@jayrotoole
Gosharootie! This is must be why tattooists use different needles depending on whether they’re inking males or females. Why have I never noticed this before?
@zatara2010
@EuphoriTori
I’m not sure we define “walkable” the same. To me, it means we have the option to walk everywhere we need to go, not that we *have* to walk everywhere we need to go.
@AidanCTweets
Reached my TERF saturation point so will step aside, but I can’t help but notice you had no takers on your critical-thinking debate. Quelle surprise.
@Bronwen85
If you do not know about taurine, you need to not be responsible for cats of any description at any time, ever.
I am probably 80% vegan, our cats are 0% vegan. 🙄
@KatyMontgomerie
Interesting. I have survived two rapes, one by a person with a penis when I was 14 and the other by a person with a vagina when I was 22. I hope they’ll tell me the difference so I can update my trauma history. 🤨
@DrMcFillin
The most recent studies indicate we know our sexual orientation by age 7, give or take. Which, of course, includes asexuality.
So your description of a medically-induced loss of libido later in life is NOT asexuality.
You’re welcome.
@yuriisthegoat
Oopsie! You left off the “… 16 cases — that were correctly diagnosed — worldwide…. “
And given the medical patriarchy’s tendency to dismiss it in females, lord knows how many other males have suffered from it but were misdiagnosed because “it’s a woman’s problem! Stay away!”
@KatyMontgomerie
It’s almost as if he was unaware that “TERF” was proudly created & used as a self-identifier +/-30 years ago, which is pretty much the minimum pedigree/longevity for anything appearing in The New Yorker.
A great journal, but cutting-edge & political frontline it is not. 🙄
@Esqueer_
Fascinating. I particularly like the suggestion at the end that there needs to be more trans-based research to develop trans-specific science, as opposed to relying on cis-drawn data for everything. Duh.
@EuphoriTori
KKK: “We want to eradicate Blackism, not Blacks.”
Andrew Jackson: “We want to eradicate Indianism, not Indians.”
Okay, then. Not dehumanizing at all.
@AidanTheJester
Oh, I would. Recently spent hours over a couple of days in my “boy-mode” Twitter arguing with a person who insisted that “The Transgender Lobby” is the most powerful political organization in the world. Would not budge, would not acknowledge any shred of reality. Wore me out.
@tinysquash
I am still trying to unpack the medical gatekeeping of the 70’s/80’s that required you to pass”successfully” for a minimum of two years before you could be prescribed hormones.
Wish to hell I had ignored that shit.
@AriDrennen
Imagine how super-extra careful they have to be trying on shirts at a thrift store because, you know, if they button up the wrong side… Boom! Sex change!
@BlakeBlakebabee
@adeline_whitney
Golly! I so believe you! Especially when you then claim that women with the condition who choose to reject patriarchal standards of feminine beauty are really just trying to clamber onto the “intersex” bandwagon for, I dunno, snacks and perks.
Right. And TERFS are feminists.
@FamilyDrBen
My take is that if you object to letting your kids talk privately with healthcare professionals (&/or other first responders, educators, etc.) you very likely have something you don't want them to say.
@VABVOX
We had the gas shut off one winter because we hadn’t paid the bill, so we heated water on the electric stove and carried the pots to the bathroom for (shared) baths.
That was the lowest low point, thankfully, but a pretty frigging indelible one.
@joecephus
@BrynnTannehill
@RightKingTodd
Actually, those are goods on the public market. So, no: businesses do not get to decide who are members of the public and who are not. Protected Class status does that.
@finngalkn
Ok, ok, fine. Forget “Oklahoma.” Probably time for a revival of “La Cage aux Folles” anyway.
Or “Hedwig…” or “Kinky Boots” or “Rocky Horror”… lots tamer than cowboys vs farmers.
@zatara2010
@EuphoriTori
So, yes, we have very, very different definitions of “walkable.”
Sorry you do not see that mine means “accessible to everyone.”
@inmyownfashion2
@_celia_bedelia_
Stopped reading at the thoroughly-debunked "autogynephilic" since there is no such thing, guaranteeing whatever follows will also be imaginary bullshit.
Finally! Have my initial appointment scheduled with a dermatologist to start laser/electrolysis/whatever works!
This is something I have fantasized about for years, long before finally acknowledging my trans self. I have always *loathed* shaving.
@AConcernedPare2
@KatyMontgomerie
Interesting. 175 years ago, the main argument for chattel slavery in the US was that white people are better at things that require spatial reasoning than non-white people. Best at reasoning of all kinds, in fact.
Their spin on biological essentialism proved this, it surely did.
@feminitude
That transition is not the assumption of a gender, it is the discarding of one; that we’re not pretending to be anything and are instead saying fuck the pretending.
@BasedBabeUSA
@avoidthehanoid
@iE_RiC
@Esqueer_
Since you are actually profit-oriented political thugs founded by two Jan 6 terrorist MAGAts created to spread conspiracy trash and collect money from fools, then yes: “Nazi” is way more accurate than “homosexuals protecting children.”
@legaltweetz
My trans man BFF has a somewhat similar saga: he was in his 50’s when he needed a single mastectomy (can’t remember why) & when he saw the results, everything fell into place & he transitioned with a HUGE sense of release/relief/relax. 🥳
He’s 75 tomorrow & living his best life!
@LowkeyOrchi
@KatyMontgomerie
Exactly. I knew I wasn’t a boy by the time I was 9, yet my being trans has been trivialized, dismissed, & assigned to my being a 2x rape survivor (at 14 & again at 22.)
👉🏼 I was thus “socialized” to react to men as sexual predators w/ myself as victim, but it doesn’t count. Odd.
@LeorSapir
@AriDrennen
No. Removing unwanted, unneeded parts of the body — parts that would cause harm if ignored — raises no ethical questions.
Happy to clear that up for you.
@UglaStefania
Figured the GC bigots would glom onto this with their “good!” and etcetera bullmalarky, and right on cue they do exactly that, celebrating the dismissal and discrimination of one our most vulnerable (which they also deny) populations.
I might pity them if they weren’t so vile.
@flowerymagenta
Interestingly, I cannot find any non-sensationalist source for the story online; they all use transphobic spin, bemoaning the fate of the person who violated gym policy. The photo of the woman shaving is of a fully-clothed person, no genitals showing… maybe trans, maybe cis. 🤷🏻♀️
@lecanardnoir
@Quibilah1
@missdelein2
@Transgendertrd
It’s not: that’s just a bullshit trope ramped up by transphobes & their easily-hoodwinked supporters.
Here in the real world, there’s actually been a surge of adults transitioning lately, theoretically due in part to introspective isolation during the lockdown.… Look it up.
@mychal3ts
@SolanoLibrary
The local library was my safe place during an abusive childhood; the sheltering it offered literally saved my life.
So I get a little choked up when I see that the magic hasn't died over the years like so many other things. Thank you for caring about reading!
@_celia_bedelia_
Screening for prostate cancer is now done with a blood test. If your doctor is still sticking their finger up your butt, that’s not why…..
@legaltweetz
@cbucksrules
Oh, them. Blocked as worthless a while ago, probably upon seeing that exact spittle-dripping platitude… um, attitude… whichever. 🤷🏻♀️
@StrangeWorldddd
@M_Altarriba
@AriDrennen
No one said it was the only job of a pharmacist. It is the primary one and the one most people use a pharmacist for, which is clearly the context of the statement.
The deep end you are off. 🙄
@Ryjosp
@mushycrouton
It doesn’t, not really; I am a woman regardless what my genitals are, same as you are whatever you are. 🤷🏻♀️
Current society, however, still expects the visual parts of a person’s body to conform to its gendered expectations, so some of us go along to get along, while some don’t.
@DGam98
Congratulations! I am so excited for you!
I came out to my wife 2 weeks ago, then her best friend and my doctor a few days later. More soon, but I mention it just to let you know I emphasize with the abject terror involved leading up to this.
Again: Attagirl!!!
@SoupTransphobes
See also:
Transphobes: “Transing kids enforces gender stereotypes!”
Also transphobes: “Effeminate boys & masculine girls are all gay if you just leave them alone!”
@melbushman81
@shelly2161
@BramhamAlex
@ThomasWillett9
Yes, indeed, facts matter. The fact is that she was born a girl, but was forced to pretend to be a boy for a few years until she and her family and her doctors corrected the mistaken assessment made at her birth.
Another fact: her being a girl is none of your business. At all.
@BasedBabeUSA
@avoidthehanoid
@iE_RiC
@Esqueer_
Didn’t say you did. I said you could. And that is true. Your lies about trans people are essentially quotes from the OG Nazi anti-Jewish checklist.
If it walks like a Nazi and it lies like a Nazi then it’s probably a Nazi regardless what it calls itself.
@KatyMontgomerie
Oh, yeah: sex is a binary. So binary it takes six different regularly-occurring karyotypes to prove that there are only two of them. What a binary! 🤩
Oh, wait…. chromosomes don’t determine sex, gamete production does. No, that’s not it: having a dick establishes sex. Wait…
@bornnotworn_
@AriDrennen
No one ever answers when I ask this, but my inner-Pollyanna is manifesting today, so: unless you are deeply interested in fucking me, what possible difference could it make to you what my genitals are?
@AriDrennen
My parents produced minstrel shows for civic fundraisers & gathered signatures to keep poll taxes & literacy tests legal. Later on they campaigned for Reagan.
I am trans nonetheless. 🤷🏻♀️
@legaltweetz
“I don’t want to change sex so I don’t want you to either!“ = “No one can change sex!”
Think about how that scales up… 🤦🏻♀️
“No one can change pants size!”
“No one can change hair color!“
“No one can change the flashing digital clock on the stove after the power restores!”
@MusicSolitaire
I’m sure those’re essential bullet points on their list of “Qualifying Experiences That Only Real [sic] Women Experience”…. A list they use to dismiss any woman — trans or cis — they don’t like.
@KatysCartoons
Related* —
GC: We can always tell. Always!
___________
GC: Here we are naked & about to have consensual sex & you tell me you’re trans? You lied to me! This is assault! Help! Help!
🤷🏻♀️ 🤷🏻♀️ 🤷🏻♀️ 🤷🏻♀️ 🤷🏻♀️
*kinda sorta if you squint hard enough….
@AriDrennen
OMG!! No one could possibly have foreseen! Shocker!
Excuse, I need to go find a bucket to lose my breakfast into. I don’t ever eat breakfast, actually, but that doesn’t seem to make a different at the moment. 🤢
@BlakeBlakebabee
@adeline_whitney
Please provide the documentation confirming this woman is “untreated.” Is her PCOS exacerbated by her not shaving? That detail is missing from the materials I read despite its apparent crucial contribution.
@Eodyne1
I saw the quilt at Navy Pier in Chicago on one of its 1st “tours,” absolutely terrified that I would see panels of friends.
Only saw one, but that was because I broke down and had to leave.
@ThomasWillett9
Well, since the acronym TERF was created by and proudly embraced by the first TERFS back in the 90's, it has never for one day actually been a "slur."
Interesting how they have become so insistent on denying their own identity while also insisting I deny mine. 🤔 Coincidence?
@SoupTransphobes
@SexMattersOrg
They do say that, strenuously ignoring that their definition of “sex” is inadequate, inaccurate, and usually inappropriate.
Other than that, though, they’re still full of [undigested food waste], and bigly so.
@stephenwhittle
Wow. Yet another batch of posts from people so unclear on the subject that when you explain — quite well — how you changed gender, they blather about changing sex. Weird.
It’s like if you explained how to row a boat, they’d fervently proclaim, “You’ll never tango!“ 🙄
@ThePollyPicket
@SoupTransphobes
@AlanaEen
@KatyMontgomerie
Since trans girls & women are women, that’s exactly where they should go. Thanks for revealing your callous disregard for children.
I certainly hope none of your kids are trans, though it sounds like they’d never tell you if they were. Hard to say which is sadder.
Bye.
@HolmanTravel
@tricyclemayor
@ramfrancisuk
You seem like the kind of person foldaway handles were invented for wheelchairs to prevent “helpful” strangers from “helping.”
What part of “It’s none of your business.” is tricky for you?
@AriDrennen
Not to sound like a broken record, but I spent 60 years trying to convince myself I was not trans, until I finally ran out of fucks & decided 70 was as good age as any to transition. So I am.
The kicker? It was how personally I took all the anti-trans keening that convinced me.