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.
Oggi e sempre ✊
transl: “better a faggot than a fascist”
Also caption translation: Today and forever
can we get a shoutout to trans girls who don't wear makeup
i don't need to just keep practicing I don't need to just learn to contour or whatever the fuck else I'm 100% happy being bare-faced and the only times i ever felt compelled to do makeup was for other people's benefit!
watch the mfs with zero reading comprehension get ahold of this and act like I'm personally attacking them for wearing makeup
adding on trans girls who don’t shave their face or armpits or legs, or have short hair, or do any of the things that are seen as “saying Fuck You to the patriarchy” when cis women do it but for Some Reason when trans women do it they’re “not trying hard enough to pass.” do whatever you want with your meat suit and related adornments forever.
By the way legislators aren’t making laws specifically targeting the LGBTQ community because of pansexuals or trans people without dysphoria or aces and aros. They’re doing it because they hate queer people, and want to make us existing openly illegal.
No amount of “but but but the new labels are making us look bad and people won’t take us seriously” will ever change the fact that you are putting yourself on the side of people that want us dead. So stand by your community, or put a damn sock in it.
This is your community. There is no circumstance that you should say “well, the oppressor is right on this one” but that’s what SO many of you are doing!
When politicians mock parts of our community that they know you won’t bother to defend, they’re using it as a foot in the door. They are using it as a way to make their next action seem less extreme, and they will continue until they have achieved what’s happening in Texas and Idaho. And you are allowing them to.
Other queer people are not your enemy. And once again if you still can’t see that, you’re on the side of the oppressors.
If I remember correctly, people in the gay liberation front in the 70s were already talking about the importance of LGB and T people standing together and part of the argument was that in the eyes of those in power, we're all perverted and essentially the same.
If we're going to be abused together, we might as well resist together.
Concrete, 100% effective way to tell if someone doesn’t belong in a LGBT+/queer space:
They openly and actively hate/ want to hurt the people in that space
Controversial opinion here, I know, but just because you’re in a safe LGBT+/Queer space doesn’t mean you have to disclose their identity to everyone there. And people are allowed to bring their partners, regardless of their orientation, to those same spaces.
Obviously there are certain spaces that are for specific people, but at the same time, y’all are so obsessed with micromanaging queer spaces. The only thing that should be a litmus for entry into those spaces is: “does this person want to hurt someone else in this space and I know that? Yes? Then they aren’t fucken welcome. Regardless of identity.”
I volunteered in ine of the biggest queer youth clubs as an educator / guide (there isnt a word in english for these stuff).
We had so many queer kids that brought cishet friends and some of them didnt come out later, some of them really were cishet and that is fine.
They did no harm to the queer atmosphere and when someone new joined for the first time we gave them a little tour of the club and invited them to a one on one talk with one of the volunteers.
Ive had many of these conversations with teens at the ages of 12-19 and everyone calmed down when we told them there is no criteria to being there that this is a safe space and after a short explanation and some questions where many of them just blurted out their stories.
The non queer identifying people came for years either because they just met some friends from different places along the country and it was their usual hangout or because they really needed a safe space with no judgment in their lives.
Cishet people also need safe spaces where there are no gendered expectations of them and they can play with makeup and dresses and just be calm and learn about safe sexuality and consent.
Why in the world would you kick people who need safe spaces and benefit from them out???
Queer people seeing cishet people in queer spaces not acting weird and for once seeing the atmosphere is queer and the cis person has to adapt does marvels to one’s sense of how real it feels, how you could bring this safe space outside and this culture to other friends.
Introduce some of the stuff you learned to your friends and family maybe to some willing coworker idk.
The point is that our way to smash the patriarchy, gender roles, rape culture and more shit is too bring it outside and allow allies to be there cus why the fuck not
Thanks for sharing! This really highlights a collection of reasons why it’s important to not create these arbitrary rules to who can and can’t come in.
Also?
When I was in college, I had a cishet friend who was Christian and quietly felt homosexuality was a sin. I never heard her say so out loud….
…..which is why it STUNNED me when last year, she admitted she felt that way in college. But, she said, spending time with me in what we called the LGBTQIA+ group, to support me through a time when I was on and off suicidal, she discovered that queer people were, well….people. Who just wanted to be allowed to live. That might sound like “wow, the bar was belowground and she was doing the limbo with Satan,” but you must understand: this was 2006 in a very tiny town. Our senator had just compared homosexuality to both bestiality and pedophilia and there was a concerted push going on to write “one man, one woman” into the Constitution. Allison’s position (“I feel a certain kind of way but I’m not going to say it aloud”) was actually KINDER than most of the people around me.
And just spending time in our spaces, being around queer people, she realized “hey, what I have been told my whole life is a lie. These people are just people. Telling terrible jokes, having cookouts, fighting for basic human dignity, arguing over whether or not face painting is an appropriate college activity. There is no difference between them and me.”
Without a welcome into queer spaces, Allison might still be part of a homophobic church. Instead she helped organize her town’s first Pride parade in 2019.
“The queer kids, whether they’re gay or straight, need to stick together.” — Tim Miller, gay performance artist
Gatekeeping kills. STOP THAT.
Things You May Need to Hear
"it'll be okay" and "you can do it" are phrases that sometimes fall flat. here's some things you may need to hear:
- you're good enough
- sometimes it's okay to not try so hard
- it's okay to not always be strong
- you don't have to be anything for anybody
- don't be so hard on yourself
- you're worth it
- it doesn't make you weak to ask for help
- let yourself cry
MJ RODRIGUEZ Pose season 3 promo “Deeper Love”
BullTwinkle Moose “ψ(`∇´)ψ
Baby moose finds Pride flag, decides to carry it around in its mouth for awhile.
Happy Pride 🌈
Source: Facebook
YOU GO ARKANSAS!🏳️⚧ Via @huffpost
Arkansas Governor Vetoes Anti-Trans Bill That Would Have Limited Health Care For Minors https://www.huffpost.com/entry/arkansas-governor-vetoes-anti-trans-bill_n_606b5382c5b6832c793a1fc9 https://www.instagram.com/p/CNS2sRrh0As/?igshid=1j5g8n3osbswv
And that's that on that.
Apparently I wasn't done 🤔
These are FABULOUS, OP, but can I suggest one to the riff of "QUEERNESS IS NOT DEFINED BY THE AMOUNT PEOPLE HAVE SUFFERED"?
Thanks! Here you go 🥰
Some other additions:
Inspired by @unicorn-in-the-library:
And because @surfs-up-roxy wanted an ace one:
I didn't want to make the message ace-specific because I wanted to make a point of how all of the above include aspec people, but I tried to use an ace colour palette for the background :) I also think the message applies especially (even if not exclusively) to the ace community!
Hope you like these 🥰
@rockmarina possibly “all labels were made up at one point, stop being an ass”?
I played around with the concept a bit, I hope you like it anyway!
I feel like this also needs to be said:
Heartstopper Netflix Adaptation Announced!!
So…… here it is. I have been dying to share this with you for a long long time. Heartstopper is coming to Netflix as a live-action TV show!!!!!! Written by me, directed by Euros Lyn, produced by See-Saw Films! WE ARE GREEN LIT!!!!!
I’m calling this segment
✧・゚: *✧・゚:* Just Ace Things *:・゚✧*:・゚✧
This may be an unpopular opinion
but a person who does their best to respect me despite not understanding or knowing every single lgbt label and title is always going to be higher on my list that a person who knows every single one, acts like a sanctimonious prick, and treats everyone like garbage.
from @munroebergdorf TW: Murder, Transphobia, Graphic Violence.
This week we lost another two black trans sisters to transphobic violence, with next to no media attention or public outrage. At times like this we are reminded just how little care there is for black trans lives, let alone when we are murdered.
On Tuesday, the body of Dominique “Rem’mie” Fells was pulled from a river in Philadelphia. She had trauma to her face and head, her legs were severed mid thigh. Also on Tuesday, Riah Milton was shot multiple times, then robbed and her car stolen. She died at the scene.
All black lives cant matter, until black trans lives matter. The violence that we continue to face as a community needs to end. Both women are being misgendered in the small amount of media attention that these cases have attracted.
Whilst wealthy white cisgender women like JK Rowling and others who follow the abusive strand of “gender critical feminism”, tweet falsehoods and ignorance about our community, black transgender women are facing unimaginable violence, poverty and injustice. This violence is massively disproportionate when you take into consideration that trans people make up 0.6% of the American population, this is reduced even further with the intersection of blackness.
The conversation surrounding the trans community needs to change. Ignoring these deaths in favour of dehumanising debates over what bathroom we should use, or whether trans kids should have access to healthcare, needs to stop. It is upholding an environment of hostility and violence towards us and lives are being lost because of it.
Say her name #DominiqueFells
Say her name #RiahMilton
#blacktranslivesmatter #blacklivesmatter