As I'm sure we all know, this year has been a particularly rough year for trans people. November 20th is Transgender Day of Remembrance, where we remember those in our community we have lost to violence and hate. Despite the devastating new statistics shared within, I still found this article’s message about lifting up the most marginalized among us inspiring. Lots of love to all of y’all, please reach out if we can help.

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#TDOR #trans #TransRights #transliberation

This Monday, Firestorm is teaming up with scholar Zane McNeill for a conversation on the terrifying new wave of anti-transgender rhetoric and political persecution. Speaking with activists Eric King and Josh Davidson, co-editors of "Rattling the Cages: Oral Histories of North American Political Prisoners," we'll put this federal attack on trans rights in historical perspective—connecting it to repression during the Red Scare, the Lavender Scare, Black Liberation and Gay Rights Movements, the Green Scare, and solidarity with Palestine.

We'll also explore what we can learn from past struggles—how organizers not only survived but built movements under constant FBI surveillance—highlighting harm and risk reduction strategies that remain relevant today.

Find more and register to join this free event at https://firestorm.coop/events/3478-gender-terrorism-surviving-magas-war-on-trans-people.html. The recorded conversation will also be shared via our YouTube channel for folks who cannot join live!

#TransLiberation #TransRights #LavenderScare #NoTrumpNoKKKNoFascistUSA #WeKeepUsSafe #QueerSouth #FeministBookstore #FirestormCoop (- L)

Stanford Medicine is hosting a free webinar on Gender Affirming Voice Care Options on Today, September 16 from 6pm – 7pm PST. It's open to the public & will provide a safe & supportive environment to learn & ask questions about gender-affirming voice care.

https://stanfordmedicine.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_QvuU83TCT5-jAVARCZSQKg#/registration

#trans #nonbinary #genderaffirmingcare #transrights #transliberation #slp #slplife #voicetraining #vocalcoach

Hi everyone! Our next gender affirming voice meetup is Thursday, September 4th at 5 PM CST. This is the second in our six month series we’re excited to share techniques for powering your voice, & building consistency. Please RSVP here: https://www.facebook.com/share/1Ex2bSXs6r/

#transgender #nonbinary #trans #transpride #transisbeautiful #voice
#genderaffirmingvoicetherapy
#genderaffirmingvoice #transliberation #transliberationnow

August is the first of our free, six month cycle of voice groups, so we’re just getting started. Come learn some techniques for the most commonly overlooked topic in gender affirming voice training: tone!

Our voice groups are held every first Thursday at 5pm CST.

#trans #TransRights #transrightsarehumanrights #transliberation #voice #genderaffirmingcare

I was reminded of this book by @so_treu about a week ago. I’m re-reading parts of it and it’s so, so good I just want to do my part to spread the word. We are so lucky to have access to Miss Major’s story and her voice. She turns 80 next year!

#MissMajor #Transfemme #BlackTransWoman #IndiePublishing #LGBTQ #2SLGBTQIA #BlackLiberation #TransLiberation #Stonewall #BlackElder #PrisonIndustrialComplex #TransActivism

The goal of gender liberation is to achieve gender liberation for all. Insisting that people who challenge traditional gender roles must identify as nonbinary, trans, or queer is not truly radical. Limiting our imagination and falling into identity policing occurs when we insist that those who break gender norms must necessarily identify outside the traditional gender binary. Straight cis men and women also have the right to challenge and break gender rules.

As queer and trans people, we must resist the temptation to become the gender police.

True gender liberation involves allowing free expression of our full humanity and precious uniqueness, without succumbing to pressure to hide parts of ourselves. We can achieve this no matter our gender identity or sexual orientation.
#GenderLiberation #TransLiberation #DisabledCommie #Camaradademian

On the Social Construction of Sex (Part 1)
Freya Brown

https://archive.ph/o/4kyun/anti-imperialism.com/2014/02/24/on-the-social-construction-of-sex-part-1/

#TransLiberation #SexIsAlsoAConstruct #DisabledCommie #CamaradaDemian

Bourgeois ideology has long presented us with a vulgar conception of gender which reduces the essence of what it “means” to be a man or woman to a rigid set of biological characteristics. Over the past few decades, a great deal of progress has been made in exposing this idea for what it is: a set of baseless myths meant to reinforce and ideologically justify the oppression of women in our society. Among other things, the way in which cultural ideas about gender impact development has been explored rather thoroughly, which renders empty the idea that gender differences are, in the final instance, determined by biology.

In place of the biological essentialist view of gender, more (nominally) progressive elements have put forward a theory which posits a dichotomy between gender and sex. Gender, it is argued, is socially constructed, something that is performed and enforced by society in accordance with conceptions of “masculinity” and “femininity.” Sex, on the other hand, is claimed to be “innate,” based on immutable biological factors. This view still upholds an essential “maleness” and “femaleness.” Males have penises, females have vaginas, females develop breasts and the ability to bear children, males do not, or so it goes, but it is acknowledged that gender expression may not be tied to these characteristics in a rigid way. This conception of sex as being distinct from gender can still be controversial in the popular discourse, but in academia, it is today somewhat mainstream.

Anti-TERF Biology
#TransLiberation #SexIsAlsoAConstruct #DisabledCommie #CamaradaDemian

At its core, patriarchal oppression does not adhere to biology. It is rooted in the social construct of gender, where women are positioned lower on the social scale. Otherwise, it would be impossible to abolish gender—a goal of radical feminism as a solution to patriarchal oppression (since it would be intrinsic to biology). However, a certain sector within radical feminism, due to a misunderstanding of its own theory, falls into this contradictory biological determinism. These are the so-called TERFs (trans-excluding radical feminists), who are a headache for radical feminists who recognize trans realities, and, most importantly, for transgender individuals.

It is true that some consequences of patriarchy affect the biological realities of fertile cis women (e.g., abortion, the cost of menstrual products, surrogate gestation, etc.). This arises from the construct, not the other way around, as society has been built in cisnormative terms. But this does not mean that other women, including trans comrades, are free from oppression. Aggressors do not inquire about what you have between your legs to assault you; they do so based on female socialization. Are sterile cis women, who do not have menstruation, incomplete Müllerian apparatus, etc., not oppressed because we are unaffected by the oppression related to menstrual hygiene products, surrogate gestation, or abortion?