annatleigh.bsky.social
Transfem, bisexual, baeddel, developer, left libertarian, she/her.
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...probably because the average user has no idea how this thing works, and believes it's just "twitter, but without the hatred* "
(* as long as bsky.app remains the only mainstream entrypoint)
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Usually these kinds of cryptography/blockchain-y/uncensorable projects disproportionately attract different quadrants of the political compass.
Bluesky somehow managed to attract the (mostly anti-tech) left
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Also interesting alternate acronym for anti-trans feminists, that you chose based on toilet humor. Totally doesn't trivialize the issue.
I'm sure your fellow 12 year old classmates will burst into laughter when they hear it.
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Not you specifically, just an observation on how many pro-trans feminists remain pro-trans only as long as you never meaningfully contradict established feminist doctrine
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Funny how even when they're allegedly pro-trans, many feminists' knee-jerk reaction to trans women expressing skepticism to feminism as a real-world movement is "how unfair to say that feminism has a deep problem of transphobia, you ungrateful tranny!"
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I do believe in autonomy.
Feminism? Well basically half of feminism is on a perpetual mission to remove individual liberties, in the name of "well we women/afabs are actually unable to consent to X, Y or Z"
- IVF
- Surrogacy
- Sex work
- Pornography
- HRT / testosterone/ FtM transition
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"Feminism" is an empty container for "whatever at least one [cis] woman ever claimed is good for fellow cis women".
It's not a coherent set of beliefs, only appeal-from-authority vibes.
Often even anti- personal freedom.
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Crusaders were literally anti-Christian.
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Also they're *not* a small minority. They were instrumental in the history of feminism.
I'm more open to no-true-scotsman Scientology as a (not true) religion, than terfism as (not true) feminism, by numbers alone.
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🔮 it genuinely hurts that someone could look at a cissexual nb and think that we share anything in common to be honest. our needs and outcomes and history are so different but only one of the two tiny groups is given any oxygen
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And who could forget the girl with the heavenly harp getting loicence-check'd by an outraged Bri*ish woman
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The country where the police knocks on your door if you make a rude post, or one that offends some GC/journalist.
The country where even moderately wealthy people routinely send SLAPPs / legal threats people who are rude to them.
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If there's one thing that we've learned in the past six months, it's that no gun, when handed to the State, will go unfired. Any vagaries will be exploited, all possible pressure will be brought to bear, all faith will be bad.
As Prof. Miers points out, Take It Down is about exploitable as it gets
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Imagine an alternate universe where the (arguably correct) version of that tweet is actually the mainstream one.
>Hey enbies! Don't forget to uplift transsexual women in your activism! It's important to recognize our privilege as folks who don't medically transition!
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This is how it went for me (quoted thread 🧵)
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They don't act like allies.
They act as entitled spokespeople of the trans community, while experiences few or none of the challenges we face.
They hijack our movement from within.
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This. The taboo has been broken, their reign of social ostracism (if you ever dare disagreeing with the cissexual majority and their academic pet theories) is no more.
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Our topmost concern is the government taking away our HRT.
Meanwhile, cissexuals' topmost concern is always "a binary tranny made me feel unincluded in this tweet"
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Oh no, how could I forget that nontransitioners are the main victims of transphobia and that we are binary trannies are the hegemonic privileged ones
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Imagine an alternate universe where the (arguably correct) version of that tweet is actually the mainstream one.
>Hey enbies! Don't forget to uplift transsexual women in your activism! It's important to recognize our privilege as folks who don't medically transition!
>💬 142 🔁 7.3K ❤️17.5K
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Oftentimes not even equally, but specifically worse.
>Hey folks! If your trans advocacy doesn't include non-binary folks, and folks who don't medically transition, then who is it for!
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is a completely normalized/approved tweet format. Guaranteed upvotes.
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Transsexual women are the only minority that is constantly policed by the members of their own community over not sufficiently centering people who are not part of that community.
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And all she did was some very mild criticism of pronoun circles, and pointing out that transsexual people (who transition) experience society differently from those who don't.
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Anyone who prefers to center transsexual people (on HRT) in our activism, rather than all the countless non-transitioners with their out-of-touch views and cissexual/agab-typical experiences.
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Then the meaning of "transmed" slowly morphed into "anyone who acknowledges that there's a difference between transitioning and not transitioning"
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"Transmed" originally meant "making HRT access more difficult/gatekept" (RLE, months/years of mandatory psych sessions, no informed consent). That's how "transmed" got its (justified) bad reputation.
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My first and only focus has been on trans women, the trials they face, why that happens, and the mechanisms at play, and personally addressing them directly within my communities. The reason I don't spend any time trying to give an olive branch or bridge shit is because it literally never works with
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Part of the broader trend of "it's not my job to educate you"
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We should just stop calling all those non-transitioners "trans".
It brings us zero benefits, only downsides (being constantly spoken over by a massively larger group of people who share few or none of our life experiences)
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They'll never be happy unless you always agree with them, no matter whether their points are ineffective/unreasonable/nonsequitur/counterproductive for us.
I personally just said 'enough is enough'; I don't care anymore if I offend them or if I get blocked by half of them.
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Even the most milquetoast critiques of established trans doctrine (e.g. pronoun circles) have received disproportionate outrage/cancellation in the past
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But at least I believe things are slowly getting better compared to 3-5 years ago.
The two kinds of ""transmedicalism"" (good and bad) were always lumped together and conflated.
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Yeah also us capitulating / being bystanders is also how queer cissexists/transmisogynists maintain (or have maintained so far) their control over the trans community.
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I agree with her on some topics (speaking out about cissexism and transmisogyny) and disagree on others (suggesting fem-leaning twinks to consider HRT being bad/good).
That said I don't generally do follow-policing.