Just Had A Terf Follow Me So I Guess The She/it Pronouns Are Going Back To The Bio Instead Of The Pinned

Oh, so the Enterprise is getting in the way between he and Spock?

There, problem solved.

For reference, the first panel comes from the Star Trek manga, volume 2. Spock asks about Uhura because she was missing the previous days, after her memory was wiped by Nomad ("The Changeling").

mortifying

I think it hits extra hard if he was trans to begin with and Jules was already his chosen name. Because imagine being forced to have your chosen name essentially become your second dead name not because you chose another but because someone, your parents who you trusted, took it from you and killed it.

personally i do think julian bashir is trans, but not in a way that sublimates his genetic alterations into a trans allegory. i think he's disabled and trans at the same time, but i think his rebellion against his parents--the symbolic death of his old self with the name change--that's not about gender, for him, at all.

it's about the incredible violation of autonomy he experienced as a disabled person under the knife of a eugenicist society. it's about the need to reclaim some, any, of the agency that was so completely stolen from him by his parents.

it's about discovering that his entire self was deconstructed and reconstructed, without his knowledge or consent, for the express purpose of being less of a burden on his parents.

because let's not forget that the death of julian's old self was not his decision. it was his parents who killed the old self and created a new one.

let's not forget that human society in star trek is still recovering from the eugenics wars--that just because it's post-scarcity doesn't mean it's a utopia.

let's not forget the multiple episodes where bashir is forced to confront the fact that his "success story" is truthfully a gross reminder of how deeply his society (and his family) hates disabled people, not only shown in how they tried to fix him, but also in the fact that the process so rarely works as intended, yet is still done anyway--and the failures and the ones too far gone to save are locked away! with no connection to general society, and only the bare minimum provision for their physical needs, with no privacy and no autonomy!

and let's not forget that julian sees these people and is torn between the empathy he has for them, and his urge to fix them. and he goes through with this urge on Sarina, "fixing" her to conform to his idea of what she ought to be, treating her as a problem to be solved, objectifying her via "my ideal woman was trapped in this disabled body/mind and i saved her," thus continuing the cycle of violence, because even he can't conceive of a world where the disabled do not need to be fixed. where the violence done to him was wrong. fuck man

arts and crafts :,)

I'm gonna have to start actually keeping up with current events just so I won't experience the whiplash of finding out about them through destiel memes.

"Oh these twins are different genders but they look similar so clearly they're actually identical and one of them is trans" WRONG! They're fraternal twins who are both trans and purposefully transitioned in a way to make them look more similar because they thought it'd be fun (and they were right!). I am objectively correct about this.

“Well Mr. Columbo—”

“Actually, it’s Lieutenant Columbo.”

“You’re Starfleet?”

“Star who now?”

(thanks for the caption @brookbee!)

Crushing on her deadbeat dad's gay middle-aged enemy who also assassinated her grandfather 😭

I love ziyal cringe-fail moments. crushing on her deadbeat dad's gay middle-aged enemy. dropping out of art school. admitting collaborating with the enemy and getting herself killed. girl what were you doing 😭

Ok but with modern medicine being as far advanced as it is the lirpa cuts could have easily been healed with no scarring. That means he kept the scars on purpose, likely due to their sentimental value of them being from spock's first pon farr and I for one love that notion.

"Well, yes, I am trans, but why do you ask? Oh the scar? No, no, my top surgery didn't leave any scars- modern medicine is a miracle. No, this is from when my husband swung a lirpa at me because he was filled with horny bloodlust."