What Trans Men Say: When You Exclude Us From Your Activism Simply Because We're Men, You Are Telling

"The attempt by the administration of US President Donald Trump to interfere with the language of science abroad is causing concern.

The Chancellor of the University of Helsinki, Kaarle Hämeri, told Hufvudstadsbladet in February that US authorities have pressured the university to remove certain words from press releases related to Fulbright scholarships.

The words “equal society” and “climate change” were among the words that were sought to be removed from the press releases."

"Arene Executive Director Ida Mielityinen is not aware of any previous attempts to influence Finnish science from abroad in this way. Not even from China, which is known for its censorship, has there been anything similar."

USAMERICA FUCK OFF!!!!!!!!!!!

silly little man. so silly. eats people. hehe

(part of an october challenge which im still working on)

horny frenchman voice: tonight I will be jacqueing off to a porneaux

Oh my god no way its him

💜🚨💜 BWOOP BWOOP ATTENTION @CLEOLINDA THERE IS A BABY PALLAS CAT 💜🚨💜

stop calling the arrested guy the shooter. stop laundering the cops' narrative. the man who was arrested is a suspect until proven otherwise.

baldwins transformation

haven’t posted in a while but just popping in to say that if mpreg fetishists use trans men to make it ‘not weird’ or to make it convenient (therefore sexualising us)

then what’s all this i keep seeing about period sex with trans men who’ve clearly used testo and still do (still sexualising trans men to indulge a kink) (usually by cis women)

cough cod fandom cough

A study just came out from Harvard about how gender affirming surgeries are more commonly performed on "cisgender men/boys" than transgender and gender diverse (TGD) people.

But these men/boys have gynecomastia which, if they were born with it (and the study doesn't specify), they're not just "cisgender".

They're intersex.

How many times now have intersex people told us perisex (non-intersex) people to stop using the statistics of their surgeries just as trans talking points, while erasing intersex people on the whole?

We have no idea how many of those surgeries were forced, or coerced, onto these intersex people. Either from doctors, parents, or even societal pressure.

Perisex trans people need to do better. We have to be better allies to intersex people than this. It disgusts me just how much we have failed our own community, time and time again.

UPDATE

The study actually specifically excluded intersex people.

"Importantly, all surgical procedures among patients with indications of differences in sex development or patients with other medical indications for surgery (eg, cancer, injury) were excluded..."

I'm happy to see this particular study has taken care to exclude intersex people, since surgeries done on them cannot be compared to transgender surgeries, but please bear in mind that this is still just one study.

The horrible truth is that medical abuse against our intersex siblings is still heavily normalized within the medical industry. From using terms like DSD, to forcing kids and even BABIES into sexual binaries with non or dubiously consensual surgeries or HRT, these horrors that intersex people have to go through are all too normal for them. That's unacceptable.

If you have reblogged this post without this update, I urge you to delete that reblog and reblog this version instead. We can fight for intersex rights and (if you're also perisex) show our solidarity without spreading misinformation.

true story

me for the first 33 years of my life: my dad used to say "what would happen if you woke up on the titanic?? think about it" when he was tucking me in at night from at least age 5 and up, a form of psychological torture me in my 33rd year of life: my dad optimistically thought i would have $250k to blow on something stupid by now and shut that shit down at the jump in the 90s