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My name is: Michelle, but most people call me Dark online.
My gender-pronouns are: They/them/their.
I am: 26 years old, a feminist, liberal, an atheist, an omnivore, and an ISFJ.
The Feminist: Intersectional, body positive, pro-choice, and sex positive.
My privileged identities include: Female assigned at birth (trans* privilege), white, able-bodied, allistic (?), dyadic, monogamous.
My non-privileged/oppressed identities include: Gender-fluid, fat, gray-a, neuroatypical, and gay.
I have: Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, and Major Depressive Disorder.
I like: Pets & animals, animal welfare, pet care & pet care education, ~*SCIENCE!*~, anatomy & physiology, roleplaying, anime/manga, computer & video games, rock & metal music.
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Trans*ition Fund Collective: Get your writing published and help me fund my top surgery!
Attention all LGBTQ+ writers: submissions are now being accepted for an upcoming anthology of poems, short stories, and essays written about the queer/trans experience. The anthology will be published in e-book form and will be an exhaustive collection of modern creative writing representing the lives of LGBTQ people. We like to think of it as a written time capsule. Each submission should be less than 3,000 words, and each individual may submit up to 5 pieces of original writing. Questions and submissions can be emailed to LGBTQwriting@gmail.com and submissions will be accepted on a rolling basis. The earlier you submit your piece, the more likely it is for it to be published. All proceeds from the published e-book will benefit gender confirming surgeries for transgender individuals.
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The Los Angeles Transgender Film Festival is seeking films for our fifth annual film festival. Whether you’re dealing with gender-specific issues or not, we will be screening many diverse works made by trans, genderqueer, and intersex artists, including comedy, dramedy, drama, experimental, animation, and more! We also welcome work by allies who are showcasing trans or genderqueer themes in their work.
Submission Guidelines/Entry Form [PDF]
The LA Transgender Film Festival consists of an annual film festival, awards show, and international tour. We have traveled to UCLA, University of Texas Austin, CSU Long Beach, Culver City High School, Lifeworks queer youth program, and Pasadena City College, among many other venues. Apart from film screenings, we also have in store some tasty live performances and panel discussions with artists and activists.
To bring the LA Transgender Film Festival to your campus or community, please contact us at info@tgfilmfest.org
www.tgfilmfest.org
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The Los Angeles Transgender Film Festival is seeking films for our fifth annual film festival. Whether you’re dealing with gender-specific issues or not, we will be screening many diverse works made by trans, genderqueer, and intersex artists, including comedy, dramedy, drama, experimental, animation, and more! We also welcome work by allies who are showcasing trans or genderqueer themes in their work.
Submission Guidelines/Entry Form [PDF]
The LA Transgender Film Festival consists of an annual film festival, awards show, and international tour. We have traveled to UCLA, University of Texas Austin, CSU Long Beach, Culver City High School, Lifeworks queer youth program, and Pasadena City College, among many other venues. Apart from film screenings, we also have in store some tasty live performances and panel discussions with artists and activists.
To bring the LA Transgender Film Festival to your campus or community, please contact us at info@tgfilmfest.org
Anonymous asked
How does a cis person respectfully go about referring to trans/non-binary people other than using the person's preferred pronouns? (This sounds snarky but not my intention AT ALL) I'm just starting to feel like cis people are incapable of being a trans ally and I'm starting to feel bad for being cis after what I am reading on tumblr. But then again I don't really know what cis is I'm not really a stereotypical person but my gender matches my sex is that all cis is?
sorry by saying my gender matches my sex could come off as rude I’m sorry! My gender is she/her/girl my sex is female. I don’t like stereotypical girly things though, and I prefer to look more androgynous than like a girl does this still mean I am cis? I’m so confused!
Cis means that you identify as your birth assigned gender. Aka, the doctor said “It’s a girl!” when you were born and you indeed grew up to identify as a girl. Transgender is when you do not identify as your birth assigned gender. Aka, the doctor said “It’s a girl!” and you grew up to identify as a boy or a non-binary individual.
I’m sort of confused about what you’re asking, though. What are you looking for? You’d just refer to us as transgender people or trans* people? I don’t know if I’m misunderstanding your question.
RbR: Why “I Like Men, Women, and Trans* People” Is Not Okay
In your last post you mentioned that third gendering is wrong. Can you please explain that? Thanks!
Anonymous
If you make trans* people a separate group from men and women, you’re saying that trans men aren’t men and trans women aren’t women, which is wrong. There are certainly trans* people who are non-binary, but a lot of them aren’t, and so making them their own special category from the “normal” men and women is wrong.
—BB
Trans people forced to be sterilized across Europe
Council of Europe tells 29 member countries coerced sterilization of transgender people is a major human rights abuse, urges actionTwenty-nine countries in Europe are insisting transgender people are sterilized before their true gender is recognized in law.
That represents a major abuse of human rights and must stop, says a new report from the Council of Europe.
In many European countries, sterilization or sex reassignment surgery or both are a requirement for the country to legally recognize a transgender person in his or her new gender.
While gender reassignment surgery may incidentally cause someone to become sterile, some countries also insist on sterilization.
Richard Köhler, policy and capacity officer for Transgender Europe (TGEU) told Gay Star News: ‘Forced sterilization is a reality for a lot of trans people in a lot of countries. Trans people are the only group in Europe who are prescribed by law to go through sterilization.
‘The debates have shown conservatives are really afraid of the “pregnant man” so they want to insist on sterilization.’
While some people want full gender reassignment surgery, others recognize the operations are complicated and can be traumatic and either don’t want to complete that process or are not capable of doing so.
But by insisting on full sterilization before you can be legally registered with your true, new gender identity the rules at present deny people the right to decide what they do with their own bodies.
Lavender Labia: Five Ways Cis Feminists Can Help Build Trans Inclusivity And...
Five Ways Cis Feminists Can Help Build Trans Inclusivity And Intersectionality
- Be willing to confront instances of transphobia, cissexism, cisnormativity, cis-centrism, cis privilege and other forms of destructive bias where you find them (especially when you find them within feminist, activist or queer spaces), not through “call outs” or other toxic, self-defeating or abusive strategies, but by taking the opportunity for genuine discourse.
- Don’t take a purely passive, reactive approach. Rather than waiting for things like someone saying something overtly cissexist, or a trans person bringing up a particular concern, be willing to proactively introduce trans issues, or trans-relevant aspects of broader issues, to feminist discourse. Likewise, proactively treat possible consequences, perspectives and concerns relevant to trans people and trans experiences as being not only significant but essential to all feminist issues and conversations.
- Don’t assume any given issue is strictly, or even primarily, relevant to cis women. All feminist concerns are also transgender concerns, and vice versa. There are no feminist dialogues in which trans voices “don’t belong”, or to which trans voices have “nothing to add”. There are no social issues related to gender that don’t have consequences for trans people.
- Proactively seek out transgender voices, perspectives and input on all issues, not simply what you regard as “trans issues” or situations where the value of such perspectives is immediately obvious to you. Come to us, rather than waiting for us to come to you.
- Don’t treat the larger social conflict of gender as being dialectic or binary in nature. Don’t assume a unidirectional model of gender-based oppression.
These points are expanded on and explained more in the article. Please do read the full piece - it’s awesomesauce.
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lovelyandporcelain asked
What that last anon said about hormones is true. It's taught in a lot of psychology courses in Uni. This not only goes for trans* people though. There's evidence that people who identify as Gay Or lesbian also have hormonal differences over straight cis people. Also, brain structure can be different. For example, a gay man's brain is more lateralized like a straight cis women's brain as there are structures which are larger in a "female" brain (continued)
With that knowlege, we can assume that Trans women’s brains are also more structurally like a straight ciswomen’s. As you can see gender isn’t something that can be defined by one specific thing. It’s also cognitive, biological, genetic etc. Again, I’m going to point all of you in the direction of the Joan/John case if you don’t believe we are prewired in our gender identities (there are some pretty good documentaries on it). That goes for ANY and ALL genders though. Not just male/female.
I love science.
This was forwarded to me, so I’m passing it on. There is more info that was in the email but should be available via the people doing the study if you’re curious for more details:
We are doing a research study about transgender men’s’ experiences with pregnancy. We are surveying people who identify as transgender men (assigned female at birth with a transmasculine/ transmale/ female-to-male gender identity) who have been pregnant and delivered a baby. If you self-identify with this population, then we would like to invite you to participate in this study.
If you choose to be in the study, you will complete an online survey. It will take about 20 minutes to complete. The questions will relate to your experience with fertility, conception, pregnancy, and birth. To be eligible for the study you must be over 18 years old and have completed a pregnancy within the past 10 years.
You can skip questions that you do not want to answer or stop the survey at any time. The survey is anonymous, and no one will be able to link your answers back to you. Please do not include your name or other information that could be used to identify you in the survey responses.
Questions? Please contact the study coordinator Lexi Light (415-206-6453, LightA@obgyn.ucsf.edu) or the principal investigator Dr. Jennifer Kerns (415-206-3157, KernsJL@obgyn.ucsf.edu). If you have questions or concerns about your rights as a research participant, you can call the UCSF Committee on Human Research at 415-476-1814.
Being in this study is optional. If you want to participate, click this link to start the survey: https://redcap.ucsfopenresearch.org/surveys/?s=c4SXLP.
This looks incredibly interesting. It’s good that research on this sort of topic is being done, since a lot of medical research completely ignores the existence of trans* people, especially those that use their reproductive systems.
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jobhaver asked
transsexual identified people typically have a binary gender identity and intense physical dysphoria regarding their bodies' sexual characteristics whereas transgender identified persons may or may not. individuals who prefer the term "transsexual" often keen to view their being trans as a medical condition. transsexuals who disavow association with transgender persons are sometimes called transsexual separatists, "truscum" (a pejorative), or HBSers. The term doesn't indicate surgical status.
most people prefer the terms “transgender”, “trans”, or “trans*” as they are more inclusive and not as socially stigmatized. I am not aware of there being any difference at all between “cisgender” and “cissexual”.
fatpye said: probably; body shaming, slut shaming, transphobia, mainly thanks xoxo
I don’t think I have one for slut shaming specifically, but I have body positivity and sex positivity/sex education type Tumblrs if those are good? I’ll list them here.
