if you were mentally healthy, you wouldn’t be tortured by the existence of your body , and you wouldn’t feel the need to medically or cosmetically alter your otherwise healthy body . idk why it’s so hard for them to admit that yes dysphoria is a mental illness … maybe because it clashes with the “ being trans is innate and something you’re born as ” bs ?

it makes it worse that its never “mtfs can be gay” in practice. almost like its lesbopohobic or something…

Anon your wording makes me not quite sure if you understand who you sent this to, but I sort of agree so I'll answer anyways.

Though MOGAI-esque gender theorists and gender criticals come to the same conclusion that trans men can be lesbians, it's important to understand there's different logic going on behind both of the positions.

The sex-based argument as to why female-attracted trans men can be lesbians is pretty simple and neutral I think. They are homosexual females, and a lesbian is a homosexual female. Since attraction is in reality far more sex-based than gender-based this works out, most FTMs in lesbian spaces are fine and gel well with them.

Trans men in "do whatever you want forever" spaces with regards to gender and sexuality come to the same conclusion but for the reasons you describe. "I'm a lesbian because of vibes/I'm just attracted to women in a lesbian way", "a lesbian can be anything and you can identify as one if you think it fits for whatever reason", etc... This is a misogynistic and to be frank nonsensical view on lesbianism. Since they can't say being female is part of the equation they have to come up with these actually quite mystical arguments as to why they can be lesbians.

however, i do have to ask why you’re choosing to identify that way. would you support a cisgender man identifying similarly, or do you believe you specifically have an inalienable claim to lesbianism as an identity because of your cagab? and what does that say about your treatment of transfem lesbians?

Why do people need to now explain their identities and sexualities? Not that there arent enough explanations from transmasc lesbians around for why they choose to label themselves that way.

If you can ask a transmasc why he identifies as a lesbian, what makes a transfem different? (Unfortunately this already happens with bigots claiming someone who is transfem cannot be a lesbian if she still has a penis. To me your line of thinking sounds quite similar) If we can scrutinise one identity we can scrutinise them all, this shouldnt be the goal.

I dont think anyone should have to explain themselves on who they love or are attracted to. Sexuality is deeply personal and shapes itself based on their life experiences, identity and other factors. It escapes me why you think a man who perceives himself as a lesbian would have a problem or a negative perception of a transfem who is also a lesbian? Its like you have build a transmasc straw man that identifies as a lesbian because of their female sex and thus thinks anyone who is transfem could never be real lesbians because they werent born female. In my experience its the opposite given they already face scrutiny based on their identity and thus dont judge or have an issue with other peoples identities.

Also since you can't read, in the OP I specifically referred to this site, where pretending you're a different gender is the status quo.

Im not debating about if identifying as trans is the norm on tumblr. Gender critical people and anyone under that umbrella are for sure the minority on this app and often get their tags censored by spam, which isnt something i think should happen either

Im not sure why you think just because someones views may be in the minority theyre wrong. During hitlers leadership in germany being not antisemitic was also the minority opinion but that doesn’t mean antisemitism is correct in any way. Feminists are the minority in many countries and theres nothing wrong with feminism either

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Why is the Take It Down Act bad?

- The TAKE IT DOWN Act is harmful because it uses a rushed 48-hour takedown window. It basically forces platforms to rely on automated content filters, and this creates a severe risk of over censorship. It will definitely affect lawful content such as satire, legitimate news reporting, political speech, etc. is wrongly removed to avoid harsh Federal Trade Commission sanctions.

- Advocacy groups warned before this act took affect that platforms may be pressured to actively monitor and scan private, end-to-end encrypted messages to comply with removal requests

- Smaller platforms and apps with fewer resources often can not properly verify whether a takedown claim is legitimate within 48 hours, leaving them with no choice but to automatically remove the content to protect themselves.

- This law lacks anti abuse guard rails to punish bad faith takedown requests, making it easy for individuals to weaponize the system and censor speech they dislike.

This will harm all of us, ESPECIALLY already vulnerable communities and people who produce content for a living! This law also violates multiple constitutional rights!

The case in Memphis also challenges Tennessee’s Halo Law, which criminalizes anyone who gets within 25 feet of an officer after they’ve been warned to step away. Task force agents are invoking the law against observers who are not interfering, and sometimes forcing them back even farther than required so they can no longer see or hear. “It unconstitutionally burdens people’s ability to engage in gathering information and recording what task force agents are doing,” ACLU attorney Scarlet Kim told me. [...]

The surge has not gotten much national attention in part because Tennessee’s Republican governor supports it—he has said it will continue indefinitely. And the Trump administration has framed it not as an immigration crackdown, which would get a lot of press coverage, but as a crime crackdown. (Task force officers from other agencies are arresting people primarily for traffic violations and crimes, but they call DHS officers when they encounter immigrants.)