hooligan-nova:

IT’S NOT BECAUSE SOME OF US DON’T DESERVE RESPECT, IT’S BECAUSE THE CULTURE OF CIS SOCIETY IS ENGINEERED IN A WAY THAT ENFORCES IDEAS AND POLICIES THAT ARE ANTAGONISTIC TO TRANS PEOPLE

Refusing to acknowledge the abuse of cis people as central to the harm done to trans people but instead saying it’s what makes us trans is both internalizing blame for your own suffering and assisting in the invalidation of the entire community.

Medicalization and restriction makes hormones less available, pure and simple. Demedicalizing and opening to informed consent makes these MORE available. It follows logically that fewer restrictions means we’d be less restricted.

Truscum ideology has no actual material basis for what it and it’s adherents assert to be true. Instead they rely on the same othering and bullying techniques inflicted onto them by TERFs to coerce agreement and bully people out of public visibility.

IF YOU’RE WAITING FOR CIS PEOPLE TO START RESPECTING YOU: DON’T HOLD YOUR BREATH.

petefoxshend:

commanderabutt:

commanderabutt:

commanderabutt:

just a quick note- no trans person has ever said “did you just assume my gender.” trans people are very aware of how their gender and physical appearance differ and that visually one might assume that they are a man/woman when they are actually not. that’s kind of the whole idea of gender dysphoria. 

and also you’ve beaten your “attack helicopter” joke into the fucking ground. cut that shit out.

i wanted to add one more thing to this post that other people have pointed out: i know its an awkward question, but a lot of trans people are going to be 100% fine with you asking what their gender is, or with calmly correcting you if you get it wrong. and if they’re not, then they’re way more likely to keep it to themselves than get visibly angry with someone. this idea that trans people just go apeshit when people misgender them accidentally/when first meeting them is a complete fabrication for a stupid joke and that’s why i despise it so much. 

I can’t afford to get visibly angry about people misgendering me because that puts me in danger of getting harmed. once a cis person finds out my gender, one of two things will happen: they either accept me to various degrees, or they reject me and potentially escalate the situation. politeness is the only way I can decrease the risk of the latter.

the “DID YOU ASSUME MY GENDER?!” trope only serves to make trans people look ridiculous/unreasonable in the eyes of cis people, and places in their minds preconceptions about us that makes it harder, ultimately, for us to come out safely. if all they know about trans people are shitty jokes, then we as a people become those jokes to them.