how do i put that upside down happy face emoji in here

This is chat gpt trash prompted to “sound Japanese” and it’s based off of racist old movie dialogue. There’s zero correlation here to Japanese grammar and how Japanese translates into English or how a native speaker of Japan uses English. It’s slop. It’s racist ai slop rehashing Western exceptionalism, fantasizing about a Japanese person being in awe of how great the USA is. It’s depressing that people fell for this. I know it feels good to think that other people like us, and sometimes they do, but this only works if you assume Japanese people have extremely limited experience and worldview. It’s mortifying.

That has literally never been the case lol the earliest noted use of the term “egg” online included the definition of “a trans person who doesn’t realise that they’re trans yet” and every single definition since has been the same.

Like a lot of trans terms, exclusionary groups on tumblr have tried to rewrite history by claiming that these terms were only used by, for or against trans women (such as T4T or the t-slur) when any trans person over the age of thirty can tell you first hand that this is a lie. Re-writing trans history in order to erase trans men from it is not transfeminist and does not help trans women. It simply kills trans men.

Transitioning wouldn't, for example, save Jesse from the pipeline to criminality the world has set him onto by not nurturing his artistic talent and ignoring his GLARINGLY OBVIOUS ADHD.

Transitioning wouldn't save Dave Strider from the cognitive dissonance he put up for years to cope with the abuse he faced from his Bro coupled with his admiration for him.

shortest possible story is that he he got arrested and hospitalized after walking around outside at night, MAYBE having 'an episode', MAYBE he was drunk, maybe he was high, maybe he was just being loud, who knows. Dude was outside at night in boxers and cowboy boots and that's all he did to "invite" police interaction.

But cops claimed he assaulted them so he gets arrested. Then goes to the hospital. Then goes back into custody.

And then he's not heard of for a while, then days later says he's out and okay. But facing FELONY charges!

Almost a year later, Lil Nas X is out of a mental health rehab program, looking good, saying he feels really good, and seems to be on the way up after all of this. I'm really happy for him. I hope he has good genuine support in his life through family, friends, and folks rooting on him that he can count on.

I am really disappointed but not surprised how quickly a lot of media support for him disappeared, especially queer papers. An interview from before the police incident really highlighted how many people wanted him to fail and wanted to see him fall, including certain pockets within communities that should have has his back.

I find it inarguable that I have some access to male privilege. I do. I think those saying that I don't are being completely absurd and disingenuous when they deny it. I am, in fact, materially treated differently and at times even better than many of the women within my social sphere. It is plain as day when I no longer need to be spending my money on period products, when male clients defer to me despite being the newest on the team, when interacting with other men who do not know that I am transgender.

This, to me, is the white passing privilege argument. It is equally inarguable to me that my mother and my nephew who are completely white passing have some access to white privilege. They are treated materially differently than the rest of our family- including my nephew's own little sister who while being light skinned is clearly of color somehow, including my mother's somewhat darker brother who has since passed away. While the rest of us must deal with the more overt and violent racism that comes with being native and black, they are spared this experience, watching from the outside, knowing that if they speak up it will be their heads next on the chopping block.

However, like my mother and my nephew, I still am affected by laws that this conditional access to privilege do not protect me from. Any laws that is designed to hurt cis women will inevitably hurt me, someone with an "F" marker. Any laws designed to hurt intersex people with hurt me, someone with an intersex variation and extensive medical history of such. Any laws designed to hurt transgender people will hurt me, as I am someone that is transgender.

Often when we talk about male privilege, we talk about freedom from laws restricting reproductive rights, body autonomy, and social movement. This is why arguing if trans women have male privilege is also a moot point- as they are also not free from these laws and on fact are directly targeted by them much the same. Thus an "M" marker is not a guaranteer of privilege *either*, as more and more nations impose tighter restrictions on trans women specifically.

Often when trans men point out how we are affected by things, there is a sense that this implies that trans women intrinsically aren't affected- but they are. We are hardly mirror images of each other in anything except presentation goals, and even there we find common ground frequently outside of primary or secondary sex characteristics. This is what I mean when I say that I truly don't think there is anything that one type of trans people experience that other types of trans people don't in a similar manner- and what is there as a stark difference usually has an answering stark difference elsewhere.

As I begin to take steps towards bottom surgery and everything it implies, as I am accepted by those who don't know me and don't see my legal or medical documents more and more as a cis man, as I continue this walk through life as a cis-passing trans man, I do see more and more the social privileges I am afforded as a result of my transition.

It's just, as the leader of my country is poised to end all gender transition for all transgender people and specifically cites my presumed fertility as a reason to save me from myself, as I race against the clock to at least remove my uterus before he stops that from happening too, I realize that this privilege stops at "social". And that I have a very narrow window to be able to hold onto what transition I've already done, if I don't want a single signature to completely undo everything I've worked for over the past 20 years.