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The number of people misreading "dissident" as "transgender" when the purpose was specifically to illustrate their distinction in gender identity frameworks shows the complacency of a trans politics which believes

lesbians gatekeeping "femme" from trans women is such a drag man lesbians irl: my best friends, actual chillest, only girls who didn't make things weird when I was a kid,

Something about the retroactive relabeling of glam rock as "genderqueer" really annoys me and I can't quite place it. Queerness isn't just a style or a scene. A lot of

Cis people need to understand a lot of trans people want to tear everything down right now. Our demographic is too small for meaningful votes; you come to us for

White women, in the absence of racialization, sometimes racialize womanhood itself, deliberately ignoring that many womanhoods are already racialized. The phrase "white feminism" calls this out as white, rather than

A lot of trans people avoid transphobia or just deal with longterm feelings of dysphoria by not going outside, something I don't think is talked about enough. Discouragement from public

trans girls of my generation... how many of y'all spent hours trying to kiss your elbow after reading this book I love that I have trans women out there with

A big reason a lot of trans art does not appeal to large cis audiences is because many of our world-pictures are essentially cynical, jaded, nihilistic, and hopeless. We know

Trans people simply lack the demographic mass of Black people, women, or even gay people. When a trans person becomes popular it means they appeal to cis people; there is

The word "fetish" is very misused but I still don't quite agree with this! Here's a thread about the genealogy of sexual fetishism.https://twitter.com/daemonumx/status/1253733805334188032 1. General fetishism:To fetishize a thing is

Trans people have a suicide culture. A bad one.This is a thread about transgender suicide culture and how we talk about those of us who choose to die. As with

One of the unfortunate things existence as a trans woman has taught me is that false rape accusations are actually a serious issue to hated minorities: both legally, and in