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Subtlety isn't everything - Alan Rickman.

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I really don't think it's helpful for passing trans guys to make gotcha posts saying they're going to use women's facilities. There are many trans/gnc who still use the women's toilets because they have neither the plumbing nor profiency with an stp to use the men's, or they aren't binary trans. /1

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

GC feminists are the ones who counter objections to their ideological bedfellows on the right by saying 'At least the Taliban know what a woman is' precisely because they define women by suffering. If the lot of women improves, there is no way for these specific women to be the clique leaders. /1

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

Yes, exactly this. I've been trying to explain this to people for ages. I genuinely think the reason UK terfism is closed off to this is because its cradle was Mumsnet.

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This is so significant. Very often it's "I can't help being this! Who would choose it?!" as a way to justify our existence. But this is the pitfall of Born This Way narratives as anything other than celebration. Me. I would choose it. It's the system that is broken & suboptimal, not me.

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To my UK 🏳️‍⚧️ friends - much love. I'm sitting processing the feeling of having escaped a collapsing building while feeling powerless to help the others still inside. Solidarity, always.

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I realised gender criticals don't genuinely care about vulnerable folk & gender affirming surgeries when I suggested psychological assessments on all surgery. I was shouted down by GCs who wanted facelifts/boob jobs without having to prove anything. They just didn't want trans ppl to have that. (1)

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

This is the most fundamental progressive value, currently lost in a sea of bs authoritarian talking points cloaked in concern-trolling from open conservatives and those who claim to be traditionally on the left.

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What is so blisteringly ironic is the GC feminists who lean on the fertility of trans people as a main lever to obliterate proper care for us. The way they deliberately reduce humans to breeding stock with value defined by reproductive capacity is so profoundly anti-feminist it makes me gasp.

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First real Monday in Canada. It still feels like a vacation, which is no bad thing after non-stop grafting for the past few years. I suspect it's going to take a while for that sensation to dissipate. I made her coffee this morning before she left for work. I'm deliriously happy.

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I endured both. Anti-trans campaigners in the UK are currently trying to squash any legislation to end these practices. They're willing to wink at horrific coercion and abuse of people with variant orientations just so trans folk (who are in that demographic anyway) can still be harmed.

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I've been assaulted by cis men in the course of my life, but the only people who have ever assaulted or harassed me in a 'single sex space' have been cis women. When I tell gender criticals this, they minimise, dismiss it, or call me a liar. They only care about 'safety' as a rhetorical device.

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'The safety of women and girls' is code for 'Sometimes we protect compliant females'. Gender Criticals will tell you their 'concerns' are for the safety of women & girls, but when trans or GNC people are assaulted, the responses reinforce that what they mean is, it is the lot of women to suffer. /1

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

My brother is mentally and physically disabled. Today, I spent some time with him before I leave the country. We went to a cat cafe and I sent him some pictures afterwards. He texted back, "Thank u kay" It's the first time he's used my actual name rather than my birth name. 🥹 ‍🏳️‍⚧️

submitted 27 days ago • 2 comments

Sullivan was a panelist at the first LGB Alliance conference. Just sayin'

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

That moment of nostalgia on the closing night of the gay bar of your youth when you find yourself being read as a cis gay man and caught in the butch or gay man vortex and propositioned as a third. The signal it was time to make a polite exit and take the compliment 😆

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

A stranger who had been sat next to me in a cafe today asked me if I'd ever had a macchiato. I haven't. He said, "You should, mate," and then he left. So I'm having one. Feels oddly like taking Communion.

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I'm now in free fall, having finished work & packed my stuff, ready to move out of my digs this weekend. I'm sitting with my feelings rather than self-medicating them away. I am happy, scared, excited, hopeful, curious & mourning a life here that never truly happened. I'm done with half measures.

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

Two weeks left in the UK. I think this might be the biggest thing I've ever done.

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

If you have to check our genetics (because hormone testing won't show anything) to make sure we are "biological females" then there is no reason to check. It means you cannot tell from our appearance performance or hormone levels.

submitted 33 days ago • 5 comments

1 year on T. I'm sure plenty of folk can wax lyrical about phenomenal changes, but I'm still the same dork, I just have sideys now. T isn't a mystical switch. It's helped small things, but I feel more like me. Who others perceive isn't really my concern. I'm fond of the guy in both pictures.

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

When you get all spruced up to visit friends and you get the top deck of the bus to yourself like it's a big personal limo.

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As detransitioners will be weaponised today, I will point out again that conversion therapy has always targeted gender as well as orientation. I was an ex-gay for many years after it, determinedly trying to be a 'real woman', which was only partly about being straight. I was neither cis nor het.

submitted 47 days ago • 0 comments

As is usual in my long-distance relationship, I sent my lady a selfie today. I was going for casually sexy smoulder, and then I noticed a plastic banana on the bed above my head, which rather dampened the smoulder, so I just went with it, cos I'm just that kind of versatile guy.

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