It's cynically ironic how trans people are on the one hand expected to trace their transness back to their childhood in order to be taken seriously, while we're on the other hand repeatedly told that children are supposedly "too young" to think about such matters.

ok but really… y’all forgot about her being a violent terf pretty damn quickly, or at least decided it didn’t matter as much as ur fav white boy returning :/

[Id: a tweet by DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm reading "Hayden Christensen will return as Anakin Skywalker in the 'AHSOKA' series." The tweet is followed by a picture of Anakin by the side of Rosario Dawson as Ahsoka.

The tweet was quoted by do not watch ahsoka @/FAGSUAVE with "and so now all of you will be tuned in despite Rosario Dawson helping her mother violently misgender and physically assault a trans man on their property? Even after she paid to make it go away and buried the lawsuit under her relationship to that president candidate flop..." / end id]

chris is literally nonbinary

ppl really do just say “cisgender” for anyone who isnt “trans enough” huh

this is literally just how ppl treat nonbinary amabs

I'm sick of being one of the Good Trans People™ I want to start throwing rocks at people who say that shit to me

"It's so cool how you don't make a big deal about pronouns" oh I want to kill you when you misgender me I just don't start shit because I know nobody in this room would back me up

I wish all the cis people using this post as an opportunity to talk about what a good ally they are a very unpleasant death

Honestly I 100% support this chaotic good violence. Can I contribute?? -an aroace sick of the phobia on all accounts

she probably thinks michael cera’s character grew up to be a lesbian too

lesbians are allowed to have had previous relationships with men and still be lesbians

See also: it's a completely valid idea for Michael Cera's character to grow up to be a lesbian since trans women exist.

I know everyone’s talking about how the cast of Danny Phantom is full of gay and trans characters exclusively to piss of Butch Hartman but let us not forget, Butch’s bread and butter, Fairly Odd Parents…

Timmy’s parents were 100% sure that Timmy was going to be a girl before he was born, as seen in the episode Secret Origin of Denzel Crocker.

Cosmo seems to be the only other one in the know about this, and has baby pictures of Timmy in a dress on hand

Then, in the episode The Boy Who Would Be Queen…

When Wanda does, inevitably, transform Timmy into a girl to teach him a lesson…

Cosmo immediately panics.

AND in the episode “It’s a Wishful LIfe” when Timmy wishes he never existed…

The Turners have a daughter instead.

In conclusion:

Timmy Turner is trans and used the power of one of his fairy godparents to wish that everyone in his life completely forget that he was born and raised female for a portion of his life, including his parents and his other fairy godparent.

Share to make butch hartman mad he accidentally keeps making characters trans

I still dont get why straight-passing privilege isnt a thing

It’s not a reason to exclude ppl from the lgbt community or stuff like pride but it is a material privilege that can be given to those who are in a m/w relationship or ppl who can have heterosexuality projected on to them (which comes in various forms such as not wearing pride accessories, fitting into gender norms, not being w/ ur same-gender partner, being with a same-gender but non-passing/not out trans person, etc.) Privilege isnt about identity, it’s about the material world.

Uhhhhh nah sorry but just because people don’t know you’re lgbt doesn’t mean you have any kind of privilege because even if you’re not visibly lgbt you’ll still be affected by a homophobic/transphobic society. This kind of thinking comes from the idea that homophobia and transphobia is a small, personal thing and not a long reaching societal issue. Closeted people, non passing trans/stealth trans people, bi people in m/w relationships are still going to suffer from living in a society that hates and fears them. The reason some people don’t go around wearing pride stickers or being gnc or being loud and proud is because they can’t out of fear for their life. Having to hide who you are isn’t a privilege.

the “___ change my mind” guy sitting at a desk is Steven Crowder who is literally a deep conservative “comedian” and the biggest transphobe of 2018 so can we NOT use that meme anymore thanks. he literally calls trans people tr**** in some of his videos and refers to caitlyn jenner (I may not like her but Christ) as a transgender f@scist because she transitioned and refers to her transitioning as “going full #sjw.” this meme is cancelled and not funny. use google if you don’t believe me. bye

god bless the girl scouts

Wait are you trying to tell me that rupaul might have some questionable gender politics??

Can’t believe the person responsible for “female or shemale” and “you’ve got shemale” and was the center of a major community discussion around the word tranny isn’t good abt trans stuff! Really makes you think

Also trans women have been saying this for literally years and no one would listen to us and in fact we get accused of hating gay men for it, until this recent interview for some reason, like ru Paul has sucked all along and I’ve been shouting at the void about it on this website for literally years, it’s almost as if trans women know what they’re talking about when it comes to transphobia and letting this get this far was completely avoidable

“Also trans women have been saying this for literally years and no one would listen to us and in fact we get accused of hating gay men for it“ this is very important. 

He’s disgusting. Drag is a really awesome thing, but modern mainstream drag is fucking terrible

Yeah like it’s been difficult to kinda get perspective on drag due to some really bad personal experiences with drag queens but honestly, drag isn’t the problem the problem is that the drag scene has been largely over run by cis white gay men using it as a place where they can insult women’s looks and outfits, act out misogynist stereotypes, and touch other people innapropriately without fear of reprecussion, like, if you want to look pretty and perform a song that’s awesome, however if you create a character to act out misogynist stereotypes and insult actual women’s clothes/looks, you’re just a misogynist using drag as cover, and the drag scene is sadly currently completely dominated by these cis men who ruin it for everyone, and honestly we need to fucking take it back because drag could be an amazing thing if it wasn’t unwelcoming/unsafe for anyone who doesn’t want to blindly accept the toxic parts

A co-president of the Women’s March movement attended a rally in Chicago on Sunday sponsored by Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan – only the latest incident in which she has associated with the man whom the Anti-Defamation League calls “the lead­ing anti-Semite in Amer­ica.”

Farrakhan made multiple inflammatory comments during his three-hour speech. He claimed that “the powerful Jews are my enemy,” that “the Jews have control over agencies of those agencies of government” like the FBI, that Jews are “the mother and father of apartheid,” and that Jews are responsible for “degenerate behavior in Hollywood, turning men into women and women into men.”

CNN host Jake Tapper tweeted details of Farrakhan’s speech to his 1.67 million followers on Twitter, including that the Nation of Islam leader said. that “the powerful Jews are my enemy.”

Farrakhan has been known to make anti-Semitic comments for decades, including calling Adolf Hitler “a very great man” and claiming that Jews were behind the 9/11 terror attacks.

Despite this, Mallory has on multiple occasions posted on her social media platforms about attending events with Farrakhan, posing for a photo with him in 2015 and sharing the stage with him on Saviours’ Day in 2016. “Thank God this man is still alive and doing well,” she wrote in one post.

It does not appear that Mallory has ever distanced herself from Farrakhan’s anti-Semitic language. Two other co-founders of the Women’s March, Linda Sarsour and Carmen Perez, have also praised and appeared at events with Farrakhan.

watching an actress in full makeup pretend to wash her face and then pat dry her still fully contoured cheeks for an acne wash commercial

when i was 13 i had no idea what make up looked like on. media literacy is important

I especially like the makeup remover ads where she takes off her lipstick, to reveal lighter lipstick underneath.

or the commercials for razors with women shaving their already baby smooth, waxed legs

This is such a surreal, dystopian thing about our culture. We literally treat the natural female body like its obscene. No wonder girls grow up with so much self loathing when they feel as if their own skin is incorrect.

Last comment is from a terf.

So yeah, just to be clear: acne, body hair, and other conditions that beauty companies try to shame people into changing are natural and okay regardless of your assigned gender at birth.

Fuck body shaming and fuck terfs.

So very true

Kids that young are essentially gender neutral, and are still being taught ‘gender norms’ by adults who should know better. 

I have the world’s most precious nephew.  When he was 3, he asked his mom and grandma if he could be a girl. Now, my family is smart.  Both his mom and his grandma asked “why?”  He said it was so he could have long hair. 

His mom showed him photos of famous musicians with long hair, along with Johnny Depp.  His grandma showed him photos of Brad Pitt, Troy Polamalu, and Jared Leto with long hair.  Then they told him “Boys can have long hair, see?”  He said “oh” and went on about his life being a boy.

When he was 4, this same nephew decided again that he wanted to be a girl. This time, the reason was so he could wear skirts and paint his nails.  Same reaction: his mom and grandma showed him photos of men in kilts, and men with painted nails, and said “boys can do that, too.”  He said “oh”, and decided he was okay being a boy. 

At the root of it, he didn’t really want to be a girl. He just wanted to do the same things he saw his mama doing. When he understood he didn’t have to be a girl to do those things, he shrugged it off and was cool with being a boy.

Now, if he ever adamantly decides that he is a girl, not that he wants to be a girl, myself, his mom, and his grandma will be okay with that. We just want to make sure he actually is transgender instead of deciding “oh he wants to do these things, so he is a girl.” We are extremely firm believers in making educated decisions. 

I feel that a transgender four year old is more like a cat who is vegan because the cat’s owner’s misunderstood the cat eating grass to mean it is vegan.

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This is grossly misunderstanding how transgender children behave. There are kids who are extremely adamant from a very young age that they are transgender. Kids who experience traumatic dysphoria from a very young age. Kids who, if they were pushed to ‘just wait and see’, would be actively traumatized by that. 

Taking the experience of a kid who is not trans and using that as a way to delegitmize the existence of and experience of transgender people is disgusting, and it’s no less disgusting when you do it to a small child than when you do it to an adult.

The diagnostic criteria for transgender children – the thing that @mistresskabooms‘ doctor told me when we were getting her set up for HRT – is “consistent, insistent and persistent.” The child above does not meet that criteria. A child who is four and meets that criteria absolutely is transgender, not the puppet of their parents, and is a child who should be supported in whatever way is appropriate for that child, as determined by that child’s parents and medical team. (And it isn’t just one doctor that you see – MK’s medical and support team consists of more than five medical professionals as well as her parents. Yes, she is older than the kids being talked about, but guess what? It’s the same damn professionals who handle kids of this age, and the diagnostic process is the same (source: MK’s psychologist), so I can speak pretty educatedly to how that process works.)

The idea that the parents of transgender kids are fulfilling some sort of political agenda through their children as opposed to providing for the health of their children is likewise equally disgusting. Knock it the fuck off. I’m embarrassed that someone I used to follow reblogged this post unironically. And tagged it “important”. It’s only important to realize how terrible this post is.

The experience of being a parent to a transgender child is the experience of protecting your kid from people who want to undercut them at every turn, want to tell them – regardless of age – that they’re not old enough to understand, that they should wait, that they can’t possibly make that determination. It does not matter where the people who think they know better than a child, that child’s parents and their medical team artificially decide to make that cutoff, there will people who want to say “oh, you’re too young.” That doesn’t come from genuine concern; it’s transphobic, and it manifests regardless of the child’s age. There will always be a reason why transphobes think a person shouldn’t transition.

(Case in point: my parents, who were convinced that MK needed to wait to start HRT until she was an adult, at minimum. Fortunately, I listened to MK, and to her doctors, and didn’t make her wait, and she’s happier and healthier for it.)

Anyone who takes this point of view should be embarrassed that they ever did, and I can only hope that they’ll research enough to be thoroughly embarrassed. Transgender kids have enough to deal with without concern trolls second-guessing their parents and medical teams.

#fucking thank you #but also i would like to add that even if a child doesnt adamantly and consistently insist that theyre trans #doesnt mean theyre not #i knew from a v young age what i could and could not talk to my parents abt #some of it came from experience where id try to talk to them abt a thing and receive a bad reaction #and id file that away as the type of thing not to bring up again #some of it was by listening to them talk #in the v same instance that i learned abt transgender ppl i learned that my parents thought it was wrong #it was an afab athlete who identified male and medically transitioned and he was on tv doing an interview abt #his sports days from before he transitioned and i asked for clarification and my folks said he got a sex change #and my little eyes got wide and i said ‘thats possible?’ bc the man on tv had a beard and a deep voice and looked like a man™ #and they proceeded to tell me how no matter how much they mutilate their bodies theyll never really be the gender they want #and that its sad and we should pray for them #and i thought ‘he looks like a real man to me. well i guess i cant talk to them abt this either’ #and when i was 12 crying myself to sleep @ night bc i wasnt a man i decided i could never transition bc it would kill my parents #so sometimes kids know early on but cant say anything bc theyll get hit or punished #tw: transphobia

That sounds terrible and I’m so sorry. :( Internet hugs if they are wanted. 

Insistent, consistent, persistent doesn’t have to be out loud. You knew inside your heart who you were, even if you couldn’t say it out loud. If you’d had a supportive environment, you could have said it. You were insistent in your own heart, you were consistent over time, you were persistent because you followed that train of thought in your own mind. Just because your parents forced you to stay closeted doesn’t mean you didn’t meet that criteria. By your own words, you seemed to do so. 

Again, I’m so sorry that your parents hurt you like that. I hope you have a more supportive environment now. :( 

I think people severely underestimate children’s ability to understand themselves. as a six year old when I first learnt people don’t have to get married my first thought was “thank god” and I didn’t even know that was something I was worried about before then but I realise now I was aro/ace a long time before I knew what that was When my sister first came out to us as transgender I was only like, seven or eight and I have this really distinct memory of mulling this over at Sainsbury’s thinking “I don’t like being a girl, am I transgender?” But I dismissed it because I knew at heart I wasn’t a boy, and I didn’t realise there were other options. And I never brought it up because I knew people would assume I was just latching on to my sister’s newly revealed identity and I didn’t want to seem like a copycat. And that was like, my whole childhood. Just years of being told “there’s time to figure out who you are” when I’d already known in my heart for so long. All this “I know you don’t want kids now but that could change”, “when you’re more mature you’ll realise you didn’t really have anything to be stressed about”, “someday you’ll find someone who makes you happy”, blah blah blah we just don’t allow children to express themselves as people because so many of us just don’t think of them as fully developed people. But they are, they have personalities and wants and needs and identities so long before they have a language to describe them to us. And even is sometime down the road their identity changes, or they realise that they just didn’t fully understand some aspect of themselves, don’t we owe them the security of knowing that we will stand by whoever they are today? Don’t they deserve to know that we’ll love them for who they are right now instead of scrabbling to defend some hypothetical future version of themselves? fuck man

Cis People And Non Trans Women

y'all gotta start recognizing transphobia vs transmisogyny because transphobia is dangerous but transmisogyny is why trans women get murdered for being trans women.

and make sure you call violence that effects trans women as TRANSMISOGYNY and not transphobia because that distinction is extrememly important

Yikes, can we please hate on republicans without being transphobic? First everyone compared Tomi Lahren's stupid flag-based Halloween get up and pose to Buffalo Bill from Silence of the Lambs, now this article insists "that's right, Jared Kushner is female." Just say he's an asshole and a monster and that makes it a good Halloween costume, it doesn't need to be "hurhur it's funny because we called him a girl, isn't misgendering swell!"

Misgendering cis people, even shitty evil cis people, is still misgendering. Don't do it.

man i doubt any gaming controvery will ever top no man’s sky

like it had this absolutely massive marketing campaign, had huge backing from sony, sean murray even had televised appearances on american talk shows to show off his revolutionary new game and to talk about features in the game

and then the game came out and it was all fake. everything. every single screenshot, piece of footage, every single promised feature was all a lie. none of that was in the game. 

not even fucking multiplayer. 

they spent so much time in the marketing talking about the multiplayer and how every player was part of an interconnected universe and that, though unlikely due to the sheer size of the universe, players would be able to meet and interact with one-another

and then in less than a week two players “found” each other and it turned out the multiplayer was completely fake. there was no multiplayer. none of it was real. 

and then

everyone involved with the game, at least all of the most publicly recognizable people involved, fucking vanished

and the office hello games was using was abandoned

nobody knows where hello games went or where sean murray is 

a small team of indie developers sold the gaming community a lie, tricked one of the biggest multimedia companies in the world in to backing them, and then vanished 

nothing will ever top that. nothing will ever top hello games exploiting the hype and preorder culture surrounding video games for a profit and then running off with the money. i fucking dare the industry to top that. 

Hello Games is the fucking victim. They had no say in the marketing. Sean Murray had no experience in talking on tv. Sony pretty much forced them to making all those ‘false claims’ in order to boost sales. Sony made the whole world expect AAA 5 star content from a team of 16 people who had no experience making such a title. Partway after production began, their office was destroyed along with almost all of their equipment and progress. Sony made them put out on unfinished game, instead of letting it be pushed back and done properly. After the game released and started getting shit, a spokesperson from Sony went out and said he was disappointed in Sean Murray’s marketing strategy, blaming him for their mistakes. Hello Games and Sean Murray probably disappeared out of fucking shame and ridicule, knowing they can never make another game ever again. Do you really think that a bunch of greedy, stickler, tight-asses like Sony would let tiny little Hello Games rob them of millions of dollars and run away into the night? They are known for fighting tooth and nail to keep anything they get their grimy claws on.

also they didn’t disappear at all, they’ve actually been continuing to push out (free) updates for nms, they just had to leave their office cuz they were getting death threats and harassment on twitter, esp directed at the trans programmer on the team, and people were literally showing up at their office

https://www.instagram.com/p/BZ7byULA9KA/

The irony of stealing a documentary about a black trans woman from a black trans woman. Please donate to the actual creators of the film http://www.happybirthdaymarsha.com/donate/

Contribution info: venmo: Reina-Gossett paypal: [email protected]

I knew there was something that Netflix did to get this documentary.