@vodcar

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[ Image description: A tweet from Angus Johnston (@studentactivism) that reads “If you’re uncomfortable calling a person “they” but comfortable calling them “it,” your problem isn’t a linguistic one.” / end of description ]

I think one of the reasons why a lot of trans kids dye their hair and/or get body jewelry is that it’s probably the most accessible way to modify ourselves.

maybe it helps us, in a tiny way, relieve dysphoria.

like, adding a second floor to this house may be forbidden or take five years to complete, but dammit I’m gonna paint ALL the walls, in all the colors I want, TODAY.

so when people make fun of trans kids, esp. “tumblr trans kids” for having “that look” it does kinda sting

Trans kids have ‘that look’ called ‘fuckin’ awesome’.

Friendly reminder that estrogen doesn’t change your voice so please do not make fun of trans women with non-cis sounding voices vocal training is hard thank you.

This is no joke. So hard. Especially if you’re older.

Support trans woman who chose not to undertake voice training. Support trans woman with non-cis sounding vocal resonance.

Please do not make fun of trans people at all

We are appalled by President Trump’s tweets about banning transgender people from military service. There are an estimated 15,000 transgender people already working in the Department of Defense, putting their lives on the line to protect our nation and its values. Those values do not include the heartlessness exhibited by Mr. Trump this morning. Discrimination has no place in our government, in our workplaces, our schools, or anywhere else in our lives.

While it’s still unclear what the actual policy ramifications of these tweets will be, we recommend keeping up with (and, if you can, donating to) the ACLU and the Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund. 

You can also directly tell the president how unacceptable his attack on American servicepersons is by using this form provided by the @transgenderfreedomproject.

We know there will be plenty of conversation about this on Tumblr in the coming days, and we urge you to take this moment to support and educate each other in whatever ways you can. And if you just need someone to talk to right now, there are people here to listen, 24 hours a day, seven days a week:

Transgender veterans and activists are speaking out against Donald Trump.

We feel obligated to address these recent developments. This morning President Trump announced via Twitter that transgender individuals are banned from serving in the United States Military under any capacity, citing “tremendous medical costs and disruption” as a threat to military strength. So let’s pull some receipts, shall we?

In 2016, the Pentagon tasked RAND Corporation (a non-profit research institute) with investigating the related costs and potential readiness impacts associated with allowing transgender service members into the military. Here are their findings:

• An estimated 0.13% increase in healthcare costs for transition-related care, ranging from $2.4 to $8.4 million. For some more perspective, the general budget is in the billions. 

• In studying eighteen other countries that allow transgender personnel to serve openly, “in no case did the RAND team find evidence of an effect on operational effectiveness, operational readiness or cohesion.” Also, to ban trans service in “any capacity,” seems to directly contradict the notion that this ban has to do with performance and capability concerns. 

The true reasoning that fueled this decision seems to lie well beyond reason. One-100th of a percent increase in costs is not “tremendous,” it’s completely negligible. As we can see, concerns over operational readiness are seeded in ignorance, not observed issues. –  This trafficking of bigotry in the guise of strength or patriotism is a disgrace. To call into question an able-bodied transgender individual’s right to service, especially “in any capacity,” is a direct attack on civil rights. The LGBTQ community deserves better!

(Written by: @historyandmemes - sources linked) 

#NotAllMen

have penises

here it is, the only #notallmen post i will ever accept -💐

Do you feel like someone is using the “wrong” bathroom? Please don’t: -Stare at them -Challenge them -Insult them -Do not purposefully make them uncomfortable. Instead, please: -Respect their privacy -Respect their identity -Carry on with your day -Protect them from harm They are using the facilities they feel safe in. Please do not take this right away from them. Trans* & gender questioning students… You have every right to be here: -In this facility -In this university -In this world Your gender identity and expression are valid.

This photo always cheers me up a bit. It’s a front-page article from 1955 about Christine Jorgensen, one of the first women to have sex-reassignment surgery.

Since the text is a bit small and I couldn’t find a larger copy, here’s what the small blurb says:

A World of a Difference

This article is 58 years old, and it’s more respectful of Christine’s pronoun choices and name than some publications are today. It makes me happy to see a newspaper be respectful of a trans person’s choice of name and pronouns like that :3

Say it again for the haters in the back who want to keep pretending that trans people, or even treating trans people with respect is even remotely anything new. 😎

Keep in mind I’m a cis woman writing this.

So I was debating posting this but I think it needs to be said.

So I’m a student teacher and this week, we started at a new school district. Now I won’t presume to begin to pretend that I know what everyone’s political ideologies are in this school district but keep in mind that it’s in rural New York State and rural New York State tends to run red. Not as red as some other places but definitely not blue and not even really purple. 

Anyway yesterday was my first ever professional development day. So I’m all dressed up, introducing myself to other teachers, and I shake hands with the superintendent who seems like a really nice guy.

And about halfway through the day, he goes up to the front of the theater and he starts talking about the best ways to talk to and help transgender/nonbinary students. It’s the basic things we all learn in our education classes. And you can tell that he’s a bit uncomfortable and so are some of the teachers. And at last, he stops and says, “Folks, I have to be honest. My father is rolling in his grave right now.”

And I’m in the back like, “Oh no.”

And so he pauses again and then he starts implying that he was raised to have a very negative opinion on the transgender community. And he continues to say that he had to unlearn a lot in the past few decades and then he admitted that he still doesn’t get it. He outright admitted that he personally doesn’t understand how someone comes to the conclusion that they’re not their assigned gender. And he admits that of course he doesn’t because he’s never had to go through that.

Another pause.

And then he says, “But I don’t have to get it.”

The theater fills with whispers and then he says [and I’m paraphrasing here], “I don’t have to get it. I don’t even have to agree with it. Because it doesn’t matter what I think or what I feel or what my beliefs are. At the end of the day, the only thing that matters is that I respect that student and I respect their choice.”

And then he reminded the teachers of every single policy that the school district follows from letting any student use their bathroom of choice to changing the students’ names per the students’ requests to not telling the parents anything unless the student gives consent to do so.

And at the end, he brought it back by saying, “My father just rolled in his grave again. But it doesn’t matter. It doesn’t matter what you think, it doesn’t matter what you believe, because it’s not about you. It’s about your kids. And you need to love your kids! Love your kids! Love your kids!”

Long story short, this looks like it’s going to be a good placement.

love your kids!! love your kids!!!

‘You don’t have to get it’ is the most important and (apparently) most difficult lesson to learn, alongside ‘this is not about you.’

when will cis teachers start respecting their trans students lol

there’s a non-binary student in my grade, and they recently had their name and gender officially changed in the school system and all their teachers have an updated attendance list with their correct name on it.

i only have one class with them, but i have friends who have other classes with them and get to see how other teachers treat them. one teacher (let’s call him mr. c) just straight up disrespects their name.

their name is solan. that’s pronounced like the “sol” from solar before the word “an”, the emphasis being on “sol”. mr. c just either address them as “you” (ex: “you, what did you get for number 2?”) or pronounced their name so-LAWN (which, btw, is incredibly annoying).

as for that one class i have with them? our teacher pronounced their name correctly as soon as their name was changed. she’s always addressed them by their (correctly pronounced) name and referred to them with the correct pronouns as if they’re the name and pronouns they’ve always used.

trans students have names. it’s not difficult to respect them.

(cis people reblog this)

there’s a transgender girl in my grade who got her name changed on all the transcripts and everything before last year (our freshman year) but some teachers didn’t have the very new updated lists so one day in english our teacher was absent and the sub called her by her previous name and everyone was like “who tf” and nobody knew the last name either because nobody really knows each other’s last names anymore and i think i was the only one who really knew and she was so embarrassed and sad sitting in her seat and after the sub took the full attendance she had to go up and tell this random ass substitute about it and he felt terrible about it too

another time later that year we had another sub (who now had the updated list) who wasn’t as caring about it. this old ass woman is taking attendance and GOES UP TO A GIRL SITTING NEAR GABBY (trans student) and literally asks her “are /they/ a girl or boy????” and was so snarky about it i almost started yelling. gabby was so embarrassed and like sad about this like really she was mortified i felt horrible for her. but the girl the sub asked literally turned, looked her dead in the eye, and asked back “does it really even matter?” and the rest of us were like !!!! and sat forward in our seats to show the sub we were in agreement and finally the sub just like turned away with a snuff like ok bitch ur not great u literally just made a whole class of teenagers dislike u

ANYWAY teachers should care about trans students and call them by their preferred name and also be nice and caring because these students already go through a lot and they EXIST why is this hard to understand

also its important to note that when then teacher doesn’t respect trans students names and pronouns then often OTHER STUDENTS don’t either i don’t get why teachers think they can be assholes

Dear Terfs, 

You’re not allowed to watch the Matrix or any of it’s follow up movies. You’re not allowed to watch anything made by the Wachowski sisters. Why you might ask? Because the Wachowski sisters are trans women and we all know how you feel about them. If you like Super Jail you’re not allowed to watch that either.

Would anyone else like to add to the list of things Terfs aren’t allowed to watch and like?

~Mod Purple Guy

I just learned the CEO of sirius XM radio is a trans woman

Meowth in the Pokémon Anime was voiced by a trans women (Maddie Blaustein) TERFS can’t watch Pokemon.

TERFs can’t listen to the band Against Me!

They can’t listen to Steam Powered Giraffe–Bunny Bennett (Rabbit) is a trans woman.

- Mod Ford.

They can’t enjoy Rick Riordan books, they have a genderfluid character

THEY SURE AS HELL CAN’T ENJOY HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH

Axis of Awesome.

There is code written by trans women running on every Android phone, and every iPhone.  Also every Chromebook and in the Chrome browser.  So… have fun avoiding those.

Any of Jethro Tull’s albums from the beginning to 1979 - Dee Palmer, a trans woman, worked on string arrangements for quite a few of their songs in that time, and joined the band as a full member from ‘77 to ‘79.

Reblogging not only because I’m anti-terf, but also because it’s nice to see the accomplishments of so many trans women being highlighted like this!

its weird how everyone, really, has multiple names that are used in different contexts and that many (most women, for one) people will change their names throughout their lives. like a guy might be called bobby by his friends robert by his boss mr burton by his co-worker he might become burton-smith after he gets married, rob at school, he might be robby to his mum, he might have the pen name of burton ellis, and he might be analdestroyer94 on one forum and forallthatsgood344 one another and that is all perfectly acceptable. people have different names and identities in different contexts and these change as they grow throughout their lives.

but then when trans people want to change their names, or young trans people have multiple names for different contexts everyone starts to get a bit weird about it.

The doll itself isn’t transgender, it’s been made in the likeness of someone who is, Jazz Jennings. But kids aren’t confused by this. Adults are. And adults are the ones who poison kid’s minds on this topic, just like they do about everything else. Remember people saying, “How do I explain homosexuality to my kid when she asks why her friend has two daddies?” Um, simple: she has two daddies. 

So many people assuming that all Trans women have penises, as though it’s any of your business anyway. If your first thought after hearing someone is Transgender is “what set of genitalia do they have”, then it’s time you redefine your priorities. The doll has no genitals, and I would laugh and laugh if the doll had painted on cute little knickers, that say “non of you bees wax” on them because what someone has in their pants doesn’t concern anyone, unless that person consents to providing that info.