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breaking: lil nas x to rebrand as lil nas twitter
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“all men are evil” is radfem/terf rhetoric, but clarifying “all cis men” because you want to signal that you’re not transphobic doesn’t work because it’s still deeply rooted in radfem beliefs. It’s saying you believe there’s something inherently evil in being born/assigned “male”, and you carry it over in how you treat ppl who transition in or out of that gender. “All cis men are evil”, is gender essentialist and you can’t get around that.
Fucking tired of ppl who think their terf soundbites with a fresh coat of paint are sooo progressive
Saying “all cis men” discounts the tons and tons of cis men doing the work to try and undo toxic masculinity.
My boyfriend is cis and bisexual. He happens to be a very large, tall man with a lot of hair. He’s a bi bear, essentially.
He was worried about showing up to pride, where he belongs, because he didn’t want to scare anyone.
Several of my cis male friends have extreme self esteem issues because of the fact that “all men are pigs/all cis men suck/cis men are terrible beings” as a rhetoric spits in the face of all the work they’ve done.
And specifying “all cis men” doesn’t help trans people, actually! As a transmasculine person, I an TERRIFIED of passing as cis male now because of the rhetoric that all men fucking suck! I am afraid to scare people just by existing! And I ALREADY do that!
Yes it is important to acknowledge that there is some harm that has happened and continues to happen. But equating all men, cis or not, to testosterone fueled assaulters with no brains is also sexism actually. We need to dismantle the idea that any gender is a monolith of danger.
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Surprising hope coming from Louisiana! The state senate voted to table a bill that would ban trans youth healthcare!
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Housekeepers and Janitors Need Praise As Unsung but Very Much Important
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there’s just nothing that beats being at home. the world will try to convince me i should be doing more and it’s like yeah but im at home
like if youre at home right now just take a minute to be like UGH yes im at home
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“Aphrodite loves terfs” do you really think a goddess of love formed from a literal penis and the mother of Hermaphroditus, an intersex god who was associated with androgyny and feminine men, fucks around with transphobia?
she is a literal trans icon and to deny that will get you smited by all the gods
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the funniest thing to me rn is seeing transphobic women going into bathrooms in transphobic states and then being shocked that trans men are in there and actually (gasp) look like men?!?! (shocking i know /s)
like you guys forced people to go to the bathrooms of their “biological sex” but now when they do it’s disconcerting that men look like men. (yes even if that man has a vagina.)
Transphobes are shocked to realize trans men aren’t all “uwu soft boiz” and HRT does what it’s supposed to. It’s so mind boggling to them that trans people don’t look like their bigoted characatures.
Anyways here are some men that will be forced to use the women’s restroom in states like florida, texas, kansas, etc.
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I graduated high school in 99.
There was a student at our school named Wayne.
Wayne was gay. It was obvious. He was unable to stay in the closet even if he wanted to. To make matters worse, he was also Black. From a bullying standpoint, that was not a great combo. Both Black and white students made fun of him relentlessly. He was ostracized from the only community that may have given him protection. Only us theater kids stuck up for him, but not to significant effect.
Wayne was bullied so much that at one point he finally snapped and attacked his bullies with a lunch tray. I was actually seated in perfect line of sight and just sat there chewing my soggy fries in stunned silence. It didn’t even seem real as I was witnessing it. The image of him wailing on his main bully as the food on his tray flew off is permanently logged into my long term memory.
The bully he attacked had blood all over his face and went straight to the nurse. Other than superficial cuts, he was not injured.
Before the attack, Wayne went to teachers for help.
He went to guidance counselors for help.
He went to the principals for help.He did all of the things you were supposed to do. No one helped him. They wagged a finger at the bullies and warned them to stop.
Wayne’s lunch tray melee was the only thing that worked. His bullies stayed far away from him. But a week later Wayne was expelled and the bullies were given no punishment.
So… no.
No one in my school talked about being trans.
Because the only way to survive being openly queer was to bash people with a lunch tray.
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you guys literally are all so brave. even through the screen i can tell. keep going
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