hate the sex binary, and I hate TERFs.
Some of OP's Views (Warning: LONG):
Pro-Landback. Indigenous people have right to the land of their ancestors. Landback isn't about forcing non-indigenous people off the land to get the land back, or making non-Indigenous people second-class citizens.
One's religious beliefs (or lack thereof) should not affect the people who don't share those beliefs.
Pro-self diagnosis. Healthcare systems tend to be shit; tons of people go undiagnosed or misdiagnosed for very real struggles, and they still deserve resources.
Pro-choice. People should be allowed to do with their own bodies what they want, especially if it's to protect themselves and their livelihoods. This also includes that genital-altering operations should not be forced upon people, such as with many intersex infants having their genitals surgically altered (read: not gender-affirming surgeries that people consent to have done to themselves.)
Sex traits are naturally varied and malleable, and binaries in both sex and gender alike should be abolished.
White people (in the USA at least) can be resented and treated indecently, but they are not oppressed for being White. There is no such thing as "reverse racism."
Men (in the USA at least) can benefit from the patriarchy only if they participate in it. The patriarchy affects people of different genders differently, but everybody is hurt by it in some way or another.
Benevolent sexism exists and is harmful. Nobody is helped by the idea of "pink jobs" and "divine femininity." Capabilities are not inherent to one's gender.
Being oppressed and acknowledging that will never inherently mean you blame other oppressed people for it.
Trans people can and do experience unique struggles that cisgender people of the gender they identify as doesn't usually experience, by virtue of being trans. We need to stop referencing cisgender people as gender standards.
Transfeminine people don't have AMAB privilege / male privilege, transmascs don't have "AFAB / female privilege" (those are not real), and non-binary people do not have privilege from their ASAB. Additionally, one's ASAB refers to an event, and is not accurate to describing one's body or mind ("gendered brains" aren't real.)
Pro-MOGAILIOM, radinclus.
Anti-radqueer, pro-alternatives, pro-recovery.
Pro-paraphilia, however, people attracted to beings who cannot consent shouldn't hold contact stance besides anti-contact. "Cannot consent" includes bodily minors, who do not have the life experience and privilege to readily protect themselves from the risks that intimacy with bodily adults carry.
Youthlib, but bodily minors being unable to safely consent to sex with bodily adults is not something they need "liberating" from.
Transracial belongs to people adopted into families of a differing race, and only to those people.
You can identify as homosexual but have experience with others of a different gender. You can also identify as multisexual (bisexual, pansexual, omnisexual, polysexual) but have experience with others of only one gender.
You can be both sexually active and asexual. Asexuality and aromanticism revolve around attraction, not action.
Kink should be done with all participants aware of risks and consenting. RACK (Risk Aware Consensual Kink) is better than SSC (Safe, Sane, Consensual).
Not all coping mechanisms are healthy and productive, and not all facets of the human mind are beneficial-- however, neither is repression.
If I must don a shipcourse label, then I'm neutralship, through a mix of views cemented in both antiship and proship conversations.
Anti-harrassment. Engaging in discourse is not harassment until the arguments "break containment," such as with ad hominem attacks. I hate echo-chambers.
Anya is live and ready to show you everything. Watch her strip, dance, and perform exclusive shows just for you. Interact in real-time and make your fantasies come true.
✓ Live Streaming✓ Interactive Chat✓ Private Shows✓ HD Quality✓ Free Actions
Free to watch • No registration required • HD streaming
if you think saying "trans men who have gynecological body parts require healthcare for those parts and thus are affected by medical misogyny" is equal to saying "all trans men are actually women" then sweetheart you might be a bioessentialist
Of course the only transfems you hear about are perisex binary trans women. How else would society keep peddling the narrative of "men become women to get into women's spaces and assault the vulnerable?"
People talking about the lack of variety in nonbinary rep by saying that most nonbinary rep is "woman lite or AFAB" like they're trying to be allies to people AMAB while being microaggressive in all directions. They don't even realize they're implying they don't think nonbinary people AMAB can achieve "womanly" looks/etc. They're equating (subjective) femininity with womanhood. They're implying that cases where the character's AGAB was unspecified was still somehow about being AFAB. They're implying all actual women only have a certain look. They're rebinarizing nonbinary folk, categorizing us according to what we were assigned at birth, and then saying they want the rep to look less binary? They're leaving no room for intersex nuance. Or how the actual issues with some rep trends are more to do with centering of skinny folk with minimal body hair—people's shallow acceptance, with aversion to when genderqueers don't seem more "feminine" or "woman-passing". Nonbinary characters, especially ones made by nonbinary writers/designers, shouldn't be called "[perisex cis] woman lite" as often as they are.
Anya is live and ready to show you everything. Watch her strip, dance, and perform exclusive shows just for you. Interact in real-time and make your fantasies come true.
✓ Live Streaming✓ Interactive Chat✓ Private Shows✓ HD Quality✓ Free Actions
Free to watch • No registration required • HD streaming
I think a lot of yall will hear a trans person talking about a legitimate experience and respond like "uhh isnt that a terf talking point 🤨" without having the critical thought to know WHY its harmful when terfs talk about it.
like I just saw a transmasc who drew a short comic about reading BL as a teenager and thinking "wow I wish I was a gay man too" and growing up to be a trans man. and a reply said "isnt this a terf talking point"
no. its not. the terf talking point is that straight girls pretend to be gay men to fetishize them as a form of autoandrophilia. or that exposure to gay male relationships or trans men will groom little girls into wanting to be gay men. that is an extremely harmful view because it deligitimizes a trans man's existence. but plenty of trans men DO grow up reading MLM/gay media and BL and do grow attached to it, because they are seeing themselves. even before you know who you are, you will be drawn to who you want to be. transfem lesbians also become attached to WLW media before transition and are also treated like creeps and fetishists. but they are just young gay kids seeing their true selves reflected back at them. terfs see these kinds of common phenomena that happen all the time in the trans community and try to explain it away with bigotry and hateful stories. and then they talk about it so fucking much that it confuses people and before you know it you got trans people sharing their real lives and being accused of spreading terf talking points from people who never think about anything.
From time-to-time, I hear non-binary positivity breach the topics of going on HRT, as well as top surgery (usually for transmascs, but I will get into this separately)...
But almost never bottom surgery.
So I am here to say this:
If you presently have a penis and to ANY degree would be happier without it, this doesn't automatically mean you must be a woman. You don't have to be a binary woman to be valid in wanting to have a vagina. Vaginoplasty and/or orchiectomy aren't just for binary women.
If you presently have a vagina and to ANY degree would be happier without it, this doesn't automatically mean you must be a man. You don't have to be a binary man to be valid in wanting to have a penis. Metoidioplasty AND phalloplasty aren't just for binary men.
Being non-binary doesn't mean you have to "make peace" with your natal parts, you are allowed to transition your body in whichever way validates you the most.
Your body is yours, and only you get to live with your body for all your life.
I am unsure if a similar operation is applicable to vaginas, but for those who want their penises removed, without getting a vagina, you can do that as well. The surgery is called a penectomy and was developed for those with penile cancer, but can be used for gender affirmation
I bring a certain "gay women who define their homosexuality by being attracted to vaginas (regardless of gender identity) are similar to straight men who define their heterosexuality by being attracted to femininity (regardless of gender identity)" to the community that bioessentialists really seem to hate 🥰
From time-to-time, I hear non-binary positivity breach the topics of going on HRT, as well as top surgery (usually for transmascs, but I will get into this separately)...
But almost never bottom surgery.
So I am here to say this:
If you presently have a penis and to ANY degree would be happier without it, this doesn't automatically mean you must be a woman. You don't have to be a binary woman to be valid in wanting to have a vagina. Vaginoplasty and/or orchiectomy aren't just for binary women.
If you presently have a vagina and to ANY degree would be happier without it, this doesn't automatically mean you must be a man. You don't have to be a binary man to be valid in wanting to have a penis. Metoidioplasty AND phalloplasty aren't just for binary men.
Being non-binary also doesn't mean you have to "make peace" with your natal parts, you are allowed to transition your body in whichever way validates you the most.
Your body is yours, and only you get to live with your body for all your life.
Remaking this post since I’m pretty sure it got deleted, and a lot of people found it very helpful. This is a medical diagram of before and after bottom surgery for trans femmes.
Anya is live and ready to show you everything. Watch her strip, dance, and perform exclusive shows just for you. Interact in real-time and make your fantasies come true.
✓ Live Streaming✓ Interactive Chat✓ Private Shows✓ HD Quality✓ Free Actions
Free to watch • No registration required • HD streaming
you literally can not have a vagina without paying for it. vaginoplasty for some, period products for others, if you want to stop buying period products that’s gonna be expensive medicine or an expensive procedure, recovery from surgery requires time off work and vaginoplasty specifically requires money spent on dilators. our bodies shouldnt cost us this much on baseline. having a vagina shouldnt have such a hefty tax on it. it makes me feel like i’m in a fictional dystopia written for middle school classrooms when i think about it.
This kind of response to things I say about sex work, which isn't always phrased like this but almost always focuses on me being male or a man or my pronouns, shows a fundamental misunderstanding of why mansplaining is bad.
I am a sex worker. I have been for a decade. The majority of people I know are sex workers and I'm embedded in sex worker community. I started before 18 and have done it in brothels, cars, my own home, clients' homes, saunas, and hotels.
It's absolutely reasonable to criticize men who speak on issues they don't experience like an authority, especially when they speak over women to do it. It is not reasonable to raise someone's gender (or in this case, pronouns) as a reason their thoughts aren't worth hearing when the issue is one they do face.
I see people bringing up that I'm trans in response to things like this, as a way to legitimize my speech. The reason I refuse to do so, despite many of my experiences selling sex being pre-transition, is that I equally do not want cis men who have done sex work to be silenced on the topic.
We need more active and former sex workers to speak out. That won't happen if we're dismissing those who do.
My brother @transfaguette went missing last Tuesday. The family was left a suicide note on a hard drive similar to the one posted on this platform 2 nights ago. His last known location was Chittenango Falls, New York, our hometown. You may have seen the selfie of him standing in front of the falls. The park was turned upside down by the most qualified personnel in the state, including SWAT and cadaver dogs. Ansel is nowhere to be found. You may have seen the news reports.
We suspect he may be alive somewhere with somebody. The police have been on top of this investigation 24/7 and have gone to every length to help us. There is one major piece missing to this puzzle that we feel could provide us some answers - his online presence. If you interacted with Ansel on Tumblr, X, and specifically Discord, *please* reach out to me. Accessing this information would require dozens of subpoenas that would take months. If you have any screenshots or anything you’d like to share, pm me and I will give you my personal number. If you would like to just talk to the police, you can call the tip hotline at 315-366-6000.
Take care of each other. Look out for each other. Thank you.
Anya is live and ready to show you everything. Watch her strip, dance, and perform exclusive shows just for you. Interact in real-time and make your fantasies come true.
✓ Live Streaming✓ Interactive Chat✓ Private Shows✓ HD Quality✓ Free Actions
Free to watch • No registration required • HD streaming
The way that a lot of feminists will receive, "marginalized men need advocacy," and process it into something like, "Oppressor Class needs reinforcement" just tells me these things:
The only thing stopping them from treating disabled women as burdensome is their gender.
The only thing stopping them from treating women of color as threats is their gender.
The only thing stopping them from treating queer women as perverted is their gender.
And it becomes even clearer to me that this is true when I watch how these people treat these individual marginalized women whom they dislike. They're investigated for being burdens, threats, perverts, etcetera. Their womanhood is socially revoked.
It really is just gender that holds back bigotry sometimes, and when you fail to strive for gender equality, this will remain true. We need gender equality in feminism-- that should be a no-brainer, but alas.
