May "Bunny" Peterson 🌸 @maidensblade Twitter profile

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May "Bunny" Peterson 🌸

1 year

If you're looking for transfeminine authors to read or review, I have three books! My transfem-focused fantasy novel, THE CALYX CHARM, is part of a romantic fantasy series, THE SACRED DARK. My site: Amazon:

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May "Bunny" Peterson 🌸

@maidensblade

3 months

ADHD is so much harder a disability to live with than it tends to be made out to be

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I found this incredible little book for $5 at a bookstore, focused on transfems and AMAB enbies and hoo boy does this book tell the truth. I haven’t read it all because it’s a little triggering but it has a line in it that almost knocked me flat. 🧵

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9/11 was given the cultural significance it has because it represented defiance to the US empire, not because of the lives lost. That’s why hundreds of times more people dying to COVID is not even a blip to the same people who say “never forget.”

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Degendering menstrual and uterine reproductive health aren’t minor issues of formality. Transmasculine and non-binary people with menstrual and related needs experience a great deal of stigma and difficulty around getting medical care. How health systems gender them matters.

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Be mindful of transmasculine people following you as you discuss the abortion rulings in Ohio and Georgia. “If men could pregnant abortions would be free” is a hard thing to hear when you ARE a man who can get pregnant and you actually have a harder time accessing care.

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I would love for queerdom to shift away from the focus on validity and inclusion as absolutist goods and toward focus on political goals like safety, mutual aid, economic justice, and liberation from the empire

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@maidensblade

4 months

Might delete this later to not get pulled into discourse, but I think a lot of bad takes about kink rely on the view that sexual fantasies are definitionally things you wish you could actually do or have happen, and that just is not at all true.

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@maidensblade

11 months

Exhibit A

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@maidensblade

7 months

I'm gonna be real rn The idea of a trans woman getting married to a "man" and then finding out her "husband" is sneaking her estrogen sounds like a fantastic premise for a t4t sapphic romance novel

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@maidensblade

3 years

“You can be trans without changing your body” is true, but not speaking to power. What we need to understand is that cis society actively prevents trans people from changing our bodies in ways that makes us happier, safer, and healthier, and that literally leads to our deaths

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@maidensblade

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Trans people need much, much more solidarity from cis people in facing the ongoing institutional oppression against us. We are too small a group to do it alone and I routinely see little if any awareness of this escalation among cis peers.

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@ACLU

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HB 1570 was just passed through both chambers in the Arkansas legislature, banning trans youth from accessing health care and health insurance coverage that we deserve and need. Our rights and lives are under attack. Governor Hutchinson must veto this bill.

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@maidensblade

1 year

When talking about dealing with harassers, it plainly states this: “Crowds will subconsciously side against a trans woman, especially if they call themselves trans allies.” Note that it says “especially if they call themselves trans allies,” not “especially if they don’t.”

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@maidensblade

4 years

Stories about “a leftist and right-winger meeting in the middle” are appeals to a convenient mythology, that political ideology has no effect on anyone’s life or well-being, and it is merely “belief” floating in a void of opinions with no objective impact

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@maidensblade

5 months

Remember! The trans-inclusive way to say “women” is: “women”

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@maidensblade

1 year

As soon as I saw this I instantly decided to buy it because I could tell whoever had put the book together knew the truth and was willing to tell that truth. This is something trans women are constantly pointing out and often not listened to about!

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@maidensblade

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I have a different reading of the comic—the facial expressions tell another different story IMO, that this is depicting a realization, not struggling to compliment. But. I am really sympathetic to this feeling about . . . let's call it backhanded affirmation. 🧵

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I feel bad for anyone who's standards are so low they find this cute or affirming you deserve better than "happy", you deserve to be told you're pretty

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@maidensblade

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This might be the most remarkable thing about trans women: we’re defined by looking a world that says you should never choose women, choose womanhood, right in the face and saying “I choose womanhood.” And then repeating that for our whole lives.

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@rifflexielian

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Terfs need to shut up about womanhood, my mom was raised to believe all women were less valuable than men and cried when she learned about trans women because the idea that someone would fight that hard to be a woman was radical for her and meant it was something worth being

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@maidensblade

4 years

Yeah, JK Rowling is demonstrably anti-Black, transmiosgynist, Orientalist, and anti-Indigenous; these and the anti-Semitism and anti-fatness in her work and their adaptations aren’t difficult to find once you’re looking (often even if you aren’t).

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@maidensblade

3 years

“AMAB non-binary people exist” is a point that needs repeated a lot and would be really good to be cracked open more

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@maidensblade

2 years

*squints* So this is the person I’m supposed to just take on trust is not transmisogynist?

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@maidensblade

3 years

A lot of people in social justice say “trans women can be problematic too” like it’s an important message the public needs to hear, which is completely backward because we already live in a society with a deep mythology about the depravity and villainy of trans women

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@maidensblade

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Bigotry gets made out a lot to be the purview of ignorant right-wingers or the obviously hateful, but unconscious bias is a significant source of harmful behavior. And progressive people aren’t immune to having it! In fact, for them it’s often worse.

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@maidensblade

3 years

I honestly don’t care if a trans woman athlete has “biological advantages” over cis female competitors or not.

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@maidensblade

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“He was a man who defied gender norms, not a transsexual!” is to trans women what “they were just roommates!” is to gay couples.

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@maidensblade

3 years

I wish queer identity discussion made much more room for queer people who can’t and never could hide their identity. We don’t all have the option of passing as cishet until we choose to come out, and the erasure of that shows in construction of most queer discourse

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@maidensblade

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I think sometimes about the claim that AMAB/AFAB are just progressive misgendering, and then I think about seeing "Female, AMAB" on my paperwork at a trans-friendly clinic and feeling safer than I have felt before at a medical establishment

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@maidensblade

2 years

Do we all see how many people talking about the trans law took “trans people” or “trans youth” and turned it into “LGBTQIA+ youth”? Coz people do that a lot

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@maidensblade

11 months

So, uh How do you feel about this, cis mutuals?

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@maidensblade

1 year

A self-image of progressivism can lead to shame around signs that one is unconsciously biased, and then shame-shifting, or avoiding that shame by shifting blame to the person who brought the bias to light.

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@maidensblade

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I’ve seen many cis people express worry that a female-assigned trans youngster going on T can cause “irreversible harm,” but I’ve never in my life seen this concern turned toward trans girls for whom the effects of unwilling testosterone influence is a reality

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@maidensblade

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Cis people: *spend generations beating, murdering, and raping little underage trans girls* Trans girls: there is now a medicine we can take to not have to do boy puberty! Cis people: oh absolutely not Cis people: kids need to be allowed to be KIDS

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@maidensblade

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my first thought when reading women complain about their egg spouses wanting to transition is just: imagine not loving your partner

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@maidensblade

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All people have a tendency to be unconsciously biased toward seeing trans women as untrustworthy, unsafe, lacking vulnerability, the problem to be solved rather than a person to be taken care of.

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@maidensblade

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And this is not less true in trans and queer and feminist communities. It’s just more unconscious, and more propped up with social justice, feminism, queer lib, leftist, and anti-oppression beliefs.

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@maidensblade

2 years

AMAB non-binary people exist lol

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@maidensblade

4 years

Ironically this is another snapshot of how deeply “non-binary” is implied to mean someone assigned female at birth who doesn’t identify as a woman, because *points thumbs* a ton of us non-binary people aren’t meaningfully dissociated from womanhood at all

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One of the problems with “we should tell transitioning teens how many people won’t love them” is that it frames transphobic society as something that can be solved by there being fewer trans people

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@maidensblade

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One of the things the “all trans women had a 4chan phase” myth does is disguise the fact that trans women are, today and historically, frequently erased targets of Nazis and fascist hate

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@maidensblade

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The fact that Aubrey Plaza is becoming a queer icon or something while also being a casual transmisogynist just serves as a reminder for me of how cavalier queers are about transmisogyny and how being queer or trans does not remove culpability in transmisogyny

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@maidensblade

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Transmisogyny is such a common avenue of humor, horror, eroticism, characterization, etc, in so many genres of fiction that I don’t trust anyone who’s not transmisogyny-affected to analyze it correctly, but holy shit do people need to start talking about it

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@maidensblade

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This book is talking about this in context to a physical public situation of harassment, but this is true of social conflicts too, including on social media, in friend groups, in all kinds of situations.

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@maidensblade

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The unconscious bias also gets taken advantage of by people who know what they’re doing and hide behind that bias to make their mistreatment of transfems seem reasonable—again, often supported with social justice and anti-oppression rhetoric.

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@maidensblade

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Cw rape and violence, police brutality against a trans woman A group of cops kidnapped a trans girl and raped her, beat her, and left her in the dessert in Phoenix to die. She’s been rescued but could really use support. Please donate if you can, and signal boost!

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@maidensblade

4 years

Does anyone else get a strong sense of guilt and shame from receiving *positive* attention?

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@maidensblade

3 years

We have to understand that appearance isn’t just something that’s painful for trans women, it’s a way society marks trans women. Denying us the ability to dodge testosterone puberty isn’t accidental, it’s a way to make it easy to mark our bodies for destruction

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@maidensblade

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It felt so incredible to see this spelled out in print, plain as day, an actual book calling out a real thing I’ve experience more times than I can count, that all transfems I know go through, and that I still feel crazy for seeing because there’s so much gaslighting about it.

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@maidensblade

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MEGATHREAD of trans women and transfeminine authors that I've read, are on my TBR, and who I recommend or am excited for! Please RT this thread for visibility, boost transfem creators that interest you, and please add your own recs in the comments (I'll RT)!

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@maidensblade

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This. Trans women are one of the lowest paid minority groups with among the highest rates of unemployment, workplace discrimination, homelessness, and dependence on criminalized labor. Associating trans womanhood with class privilege is reactionary and contrary to evidence.

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@bloomfilters

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did you know trans women in the formal production economy experience workplace discrimination, including massive pay gaps, sexual harassment, and the expectation of forms of domestic labour, since they are women and treated as such even if degendered/misgendered to isolate them

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@maidensblade

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TERFs aren’t the only people who do this!

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This kind of thing is also why I think something about transness is instinctual. Picture me at 4 years old, never having heard of gender transition, gravely and earnestly trying to learn as much as I could from my grandma about preparing for life as an adult woman.

May "Bunny" Peterson 🌸

@maidensblade

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I don’t like to talk about this too much but the fact that I cannot get pregnant has emotionally fucked with me for like 35 years

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You know how when you KNOW something is real, but you feel defensive about that knowledge, like you have to be ready to hold onto it, and then you see something confirming that knowledge for you in no uncertain terms and it feels like “wow maybe I wasn’t crazy all this time!”

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@maidensblade

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Refresher: the idea that transfeminine people have a special privilege relative to other trans people/other women is part of a paradigm I call *transfeminized debt.* This notion is that we have something to “pay back” which justifies expecting labor, care, and deference from us

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@maidensblade

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Person: "don't say these historical figures are trans women, that's assuming Western trans ideology is universal" Same Person: "male-bodied crossdressers"

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@maidensblade

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Looking at the trend of queer people selecting for "AFAB only" housing, I think a reason trans guys respond by saying that can hurt trans men too—barely mentioning it's explicitly targeting transfems—is because for years that's how everyone has learned to talk about transmisogyny

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Why do so many people ignore the really glaring fact that Buck Angel is, in a very particular way, a raging transmisogynist?

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If you are a cis ally, please do something to help the trans people in your spaces and in your life. Please don’t just dunk on Elon or say that this is bad. We all know it’s bad. Do something to help trans people as we are pushed out of public life. This can be many things 🧵

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@maidensblade

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It’s incredibly important that you learn to identify patterns of abusive behavior, if you can. One way to start is to look out for anyone who’s characteristically unforgiving but who also emphasizes their own fragility a lot.

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@maidensblade

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This is fascism. Twitter is intentionally pushing writers, creators, and everyday people like me out of public space. Many of us, including me, depend on that public space to meet basic needs like food and rent. This is picking a side in a genocide.

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@maidensblade

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This is the problem with over-emphasizing that transmisogyny hurts other people: it teaches the audience not to imagine trans women being harmed and feel sympathy toward that. It teaches people to dissociate the violence from the victim. Cis and TMe trans people please RT 🧵

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@maidensblade

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That’s how I felt seeing this.

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There's a thing lots of people do with trans girls where they're clearly trying to be affirming in some sense, but it's loaded with their awkwardness and even unprocessed disgust about transfemininity, so that it comes across as "good for you choosing to be a weird freak!"

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@maidensblade

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My boyfriend has spent the last week and a half aggressively gendering me correctly to doctors, nurses, pharmacists, police, agents, often against confusion and hostility, without missing a beat. I can’t tell you how safe and valued that helps me feel

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@maidensblade

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Honestly it really irritates me how often stuff like transmisogyny, homo/transphobia, racism, et al, in media culture gets ignored but then we have eight million popular takes like “being critical of true crime/my ship is misogyny”

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@maidensblade

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But "trans women are women" isn't the vanity project of an elite group of white Western transsexual women who crave binary status, it's an answer to the broad historical pattern of transfeminized people being relegated to an inferior third sex cis people are allowed to exploit

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@maidensblade

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9/11 is still treated like one of the greatest tragedies on US soil because it was one of the only times the hegemony of the American empire felt truly, viscerally afraid for their own dominance. Worse tragedies are casually inflicted on oppressed populations all the time

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@maidensblade

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Constructing magic-users as a genetic line, especially if magic-users also enjoy some kind of social superiority in the setting, is fantasy eugenics

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@maidensblade

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“Why do trans women take up so much space?” Is a way of conditioning trans women to have weak boundaries and to tolerate mistreatment

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@maidensblade

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It’s neither possible nor good to write historical romance that “doesn’t cater to modern PC ideas” because at no point does your book exist in the past. It exists now. It’s cultural context is now. You are writing it and selling it now and people are reading it now.

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Reminder that “male/AMAB socialization” is a myth that is NOT borne out by evidence but is just a way to enforce transfeminized debt. It’s one of many ways to say that transfems/TMA people are in a constant state of owing something to others.

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@maidensblade

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I think I put my finger on the big reason I often feel alienated by bi discourse—at some point it feels like we shifted onto locating the core problem of bi erasure as erasing *validity of identity* instead of erasure of *the anti-queer violence already happening to you*

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@maidensblade

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I wish people would stop trying to make out the core characteristic of TERFism to be something other than what it actually is: transmisogyny

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All of this, but I also ask people to consider something: imagine what would be likely to happen if the child really were a trans girl

Wilbur Turner 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

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Grandparents attending a school track meet in Kelowna stopped the event and demanded a 9 year-old female student be examined to make sure they weren't a boy competing in a girls event.

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People do not get how oppressed trans women are. Lol.

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most of the time, "radical feminism" seems to be code for "any feminism that identifies female oppression as even partly the responsibility of men." It's part of a push to dilute the concept of feminism, and sexism, into something without any clear meaning

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@maidensblade

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I put my finger on something bothering me about the abortion convo being framed as “people w/o uteruses oppressing people w uteruses.” It ignores that MANY cis women are “pro-life,” and trans women have always fought for body autonomy. And yet we are grouped with oppressors.

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Already seeing people say that the anti-Black sports ruling means “this is why no one is exempt from transmisogyny.” No it does not mean that. It means that misogynoir and transmisogyny share common features and are structurally related.

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I've lost count of the number of variations I've heard on "as long as you're happy, that's all that matters!" that made me feel worse instead of better. Probably because it because it sent me the emotional message that there was nothing else good there TO matter.

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Trans girls having any backbone at all is frequently treated as flagrant aggression and arrogance. It’s basically “I cannot believe this sh*male talked back to me.” It’s deeply embedded entitlement to our submission and it’s one of the reasons people dogpile us so much

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@maidensblade

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Fascists: We hate trans women. We hate the idea of men in dresses. We hate the idea of women with penises. Half of Twitter: The most important thing to point out here is that trans women aren’t the only people who matter 🙂

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I wish more people who primarily suffer infantilizing oppressions would work on better understanding and compassion for people who suffer demonizing oppressions? That’s a really important difference and it’s overlooked a lot

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What jumps out to me here is that this is a trans woman of color talking about the disproportionate violence against trans women, and most of the the replies are attacking her for supposedly erasing trans men.

The Daily Show

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. @sashacolby on the deeper motivations behind anti-trans violence and legislation.

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I’m asking you to reflect on your emotions: if it horrifies you to think of a “girl” taking “male hormones” and going into a life with a body that may cause pain and regret later, understand this happens to 99.99% of trans girls everyday. Where is the horror there?

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Thinking about the criticism of Detransition, Baby for not having cool trans guys in it when 99.99% of books by cis people don’t have cool trans anything in them and somehow the burden of solving that falls on trans women

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What’s important about Chimamanda’s statements are that she’s saying what most cis women think. Let’s break down what “trans women are women” really means and why most people agree with it (thread)

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@maidensblade

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I’ve talked about this a lot before, but— “Trans women are taking up space from other trans people” is a harmful transmisogynist idea that is part of the same ostracism and stigma that mirrors the ideas that trans women are invading cis women’s safety and luring men into sex.

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@maidensblade

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The narrative that the vicious trans community has turned its violence on poor lil JKR is an example of how real violence from cis ppl is humanized far more than simple anger from transfems

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Here’s my thing about “all women are affected by transmisogyny”— We can take an anecdote of a cis woman being taken as a trans woman and receiving aggression for that, but if that woman got put in jail tomorrow, it’s very unlikely she’d be put in with men. Unlike a trans woman.

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Not gonna get too into this atm but one thing I wish trans theory discussion would include is the acknowledgment that trans women don’t all live unambiguously as cis men/boys before reaching medical transition.

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@maidensblade

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Controversial but IMO “lacking empathy” is an ableist concept from the ground up and I wish I could encourage more neurodivergent people to not buy that this is a legitimate description of us just because ableist doctors have asserted it

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Sexual fantasies fulfill a variety of psychological functions, many of which don’t simply translate into other contexts. We shouldn’t think of them as merely standing in for physical sex acts that the fantasizer doesn’t have access to at the moment.

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Thread for cis authors who want to write trans women or transfem/AMAB non-binary characters (esp. in romance)! I encourage reading the whole thread as my point may be more than it seems at first. I’ve noticed trans women written by cis authors tend to be assume to have had GRS

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1 year

"No one saw you as different from other boys! There's no magic trans sense!" People when I was age 5-8: You're gross. You act like you want to be a girl. You must be one of those freaks who gets a sex change. I bet you touch yourself wearing girl's panties.

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@maidensblade

4 years

My sib sent me this and was like “so this is just you”

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3 years

“Binary trans woman” is such a weird verbal construct because online it’s used to suggest a very privileged experience of trans womanhood, when in practice a significant majority of trans murder victims would be understood as “binary trans women”

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@maidensblade

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pack of cool lesbians: Hmm, you know what we need? A squirmy, blushy bisexual girl to bounce around between us like a volleyball. me: *enters room* Hi all! I brought donuts 🙂 pack of cool lesbians: *eyes all narrow directly on me* Me: *stops chewing mid-donut* What? 😳

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@maidensblade

2 years

Most people think the core of transmisogyny is intellectual: the belief that trans women are men Really, the much deeper and more insidious foundation is *emotional*—feelings of suspicion, scorn, disgust, and impatience toward us

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CW rape One of many problems with arguing that trans women have the privilege not having to worry about pregnancy because of rape is that it relies on the idea that there's nothing trans female rape survivors deal with that others don't, and this just isn't true

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Transfems certainly aren't above criticism, but what happens to transfems who misstep in their professional, creative, and public lives is frequently not just criticism—it's excessive punishment, often to the point of cruelty.

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@maidensblade

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“Why are there so many trans girl coders?” isn’t nearly as interesting a question to me as “why are there so many trans girl prison inmates, homeless, and impoverished sex workers?” And why isn’t that a more urgent question to most people?

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