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Lots of anti-assimilationist trans fem rhetoric ignores that a big reason trans women seek FFS, bottom surgery, breast augmentation is because of dysphoria. And also no one should have to

One of the things I dislike in trans fem discourse that thankfully doesn't come up frequently these days are trans fems who passed as cis rather successfully trying to explain

"Assigned male at birth" and "assigned female at birth" are not meant to be stand ins for "biological sex." They're meant to be what you were *assigned* by other humans.

Okay to clarify some stuff from yesterday:I'm not going to tell anyone to use or not use certain wordsThe stuff is mostly a matter of principle plus seeing other trans

so when people (not just trans lesbians but also cis lesbians and others) talk about how relationships with political lesbians are often unsatisfying, it refers to political lesbians who call

Okay so @/StopTweetingMia recently tweeted a criticism of Futurama's transphobia and transmisogyny, and people showed up to deploy the everlasting favorite "it was a different time" canard. This assumes some

Imagine the extreme attitude of ownership many British people have toward Ireland which is independent that Ireland passing a law in full public view is deemed dishonest trickery because British

This is technically correct as the use of transgender as an umbrella term began in the early 1990s, and that Virginia Prince coined it in the 1960s in opposition to

Kind of thinking that maybe letting GCs set the ground rules for how to talk about being trans is not gonna help.They've been whining about "wrong body" stuff for ages

Isn't it weird how no one ever says to not call historical figures straight because straightness is a modern construct and we can impose modern meanings on "man" and "woman"

Trans women are just so darned patriarchal that every patriarchal institution wants to destroy us.Yep, that take makes total sense. Trans women's existence defies and ultimately breaks patriarchy. Not destroys

So I woke up to even more people yelling at me about Ana's article about using a sex toy in Fall Guys. Take a good long look at where that