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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.

So I think an important bit of perspective to keep, as a trans person, is that you don't have requirements for being your gender, you have options.

And the distinction makes a big difference, because options are something you can pick, see if it works for you, and abandon it if not. And you don't feel incomplete/not trying hard enough/left out if you can't do some options, for whatever reason (money/disability/society/just don't wanna).

And when I say options, I mean everything from coming out to pronouns to hormones to clothes to makeup to surgery and much more. All these things are options you have. Not requirements to be your gender.

And similarly, because they're options, there's nothing wrong with you choosing more or less of them than your fellow trans peoples. You're not more or less trans than them.

Shit, I’m going to start thinking about my cis masculinity this way, I like this.

Yeah I didn't say it in the original post, but this 100% applies to cis people too. Your gender is yours, how much and what you need to do for that gender is up to you.

Free yourself from expectations! Look critically at the rules, sneer upon anything that anything that seems arbitrary, and chuck it out the fucking window! EMBRACE GENDER CHAOS!

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This is a streamer, and one of his chat rewards for subs/bits/etc is "girl month," where he dresses like a girl and does his make up for a whole month.

Last I heard, his chat had gotten him to, like, 6 months straight of "girl month."

This man is cis. He is not trans, and has no desire to transition.

He just wanted to do something fun for his chat, and he has a great time. He looks comfortable, he doesn't make a mockery of women or femininity. It's just wholesome cross dressing fun.

Hey, a bro's gotta hustle ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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One of the biggest influences on the way I currently see gender and sex and transgender identity was one tiny sentence

When I was talking to my top surgeon, he mentioned that he'd done top surgery on a butch lesbian. She identified fully as a woman, she just wanted a flat chest.

And that... blew my mind. My own desire for a dick and a flat chest is in a guy way, but the freedom of knowing that it doesn't HAVE to be a guy way, that you can just want a body and have it -

That not only is gender presentation in clothes and so forth mix and match, you can treat your body that way too, not only does your gender not have to 'match' your assigned body your chosen gender doesn't have to 'match' your chosen body because all that really matters, on any of it, is what feels right to you -

I was full up on "you can be trans without wanting to change x part of your body" but learning that that could also apply the other way around was what blew my mind and shifted my whole understanding of identity.

Caption: [I make a lot of videos about being trans but in particular over the past couple days I've posted like eleven videos talking about being trans in very positive, very joyful way. And I have gotten multiple comments telling me to stop "glorifying being trans" and no, I will not stop.

Uh being trans is beautiful and good. I love being trans. I love being nonbinary. It is good and right to talk about trans joy. Young people who are questioning, or just realize that they're trans deserve to see that. People who feel left or worry they're not trans enough deserve to be told that they are.

I am not "confusing" people and even if everyone who commented on my video said they're questioning their gender found that the answer to their question is that they're cis, that's still good.

It is good and right and healthy and beautiful for everyone to have a deeper and more personal understanding of their own gender identity. Yes, cis people benefit from questioning and exploring their gender identity. If you disagree with that you need to sit back and evaluate why.]

i always think about that study where they had adults hold a baby, and when they were told the baby was a girl the adults said she was cute and small, and when they were told the baby was a boy they said he was big and strong. they rated the baby’s ability to do things and tendency towards certain toys differently. they even held the baby differently. (x) or when they rated the baby’s physical ability to do various tasks such as climbing up a slope differently, (x) & when they measured how much parents told their girl children vs. their boy children to be careful and stop being so rowdy (x), & when they measured how often girls and boys were told to be quiet. (x) this was, obviously, all unconscious behavior in the adults. they’re not all like, raving sexists who outspokenly believe that women can’t do stuff or that girls really should just be quieter, be more still than boys. like its not even counting the direct, actual messages, its just literally how every single person in your entire life treats you, and if asked they would probably deny that its even because you’re a girl. how the fuck am i supposed to believe this doesn’t affect a child’s development when its literally constant throughout the entire process 

This shit starts as soon as early as when someone’s still a fucking embryo. I’ve heard the saying “discrimination starts as soon as you leave the womb” but it actually starts earlier than that.

Like yesterday I went to a t ball game (4-6 years old boys) and one of the boy’s little sisters (3 year old) said ‘way to go trevor’ which is her brother’s best friend when he got a home run. Everyone else was cheering. Nothing weird. Her mom goes out of the way to embarrass the girl by saying ‘don’t even think about it. You’re too young for him!’ While laughing. Like she was trying to date him or something. She’s fucking 3!! The little girl stopped cheering after that. And I’ve seen it so many times when little kids interacting is seen as like pre-dating or some shit. A little baby boy (6 months old) will grab hair like all babies do and they act like he’s flirting. Or the little girl will already get the ‘nobody is going to hurt my daughter’ crap from basically birth. It’s all so forced gender in a ridiculous way.

Du kannst nicht "Geschlecht" ohne "schlecht" buchstabieren

i would post this joke in english but it doesn't translate very well

no i think it translates just fine actually

*hands you a cookie of trans ur gener*

this is extremely important for everyone to understand