Twistedironpaw

“In the late 1600s, officials there legally mandated that every white man between sixteen and sixty join the militia, and legally empowered every white person to arrest, punish, and return runaways. White civilians were not only encouraged to monitor and control Black people, but were *required* to do so—sometimes under the threat of being fined. The government criminalized people for *not* policing.”

—Derecka Purnell, Becoming Abolitionists

Directly compare this to the current culture in predominantly US American spaces of constant surveillance of transfemmes to punish us the moment we slip up, once we prove we aren’t “one of the good ones”. It’s a direct evolution of this same colonial expectation to the point it’s done “naturally” even when not directly expected after generations of it being part of the US’s social contract.

Hi! Its me, the afab bigender intersex person from all of your strawman posts. You know, the one whos intersex condition left him with no uterus, little to no estrogen, and a short but ultimately decided argument between healthcare workers wrt my initial sex assignment. The one whos androgynous traits came in early and more often in the "both" than the "neither". The one perisex transmascs often try to push out of your communities, becausr you think i 'should count' as a trans woman because you tried to take womanhood from me, ring a bell? Download shinigami eyes. Note my name. I got that by not being a shithead and talking about intersexism in a way that acknowledged tma intersex people exist and i am not one of them

this is what I mean about how right now in the united states (won't speak for elsewhere but feel free to lmk in the notes if you'd like) a lot of us trans adults who are able to access transition care can only do so at the direct expense of trans minors. this clinic would not have opened if they held the line and offered equal access to healthcare to trans minors.

"Martin announced the direct-care clinic, calling it “one of the first times a public health department has ever taken that step.” But when Cabán pushed back, pointing out that trans youth are the ones most under attack right now—noting that there are “almost no providers” left for youth the entire city—Martin indicated the clinic would not serve youth, citing the need to “strike a balance” between providing care and avoiding “clawbacks from the federal government.” This morning, EITM can directly confirm that the age cutoff is 19—matching the Trump administration’s executive order threshold, not the standard legal age of adulthood in New York."

a lot of the structural transphobia we are experiencing is hitting minors even worse. their care gets banned first. if you want a preview of what access to healthcare will look like for us trans adults in 2 years, look at what access looks like for legal minors right now.

Even when I was “cis” I had an incident where my gf at the time, a drunk cis white woman, literally spent an hour trying to pin me down and rip off my clothes to fuck me as I was trying to care for her, despite repeated refusals. It reached the point I had to leave the room after escaping her and hold the door shut until she gave up, and any time I mentioned it to others back then the concern was not her trying to sexually assault me, but that if she had succeeded I’d have been at fault for being a Black “man” having sex with a drunk white woman.

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bitch. I am an intersex person. Whatever stats you wanna give on transmascs vs transfems and opression simply do not apply to me whatsoever. 68% of intersex teens self-harm. 51% of intersex teens have seriously considered suicide in the past 12 months.

37% reported physical harm based on their identity in the past year. 35% of trans people have experienced physical violence in their lives EVER.

Let me say that again. 37% of intersex minors experience physical abuse for their identities yearly.

Yes, intersex kids who are not trans have it easier than trans kids who are not intersex. But these overlap and being both does make you more likely to face violence.

In the US, the sexual minority who are killed most are transgender women. Most of whom are Black or Indigenous.

There are Intersex people who are transfeminine. I'm affected by transmisogyny. I am an IGM survivor. Yes, your experiences in being intersex intersect with the kinds and forms of gender based violence that transgender and dyadic people face. But you gotta understand that you do have relative privilege over transfems who are also intersex. In the same way that I as a white intersex person have relative privilege over an intersex person who is also Black.

04/19/20

Hi. I'm a disabled trans woman who was on and off houseless since August 2020 80% of the time in a van that got stolen and totaled last month. Selling it might have been some money. I'm trying to figure out getting a new car still. I currently have an apartment that let me get out of the mold infestation that I was allergic to that had accumulated in those 5ish years. Please help me stay housed. I need help with May rent. Ty

Please help, anything helps.

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Venmo@Leah-Esther-Rose

'This is a game I've been working on for nearly two years, with help from @maplewood-grove on code, @twistedironpaw on art, and Mira Snelder on music. It's a labor of love from all of us. Now I could spend a lot of time pitching it to you, but I already worked pretty hard on doing that for the store page, so I'll just copy what I wrote there.

Daybreak Hearts is a tactics RPG about relationships. Each of its three chapters tells a different story, with different characters and dynamics. And those dynamics aren't just dialogue, the entire way they play reflects who they are as people. Some characters can't cooperate, others have opposite needs, and some are fighting demons more real than you'd expect. While you control all of these characters, you don't "play as" any of them. You are the relationship, helping each of them work in harmony.

But Daybreak Hearts is also a feeling. It's the rush of saying "no" and getting away with it. It's the breakdown after your beloved hurts you. It's the struggle to get a man in pain to seek help. It's the catharsis of beating up the ones who want you dead. And it's the desperate pleas, to any higher power available, to make your life easier for just once. How do any of these feelings resolve? Find out for yourself.

But most of all, Daybreak Hearts is a message, from me to you. That the full potential of this genre is yet to be discovered. That tactics RPGs don't have to be about commanding an army. That we as trans people deserve better than just to survive. That we are under attack every day, from both our enemies and the wounds they leave us. That all we have is ourselves and each other, but that's all we need to make it through. That you are not the only one who feels the way you feel. I just hope this game offers some catharsis.

My tactics RPG "Daybreak Hearts" comes out April 3rd. Get it early here before I start charging for it. (Password: Ketanso)

This is a passion project I have been working on for the better part of two years, with art help from @twistedironpaw, programming help from @maplewood-grove, and music help from Mira Snelder. It's the first long-term project I've completed in a very long time, and unlike the others, it's a journey I've been happy to go on. I will be happy with my work whether you play it or not... But I still want you to play it, so let's talk pitch.