Gay man: "My partner and I were denied to adopt because we're a same-sex couple."
Black man: "A cop pulled a gun and threatened me during a routine traffic stop."
Jewish man: "My house of worship was vandalized by Nazis."
White man: "The next Marvel movie is about a girl!"
"So, you think teenagers should make $15/hr when they still live with their parents?"
Yes, Karen. Yes, I do. We have an entire generation of young adults right now who can't afford to move out on their own, so let's pay teens enough to live on and not fuck this up twice.
I think trans people should get thrown transition showers like brides and pregnant people get. All your friends come over to celebrate this big moment in your life, gift you things you'll need to start living your true gender, and just have a big party. Can we make that a thing?
This is a problem at the heart of capitalism: you can never just have a good thing that makes money. There must ALWAYS be growth. This pushes innovation, not based on good ideas, but an insatiable need to top last year. Inevitably, this makes things worse for the end-user.
Cis women, if you ever see a trans woman in her 30s, 40s etc. wearing something that looks too juvenile for her, leave her alone about it. She literally never got to be the age you were when you wore it. Let her have this, please.
This is the ultimate example of cis comfort being valued over the very lives of trans people. Any school officials involved with this travesty should be fired immediately. They literally told a young girl her life wasn't worth saving.
New rule: if your queer representation couldn't be removed from the movie without making the film itself noticably different then it doesn't count and you don't get points for it. I'm done being baited.
Straight people.
If a restaurant was taking the money they make and giving it to organizations trying to dissolve your marriage and take your kids away from you, you wouldn't give a shit if they "have really good lemonade." You wouldn't eat there.
Don't eat at Chick-fil-A.
Saying toxic masculinity isn't real because masculinity isn't toxic is like saying food poisoning doesn't exist because food is nourishing. The contamination of a good thing is the issue, not the fundamental essence of the thing that's been contaminated.
Reminder: it's not just trans people who medically alter their bodies to achieve a desiered look. Cis people take hormones and get cosmetic surgeries for all number of reasons and no one cares, but when trans people do it, suddenly we're concerned that it's "unnatural."
"But I have to cover the taxes and the maintenance!"
Yes, because you own it. You would have to do those things regardless of whether you're renting it out. That's not a job. That's just part of owning a property.
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#SexStrike
is not the answer because.
- It insinuates women are a sex supply and men are a sex demand.
- It erases queer women.
- It ignores the reality of rape.
Stop pushing this very bad idea.
"Don't call me cis. I don't identify as cis."
No one does. Cis and trans aren't identities. You identify as a gender. If that gender matches what you were assigned at birth, you're cis. If not, you're trans.
Like...this isn't hard to grasp.
Mainstream America accepts pride the same way they accept the Civil Rights Movement: only on the condition that it be framed as a celebration for a battle already won in which they were always blameless and not an ongoing struggle in which they are still very much the oppressors.
Hooked up with a guy at the concert last night who had no clue I'm trans. He got my number and texted this morning. I came out to him and he's still interested. Big relief, because he was a lot of fun.
Fun fact: trans people wouldn't be highly depressed/suicidal if y'all didn't treat us like shit. It's not mental illness. It's carrying the burden of your hate and ignorance that drags us down.
People are happier when you just let them be happy.
"Why did they have to make Character X gay/trans? Can't they make a new character for that?"
When real queer people come out, they're people who are already a part of your life. You don't get to mandate people don't change and that everyone gets introduced to you fully formed.
Imagine someone gave you $200k. How much would that change your life? How many of your stresses would that solve? How much better would you sleep at night?
Jeff Bezos could make that happen for 500,000+ households and still have enough money to be a billionaire.
Eat the rich.
There is no such thing as non-consensual sex. It's rape.
Assault isn't non-consensual boxing.
Being robbed isn't non-consensual charitable giving.
Stop trying to make rape sound like less of a crime or not a crime at all.
yOu CaN't ChAnGe YoUr SeX! iT's BaSiC bIoLoGy!
Look, hun, the doctors and psychologists who diagnose trans people and guide them through transition didn't get their PHDs in "Basic Biology." They learned the complex shit you skipped. Maybe stop thinking you know more than them?
"The COVID-19 vaccine is a trick so they can put a tracking chip in your body!" they furiously tweet out from the tracking device they willingly carry everywhere in their pocket.
The comments on this are interesting. All I did was make a factual observation, devoid of any stated moral judgement on the matter, and several people have jumped in, not to debunk the point, but argue for the morality.
TERF on Twitter: "You'll never be a woman! You don't pass! You'll always be a man."
My waitress just now: "How is your meal, ma'am?"
Me: "It's wonderful. Thank you."
There's a scene in "Kingsmen" where Colin Firth's character beats the shit out of a whole bar full of guys just because they were being rude, and everyone thought he was a badass for it, not a villain.
This is just misogyny.
Rape culture isn't this guy slapping a stranger's ass. It's everyone thinking his doing so is "not a big deal" or "being treated like a bigger thing than it is."
Matched with a guy on Tinder and we've been texting for a couple of weeks.
We went to high school together.
I was a guy in high school.
He knows it's me.
This could get interesting.
If I decide to rob a bank then I can spend all day making excuses for why I did it, why I need the money, or what my socioeconomic situation is, but none of that changes the fact that I've chosen to obtain my money in an immoral way (note I said immoral and not illegal).
As a trans woman, I've lost count of how many complete strangers have asked me if I've had an incredibly invasive genital reconstruction procedure, so y'all can cry me a fucking river over not wanting to reveal your vaccination status.
TERF is not a slur against women because it can also apply to men and it isn't used to describe all women (not even all cis women). It describes an ideology, not a classification of person. You're not being oppressed. You just don't like having your bigotry called out.
Remember, women contribute to the prevalence of toxic masculinity when we shame and belittle men for daring to show any femininity. When you only allow men to express themselves with aggression and competition, you make the problem worse.
Cis women, here's a hot dating tip: ask him what he thinks/feels about trans women. If his opinion of us is low or even hostile, there's a good chance that what he thinks about women in general is influencing that. Red flag, walk away.
@prince_of_fakes
It's very interesting that the message here is, "now WE get to be the ones who reject THEM", when that wouldn't matter to women who had already rejected you. This isn't revenge. This is cope.
Them: "Trans people are mentally ill and should seek professional help."
Dr. : "Your gender dysphoria would best be helped by transitioning and living as your authentic self."
Them: "No, not that kind of help! The kind where they shock/beat the queer out of you!"
So...let me get this straight.
You're proposing that a man would transition his ENTIRE LIFE to being a woman JUST to compete in women's sports, based on a biological advantage that science has found no credible existence of...
...and you think I'M the crazy one?
TERFs who tell autistic trans kids that their autism makes them too confused to understand their own identity are a different breed of vile creature. Fuck off with that abelist bullshit.
"If we let trans women pee in our bathroom then men will use it as an excuse to come in and harass us" is the new "if we let gay people get married then next people will want to marry their dog."
If you're not pro-LGBT, then you're anti-LGBT. There is no middle ground where you get to have no stance because that means looking away as human rights are being violated.
THREAD: Let's talk about morality and the "job" of being a landlord.
There's been a lot of talk during this COVID-19 situation about rent freezes. As a result, a lot of landlords have cried fowl since collecting rent on their properties constitutes all or most of their...
So, you got kicked out of a queer bar full of queer people (most of whom, I'd assume, were cis) for wearing an LGB Alliance shirt, and you think it's because they wanted to discriminate against you for being...queer?
And y'all say trans people are delusional.
Some guys at the bar were talking to me. It was a nice conversation. One had been reading the paper and eventually said something like "can you believe all this transgender nonsense?" I asked if they'd met a trans person before and they said no.
I smile and said, "you have now."
TERFs: "There's no such thing as a trans woman lesbian! You're appropriating that term and destroying its meaning!"
Also TERFs now apparently: "I'm a political lesbian. I'm not actually attracted to women, but I say I am as an act of defiance."
Me: *blinking in stunned silence*
Had a guy flirting with me at the bar tonight (cute, but not my type). During our conversation, he said he couldn't ever see himself with a man. I let him know I'm trans, and he continued to flirt with me.
So, fuck you haters saying straight guys can't be into trans women.
"You're trans! I never would have guessed! You don't look trans!"
Wow, thank you for telling me I don't look like the thing that I am and framing it as a compliment, therefore conveying that if I DID look like...again...THE THING THAT I AM, that would be bad. You're so kind. 😑
#TransPeopleAreRealPeople
I'm 36. I have a wife and son. I'm a labor engineer and analyst. I love my job and I'm respected by my peers. I volunteer in my community. I'm a sci-fi and fantasy author, a car geek, and a race fan. Transitioning saved my life.
What you're seeing here is the actual societal consequences that result from a lack of diverse representation in media. He actually thinks a cartoon where all the women DON'T look like the same Barbie-doll body structure just with different hair is somehow unrealistic.
Is it a girl, is it a boy? No it‘s another genderfluid checklist character. Those people in charge of the new she-ra realy must hate feminity. I saw not one character in this show that actually looks feminine. Yep thats „representation“
#sjwshera
#sheboy
Alabama is going to put rape victims in prison for life if they don't carry their rapist's baby, while doing nothing to the rapist, but sure, tell me more about how Christians are going to save us from the barbarism of Sharia law.
Trans women lesbians are in no way "erasing lesbians". You want to know what is? Telling cis lesbians who have no problem dating or sleeping with trans women that they're not really lesbians.
Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.
I feel bad for Emma Watson. She shouldn't have to act as the cultural counterweight to JK Rowling's bullshit just because she's the second most famous woman associated with Harry Potter and her head isn't up her own ass.
20 years in jail for licking ice cream and putting it back. Meanwhile, we let white male rapists go free as long as they come from a good family and do well in school.
My son is 8, and despite having two moms (one who is trans), loving Barbie, playing dress up, and wanting his nails painted, he still happily says that he's a boy. I must just really suck at this "transing" my child stuff. I guess I'll just let him be happy as himself. 🤷♀️
There is no such thing as "traps." They don't exist. A woman you find attractive is just a woman you find attractive, whether she's cis or trans. The problem is that your toxic masculinity shaped worldview can't handle the reality of it.
Human decency hot tip: the level of anger you're expressing over Beto saying he's going to take your big boy toy away is how mad you were supposed to be everytime someone's child was murdered in school with someone else's big boy toy.
It still amazes me how America is so racist that an entire culture of enthusiastic police worship rose in response to black people asking to not be killed over minor infractions or even doing nothing wrong at all.
Just a reminder that cis women are WAY more likely to be sexually assaulted by a cis man they know than by a stranger in the bathroom pretending to be a woman, and more still than by a trans woman.
But y'all already know that. This was never really about women's safety to you.
Trans women are held to ridiculously high standards. Not only is the GameStop woman being mocked online, her anger is being turned against all trans women. We are all being made to answer for her outburst as if she represents our whole demographic.
What transphobes say: "When the mind doesn't match the body, you fix the mind."
What they mean: "Who you fundamentally are as a human being isn't worth preserving if it means making any alterations to your physical body. You're an object; not a person."
I'm bisexual. That doesn't mean I'm confused and that doesn't mean I'm easy.
I mean, I'm both of those things, but my being bisexual has nothing to do with it.
I had my first mammogram today. The staff was wonderful. When asked about menstruation, I told them I'm trans. They continued to call me by my name/pronouns, treat me as a woman, and everything went smoothly. My not fitting the "biological definition" of female never mattered.
The fact that I've never seen a trans person who was against marriage equality but I've seen a several gay/lesbian people who oppose trans rights says a lot. We had your back. Where did you go?
To the people sharing this so they can turn up their noses and say "you shouldn't do that for ANYONE, not just trans people", please go fuck off back to the rest of the All Lives Matter crowd. You're not wrong, but this isn't about you.
I currently have a tweet getting hate bombed by TERFs calling me a man and saying I'll "never be a woman". What they refuse to accept is that they're keeping me from nothing. I already have my womanhood. They have no power to change that. They are nothing. I've already won.
Trans "debates" be like:
Tonight we have Susan and Mary. Susan is an award winning psychologist who spent years working with trans patients. Mary is the head of Trans Are Rapists Dot Com and has some concerns about letting trans people exist. It should be a balanced discussion.
Guys, if you're equating "I hate toxic masculinity" with "I hate men" then you're insinuating that you think the worst aspects of your gender are the core thing that defines it.
TERFs will dig deep on the web for any evidence of a trans woman regretting transition. Meanwhile, social media is FLOODED with posts from trans people celebrating X years on hormones, since surgery, etc. going on about how happy they still are.
Medical transition saves lives.
One of the worst things about being a trans woman is subconsciously feeling validated by misogyny. It's like, wow; that sucked and it made me feel awful, but it at least proves he didn't think I was a man.
My take on COBRA is it's designed to show you how much of your health insurance premiums are covered by your employer so you don't think employer-provided coverage is so bad when you go back to it instead of just realizing the whole system is completely fucked.
"My kid didn't say they were trans until they learned about it!"
They go to school with hundreds of other kids. The rest probably also learned about trans people at some point, but most aren't saying they're trans.
Your kid didn't learn about trans. They learned about themself.
The Muslim shouldn't have practiced their faith.
The woman shouldn't have worn that outfit.
The trans person should have dressed as their assigned sex.
The gay couple shouldn't have held hands in public.
When you're blaming violence on the victim, privilege has consumed you.
You know what I bet none of these men have ever done? Angrily break their plastic razors because a commercial told them it's not nice to harass women or be shitty dads.
The rules of Twitter say that, when you have a tweet go viral, you should promote something under it. So, I'm going to promote COVID vaccines. They're awesome. Get one if you can. Save lives and let's kick this thing's ass.
Any director, producer, whatever who puts in a second or two of a same-sex kiss between two secondary characters or hires a trans extra to hangout in the background and then teases in the press about having queer representation can officially kiss my ass.
CW: Slurs
See, THIS is why you have LGBT people on your staff to look at how you're going to pander to us and let you know ahead of time if you're about to royally fuck it up.
My issue isn't that you don't want to sleep with me because I'm trans. The problem is that you're basing the validity of my womanhood on whether or not you want to sleep with me.
Hey, remember how Target said 3 years ago that trans people could use whatever bathroom they wanted? Well, Target bathrooms don't seem to have become a den of rampant predatory behavior. I wonder why. 🤔
Aggressively misgendering a trans person because you saw them do something wrong only proves you were eager to do it in the first place. Your bigotry has nothing to hide behind.
*deep, exasperated sigh*
Look, cis people. I'm getting REALLY sick of having to explain to you how asking me what surgeries I've had IMMEDIATELY after I tell you I'm trans is extremely rude. Like, that should be as basic as it gets, yet, here we are.
You're still trans if you didn't know from a young age.
You're still trans if puberty didn't upset you.
You're still trans if you don't want to present super masculine or feminine.
Your trans experience isn't wrong. It's unique.