#trans discourse

you can tell that trans ralsei theory is correct because any time you so much as mention it, fifty thousand of God's Strongest Femboy Defenders crawl out of the woodwork to explain why transitioning is misogynist and conformist actually

Gender essentialism is useful for those who utilize it because it allows for a complete and total enabling of abuse from all angles. To label all men and/or masc-aligned people as inherently predatory and all women and/or fem-aligned people as inherently victims excuses behavior as either a symptom of an immutable, nature-based trait or as literally impossible, depending on which group you are shuffled into. To acknowledge the behavior typically associated with cis men is nurtured by society and completely within our power collectively to change is far less convenient than the idea that this is simply how things are. Especially so if you are interested in denying the victimhood of members of the former camp/the abusive actions of members of the latter. Nothing will ever improve if we continue to fall into this way of thinking, especially as trans people who have experienced our society’s gender dynamics in a fundamentally different way to the average cis person. It absolutely must be purged and we must acknowledge that while society may influence and incentivize certain behavior, it isn’t an inherent trait and therefore individuals must be able to be treated as just that- individuals whose capacity for harm or to be harmed is in no way an inditement upon their identity, let alone anyone else’s.

i dunno man when i realized i was bisexual in college i spent about six months behaving like a macho creep toward every woman i found attractive and then i learned to be Not That like some of y’all are still very much stuck in that first six months like GROWWWWW UPPPPP you are alllowed to fumble as a baby queer but eventually you do have to LEARN TO BE BETTER yes this is about misogyny in the trans community 👀👀👀 why are you cosplaying the worst version of a straight cis man liiiiiiike stoppit??

I feel like 9/10 when I see someone who is really against people using the term queer to describe themselves/their community they also happen to be transmedicalist + exorsexist or even straight up transphobic. I’m too tired from work to speculate but it sure is Interesting.

I await that fateful day a vidya game sexyman is canonized as a transfem by a queer creator so that I can experience the sublime ecstasy of fighting online with a young man that hates women and has genuinely convinced himself he's angry about ethics in videogame journalism again without having to engage with a cis person.