Heute gedenken wir all denen, die nur ihr Leben leben wollten, es aber verloren, weil sie trans waren. Und wir gedenken all denen, die dafür gekämpft haben und kämpfen, trans Personen zu schützen und ihnen gleiche Rechte zu sichern.

Trans Rights are Human Rights!

#Trans #Transsexuality #LGBTQIA #TransDayOfRemembrance

Under the skin.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=7wTIpR1l6eA&si=ICom98iAmlXcngcQ

After years away from home, Duna returns to her home village to be reunited with her ill father. Upon arrival, she will feel rejection and misunderstanding about her #transsexuality.

"Insisting on clumping such disparate groups together, and referring to them with the same term, means emphasizing their similarities while also disregarding their differences. When those differences are substantial and relevant, and have widely varying implications for the everyday lives of these distinct groups, glossing over this can be a disservice to everyone – both the many groups who are now seen as fused into a single mass, and the people on the outside who are trying to understand who and what we are."—Zinnia Jones

The Worst Assimilation Of All >

https://nosuture.blogspot.com/2021/12/the-worst-assimilation-of-all-how.html

#essays #gender #assimilation #liberationism #umbrella_term #trans #transgender #transsexuality #drag_queens #differences #oppression #assimilationism #cis_normativity #normativity #women #trans_women #constraint #discrimination #misconceptions #drag #confusion #clarification

#Jesus war eine transsexuelle Frau, gefangen im Körper eines Mannes!

#Jesus was a transsexual woman trapped in a man's body!

#religion #catholic #evangelical #church #trans #transsexuality #transgender

@derspiegel_de

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The bill massively interferes with individual rights: Two Republican senators in the US state of Arkansas want to dictate to minors which hairstyles are allowed and which are prohibited. #Arkansas #Education #USA #RepublicanUSA #DonaldTrump #Transsexuality #Education

US state of Arkansas: Republicans want to penalise short hair hairstyle for girls

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Early-on in my reading of this essay i was aggravated & incensed about some statements that IMO are inflammatory & presumptive, predicated on ignorance, assumption, & doctrine, not lived experience. I had intended to quote them here & argue against them. Then as i read on & realised it's a very long essay, with numerous other contestable statements, i grew weary of the challenge, & resigned to the futility, given that historically almost all my prior posts/toots in this space have been summarily ignored by the fediverse. I'll therefore restrict myself to this solitary plea, to nobody in particular, & the universe in general.

Please please please, vanilla peeps, stop imposing your ignorant bigoted presumptive, sometimes hate-based, perspectives onto us, & instead actually listen to us, we with direct lived-experience of the agonising pain of #GenderDysphoria. Let's make a pact, if you like; we'll not try to tell you how to feel about your "cis-het"ness but instead believe you when you describe it, & you can fully reciprocate with us; ok?

#trans #transgender #transsexual #transsexuality #transition #Gender #GenderIdentity

Two interesting #ABC #podcasts, for those interested in #LGBTQIA+ matters, &/or specifically #Trans matters.

Re the 2nd one, i felt conflicted.

Pros:

• correctly gave the historical context of the term #transgender as an umbrella category, which IMO has been badly lost / obfuscated / purloined in more recent times
• correctly acknowledged that this is only an act of public defiance for some in this community [like them], whereas for others it's born of desperation, & for others it's a question of authenticity

Cons:

• unfortunately defined or alluded to "the transgender experience" as a subset of "sexual minorities". I am contemptuous of this error every time i hear it. The entire point of #GenderIdentity is the fact that one's sex, sexuality, & GI are discrete separate items. They are not synonyms. My several decades of #GenderDysphoria, leading ultimately to professional diagnosis & my own internal recognition & acceptance of my #transsexuality, which in turn lead to a decision to #transition, had nothing whatsoever to do with sexuality. It was a necessary journey to validate & affirm my correct gender, which had zero to do with who i wanted to shag [that, btw, is instead a question of sexuality, a different matter, ffs]. It's frustrating enough when #Vanillas make this error, but really galling when those "on the inside" also do this falsehood.
• their insistence on delineating "transgender experience" as a preferential definitional / categorisation device, in lieu of "transgender identity", lacked logic & lived experience IMO. They argued their term better included those who are not "transgender" but are "gender non-conforming". Oh bullshit. Oh crap. Oh steaming donkey doos. There's a bloody reason why the latter are not the former; they're simply different things altogether, damnit. I'd expect a malevolent #Vanilla to try this rubbish on, but not an "insider".
• more than once the expression "gender deviance" was used. I mean, ffs, come on!!! 🤦‍♀️
• late in the podcast they said "seeking gender-nonconforming life for trans people", which i didn't properly notice on my initial listen. Having now heard it clearly on my repeat listen, i feel it probably confirms a growing suspicion i'd had earlier in the interview, that the interviewee might have been coming from, & only talking about, the #transfem or maybe even #crossdressing portion of the spectrum, but excluding the #transsexual part of the #transgender family. For me, & 100% of the dozens of other women fellow-travellers when we pursued our transitions 20 years ago, the objective was absolutely NOT "seeking gender-nonconforming life", coz bloody hell that had been our curse since birth; instead we were actively "seeking gender-conforming life", as the women we are, but had been born wrong. This omission / blind spot of this speaker does not invalidate their perspective at all, but listeners should clearly grasp they are absolutely not speaking for the entire TG family, only part of it.