Aisling

Anyone else notice how literally nobody has ever said "you don't need HRT to be trans" outside of discussions about denial of trans healthcare?

It is your sacred duty to call those people feds and ostracize them from all communities forever

Observe this "debate" over who should decide on what clothes kids are allowed to wear. Labour say parents, Tories say the state. Both of course in total agreement that the kids themselves should have no say in it at all.

“We made a movie about your life and your struggle for acceptance and the guy who played you is going to win award!”

“Oh, neat, should I come?”

“Oh god no, sorry, we can’t accept you. Only the normal guy who played you, please.”

Interesting cycle where the signifiers of non-normative gender are vilified by patriarchal society, and so people push for "reclamation" but in this selective way where those signifiers become a symbol, a literal fetish for progressive politics rather than understood as an actual experience.

the fact that there are maybe three examples justified drawing all trans women with beards!!!

The reason people keep depicting trans women with features that cause trans women dysphoria is transmisogyny, and almost all of the time it’s conscious and malicious, not just ill thought out

have you considered that, er, there's a couple of women with PCOS who deliberately grow out full beards as an attempt to raise PCOS awareness, and this makes it absolutely fine to do the same to every trans character?

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Useful note on portraying trans women: Shaving is a widely available method by which facial hair can be removed, which in many cultures is not only something people with facial hair can get away with, but actually broadly accepted. For this reason, it's commonly done even by closeted trans women

The concept of us just being *women*, rather than 'bold challenges to the gender binary' or whatever the line is this time, is entirely alien to you.

You could totally make art of butch trans women if you wanted to, many butch trans women exist in real life! And are usually lovely! But no, it's always 'stick a beard on him, sorry, her, make sure everyone can tell, it's so subversive!'

And every time they're all oh I didn't know, oh I was just doing it to 'represent different stages of transition', don't you know there's ✨many ways to be trans✨ fuck you. You knew exactly what you were doing when you sat down to masculinise a woman in that particular way.

yes there are some trans women with beards. There are some cis women with beards. But god it's a fucking infinitesimal percentage, and yet TME pricks insist on making every other image of a trans woman bearded.

why is it ALWAYS THE FUCKING BEARDS WITH YOU PEOPLE. the features that we typically hate the most, immediately clock is as trans, and that we typically get rid of as soon as possible.

WHY DO YOU THINK A TRANS WOMAN WOULD WANT TO BE DEPICTED LIKE THAT?

I basically realised that cissex people will never be happy with any language, because the issue isn't the language itself, it's that they don't want there to be a distinction between them and transsex people

Nope, I changed my mind - it's a fine word

that being said, there's definitely more research to be done (by me, ideally. fund my postgrad stuff :D )

for those familiar with research about trans people and mental health, especially EDs - the answer is usually 'access to hormones has a massive positive effect in terms of improvement of mental health issues'

this article really is the perfect storm. bit of mid-2000s-style pro-ana horror story, bit of autism, and The Trans!!!

Except this behaviour is entirely in line with current research on autistic trans people and eating disorders. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

this series is the most ridiculous concept to come out of non-scifi trans literature but it is also the best, @taliabhatt.itch.io @tpwrtrmnky.bsky.social I love you both please write this madness forever

If I speak

at least harry potter fans are getting exactly what they deserve: raw sewage in literary form

oh, that's a labour MP who's using the murder of a trans teen to justify a measure that will further alienate trans teens who rely on the internet for a sense of community, instead of doing anything meaningful to address the rampant transphobia that fuelled her murder.

She has two names tattooed on her wrists, celebrating the births of her children. On her right hand, it says Alisha in smudgy black ink; on the left, it says Brett. For 14 years of Brianna’s life, she was Brett. Through the book, Ghey makes a clear distinction. She refers to Brett as he, Brianna as she. Does it seem like two different people? “It does, though that’s not necessarily because she went from Brett to Brianna, it’s just the natural stages of life. It was important for me to talk about Brett as well, because to understand where Brianna was at, you need to understand the whole life.”

In Under a Pink Sky, Ghey doesn’t mention the killers by name, so I won’t. But she does name the mother of the girl, for a good reason. They have become friends.

She has a rationale for it as part of her book promo.

Bonus: she's friends with the mom of one the killers.
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Esther Ghey is kind of allergic to talking about the transphobic murder of her daughter as a transphobic murder, huh

“She was completely addicted to her phone, and it was such a distraction. When she was going into the classroom, she was looking at her phone under the table or she was going to the toilet to film TikTok videos.”

I wonder why the trans kid in a violently transphobic society needed online support.

Esther Ghey: "It was just that constant pressure of social media and wanting to get those likes. One of the hardest things was learning about what Brianna was accessing online that was encouraging her to self-harm and develop an eating disorder.”

Did 'the pressure of social media' stab Brianna Ghey

Two teenagers were radicalized by the transphobic political climate into seeing a 15 year old girl as less than human. They killed the girl, and then the girl's grieving mother chose to embark on a moral panic crusade against "self-harm", acquitting the actual perpetrators of her daughter's demise.

Rosie bloody Duffield looking smug in front of the phone free education sign sponsored by the Brianna Ghey legacy foundation

When Rosie Duffield is in on it I think we can safely say the anti-phone campaign in Brianna's name is actively at odds with tackling transphobia