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aeliad

HI LET’S SHARE NICOLE’S WORDS ON THE SUBJECT!

It has been literal years but every time I see Martin’s tweets posted somewhere and his word is shared as truth while her post is not shared it sort of reiterates the fact that we trust men to speak about feminism more than we believe women who experience it.

Interesting, innit? https://medium.com/@nickyknacks/working-while-female-59a5de3ad266

wiseacrewhimsy

Reading her account of how their boss treated her blows me away. Men are so emboldened that they will literally admit to illegal discrimination casually and face no consequences.

the-geek-cornucopia

In all the years of seeing this post I’ve never seen a link to her side. Didn’t even know she’d written one.

pluts04

Adding screenshots of her post. His whole post is there without needing a link. Hers should be, too.

Also, she posted this is 2017! It’s fucking 2020 and I’ve seen his side of this for years, but it took 3 years for her side to make its way to my dash…

my-sins-might-be-your-tragedies

I’ve reblogged his story at least twice; it’s time for Nicole’s.

crane-among-celandines

I’d never seen either side of this before, but it’s an excellent illustrative story.

And depressing. Very depressing.

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tanadrin

Performative sympathy and performative loathing in transphobia are actually really interesting to me as a group cohesion mechanism: it allows you to paint members of your ingroup as simultaneously unusually altruistic (”we care about trans kids!”) while also giving you someone to hate (”but trans adults are evil!”), in a way many other kinds of politicized hatred don’t. There’s a little bit of this kind of thing among members of the religious right who want to portray homosexuality as a disorder or disease, but that’s an attitude that’s always struggled to gain traction because most would prefer to paint homosexuals as pure outgroup evil; and it’s hard to feign sympathy for gay teenagers if you also think they’re child molesters in the making. Actually the thing it reminds me most of is the politics around abortion: intense anxiety on behalf of unborn babies, but total apathy toward actual babies.

But unlike the abortion wars, which seem to be born out of a genuinely fundamental and irreconcilable difference in worldview, the transphobe trying to be sympathetic puts themselves in the awkward position of having to deliberately ignore, like, a lot of information. Presumably if there was a method of therapy, or a longitudinal study, or some kind of useful, generalizable description of a phenomenon which demonstrated that trans people with consistent, long-term gender identities different from their ASAB didn’t exist, they would show up to every single argument waving it in their hand. They keep talking about how transness is a mental illness, about how it can be dispelled with therapy, but they never provide an example of a therapeutic framework or even a study backing them up; and the usual conversion therapy narratives aren’t much help here, because most of these are intensely religious in character. But if you think religious therapy works, you don’t need a psychological framework to invalidate transness! Religious people can just appeal to their religion; any additional justifications are gravy.

I suspect this is why secular transphobes are so off-kilter. Religious bigots can simply appeal to their religion, then drop the subject; their bigotry might arise in conversation if you stumble over the topic again, but there’s often no persistent obsessive character to it; like the gays or the atheists or the drug users or the liberals or the D&D players, trans people are just an unpleasant fact about the world–one that fits into their worldview, which has plenty of room for People Rejecting God or Possessed By Demons or whatever it is they think causes you to play Dungeons and Dragons. Secular transphobes, and especially left-transphobes don’t have that, and they often fancy themselves as having a particularly un-bigoted ideology–fancying themselves generally socially liberal in other aspects–which means their transphobia sticks out like an uncomfortable spar; and integrating it into their worldview becomes a Political Project, or it fails and it’s just a weird topic they can never shut up about.

I forget who observed the phenomenon where as soon as somebody posts about their transphobia they never post anything normal again, but I think it applies mostly to this latter category of transphobe. You get people like Graham Linehan, who literally destroyed his marriage and his public reputation because of his monomania about trans people, when if he’d just been the usual amount of background-transphobic that’s taken for granted in Britain he presumably could have puttered along indefinitely. It reminds me of those middle aged guys who have a bad divorce and spend the next 20 years of their lives crusading about how The Court System Hates Fathers, and how All Women Are Evil Hussies, holding up signs at intersections and shit because they can’t just bad-mouth their ex to their friends like a normal person. There’s something morbidly fascinating about watching someone’s one-sided resentment burn them up from the inside.

queer things transphobia

spaceshipoftheseus

redknight7146

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queer things

definitely-ellie

Anonymous asked:

boobs shouldn’t sag like that

asirensscng answered:

what a funny way of admitting that you’ve never seen a pair of boobs outside of porn

that1betch

theslowesthnery

american attitudes about nudity are fucking wild, and the worst part is that because they’re american, they just assume that everyone everywhere thinks the same. i will never forget seeing people on a left-leaning, progressive site saying that families bathing together is creepy and gross and clearly a sign that something is wrong with the family, that they’d never seen their siblings or parents naked and would in fact rather die. meanwhile to this day i bathe and go to the sauna with my sister and mother and have been bathing and sauna’ing with various family members - and even strangers! - my whole life.

but yes, can confirm, seeing your grandma’s tits as a child does you good, and not just because it teaches you that “beauty is fake and temporary”, but because it broadens your ideas about what beauty even is in the first place. my sister and i used to spend our summers at our grandma’s house by the countryside and frequently bathed and went to sauna with her. we saw not just her breasts but also her flabby skin, her moles and liver spots, her body hair and varicose veins, and we didn’t see any of that as weird or ugly because they were a part of our grandma who we loved very much. and when we see those things in other people - ourselves included! - we think “well it wasn’t ugly on my grandma’s body, so why would it be ugly on anyone else’s body?”. it makes you much more understanding and “forgiving”, if you will, towards the completely normal bodies of strangers as well as your own body.

definitely-ellie

prostheticknowledge

Dildo Generator

Online 3D experiment by Ikaros Kappler which is described as a “Extrusion/Revolution Generator” ….

Created with three.js, you can alter the bezier curves and angle of the form, and is designed with 3D printing in mind (models can be exported and saved, as well as calculated weight in silicone).

Try it out for yourself (if you wish) here

smashbrethren

the time is now

3dboyfriends

hell yeah

yunghau5

ah yes, the ol rolling pin dilda

spiffymuffin

caterjunes

it’s called the purple ramjet

jolys

which end do you start with? the answer is yours to decide

jimblespage

shove a vase up your ass

lord-kitschener

not even jesus could save yall motherfuckers’ souls

fan-troll

i call it the matterhorn

bronzebasilisk

cackling just continues to get louder as I scroll through

picklespickleyama

i think this is the first time an internet community has discovered something customizable and adamantly refused to make penises

teapotsahoy

of course this is the post where tumblr is like “Seems sfw to me!”

furiousfran

I call this one the Megahorny

Just cram an entire table lamp up there

kingoftheunderground

Me every time this post crosses my dash:

recreationallyscolded

My laugh at this post is auditory evidence of just how sick I still am.

b--o--n--k

Plate.

broadwaytheanimatedseries

I’d usually post this to my NSFW blog but this is making me laugh so unreasonably hard that I can’t fucking breathe and therefore deserves to be on my main blog

in3ffable-husbands

Compiling some of the best ones from the replies-

ragingbookdragon

How you gonna do us like that bruh???

mysukisilentdeath

ITS BACK

ivoryjaderose

M U S H R O O M

bill-nye-official-blog

en garde

fangcore

i guess this is the long post all the gays are collectively reblogging today huh

pogaytosalad

Idk how to work it on mobile which makes me sad

atlas-off-the-string

This this fucking terrible thing just killed me

I was just scrolling and my friend asked why I was dying and i just had shown them this.

They are scared of me i think

theloisthatlikes

HAHWHWHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHSHESUAIJ

insertcommonnoun

toilet punger

alfredo-zauce

I’m fucking DYING

redknight7146

Of course no one would make an actual penis with the dildo generator, that’s the point. What’s the fun in making a penis if that’s what you’re supposed to do?

Source: prostheticknowledge

toilet punger

definitely-ellie

marmod

having a 3yo brother means i get exposed to kids’ shows way more often than i thought i would at this point in my life, but man, binge watching thomas the tank engine as an adult is a wild fucking experience

all these trains (and there’s like 20 counting locomotives alone, don’t even get me started on the anthropomorphic train cabins) are MAD competitive the whole time and will constantly fuck up their own whole day by tring to prove they’re the biggest baddest train. and like, i understand that you gotta get you plot from somewhere and i imagine plotlines like this happen in cars etc. as well, but the other day i was watching and i noticed that all these goddamn locomotives have DRIVERS in them. that apparently have no control over their train’s actions at all whatsoever. so these trains wake up, pick up their drivers, go to work, get taunted by another train who’s like “ha ha i see u there with your 4 cabins but did you know i can pull SIX cabins and still fucking book it at 80mph” and the 4 cabin train will be like “fuck it i gotta prove myself now, hook me up with 4 more cabins” and will inevitably derail themselves or some shit while the engine driver just shuts up and kicks back the whole time

i explained this to my brother and was like, is that fucked up or what, but he just pointed at the green train and went “that’s percy” so i guess that’s his take on the situation

tipsykipsy

OKAY I’M GETTING IN ON THIS BECAUSE I’M MAD AND FULL OF COLA

I worked on that show. For three hideous months of my life, I did this.

And there was this whole unwritten rule structure about the drivers and what they did and when they did it and how/when they needed to act

And there was this weird fucking balance between what the trains did and what the humans did - the drivers would only act when the train can’t do a thing by itself. Hooking up to another car? Driver does it. Need to shift from one track to another? Driver gets out and does it. Loading up one of the cars? Drivers.

See something funny here? BECAUSE I DID. What driver would hear their sentient train say “fuck it i gotta prove myself now, hook me up with 4 more cabins” and NOT respond with “Percy just shut up and drive we have people to transport or the Health and Safety committee is going to breathe fire up both our asses”???

Naw, they hear their giant fucking trains with giant fucking faces whining about how they are getting old and outdated and how they need to prove themselves by doubling their reasonable capacity and they go “welp, okay” and they get out and they hook up those cabins.

Otherwise, the trains had total autonomy to do whatever petty competitive shit the plot of the day demanded that they do. Go way too fast and end up breaking because they wanted to race a new and not outdated engine that’s actually built for speed? They do that. Go 100% the wrong direction because they wanted to show their friends a thing they got loaded up with and end up ruining it? No probbo, Bobbo. Disobey directions given by Sir Topham Hatt HIMSELF because they’re too proud? You do the thing buddy. Strain way too fucking hard to carry 8 fucking cabins when they were only built for 4? YOU GO FOR IT YOU MORON TRAIN.

SO WITH ALL THAT HERE’S MY THEORY that I had to develop because it was either that or never stop drinking ever again

Those drivers? They never speak to each other, never acknowledge the existence of any humans. They get in the train, go with the train, fix the train, load or unload the train. That is all they do.

They’re not human.

They are symbiotic extensions of the trains. They are a combination of the birds that eat parasites off hippos and fucking Boston Dynamics style robots where literally all they do is whatever shit their designated Train Of The Day deems worthy of their time.

With no task to fulfil, they are thoughtless beings. WATCH THEM. They look around at nothing. They blink. Sometimes they lean on the edge of the window. 99.5% of the time, they do nothing, they see nothing, they interact with nothing. They are shaped in such a way as to avoid unsettling the real humans of the world, but are below humans in almost every way - Sir Topham Hatt never speaks to them directly in the way he speaks to the engines.

If the train derails and it’s possible that a human driver would be severely injured? It’s fine, because they’re not actually human. They crumple into a heap of non-euclidian geometry and then rebuild themselves like an inflatable snowman. Their recovery is fuelled by the years of poor decisions they’ve helped enable - all this time they’ve been feeding off the intellect of these trains.

Why do the trains never learn from their mistakes? Why, after more than 30 years, are they still getting stuck, taking on more weight than they should know they can handle, still derailing themselves?

Because these symbiotic train extensions need their slice of the pie. They must feed. And what’s more cost effective than sandwiches? Thought. 30 years of quiet leeching, giving the trains enough processing power to do their jobs, but not so much that the trains don’t need them anymore.

The trains are in a constant state of developmental hiatus because of the drivers themselves.

NOW YOU MAY BE THINKING, this seems weird and unusual. Why would Sir Topham Hatt allow for this? Wouldn’t it be more cost effective for the trains to be able to learn from their mistakes and become better workers?

And to that I ask you… from this entire operation, hauling coal, hauling people, hauling animals, being “really useful”… what do the trains get out of this? They are kept alive and maintained, but neither are they allowed their own independent thought, or their own free time or interests. Everything they do is done under orders of Sir Topham Hatt.

And without the brainpower to devote to critical thought, they are unable to see how their petty struggles to be better than each other only reinforces the system where they are coerced into being “really useful”, above all else.

WAKE UP SHEEPLE

jerboamoe

did not expect to wake up today to thomas the tank engine discourse and unsettlingly well-thought-out conspiracy theories..but at the same time, in this day and age, i really cant say im surprised

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prokopetz

While I agree that a lot of gamers’ preoccupation with 60fps gameplay is unwarranted, it’s not true that it’s a new thing. Even way back in the NES era (i.e., the early 1980s), many popular games ran at 60fps, and it was considered the gold standard for arcade games in particular.

Now, I know what you might be thinking: how could games have run at 60fps back in the 1980s when CRT displays only had a refresh rate of 30Hz? (Well, 29.97Hz, but close enough!) This is only true of CRT televisions (CRT computer monitors typically had refresh rates of 60+Hz), but even console games intended to be played on televisions were able to run at 60fps by exploiting a specific technical quirk.

In a nutshell, if your CRT display runs on an alternating current (AC) power source, like standard North American household current, you can get a visible discontinuity in brightness if the current flips – hence the “alternating” part – while drawing a frame. If the frame were to be drawn, line by line, from top to bottom, that discontinuity would appear as a horizontal break partway down the frame; this is sometimes known as the “rolling bar” effect. That’s a problem for CRT televisions running at 30Hz, since North American alternating current runs at 60Hz: you’d be guaranteed to have the current flip exactly halfway through drawing each frame.

In order to work around this, CRT televisions would draw each frame in two passes: in the first pass, they’d draw all of the even-numbered scan lines (i.e., lines 2, 4, 6…), and in the second pass, they’d draw all of the odd-numbered scan lines (i.e., lines 1, 3, 5…). A timing circuit would then synchronise the screen’s refresh rate with the AC power source’s frequency, ensuring that the mid-frame AC flip always happened in between the two passes. This eliminated the rolling bar and ensured continuous brightness across the entire frame.

(Some sources claim that the rolling bar is a consequence of filming a CRT television using a camera with a different frame rate, and while it’s true that a faux rolling bar effect can be produced in this way, a true rolling bar is a consequence of the CRT television’s refresh rate being desynchronised from the frequency of its AC power source; this happened a fair bit in old or cheap televisions with busted timing circuits, and was visible to the naked eye, not just in recordings.)

Now here’s the goofy part: if a CRT television is drawing the even lines and the odd lines in two separate passes, obviously there needs to be a vertical offset between the two sets of lines so they don’t end up overwriting each other, right? Well, the the TV itself doesn’t do that; it relies on the signal it’s receiving to specify an appropriate vertical offset between the “even” pass and the “odd” pass. That means it’s possible for the signal to fuck around with that vertical offset, or even remove it entirely, causing the even lines and the odd lines to overlap.

Why would you want to do that?

Picture this: you eliminate the vertical offset, then use carefully timed memory management to swap out which frame is being drawn in between the even pass and the odd pass of each display refresh. You’re effectively drawing two frames per frame, each at half the display’s native vertical resolution.

And that’s how console games achieved true 60fps gameplay in 1983.

gaming history

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tastefullyoffensive

Baby steps please.

crane-among-celandines

Please Tobias, we all know you nailed the printer.

Source: tastefullyoffensive

definitely-ellie

howling-wizard

Some non-binary awareness pictures I made for a russian nb blog

yourelost-itsokay

this is a really good reminder, because even me, as a nonbinary person myself, often forget that presentation really isn’t everything

guiltyidealist

Another reason not to harass apparently straight people at pride

Source: howling-wizard

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tanadrin gcdk

tanadrin

it’s also, of course, deeply philosophically inconsistent for “just concerned”-type transphobes to treat cis bodies and the experience of cis puberty as the “default,” which seems to come up a lot in the general miasma of FUD they try to cast up. it’s pointed out that long-term hormone use and surgeries can cause irreversible changes to the body; this is used as a basis to plead for delaying action, until the trans teenager or even adult is older.

but, of course, choosing inaction is itself a choice; and in the case of some schedules dictated by genetics, it’s an explicit choice for the default. though “just concerned” transphobes leave open the possibility, rhetorically, that these young trans people may want to indeed still transition as adults, they seem surprisingly blithe about the fact that having to go through full cis puberty might make that process psychologically or medically even more difficult; naturally, they are really assuming that their child is not really trans, and this is a phase that will pass.

not only is this a rehash of old homophobic talking points (you’d love heterosexuality if you just gave it a try!), they’re betting a lot on being right. I didn’t have the language as a teenager to articulate my Gender Feelings, which engenders enough regret in itself, but if I had, and if I had discussed them with my parents only to be shot down and forced to go through cis puberty, when I knew there was another alternative, I can’t imagine how angry I would have been with them.

in that this form of transphobia centers so much on vivid descriptions of the perceived medical violation of their children’s bodies (especially their reproductive capacity! I thought we didn’t want to reduce people to their ability to bear children?) also puts me in mind of anti-vaxxers, whose anxieties about needles and chemicals invading the pure, precious bodies of their children that must be defended, a fear of contamination and impurity, cannot be overcome even when the potential risks are small, and the likely benefits enormous. Cass Eris also draws an interesting analogy to her mother hitting the roof when she found out her (adult, in university) daughter was on birth control; even well past the legal age in which we judge young people competent to make decisions about their own medical care, parental anxieties demand that their children’s bodies be under their control, and subject to their approval.

cliteralviolence

How the fuck is the puberty your body wants to naturally have not the obvious default… what the fuck…

Who did this to your brain?

gcdk

Reminder we’re talking about heavy duty cancer drugs that cause osteoporosis and reduced IQ, then extensive experimental surgery, and a complete absence of any sexual feelings whatsoever. We’re talking incontinence, dilation, we’re talking limited upper arm movement. That’s what this muppet is arguing for, instead of the “default” of…not doing that to a child

tanadrin

This post is making the rounds amongst the TERFs, so I want to use this as an opportunity to point out some interesting rhetorical tactics being used here.

First, the actual propositions under discussion are being ignored–whatever their merits, positive or negative, rather than address those they’re treated as obviously ridiculous and beneath contempt. This isn’t meant to debunk these claims; it’s meant to shore up the being-right-feeling that our brain relies on to cache complex concepts in aid of reasoning in order to promote in-ground solidarity among transphobes (”Look at how obviously idiotic our opponents are! We’re not like that; we can feel smug about that”) and, secondarily, to give people on the fence about, and who have doubts about the validity of transness as a concept an excuse to ignore the claims actually being discussed, so that they can fall back on a caricature that is easily dismissed, and feel confirmed in their opinion.

It should not be necessary, I hope, to point out that the first response (by “cliteralviolence,” which is an A+ tumblr handle!) makes barely any actual claim. It’s sort of an appeal to nature; but there are plenty of things our bodies “naturally” do which fucking suck, which we identify only as “disease” by the common shared convention that disease is 1) undesirable effects of the body that 2) cause suffering, and we want to be rid of. Genetic disorders, cancer, intersex conditions, (once even homosexuality!) are considered disease even though they’re naturally occurring, and to selectively appeal to nature to condemn something you hate, while ignoring that such appeals are a rough heuristic at best, is intellectual nihilism. The same sort of appeals have been used to oppress women, to justify slavery, and to uphold authoritarianism, so I’m not at all sympathtic! Nature frequently sucks ass, and we can often do better.

And, note, this is without getting into the scientific question of whether there are biological causes or indications of transness; I don’t know the current status of the evidence on that front, and as to my own view, I think it’s irrelevant. But if you are interested in appeals to nature, that is something you ought to be able to address.

Second–and I think this is super interesting as a phenomenon all on its own–when someone brings up the desires, intent, and harms suffered by individual trans people, transphobes switch the category under discussion. If an individual trans person would suffer from going through the wrong puberty, suddenly we move to talking about what is natural and right in general. If we’re talking about 15-17 year olds, who in most jurisdictions are competent to make many kinds of medical decisions for themselves, and who are certainly capable of accurately discussing their internal mental states with the adults around them, and having their desires taken seriously, we move suddenly to talking about literal children!!!. A post which is grounded in a discussion about bodily autonomy in adolescents and the psychological importance of, and difficulty inherent in, separating your identity from your parents and coming to grips with your own needs and wants is ignored, by virtue of pretending that the needs, wants, and concerns of people even in their late teens are identical to those of toddlers, by virtue of both occupying the same general legal category of “minor.” But, of course, the law is merely a corrupt social construct if it does something we don’t like–like sanction gender-affirming care for those same minors, based on the general agreement of domain experts working in the medical field.

Thirdly, and this is a more minor point, the claims about the nature of that care are, of course, lies. Vaginoplasty has been practiced at least since the turn of the 20th century; the first vaginoplasty performed on a trans woman was done in the 50s, about a decade after the first phalloplasty in a trans man. Thus, the most radical forms of transgender surgery are older than the heart or liver transplant, the first coronary bypass, the cochlear implant, and liposuction–none of which are considered by transphobes to be “experimental surgery.” Everything else about trans medical care is extremely well-trodden endocrinology. The only actual side effects which seem to be remotely common from puberty blockers are osteoporosis in trans girls, which can be mitigated with improved calcium intake and physical activity. Surveys on post-surgical satisfaction yield numbers in the 94-100% range, which is better than the post-surgical satisfaction of, e.g., lung transplant patients (75%-92% depending on your measure)!

We can, by analogy, play the same dishonest game with organ transplants: it’s an experimental surgery (younger than vaginoplasty!), it can have debilitating or deadly side effects, it requires taking dangerous immunosuppressing drugs that leave you very vulnerable to common infectious diseases for the rest of your life, and organ transplant patients report lower rates of employment, higher rates of stress and depression, and have on average shorter lifespans. Clearly, no one should have to endure an organ transplant–especially not vulnerable children! What kind of monster would support such a thing? Obviously that’s disingenuous–we’re playing stupid games with language to create FUD, instead of carefully looking at what actual patients report, their reasons for undergoing the procedure, and the consequences for them if they don’t. But then, so are the transphobes. TERFS especially, who want to appear sympathetic to people broadly supportive of alternative sexuality and gender expression, and bodily autonomy, and unlike religious conservatives are unable to appeal directly to their real reason for discomfort (”I find trans people repulsive”), have to play up perceived danger, and to lie about what gender-affirming medical care actually constitutes, in order to try to sway uninformed people to their side.

Finally, a word to the rare transphobe who might read this post for more than cherry-picking out of context phrases to strawman: given the intense terms with which many of you describe trans people–which I have always found puzzling–after all, you want to portray yourself as so caring about trans youth–I think it would be much more productive for you to sit with the discomfort you feel, and to turn it over in your mind, and to consider why your revulsion toward trans people necessitates such dramatic public performance. After all, presumably there are other kinds of people you find viscerally repulsive. Me, I find teens who play music out loud on the subway, people who spit on the sidewalk, drivers who pull out too far when stopped in intersections, and the neighbors who smoke outside my window all viscerally repulsive–but I don’t built my identity, or any kind of public display of ideology, around that repulsion. Trans people are a tiny and already thoroughly despised fraction of the population; if your loathing was going to make people not trans, they would have ceased to exist long ago. Much like the fatphobes who make dramatic performance out of hating obese people, and who fall back to saying they “just don’t want to support unhealthy lifestyles,” I cannot help but suspect it is not really altruism toward the target of your disgust that motivates you. It seems you just want someone to hate; and that’s fine! But don’t pretend there’s a principled moral stance behind it.

gcdk

You can hide behind excessive verbosity all you want. The truth is that the surgical and psychological outcomes are poor. The truth is that blockers can prevent any sexual desire developing, ever, and that cross sex hormones don’t replicate puberty. The truth is that vaginoplasty and phalloplasty are experimental and have high revision rates. Vaginoplasty requires constant upkeep. Testosterone use in women leads to vaginal atrophy and higher risk of cardiovascular disease. All children put on blockers progress to cross sex hormones although previous studies show 80-95% of “trans children” desist if they are not put on blockers. It is impossible for surgeons to replicate the genitalia of the opposite sex, most trans people don’t pass and studies show they are more unhappy post transition.

These are the facts. Why would anyone support putting gender non-conforming children through all this to be more palatable as “straight” adults? In what way is that serving their interests?

tanadrin

I don’t have much to add to this person’s followup except that note a classic boorish tactic in argumentation: if you skate over the details in their argument, you have no rebuttal. If you do respond in detail, you’re hiding behind words.

You cannot actually discuss ideas when someone is operating so clearly in bad faith, because the goal is not to engage with the content, it’s to deliver epic pwns your in-group can admire. In that context, citing numbers even in the most general way is unnecessary. “Outcomes are poor”–for whom? In what contexts? How is this being measured? How do you square this with the 94+% satisfaction rate with surgical transition I cited above? You don’t; it’s irrelevant. The actual experiences of trans people are not material to the argument here, since they get in the way of the (disingenuous) pose this person is striking.

Quickly ticking off the lies and manipulations here, for anyone who might be worried this person has a ghost of a point, or who encounters someone in their person life who brings these talking points up:

Keep reading

Source: tanadrin

Crane Among Celandines

See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

HI LET’S SHARE NICOLE’S WORDS ON THE SUBJECT!

I’ve reblogged his story at least twice; it’s time for Nicole’s.

Compiling some of the best ones from the replies-

HAHWHWHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHSHESUAIJ

Another reason not to harass apparently straight people at pride