Maven

Since some new athletes subject to gender (sex) testing are getting a lot of spotlight shined on the transphobic elements of this practice, please can people keep in mind the intersexist nature of sex testing. While many concerns raised about athletes’ gender/sex are related to transphobia, the material reality is that these people aren’t trans, they are intersex. These tests reveal that these women have hyperandrogenistic conditions that make them intersex. They are experiencing oppression based on having an intersex condition. This isn’t “oops we oppressed a cisgender person who might have been trans,” it is the intentional oppression of people who are intersex.

there is no way i see a guy acting like the defender of trans women of all time say “they don’t look tma” LOOK TMA?????? we are doing LOOK TMA now???? “I won’t say their height” WHAT WOULD THAT PROVE? do u think trans women r all just super tall lmfao???? what would an ID even prove anyway lmfao mine says F on it because i got my legal gender changed. me when i protect transfems by concluding that i can always tell

not even “look like a transfem” just “looks tma” like wtf would that even mean ??? u just stop being tma after u pass or ??? i don’t even like these terms but subscribing to the ideology around tme/tma means acknowledging that a transfeminine person is affected by transmisogyny forever. before she knows she’s trans. while she is in the closet. when she first comes out. if she never comes out. before she transitions. while she transitions. after she transitions. when she passes. when she doesn’t. “looking tma” just feels like an admission of thinking transfems r all clocky or smn and that a certain appearance is the only thing that causes transmisogyny to happen to u. how do u criticize transmascs for saying they’re affected by transmisogyny for when ppl think they look like transfems, but u implicitly affirm this is how transmisogyny works by saying a person can look or not look tma?

butch trans women appreciation post yall are so cool

always love transfems more than you love dunking on transmisogynists. love transfems more than you hate terfs. don't just reblog transfem funnyposts; love transfem music, art, writing, fashion, photography, selfies. love transfems. love transfems. love transfems with your whole heart.

yk what i do find it weird to bring up the murder of a transmasc child and in the same sentence use the phrase "transandrophobia truthers". did nex benedict die in mysterious circumstances entirely unrelated to his gender or was he killed because he was transmasc? can't really think of a more cut and dry example of transandrophobia tbh

ur totally right ab this but nex was not a man and this is misgendering them just like if you called them a girl. nex was nonbinary and used they/them pronouns. their murder was transandrophobic and u don’t have to change their gender posthumously to fit that.

thank you for correcting me, i hadn’t seen this information before now. reblogging to show the correct info

yk what i do find it weird to bring up the murder of a transmasc child and in the same sentence use the phrase "transandrophobia truthers". did nex benedict die in mysterious circumstances entirely unrelated to his gender or was he killed because he was transmasc? can't really think of a more cut and dry example of transandrophobia tbh

ur totally right ab this but nex was not a man and this is misgendering them just like if you called them a girl. nex was nonbinary and used they/them pronouns. their murder was transandrophobic and u don’t have to change their gender posthumously to fit that.

i have so much i want to say but it all boils down to this is why i never talk ab my sci. nobody cares anyway lmfao

ok everyone listen carefully. intersectionalism is not ab the intersections of different axes of oppression. intersectionalism is the intersection of different aspects of your identity, oppressed or not. white men experience the intersection of both whiteness and being a man. in this case, it compounds into greater privilege because white men benefit from both systemic racism and patriarchy. now, bear with me, transgender men experience the intersection of being transgender and men. because of the factor transgender, they are excluded from the benefits of patriarchy. transgender men, because they are transgender, are still oppressed under patriarchy as the out-group of women, because social maleness is an in-group which does not include any kind of transgender person (why most transfems object to “male socialization” as we were also not part of the social in-group as transgender people). transandrophobia, transmisandry, transmascphobia, etc all exist as words to describe THIS CONCEPT. they do not exist to say “transandrophobia is when men are oppressed and transgender people are oppressed so i am double oppressed on that axis.” transandrophobia and transmisogyny BOTH describe “a transgender person experiences the combination of transphobia and misogyny, either as a trans man or a trans woman (or adjacent to either of these identities)”

@nothorses OH! THE THING! OK THIS IS WHAT I DIDN'T KNOW EXISTED PRIOR TO YOUR POST; I DIDN'T REALISE PEOPLE DID THIS! (Sorry I'm excited because I was starting to get it with your post but now it's starting to click even more with another source what your anon was actually saying and I completely missed at first).

Cis people hate us, trans women hate us, everyone hates us.

You reblogged this from me and I just feel like I have to clarify. Trans women don't hate us. Trans women are not our enemy. Trans women are our allies. But they're imperfect in the way they support us, just as we're imperfect in the way we support them. We have to be a unified community. We have to have each other's best interests at heart.

ok everyone listen carefully. intersectionalism is not ab the intersections of different axes of oppression. intersectionalism is the intersection of different aspects of your identity, oppressed or not. white men experience the intersection of both whiteness and being a man. in this case, it compounds into greater privilege because white men benefit from both systemic racism and patriarchy. now, bear with me, transgender men experience the intersection of being transgender and men. because of the factor transgender, they are excluded from the benefits of patriarchy. transgender men, because they are transgender, are still oppressed under patriarchy as the out-group of women, because social maleness is an in-group which does not include any kind of transgender person (why most transfems object to “male socialization” as we were also not part of the social in-group as transgender people). transandrophobia, transmisandry, transmascphobia, etc all exist as words to describe THIS CONCEPT. they do not exist to say “transandrophobia is when men are oppressed and transgender people are oppressed so i am double oppressed on that axis.” transandrophobia and transmisogyny BOTH describe “a transgender person experiences the combination of transphobia and misogyny, either as a trans man or a trans woman (or adjacent to either of these identities)”

@nothorses OH! THE THING! OK THIS IS WHAT I DIDN'T KNOW EXISTED PRIOR TO YOUR POST; I DIDN'T REALISE PEOPLE DID THIS! (Sorry I'm excited because I was starting to get it with your post but now it's starting to click even more with another source what your anon was actually saying and I completely missed at first).

Cis people hate us, trans women hate us, everyone hates us.

on the post made by a trans woman is where you’re going to put this? ok