Baldwins Transformation

Stolen from reddit :

that's what a lot of trans man exclusion boils down to - punishment for not being sexually attractive to people who are attracted to primarily women, punishment for passing or not passing, people getting angry and disgusted at you for being on T or getting gender affirming surgeries because they think they are sexually entitled to a body that makes you dysphoric and think you're stealing something from them/society by transitioning...

so you're treated like you owe everyone forever to make up for daring to be yourself and 'taking a woman away from people who wanted one' by not being one , punishment for being trans and not being a cis woman while people try to gaslight you and say it isn't happening & that your life is easier for being a trans man and that you need to shut up and be stoic and never talk about your feelings or you aren't a real man....

But at the same time you apparently have to be a good example of non toxic masculinity for cis men because you aren't allowed to exist in your own right you only exist as an object for others you're a sex toy or a human shield or a lesson they can learn about themselves while they disregard the things they could also learn about you

psst in finland this was a thing (enforced sterilisation). you needed it to legally change your gender and often also to get your diagnosis -> hormones. horrific doesn’t describe it well enough and i’m probably one of the first generations of (transgender) finns who wont need to be sterilised forcibly. it also enabled a friend of mine to change their passport marking as a minor without any of that. also, to get sterilised in finland you either need to be 30 or have 3 kids. so they really set that bar lower for us haha

To all the transfems that bring up forced sterilisation when a transmasc talks about forced impregnating and a loss of bodily autonomy: stop.

Transmascs also face forced and coerced sterilisation. In many places, it’s only recently that any trans person can change their legal gender without being sterilised. This is not a problem specific to transfems.

The issue is more complicated for trans people who can give birth (including some intersex transfems) because cis people want them to become baby machines so bad. This introduces more barriers when somebody wants to make certain legal and medical decisions for themselves!

All trans people are directly victimised by a restriction of reproductive autonomy. But the issue tends to be more central for trans people who can give birth, since giving birth is nearly a year-long process that can ruin your life and health. Being forcibly sterilised often is less focal in transmasc activism because, especially as people who might have dysphoria around getting pregnant, being forced to endure that for months, being forced to have permanent and sometimes harmful alterations to your body made, being forced to go through an incredibly painful process where they will almost certainly be repeatedly misgendered, being forced to produce a living being you never wanted to produce, etc., might seem like a worse fate than never being able to have kids in the first place.

This is not me saying one group or another has it worse! And I am not downplaying the pain of transfems (or trandmascs) who were forcibly sterilised. It is still a very serious issue that can cause a lot of pain for many.

But this is me saying that this specific issue is one that much more often impacts transmascs. And if it is not something you will ever be at risk of experiencing, then you have no business taking about how “bad” it would be or comparing the issue to some “equivalent” transfem problem.

Bigotry often does not have perfect equivalents. Transmisogyny and transandrophobia are distinct forces of oppression. Just because one group experience one type of problem doesn’t mean they’re More Oppressed or something. I say this as somebody who experiences both. It’s ridiculous to compare a trandandrophobia-specific problem to a general trans problem or a transmisogyny-specific problem because they just manifest differently. Neither is worse or better. They don’t have perfect equivalents. Don’t let your mind be tainted by oppositional sexism and give your fellow trans people room to discuss their fears and anxieties and experiences with issues that are unique to them.

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To this day, many intersex people are mutilated as infants or toddlers.

From malevolent attempts to make their bodies more visually appealing to completely forcing them into a male/female binary.

Please do not just use our suffering as a 'gotcha' moment to own TERFS and other fascists. Please do not forget about us.

Edit: Also, not all parents know what is done to their child. Sometimes, they are lied to, and they are told that the surgery is necessary or even life-saving. Sometimes they are left completely oblivious, like in my case.

Having your child under the care of female staff/doctors does NOT matter. The surgeon who decided to operate on me was female.

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Sometimes they can't wait to clip your wings.

I was two days old.

I was supposed to be a moth.

Instead I had to be pretty.

I seek healing.

I denied the false cocoon.

I'd rather be a clipped moth than a forced butterfly.

I sadly do not know how to properly ID something. Other users have reblogged with IDs however, thank you for your work.

Part of the harm of invisibility for transmen is being bombarded with a million "emergency HRT" resources by a hundred different well meaning groups and absolutely zero of them mention testosterone. If they do it's basically a footnote. Testosterone is necessary HRT medication too, believe it or not. It is harder to synthesize and it is federally restricted and I think that's EVEN MORE REASON TO RESEARCH AND LINK EMERGENCY TESTOSTERONE HRT‼️

Can we please talk about how our history teacher sent a barbie to the smithsonian as proof of the presence of man two million years ago

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petition for people who find the g-spot being called “g-spotters” the same way a person who shot a snipe is/was a sniper

Abolish Tesla.