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Transphobes often say gender is like a coin, either heads or tails. They're more right than they realize.

Gender is a coin. Everybody is given one at birth, and they're given it either heads or tails. You can flip it over. You can flip it back. You can keep flipping it all you want. You can balance it on its side. You can throw it away. You can get a new one. You can take it to the zoo or museum to one of thise penny press machines. You can melt it and reform it. You can keep it melted. You could even take someone else's. You can glue fun things to it. You can paint it. You can take the paint off. You can trade them for cool shit.

Transphobes often say gender is a coin. They say this not realizing how easily coins can be changed.

And remember, cleaning or polishing your gender can reduce its value to serious collectors.

things to note about transphobes on this site:

the "gender criticals" have now clocked a pregnant cis woman

#they've fried their brains so bad (via @unpretty) Yup. Terminal-Fucking Brainworms. Strapped themselves into the Clockwork Orange Machine and broke off the throttle. Not even the first time I've seen this nonsense; not even the TWELFTH!

and as always: these CHUDs really making it apparent how hostile to ALL women they are.

Last week, I published this exposé of the anti-trans activist who goes by numerous aliases, and who invented both “Transgender Social Contagion” & “No Transition Before Age 25”

no-paywall link, please give it lots of "claps" (up to 50) & share widely with others!

btw, a ton of work went into creating the timeline that made this essay possible. plus I make very little $ from Medium. so if you appreciate this and/or my writings more generally, pls consider supporting me on Patreon for as little as $1 per month! https://www.patreon.com/juliaserano

YOU KNOW HOW WE'VE BEEN SAYING FOR YEARS THAT "DON'T SAY QUEER" IS TERF RHETORIC?

extra points for "big corporations are sponsoring the trans activists" like that doesn't smell of nonsense conspiracy

So this seems to be transphobic, queerphobic, *and* racist?

I told you.

I FUCKING TOLD YOU.

good <3

There is something deeply funny and beautiful about people falling for one of the oldest tricks in the book.

Nothing quite like the bone deep fear of seeing a trans woman succeed at anything and knowing a bunch of losers are about to pretend their petty jealousy is feminist ideology.

"feminists are just jealous of men" ok conservative

You see what I mean? I can't even make a ten note post without these dweebs sulking like a little athletics runner up

desperately need people to understand that society punishes transmascs for being femme and for being masc, for different expressions of the same reason: "the wrong people" claiming any aspect of manhood or masculinity is a threat to the concept of manhood as well as the gender binary.

they will not accept femme transmascs if they become more masc, and they will not accept masc transmascs if they become more femme, and if they tell you otherwise they're fucking lying & you need to start listening to other transmascs instead of bigots with ulterior motives.

“Our side concocted the ‘bathroom safety’ male predator argument as a way to avoid an uncomfortable battle over LGBT ideology, and still fire up people’s emotions.”

COLOUR ME FUCKING SURPRISED

I want people, in particular cis people, to read this and understand what it means.

It means that these groups, these organizations, are so Hellbent on getting trans people outlawed, hurt, and killed, that they will openly lie and admit to lying to stir up emotions. They have no qualms with actively lying and distorting reality. 

They have no qualms about misleading people. Actively lying to people. 

They don’t care how immoral their actions may be, how much their rhetoric flies in the face of reality, as long as it reaches their end goal of the destruction of “transgender ideology.” 

MassResistance and all their ilk want us dead, and should never be trusted, not even for the most trivial of matters. They should be rejected, reviled, despised, because nothing they do is in service of anything but hatred and evil. 

And in case anyone actually doubts this, and wants to cry “fake news,” here’s MR’s actual article. Should it get deleted, here’s an archived version. Some choice bits under the cut, if you want to see how vile these people really are. 

Keep reading

@asymbina @thefingerfuckingfemalefury

Also worth reminding everyone that the lie doesn’t magically become true when it’s spread by putative feminists in stead of conservatives.

I have a zero tolerance policy for transphobia in my youtube comments: if someone is maliciously transphobic even once then I not only remove their comment, I mute that user across my entire channel and add the transphobic term they used to the list of words that automatically mutes the comment. Since I started doing this I've noticed a MASSIVE improvement in my comments: like, the first video after I came out there was loads of transphobia, the second one less, the third one even less, and now it's been almost 24 hours and there's been like 10? This leads me to two related conclusions:

1) Transphobes aren't very original: they keep using the same stock phrases so it's very easy to filter them out

2) There aren't that many of them. It's just the same few hundred assholes every time.

This would also imply that even the most basic level of moderation would fix these platforms and the fact that these platforms haven’t invested in these basic reforms is on purpose

the Trans fight is never going to be won on scientific grounds, because no one is actually fighting it there!

when transphobes of whatever flavor invoke biology, or biochemistry, or genetics, et cetera, they’re not actually interested in talking about those things!

never once have i managed to sway someone by saying that, actually, i’m an intersex trans person and a chemical biologist by training, i’ve studied molecular genetics, this is what contemporary science actually says about sex phenotypes—here’s how your information is wrong and why that’s important!

instead, without fail, someone who took high school biology and thinks haploid and diploid are kinds of dinosaur condescends back to me with some variant of: “wow, you paid all that money for a degree and you still don’t know Basic Biology?”

this has happened to me, to doctoral students, to PhDs, MDs, clinicians and researchers of every possible flavor, to the president of the international genetics federation—no transphobe actually wants to talk science!

the Basic Biology these kinds of people talk about is not a scientific investment, it’s a purely conservative, ideological one! science, too, is not immune to ideology! clinging to the WPATH guidelines like some kind of holy book will not save you! this is a social conflict and it needs to be waged socially.