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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.
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
transphobia coming to toronto: questioning deep green resistance as "radfem rise up" approaches
Word has quickly spread on the web in the last couple of days that Rachel Ivey, a member of the Deep Green Resistance environmentalist movement that holds openly transphobic views as “core” princip…Spread the word: Trans-exterminationists from Deep Green Resistance, as well as an openly transmisogynist fauxminist conference are coming to Toronto.
omg
ugh.
this is happening in my city :|
going to keep an ear open and see if the venue is announced. i’m rather of the opinion that getting the conference shut down is the better course of action,
but any white trans woman who wants to attend and challenge them, feel free.
you won’t see me trying to convince these women that my gender is valid only for them to turn around and hate me because I’m asian.
Marisa Kirisame: knitmeapony: Allistair Pinsof (DtoidAllistair) on Twitter tombomp: The...
Allistair Pinsof (DtoidAllistair) on Twitter
The latest from Allistair Pinsof (@DtoidAllistair). Features Editor at http://Destructoid.com. Previously employed by Flixist, The Escapist, and The Daily Texan. Just an average guy living in a storage unit. Austin, TXa woman (Chloe Segal) game developer attempted suicide yesterday. this fucking game journalist reveals that she is trans, refers to her as he and spends a bunch of time moralising about her “lies” etc and how he’s revealing the “truth” and he actually says “Since Chloe Sagal has done exactly what she said she would do if I told the truth, I’m going to go ahead and tell it.” she threatened to commit suicide if he revealed it because IT’S A SECRET SHE DIDN’T WANT TALKED ABOUT but he takes that to mean that since she attempted to he can reveal it and it’s all ok and what a fucking horrible, evil person
So I’m reblogging this again to say:
his excuse for calling her by male pronouns was that she was not out in her offline life.
“She used male pronouns IRL so I’m just using the pronouns she would’ve used” is roughly his argument
It couldn’t possibly be because she was afraid of coming out IRL, could it? Like, it couldn’t possibly be because ignorant people like you would be coming for her when she transitioned IRL, right? Nobody would ever hurt a trans* woman just for existing, right? She wouldn’t have gotten death threats, right? Not IRL! Not from the gaming community!
*hisses at him*
there are a lot of things that put alistair pinsof in the “piece of shit” category. let’s go through them one by one, shall we (tweets are read bottom to top)
He is willfully and cruelly ignorant about depression and suicide attempts, and holds Chloe in contempt for attempting to kill herself.
He misgenders a transgender woman, and defends it in a really gross way.
He is more concerned with the integrity of crowdsourcing sites than a woman’s life or a trans person’s right to not divulge their gender identity.
alistair pinsof, you are a tremendous piece of shit. go fuck yourself.
edit: i missed this one
He compared a trans woman’s gender identity to Djokhar Tsarnaev and the Boston bombings:
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.
Laci Green used this word once when she was 18, deleted the offending video after it was brought to her attention and issued a sincere apology that actually contained the word “sorry”. She was burned at the stake and run off the internet.
Tyler Oakley uses this word multiple times, leaves all of them intact, and later issues a statement saying “Just because you’ve accidentally said things that were transphobic in the past doesn’t mean you can’t learn and help educate yourself and others right now and for the future.” He’s heralded as an advocate of queer culture and a positive role model for all LGBTQ youth.
Just something to think about.
Im sorry but Tyler Oakley should not be “heralded” for any reason. He continuously spews cissexist, classist and racist bullshit (see: his youtube or anything he is featured on). He continues to speak for the “gay” community without acknowledging his overtly prominent white cis gay able bodied class-privileged male positionality and speaks over folks all the time. So yeah, maybe he did this one decent thing but stop trying to throw good Gay Ally cookies at him please unless they are thrown with intention.
Both of them are shit. Tyler says racist, transphobic, and misogynist shit all the time and Laci’s apology was bullshit, I mean she said the fucking word again right in her apology. Her apologies were all nonapologies and transphobia was not her only offense, she also pulled some Islamophobic shit. They can both fuck right off.
Screenshots of s1llys1ckness’s harassment of Lilly.
Report for harassment, please.
Get this fucker taken down.
He’s using her fucking picture as his icon.
No shit, He’s using my fucking picture as his icon. How fucking sick!
All I did was ask this person to unfollow me cause his blog is very cissexist.
But no, he responded with all this harassment.
Please help report.
(Source: andiindeed)
Anonymous asked
Estrogen = Woman, Testosterone = Man, How can you tell me a masculine trans woman (manly features) is still a woman when that person consists of testosterone, man hormones?
Masculine was referring to dress not features fuckface (short hair, masculine form of dress, what the fuck ever).
And the rest of what you said is such shit, I’m not even going to address it. I don’t know where your sick transphobic cis scum ass came out of but why don’t you crawl back there.
vikrattlehead asked
Does it make sense to say that in some (emphasis on some) cases, transphobia arises from a general homophobia? I ask because it seems like a homophobe would be very offended at the idea that he could be attracted to a man and the only way to defend his sexuality is to adamantly believe that only women have tits and vaginas.
Sure, I think that makes sense. If they refuse to acknowledge a trans woman as a woman, if they see them as another man and they’re homophobic? Yeah, sure.
Anonymous asked
Being attracted to people with vaginas or people with penises specifically is not erasing trans* people, in fact, by saying that you're basically saying that if someone is only attracted to, for example, people with vaginas they MUST MEAN they are only attracted to cis-women, which is not true. Someone may only be attracted to people with vaginas which would include cis-women and trans-men without bottom surgery. I don't understand why this is so confusing to you.
You are fucking dense. That’s exactly why it’s fucking invalidating. Trans men are FUCKING MEN. Dating a trans guy because you’re attracted to his pussy is invalidating as fuck.
ssttephaniiee asked
yeah i did, because calling someone transphobic is seriously the dumbest thing EVER, just because they would not consider dating someone who is trans.
Transphobic shitheads aren’t welcome here. Hit the unfollow button.
