Stronger Than You

whenever i see a post that says shit like "there is no trans agenda we just want to live in peace" i roll my eyes like speak for yourself amiguita because transphobes have an agenda and they are very very organized and focused in pushing it forward and if we cannot get organized and focus to fight back then trust me nobody's gonna do it for us. "there's no trans agenda" okay well maybe there should be!

The trans agenda is "we would like to be alive and not harassed and we want the people who want to get in our way of this to not get in our way of this".

people saying shit like this is literally what the post is about!!

A trans agenda from 1974

JK Rowling is in full Holocaust denial now.

Harry Potter fans, here is your favorite author doing Holocaust denial that I've only ever heard from the most farthest of far right idealogues. She's been posting about this continually after being presented with documentation of repression and murder.

There is evidence that it happened.

The source of the article

The Nazis targeted and burnt valuable trans research. This is fact. It’s concerning how far she’s falling down the extreme anti-trans rabbit hole & denying reality. She encourages disinformation that’s harming trans people.

“In the midst of the burning, Joseph Goebbels gave a political speech to a crowd of around 40,000 people”

They literally had a political rally in the middle of burning the institutes library. The fact that Rowling would try to deny this is really sick.

But at this point I'm not surprised about anything this vile woman says. She surrounds herself around with Neo-Nazis and her beliefs has led to actual deaths of Trans people.

Let me be perfectly clear. If you are denying the Holocaust in any shape or form, you are a fucking Nazi. JK Rowling is a fucking Nazi.

Update. George Takei came for her ass

When you engage in discourse denial of the treatment of trans people in Hitler's Germany and lose George Takei.

if you're just joining us, george takei is having to educate jk rowling on holocaust denial

Interview With Jamison Green. Originally posted on Youtube, by Dr. Lindsey Doe.

Jamison Green was born in 1948. He came out as a trans man the late 1980s and made his transition public, for the benefit of others. He has been an activist since then, and led the FTM community after Lou Sullivan's death.

His contributions to trans rights have been largely erased by mainstream narratives around trans history.

Mr. Green wrote the book Becoming a Visible Man, exploring his experiences as a bisexual trans guy, his relationships with lovers and family, and his struggle to transition. He was involved in the 2012 documentary TRANS, where he advocated on behalf of trans people, and discussed his experiences with being s*xually assaulted.

from Transgender Warriors by Leslie Feinberg

ALOK VAID-MENON Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness 1x03 (2022)

Today is Transgender Day of Remembrance, the follow up to Transgender Awareness Week. It was founded on November 20, 1999 by a trans right group led by Gwendolyn Smith to memorialize trans people such as Rita Hester who lost their lives due to violent transphobia. It has since also expanded to include trans individuals who passed away from being denied proper medical help due to their identity and those who sadly ended their lives due to depression caused by external and internal transphobia. These individuals were living humans who just wanted to be themselves and were denied that right by institutions and society who failed to understand the meaning of being transgender.

Over 23 years have passed and transphobia is still a common issue, especially in this social climate who tends to politicize everything deemed “different”. Despite this problem, society is rapidly changing and becoming more accepting of trans people existing with others. Those who left this world may be gone, but they will never be forgotten. Whether you are trans yourself or a trans ally, be the bright, shining light in spite of all the darkness.

It may be weird to encounter because it's not the trans narrative that the media sells to us as 'the only valid way to be trans', but the 'I always knew I was x' is not all-encompassing.

Anon there are more people than you think who were girls who grew up into men, or boys who grew up into women, or girls or boys who grew up to be nonbinary. There is a rather obscure theory that girl and boy are distinct genders from man and woman and while the most common trajectory is that boys grow into men and girls grow into women it's not the rule.

Let people define themselves.

also if you think genderfluid people are real and you're not just humoring us, you by definition have to allow that gender can change over time. I was a girl once. I am not a girl now.

Chiming in with solidarity to OP.

I feel very protective of my former identity BECAUSE there's so little room in the Mainstream Trans Narrative ™️ for allowing gender to change.

I was a girl. Now I'm genderqueer. Maybe later I will find different words for myself.

There has to be room for all of us in the trans community or there's no point to any of this.

leslie feinberg, transgender liberation

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“Transgendered people are demanding the right to choose our own self-definitions. The language used in this pamphlet may quickly become outdated as the gender community coalesces and organizes—a wonderful problem.”

Next time transphobes call trans healthcare "experimental" you can show them this

I made an account for my cartoons too! I'll start moving them all over

anything that contains the phrase “secret BBC memo reveals” intrigues me automatically ngl but I want you all to know that as far as I can gather, the facts are even better than this headline

which is to say, this was part of an initiative in the early 1970s that not only featured marginalized groups on BBC programming, but made moves towards handing them editorial control – the BBC had to approve proposals, but after that, the station’s role was primarily to provide technical resources, facilities, and copyright handling. (another notable program under this initiative featured Black teachers discussing racism in the school system, and a link to that – plus discussion of the hurdles it faced – can be found here).

the program on trans experience was aired in 1973.

you can watch Open Door: Transex Liberation Group here (as well as other archived LGBTQ programming from BBC). 

1: hell yeah

2: David Attenborough was a childhood hero of mine and i’m glad to see he was always a champ

3: look at these related articles

David Attenborough forever man.

Here’s my David Attenborough story: a young friend of mine who has been obsessed with the natural world since he could talk, and grew up on a steady diet of David Attenborough. When he was about 7 or 8, he wrote Attenborough a letter about how much he had enjoyed his birds of paradise documentaries and including some of his amazing drawings of them, along with several origami insects.

He sent his letter from Berlin on a Thursday. The following Tuesday, he received a handwritten reply on stationery that said “From the desk of David Attenborough” thanking him for his letter and his “ingenious” drawings and origami insects, and encouraging him to continue pursue his passion for the natural world.

Today, my friend (he’s 15 now) is a jaw-droppingly incredible and award-winning macro photographer of tiny, beautiful things like insects and slime molds who leads nature walks for other children working with a local museum.

David Attenborough is a treasure and I hope he’s immortal. We are luck to share time with him on earth.

If you think these "anti drag" pushes aren't going to be used against trans people for just existing in public, you really really need to read up on the vice laws which caused Stonewall.

If you think Stonewall was only trans women and transmascs/butches/trans men weren't arrested during the leadup to the riot, you need to read up on who was there, who was arrested, and why.

They are coming for all of us. Your supposed respectability will not save you. We will survive this if we stick together, and only if.

From the Wikipedia page for Stonewall (warning for sexual assault mention):

Literally you need to defend men in dresses to fight against transphobia, period. The hate comes from the same root.

Attacking drag is attacking the right to present how you chose. And legislation against it will be weaponized against everyone, Cis, Trans, and otherwise.

Drag is a product of queer culture, and includes many many trans people in addition to GNC cis people.

Yes, you need to include Bianca Del Rio wearing a dress and makeup as part of her comedy, yes, you need to include a cis man who cross-dresses because it turns him on. As soon as you make it okay to go after one single group for wearing clothing that "doesn't match" their assigned sex or perceived gender, its open season to attack everyone for their presentation.

Yes, there are transphobic and misogynist drag performers. The whole category of art is not, and tons and tons of trans people participate in drag and drag is what cracked their egg.

Also, it's wrong to suppress anyone's presentation, whether they are cis, trans, woman, man, non-binary, gay, straight, anything. I don't care how they identify. If Trixie Mattel doing her thing makes you dysphoric, fine, don't watch her. But it's not wrong. It's not grooming. It's not anything wildly different from a cast member at Disneyland dressed as Snow White.

For those of you who are asking "what drag pushback," I have some unfortunate news for you:

https://twitter.com/mattxiv/status/1533880471670493184?t=TOWZrCOK2l8dryy97UTumg&s=19

https://twitter.com/ErinInTheMorn/status/1534942795860959234?t=TFlmzCzY8htOGUPPERWLnw&s=19

This is utterly unconscionable, and there's a reason this is all getting pushed during Pride. If things like this start to come back, it leads back into the old bad "three articles of clothing from the "correct" gender" days.

Y'all wonder why I keep beating the same drum over and over, well.

[clutches my pearls] Trans people in 1921?!??! But I thought trans people were trend of today’s youth!

I’d like to add my great great aunt Flora!

Y'all wanna know why we don’t see or hear about trans people from that era?

That’s because that picture was taken at what is known in its native language as Institut für Sexualwissenschaft, it is the place where the first trans healthcare was developed, where the term transsexual was coined.

Do you want to know what happened to the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft?

It was the victim of the very first Nazi book burning. Their teachings were outlawed and their books destroyed. Their leaders - such as Magnus Hirschfeld - were criminalized and exiled, if not outright murdered.

The fascists exterminated not just a generation of trans people, but they erased our history from the books almost entirely. It took us almost a century to get back to where we are now.

We’ve always been here, but our future is not guaranteed. We have to fight for our survival, because it’s happening again.

leslie feinberg, trans liberation: beyond pink or blue, 1998

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“And it’s hard for me to label the intricate matrix of my gender as simply masculine. To me, branding individual self-expression as simply feminine or masculine is like asking poets: Do you write in English or Spanish? The question leaves out the possibilities that the poetry is woven in Cantonese or Ladino, Swahili or Arabic. The question deals only with the system of language that the poet has been taught. It ignores the words each writer hauls up, hand over hand, from a common well. The music words make when finding themselves next to each other for the first time. The silences echoing in the space between ideas. The powerful winds of passion and belief that move the poet to write.

That is why I do not hold the view that gender is simply a social construct — one of two languages that we learn by rote from early age. To me, gender is the poetry each of us makes out of the language we are taught. When I walk through the anthology of the world, I see individuals express their gender in exquisitely complex and ever-changing ways, despite the laws of pentameter.” end ID]