#plaidos

Trans man: I have a complicated relationship to gender and masculinity and don’t vibe with the expectations of heterosexual relationships in our society.

preface: I am not American nor am I white, so you will have to find something else to whine about if this post makes you mad. bazinga!

other black and brown people on here have noted the phenomenon of white trans people trying to make themselves out as facing the same discrimination as black and brown people in first world countries. I'm not the first one to notice this. racism is the one Axis Of Oppression that they have no claim to and it makes them genuinely angry that they have no card to pull when it comes to being racially discriminated against. this manifests in a number of bizarre ways.

the white trans person has a great complex about their whiteness, doubly so if they are not American, because then they have a great complex about Americans. they struggle greatly with the fact that they are white because their whiteness allows them no bonus brownie points in tumblr's and the general Leftist Internet's Oppression Scale compared to people of colour born literally anywhere, because they believe that in all other categories they are god's most oppressed little angels, most righteous in arguments, most suffering of individuals.

for most of them this translates to transparent seething any time you remind them of being white in a context where their race matters (e.g. discussing their racism) and engaging in classic DARVO when these subjects are brought up. those who follow me saw this with the whole "well it's not racist to not believe you're faking your race" -> "even if you're black you're the one wrong here" -> "actually you're the one who came after me for making a post saying I won't want this thing to happen, so it's not my fault and I'm not even racist at all" that pocket-deer-belly and janederscore tried a bit back.

for non-Americans this means projecting this onto Americans, tripping over themselves to prove they are one of the Good and Normal whites and not the Number One Evil whites, to the point of believing themselves to be a victim of xenophobia by those Damn Yanks, consistently and very obviously sidestepping the fact that is is mostly non-white people making fun of them. this is on purpose, because they know that they have nothing to say against being made fun of for being white, and because they are often so focused on the idea of anyone who makes fun of them being a Damn Yank that they throw Yank around unprompted at even the slightest mention of being mocked, like this random English white woman sticking it to a random non-American because she is so mad about her accent being mocked offhand:

I'd like to propose a challenge to you to search the blogs of any random white non-American (or even American, they tend to have "one of the good ones" syndrome) person you see on here and look for the word Yank, because undoubtedly you will find much to laugh at. like with the above, where anyone on the internet mocking the English without presenting their ethnicity and 23andme must be a filthy yank, because nobody on this earth would want to mock the English except for a Damn Yank:

this search also brings up a feeble attempt at fending off anyone who brings up her being a white English woman for any reason. plaidos accuses those who bring it up of being xenophobes who hate immigrants, the most logical thing a white woman could say when being mocked for being a white English woman as people of colour are randomly detained en masse and deported in her target country (and she even sneaks a transmisogyny accusation in there!):

the white English woman moving to America wants you to know that it's very bad of you to mock her for being English because moving to America makes her an immigrant and that means you are discriminating against her. it's definitely not a white English woman weaponising mainstream violent anti-immigration rhetoric that targets ethnic minorities in America so that she can feel as oppressed as the people mainstream political rhetoric is targeting, who are being rounded up on the street, herded into cramped illegal jails, and unlawfully deported if they don't die due to the horrible conditions in those facilities. I wonder why she would want to weaponise that rhetoric to make someone look like they're even more discriminatory against her by making them equivalent to American anti-immigration pundits 🤔 what could motivate a white English woman to compare herself being mocked on the internet to the black and brown people being terrorised daily by the current political regime when she brings up... fetch me my thinking cap! I have to ponder.

it's not just limited to users like plaidos though! we have good old isuggestforcefem to look to, making banger posts like "why are you filthy Yanks making charities that only support people in YOUR country, this is TERRIBLE, why would ANY charity not provide global support, it must not be for any reasons behind the complexity of operating charities in one nation much less across several or due to limited funds or legislation, but because you REFUSE to think about OTHER PEOPLE, you think you're the only REAL people" (real post btw!):

don't worry though, she's doing her part!

and plaidos is, too! look at her sending a black woman the wikipedia article for racialisation as some kind of gotcha:

I will approach this the same way that plaidos approaches everything with the idea that someone is inherently stupid for being American while ignoring that as a white English woman she is every American's cousin. plaidos, the concept of racialisation existing does not make us identify ourselves as racism affected. none of us identify ourselves based on the discrimination we face but on characteristics that we share, e.g. being ethnic minorities in majority white countries.

I've gone over this before (link), but I'll copy/paste what I've already said as I go through the apparent sources

The Ciba Collections mention "assigned sex of rearing" (1948) in the chapter about about sexual differentiation, with that page being about (CW drawn nude diagrams) Gonadal Dysgenesis (link). It doesn't appear to be discussing trans people at all nor does it use coercive(ly).

The 1965 "source" uses transgender the "same year" it was coined (doubtful), mentions papers from 2007, doesn't use coercive(ly), and clearly states it is the 20th edition—which came out in 2008, unlike the 15th edition which came out in 1965. An archived version of the 15th edition, from the actual publication date of 1965, is available on Internet Archive (link)—it doesn't mention trans people.

The 2002 claim is so easily debunkable it's not even funny. You can read it here (PDF). At the top, one of the first things to be written is "2002 (updated in 2011) from Timtum: A Trans Jew Zine", which originally was published in 1999 by the same author. You can scroll to read the scanned page (29-)31 here (link) (edit, if not, it can be viewed here [link]), CAFAB is not used in the original (nor does it explain how it was coined)

Claudia Johnson (quoted in Cosmopolitan) is a relationship, intimacy, and sex therapist, and I'm unable to decipher how such professions would make her a reliable source on this historical information. There are a lot of claims made, but none of them have or are solid evidence.

The 2015 source admits they do not have a source. A trans woman has already come forward and claimed she coined it around 2009 (link) (original sources listed aren't trustworthy/time stamps aren't accurate, similar to Korasera's post).

AGAB, ASAB, DSAB are all phrases that existed prior to the 2000's. The acronyms didn't just suddenly exist. There was a history of figuring out the wording.

The earliest I could find "the sex they were coercively assigned at birth" was on July 3, 2010

Here is an excerpt from another Livejournal

“Coercively assigned” is another vital neologism [newly coined phrase]. It’s not just more syllables to the word ‘assigned’- which itself made headway against the reified naturalism of one’s birth and its meaning for gender- it is a term with political power that we had to bring into the conversation to illustrate something. Not only is the M or F on our birth certificates an assignment, but it is coerced. Parents cannot say no, (just as many parents could not say no to doctors who wanted to mutilate intersex infants and reconstruct their bodies), and you cannot say no, can you? The term “coercive” adds needed meaning that reveals the truth behind natal nomenclature and assignment: the truth of its constructed nature and its oppressive effects

This was from October 21, 2010

Which blatantly states how the C was newly added

racist down !!! :)

isff acting like this is about a harassment campaign is so funny and self-victimizing. "the fucking native american military situation" is such a hilarious oversimplification. you called Indigenous people yanks, said a yank is a yank, refused to listen to Indigenous people trying to educate you, and once again, did this as a white woman living in cushy fucking France.

you will never step foot on a rez, and you likely never have. you haven't been on lands where the US army tests their bombs because Indigenous people are expendable. you haven't been on lands where you turn the water on and hope to whatever God above that it's clean. you haven't watched your aunties, sisters, mothers, and grandmothers be sex trafficked, raped, murdered, tortured, just for your government to say, well what are we supposed to do about it. do you know why? because to this government, the only "good Indian" is a dead one. you will never know what it's like to watch your family be ripped apart by generations of trauma and abuse. you will never know what it's like to see the teens in your community committing suicide and doing drugs more than proms and school events because their lives are THAT unbearable. the typical American dream is THAT out of reach for them.

you bitch about US imperialism, look at your own country. it's funny, actually. France is a HUGE contender in fucking over Indigenous people, First Nations people, and Inuit. you live in a country who just as much as the USA, built itself on the backs of POC and built itself on destroying others that didn't have the same power. you know what the difference is? you're a part of the class that fucking did it. and in that comfy, cushy class, you're throwing rocks at the people who are murdered by our government, raped by our government, tortured by our government, given no fucking way out, no justice, no help, do you know what they sent rezes for COVID? BODY BAGS. they didn't care if we died. they never have. you are in an undeniably wealthy country in the most privileged class. you will never be booted from that class no matter how hard you try to claim you are. being a trans woman doesn't exempt you from being a racist piece of trash who constantly benefits from racism every single day of her life.

i don't feel bad for you. i never will. you had every opportunity to correct yourself. instead, you punched down on communities you know are struggling. you could've used your popularity to boost the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Children, and Peoples' movement. but you know what you did instead? you added more fuel to the fire that's burning our communities to shreds. you added more batteries to the genocidal machine that wants every last Indigenous person dead and gone. and you're fucking proud of it. you fucking laugh about it from somewhere where you've never had to question if you have food on the table, if your water was clean, if your family members would make it home. you've never gone to the doctor and been denied meds because "Indigenous people are drug seeking," you've never watched your family casually brush off forced sterilization by doctors because of how normal it is in our communities.

you're disgusting. i truly hope you never come back on this app, but i know you will in two days because you're a white woman who reaps her privileges at every given moment. you'll cry your white woman tears, and people will pick you up because you're "fighting the good fight" (actual comment i saw on one of her posts, btw!)

you don't care about anyone but yourself. you're not being controversial and giving "hot takes," you're actively perpetuating and participating in oppression of people you get to comfortably sit away from and watch. i wonder where your "sooper brave hot takes" would go if you stepped foot on a rez. i wonder where your "fighting the good fight" would go when you actually had to face someone struggling instead of watching it through a screen from your comfy life as a white woman in France.

anyway, here's some dono links to Indigenous American funds. don't ignore our suffering, please. support the MMIW movement. don't let a white woman from France skew your opinions on our centuries of suffering.

https://www.nativewomenswilderness.org/mmiw (more information on the MMIW movement and why it's so desperately needed for our communities)

https://indigenousfoodandag.com/ (help Indigenous communities eat healthy and advance traditional food systems)

https://narf.org/ (help hold governments accountable, giving Indigenous people resources that have been promised and are our right to have)

https://collegefund.org/ (help get Indigenous people to college and secondary education!)

https://7genfund.org/ (crisis support for Indigenous communities)

https://anelder.org/product/Adopt-An-Elder?ID=6188 (don't forget elders need support too!)

https://www.iwrising.org/abortion-fund (Indigenous people are often barred from reproductive health due to funding and other discriminations. this organization helps those receive the care they desperately need and deserve. another reason this is extremely important is that Indigenous people are at dangerously high rates of sexual violence in comparison to other ethnicities. abortion saves lives in that case too.)

https://www.givenative.org/ (a more general list of more native non-profits)

Please, don't leave us alone. Campaign number: 192

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So you admit it. You think lesbians not wanting to fuck someone with a dick are morally equivalent to Nazis.