Its Also, Of Course, Deeply Philosophically Inconsistent For Just Concerned-type Transphobes To Treat

it’s also, of course, deeply philosophically inconsistent for “just concerned”-type transphobes to treat cis bodies and the experience of cis puberty as the “default,” which seems to come up a lot in the general miasma of FUD they try to cast up. it’s pointed out that long-term hormone use and surgeries can cause irreversible changes to the body; this is used as a basis to plead for delaying action, until the trans teenager or even adult is older.

but, of course, choosing inaction is itself a choice; and in the case of some schedules dictated by genetics, it’s an explicit choice for the default. though “just concerned” transphobes leave open the possibility, rhetorically, that these young trans people may want to indeed still transition as adults, they seem surprisingly blithe about the fact that having to go through full cis puberty might make that process psychologically or medically even more difficult; naturally, they are really assuming that their child is not really trans, and this is a phase that will pass.

not only is this a rehash of old homophobic talking points (you’d love heterosexuality if you just gave it a try!), they’re betting a lot on being right. I didn’t have the language as a teenager to articulate my Gender Feelings, which engenders enough regret in itself, but if I had, and if I had discussed them with my parents only to be shot down and forced to go through cis puberty, when I knew there was another alternative, I can’t imagine how angry I would have been with them.

in that this form of transphobia centers so much on vivid descriptions of the perceived medical violation of their children’s bodies (especially their reproductive capacity! I thought we didn’t want to reduce people to their ability to bear children?) also puts me in mind of anti-vaxxers, whose anxieties about needles and chemicals invading the pure, precious bodies of their children that must be defended, a fear of contamination and impurity, cannot be overcome even when the potential risks are small, and the likely benefits enormous. Cass Eris also draws an interesting analogy to her mother hitting the roof when she found out her (adult, in university) daughter was on birth control; even well past the legal age in which we judge young people competent to make decisions about their own medical care, parental anxieties demand that their children’s bodies be under their control, and subject to their approval.

Wip of my boy Robert I love him so much

reblog if you hate the current interior design trend of painting everything white with hints of grey or black. ignore if you have no taste

@shiftythrifting is selling stolen designs from an independent artist (please spread)

for anyone not aware, shiftythrifting is primarily a submission based blog to share funny thrift store finds, and it has a very large number of followers

at some point, shifty started selling merchandise based on fan-favourite submissions. some of these are based on funny objects but others are tshirts based on real clothes that had found in thrift stores by followers of the blog. you can see how this might be a problem: shifty is selling basically copies of other shirts that already exist and were designed by someone else: essentially, art theft.

cue, the villains shirt:

(the original villains thrift submission)

(bragging that villains is one of their most popular shirt designs)

(the villains design on shifty’s store)

when i first saw this shirt i couldn’t believe it because i recognised it instantly. the original shirt in the thrift store is merchandise created by an independent singer-songwriter in 2018, emma blackery, for her ‘villains’ album. the shirts are no longer for sale in her official store so the evidence below is from an instagram post and a re-sale website but it’s pretty obvious that this is where the original thrifted shirt comes from

this means that @shiftythrifting is literally selling knockoffs of an independent artists work, which is copyright infringement (it doesn’t matter if the original shirt is no longer available, that’s still emma blackery’s IP).

i’ve attempted to contact shifty about this but received no reply. i’ve also contacted emma’s management about the issue.

please spread this so people are aware and maybe the blog will respond.

so i watched TCM 2 and cant get the sight of horny bubba out of my head gfjhfgdf