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If there's one thing that has been embedded into my brain so many times that iv lost count it would have to be how stupid the conservative party are not that that wasn't already apparent with everything they've done over the past 16 years tearing this country and it's people to shreds. Not only are they completely ignoring most of the nations struggle to live, a huge drug epidemic, the slow collapse of our national health service, racially driven attacks, the rise in domestic violence, and now he's discriminating against 0.5% of the FUCKING UK's population because these amazing brave and beautiful people are expressing who they should have always been and who they are, this was only just last tuesday and it has caused an increase on homophobic and transphobic hate crimes in the uk. Please I am beging you to any British citizens 18 and over it's now your time to change this whilst it's going to be hard cleaning up this monstrous state this once proud nation was far from over 16 years ago please DO NOT vote for the conservative party on future elections.
Reminder:
Transphobia hurts all women, including cis women.
Statistics show that harassment and violence against cis women have increased ever since transphobes started to intensify discrimination against our trans sisters, trans brothers, and trans siblings...
This is because, as people have been encouraged to police and persecute trans folk, it has increased the ways in which people police the bodies, rights, and behaviors of women, and to demonize femininity, across the board.
Look it up.
Little cis girls have been harassed on sports fields, in schools, and on playgrounds for being tomboys and "appearing" to be trans; and some cis women have even been murdered on the mere suspicion of being trans.
The solution is NOT to be even more transphobic and find "better" ways to discriminate. 🙄 That is TRASH.
The solution is to stand firmly against the sexism that stands at the ROOT of homophobia, transphobia, and queerphobia to begin with; by standing against transphobia and discrimination against trans people.
The gender binary isn't real, bioesentiallism blows (not in the good way), and patriarchal structures are not worth defending.
Let people be whatever hue and color and texture of gender they are, stop policing them about it!
I'm a cis woman, but the concept of gender euphoria sounds strangely familiar to me.
I get the feeling of being happy and satisfied to be a woman (though, obviously, not happy with the way that some people and some institutions treat me because of my womanhood 😅), on occasion.
I remember the first time that I felt it.
The first time that I realized that I was a girl.
I couldn't have been older than three, though I suspect that I was only two.
I was in the house, playing in the hallway.
Bright sunlight was spilling from the big window above the kitchen counter at the end of the hall, where my mom was at the stove, cooking.
I ran -- or rather partly-ran, partly-pedaled, partly duck-walked towards the kitchen: because I was sitting on top of a tricycle.
And just outside the entrance to the kitchen, there was a full-length mirror.
So as I passed by, I stopped and turned to my left to take a look.
I saw me:
A plump, strong, healthy, brown little girl; sitting on top of a red-and-white tricycle; dressed in a delicate, pale-yellow, tulle-ruffled dress with short poofy sleeves (it had to have been my birthday or something, it was really pretty and nice).
My eyes were dark, deep-brown; and wide from play and excitement. Taino nose. Natural coily afro hair HUGE and out and floating free in a wild halo of airy softness.
I stuck my tongue out of the side of slightly berry-colored lips.
And after a moment, I grinned wide...
Me.
Hey!
That's me!
YES!!
*n0n* 🥳✨ PERFECT!!!! ✨🥳 (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*.✧
It was pure joy, learning that about myself -- seeing myself, recognizing myself -- and feeling that who I looked like matched who I was completely; and being so happy with that knowledge.
I remember my mom's voice, full of mirth and surprise, asking, "What in the world are you doing over there?"
I giggled with a squeal of absolute delight and finished running towards her...
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I want that for EVERYONE.
EVERYONE deserves to feel that way.
To look in the mirror, and feel affirmed and at ease and confident in who they are.
I will never understand those who feel that the answer to the pain and discomfort of trans folk is to "just force them to conform".
Fucking fuck that shit. Pure nonsense!
Patriarchy can only function if extremely rigid gender definitions and roles are observed.
Without conservatives' presumptions concerning how men and women look and what men and women are capable of (and therefore, how men and women are allowed to express themselves, and what they're allowed to do)?
All their excuses for why things have to be the way they are dissolves like cotton candy in water.
The very existence of trans people catapults the justifications for their pointless power structures firmly out of the window.
Even homosexuality doesn't threaten the structure quite as hard as transness does.
It's part of the reason why I'm glad to cheer on trans people.
Trans folk are real and they are valid.
Cultures around the world have accepted and honored transness in pre-colonial times.
And anyone trying to say otherwise, would have to deny literal decades of rigorous scientific research and study to do so.
If something can be destroyed by the truth, then it DESERVES to be destroyed by the truth!
…And honestly, when it comes to a poisonous structure like Patriarchy?
Good!
Destroy it and Good fuckin' riddance! ✊🏾✨
just your average Michaels run
thank you to my father for supplying tye type of anti depressant that actually works for me; yarn
Happy pride month!! Here’s some queer ppl 🌈
Here’s some non binary representation !!💛🤍💜🖤
Queer cartoon characters 🌈
They know exactly what they're doing.
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Hello!
I’m reaching out for support as a trans teen living in a transphobic household. I’m a seventeen years old trans guy and looking to start my transition once I’ve moved out. I have a part time job but the money I’m making is far from enough to fund my transition and save up to the point where I can live alone after I finish high school. My mental health is struggling under my current circumstances; because of this, spending the five+ years on the NHS waitlist is not in the cards for me. I’m hoping to raise enough money for the first two appointments and enough to travel to London for them.
Even the smallest donation would be greatly appreciated, any amount of interaction or donation helps.
GoFundMe Link:
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I feel sick. I'm so scared. Things are going to get so much worse for trans adults in the UK when the Levy review for adult trans care comes out in November. My GP clinic already tried to not prescribe my T when the gender clinic endocrinologist first recommended it, I had to fight them so hard on it, and I'm terrified at any point they will stop.
Please share this. It is so disheartening that when I make posts about US trans issues they have thousands of notes within a couple hours, but UK trans issues barely get 100 notes. Our struggles are linked. The letter, in fact, uses the American spelling of certain words like 'realize' - Which has made some suspicious that this is a form letter provided by the American anti trans hate groups that have been pushing for more transphobic discrimination in the UK lately.
This WILL affect trans people in the US eventually. They will use the UK as an example to follow, when they are (at least partially) the ones who created the conditions for our growing medical discrimination. Our fight is your fight. Please, please care about it. Help people be aware of this at the very least.
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God I hope she finally gets legal consequences for her shitty fucking transphobia.. and her mysoginy. She really showed her whole ass with this ordeal - Not like she was secretive before.
The transphobes will come for all of us.
They will make up trans people to hate and don't care about the lives they destroy. Lives of the people who's side they'd pretend to "be on" when it suits them.
Imane Khelif doesn’t miss.