The Hind End of Space

thecrimsonalchemist:

weakaside:

I was at the gay-museum today and they misgendered someone in one of the descriptions 

I want this post laminated so I can show everyone who thinks that transgender individuals are included AND respected in the LGBT community. 

(Source: frostfangs)

javert:

it’s actually. pretty realistic for a group of friends to all be queer. or poc. or women. or. you know. whatever.

birds of a feather flock together.

and also you wouldn’t think it was that weird if a bunch of straight white dudes were friends.

to anyone who’s interested

vicoactus:

skysquids:

i think the reason trans women work so hard to change the language that’s applied to our bodies is because there is just so much of it.  psychiatry, medicine, law, law enforcement, religions, and every type of media have just so much to say about us, our bodies, and what they mean.  when we struggle to redefine words and shift language, its an attempt at self authorship that tries to change the schemas and models that always override our own selves, even in our own minds.  there is no similar cultural discourse around trans men, and i wonder if that’s why these dudes just don’t get it.  they get to project their identities into a relative void of cultural narratives.  i wonder if this is why some trans dudes just cannot empathize with what we’re talking about here.

I know I’m talking about something slightly different than you are, but I feel like it’s not necessarily a void of cultural narratives?

The vast majority of the flak that trans folk receive comes from a (clearly fucked) place of perceiving MAAB trans folk as actually being men who pretend to be women, and FAAB trans folk as actually being women who pretend to be men. N.B.: I’m not claiming that trans women are men or that trans men are women. Duh. Just pointing out that this is how dumb cis people think of us.

I keep on hearing this idea repeated: MAAB trans people get negative representation in media/culture, whereas, FAAB trans people get no representation in media/culture. But! There’s actually this whole lauded motif and history of ‘women taking men’s roles’. Mostly, good things happened to them. 

For instance.

Charley Parkhurst was a famous California settler. They voted in the mid-1800s. Nobody knew they were FAAB until their death. The reception was fairly positive. 

There were hundreds of civil war soldiers who were described to me as ‘women posing as men’. I remember learning about them in middle school and high school. They were described as heroic patriots.

History is full of these stories: FAAB folk who ‘posed’ or ‘lived’ as men (depending on circumstance), and if they were caught out, got mostly praised / rewarded for it.

SPOILER ALERT: this is not what happened to MAAB folks who did the opposite.

The formula isn’t “transfeminine experiences are treated with disgust, transmasculine experiences are ignored entirely", it’s more like “transfeminine experiences are treated with disgust, transmasculine experiences are praised".

This shouldn’t really come to a surprise to anyone. It’s just misogyny.

mamamantis:

never forget that trans* women who are just trying their hardest to pass are mocked and ridiculed and called “men in dresses" but cis dudes who wear skirts and makeup are paraded around tumblr queer circles as brave creative “femme" heroes

never forget that ppl within our community won’t even blink at calling a drag queen “she" or “her" or whatever silly stage name they’ve come up with but these same ppl will turn around and moan for ages about how hard or inconvenient it is to respect a trans* person’s pronouns and chosen name

never forget that WE, cis queer people, have made the one space that’s supposed to be safe for our trans* siblings a place of mockery and harm, and we have yet to fucking fix it

(Source: baphomeme-archive)