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Hey welcome to my blog
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in honor of 4chan exploding, I want to remind you all that they used to do โraidsโ on Tumblr.
they tried to flood the popular tags with gore and porn. this was when Homestuck was at its peak, so they were a target too. (side note: tags barely functioned at all at this point so trying to make them useless was like throwing a molotov into an already burning building but try telling that to 4channers)
but the Homestuck fandom was ready and countered by flooding the tag with weirder, more explicit Homestuck porn and gore.
to the point that the trolls themselves got weirded out, fucked off, and never attempted a โraidโ again.
everyone moved on but I stayed there because that is one of the funniest fucking things to happen on this website.
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Every time I (intersex) find a new intersex blog (awesome) I have to cite the incantation "please don't piss me off" and then they do anyway because tumblr is the transmisogyny website
The thing about "afab transfem" is that. Like. Well. There is a word for when you identify with your agab and you're not going to like it. Intersex identity can be infinitely nuanced and complicated & sexgender assignment can carry a lot of baggage but at the end of the day that's still how this works. And half the time or more they're not even that complicated it'll be a cis woman with pcos who thinks having a moustache makes her a trans woman. You can see why this is insane, right
I have met one person who identified as an afab transfem because she had good reason to, and read the stories of 2 others.
I have seen "doctor assigned me female but then parents paid other separate doctors to assign me male and that's what stuck and now I have transition to be happy and my family cut me off", I've also seen "I was assigned sex at birth 3 separate times by 3 separate doctors and M was the one that stuck but I was also afab"
And the person I met was assigned female by the first doctor, then surgically assigned male by the second, and had to go through terrible hoops to get on hrt and get bottom surgery and is now living stealth.
These people are our sisters, they're absolutely transfem. They are the reason we should keep strict taxonomy out of discussions of who deserves community spaces. There are so few of them and they deserve love and care as much as anyone.
I have also seen and met shitty transmisogyist people who don't think trans woman is the same gender as woman and therefore something they feel entitled to putting on and wearing while they are shitty to actual trans women. There unfortunately are a lot more of those.
But I don't think it's worth isolating any of our hyper marginalized intersex transfems to rely on a strict taxonomy here based on AGAB as if it were always binary and you only got one of them. But that's not what OP is asking for so HELL YEAH!!! WOOO! Good take!!!
Just, cis people, afab detransitioners of all genders, fellow intersex people of all genders. Please be fucking serious.
Yeah, see, that's the thing -- that's the infinitely nuanced and complicated part, and it still involves being coercively assigned male at some point, and transitioning away from that assignment. It happens sometimes! And it's still How That Works
#It's definitely a convo that requires incredible amounts of nuance#also @ppl w/ pcos: pcos is weird in that it often isn't a specific diagnosis - despite sounding like one. it is normal to attempt to find#an all-encompassing identity to make up for this ambiguity. maybe you will but I encourage you to accept the ambiguity first.#given the state of everything - there is risk of slipping into platforming gender essentialism. even unknowingly#I say this all as someone diagnosed with pcos over a decade ago. based on what I know of my own experiences and observing many others.#recognize the methods of oppression and be vocal about opposing transmisogyny#(i hope that made sense)
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I saw some snippet of a callout post for an autistic trans woman where they list social faux pas she committed, and I think we allistic people should all feel 100x more ashamed of not telling people in the moment how we feel about what they're doing. I think its extremely evil and cruel to not only lie to an autistic person and blame them for it but also to feel justified shaming them for your behavior. And it's currently the social norm to do that
Everytime we as allistic people sit and force a smile or sigh and act subtly grumpy or otherwise lie to an autistic person's face about how we feel about what they did it is in fact Our Fault that we are enduring whatever the autistic person is daring to try and share with us. You can literally say something out loud directly. The literal structure of our social existence will always traumatize autistic people unless you can give a fuck enough to consider it isn't their fault that you didn't communicate with them
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The UK Supreme Court has overruled Scottish Courts and declared the Scottish Government was wrong to include trans women in the definition of 'woman'.
Scottish Government needs to grow a spine and tell them to get fucked as far as I'm concerned. The UK can shove their 'Family of Nations' schtick up their arse.
This doesn't change anything about the average person's capacity to recognise people for who they are.
Gay love was recognised and existed long before equal marriage was recognised by law.
Biological essentialism is a fucking step back, and these hate groups funded by some of the worst cunts in society have been able to continually escalate their legal case until they've found a court who can undo everything else.
Important note here from @tgraywrites
Not a single trans person was heard from at any point by the Supreme Court before they made this ruling.
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frost doodles! Im not having time do draw digitally lately, I miss being able to finish something
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If anyone has taken their eyes off what's happening to federal workers in the US right now, here's some highlights that we're hearing from our comrades across the government who have not yet been fired:
- In one building (hosting multiple agencies), the locks on the bathroom were changed so employees no longer have any access to a bathroom during the workday. People are peeing in trash cans.
- Elsewhere, multiple agencies have reported that hand soap is no longer being supplied in the bathrooms.
- Toilet paper supplies have not been adjusted to meet the needs of a vastly increased number of in-office employees.
- Employee-owned coffee and coffee makers have been stolen or thrown away without notice (it was already illegal for taxpayer dollars to be spent on supplying federal employees with amenities like coffee, so many offices have coffee supplied by pooled employee funds).
- Meanwhile, many offices don't even have potable drinking water (recurrent legionella outbreaks), so employees have to bring their own water from home.
- Despite an explosion in the number of workers in offices, cleaning budgets have been slashed and many offices are not being cleaned regularly enough to remain sanitary. Pests like roaches and rats are a problem.
- The firings continue, legal and illegal. Entire programs are being cut. Managers have no idea when they might lose staff. Employees are getting fired at 6pm on a weekend or finding out when they're unable to log into their computer or when they receive a shipping label in the mail to return their equipment.
- Through all of this, the DOGE employees in federal workplaces are enjoying incredible and expensive luxury: AI-powered sleep pods, entire dormitories so they can live in federal buildings, nurseries for their children on site, free food and beverages, laundry services, and who knows what else. They have special security to restrict access to their areas of the buildings, including armed guards.
And I'm not just saying this to lament how bad it is for federal workers. I'm saying this because, as workers are reporting this to one another, the response is, inevitably: "This is illegal." "Yes, but who would I report it to? OPM? They're a DOGE puppet. OSHA? They've cut OSHA. The Inspectors General? Cut. The NLRB? Cut. My union? No longer recognized."
There is no one left to enforce these laws, so taking away access to basic sanitation is now effectively legal. They are doing this to federal workers, who historically have been some of the best-protected workers in the country. They are doing this specifically because it demonstrates to the public sector that it is now legal to do these things to their own workers.
I'm lucky enough to be a field worker and thus haven't been hit by the office nightmares, but I won't get to find out if I keep my job or not until May. My agency has a four year probationary period (yes really) and I was juuusssst about to get confirmed and start collecting benefits before this all went down. Now, I'll be lucky if I'm still working in a month's time.
I left the private sector to escape this bullshit.