Transmeds Polite Discourse Account

Since tucutes complain about how trucsum/transmeds Draw them. Here is a better representation!

DO NOT FUCKING DONATE TO AUTISM $PEAKS

If you really want to donate to someone actually helping autistic people get jobs like they’re saying it’s for, fucking Microsoft would be better.

Autism $peaks is a hate group.

They openly advocate for the extermination of autistic people.

Every single one of their founders and chairpersons have openly admitted to contemplating the murder of their autistic child - in detail.

They advocate for a cure and support outdated and falsified information that a) vaccines cause Autism - Autism is genetic, the only “cure” is genocide - and b) white cis boys are the majority “afflicted”.

They compare Autism to cancer and use fearmongering to gain supporters. (Actual things their ads have said: Autism will ruin your marriage, Autism is invisible until it’s too late, Autism causes more deaths than any terminal illness, etc, etc.)

They support electroshock therapy and ABA institutions like the Judge Rotenberg Center (seriously, google it).

If you want to donate to charities actually doing good work for Autistic people, donate to The Autistic Self-Advocacy Network (ASAN - @autisticadvocacy ) or The Autistic Women & Non-Binary Network (AWN - @awn-network ).

All of this could be found out with 30 seconds of googling, I don’t understand why companies insist on supporting a literal fucking hate group when there is so much out there about why not to and so many other, much better, charities to support.

Allistic people - please fucking reblog this

i do NOT believe that 400 people are following us im gonna go on a bot block spree

I don’t know why I’ve been obsessively thinking about the concept of “gaydar” 

but I have. 

Actually no it’s because a straight family member used the term like 

“oh I have really great gaydar” 

and it made me feel really gross 

and it took me like a full hour to realize why. 

When heterosexual people say that, 

it feels like they’re bragging about their ability to clock us, you know? 

like a straight person is telling me that they can spot us queers at 50 paces 

and i’m immediately going to be uncomfortable with that, 

whereas when other queer folks talk about being able to spot each other 

it’s a tool for survival. 

Like here’s the thing right? 

being able to tell is important sometimes.  

Here’s an example: 

A couple summers ago I was in a very very small town in Nova Scotia, Canada 

(like 6 buildings small) 

and I met a woman in the library who was probably a little older than my actual mother. 

She was there most days using the wifi 

because she lived across the street in an apartment without internet. 

We sat at the same table a few times and spoke briefly about life in passing 

and after a few of these not-talking-about-gay-stuff convos I was pretty sure she was a part of the lgbtq community 

and I slipped in a casual pronoun re: an ex 

and she just looked at me, 

stopped completely 

and said “oh thank fuck, I thought so.” 

and instantly started talking about her girlfriend, 

it was like this huge wave of relief washed over both of us 

because we were in a small rural town and both hovering in this really queer space and unable to talk about it. 

Anyway she was really rad and took me to the closest big town to buy me a tim hortons coffee 

because she found it reprehensible that I had been in canada for more than 3 weeks already and hadn’t ever had it. 

Almost instantly it was like 

“oh okay we have this thing in common that other people may not be cool with 

but we can actually exist and not hide shit without the fear of violence or anger”

but when it’s a straight person

they’re pretty much just letting you know that they can spot the fact that you seem “abnormal” to them 

like great 

Petition for MOGAI to have it’s own language.