Was just going through the testosterone tag on tumblr and one trans guy had posted a selfie with the caption “Being a boy means I’m not expected to hug people I just met and I like that” Idk man I know we talk about lot of shit about straight girls larping as gay men but I just feel desperately sad about all the young women who couldn’t bare being female anymore because of how women are treated.
Anyway I think what ultimately forced me to peak trans was the realization of how ahistoric the entire trans movement is. I mean, shared history is the reason our spaces are LGB and T- during the movements of the 60s/70s/80s, all the trans people involved were also homosexual or bisexual. The gay community has a rich history of playing around with gender and expression, and not confirming to typical standards, but ultimately they never pretended sex didn’t matter. That’s why this culture of implying gay men are oppressors, that homosexuals can learn attraction to the opposite sex because of how they ~*feel*~, that anyone who is even a little gnc must not actually be a man/woman, is so insulting. It’s like spitting in the face of everything our community fought for.
gender is a collection of roles and stereotypes designed to further male supremacy while subjugating and exploiting female people. gender is inherently restrictive and people who do not conform to their gender role are harshly punished.
what this world needs is not an endless number of gender identities, but rather a lack of gender entirely. biological sex should not be tied to any preconceived notions of behavior and should only be relevant in medical and romantic/sexual contexts.
people should be able to express their full personality, wear whatever they like best, and pursue activities that make them happy without fear of mockery, violence, and/or ostracization.
in a post-gender world, everyone will be free to live their most authentic life. it is a worthy goal we should all be working toward.
since terfs/radfems/whatever have found my blog since i stood up for my friend, i just want yall to know that you’re not really that revolutionary for focusing on physical sex as an ultimate determiner of behavior and gender identity
im not saying that men are good, it’s just that not all people who have a gender assigned at birth are that gender. if you were truly gender abolitionists like some of yall say, you would be past the point of assuming that certain sexes a) correlate with an inherent gender and b) correlate with an inherent goodness/badness bc gender and sex is much more nuanced than just male/female and yall should know that by now.
also every single one of yall with “vulva” in your url is probably gonna get purged for nsfw content on dec. 17th so just brace urself for losing ur “safe space”
You don’t even know what we believe. You’re arguing a strawman that has NO relation to our actual beliefs. We’re not gender essentialists. We don’t believe that sex has any relation to behavior. That’s quite literally our point. That gender – the socialized idea of behaviors/roles/etc attached to each sex – is bullshit. You know what? Here, have it in simple graphic form.
The graphic stops just short of fully explaining why we don’t like gender. It’s not just a social construction, it’s a mechanism of oppression. The oppression of women, as well as the related issue of homophobia. Let Sheila Jeffries explain it:
Transgenderism depends for its very existence on the idea that there is an ‘essence’ of gender, a psychology and pattern of behaviour, which is suited to persons with particular bodies and identities.This is the opposite of the feminist view, which is that the idea of gender is the foundation of the political system of male domination. ‘Gender’, in traditional patriarchal thinking, ascribes skirts, high heels and a love of unpaid domestic labour to those with female biology, and comfortable clothing, enterprise and initiative to those with male biology. In the practice of transgenderism, traditional gender is seen to lose its sense of direction and end up in the minds and bodies of persons with inappropriate body parts that need to be corrected. But without ‘gender’, transgenderism could not exist. From a critical, feminist point of view, when transgender rights are inscribed into law and adopted by institutions, they instantiate ideas that are harmful to women’s equality and give authority to outdated notions of essential differences between the sexes. Transgenderism is indeed transgressive, but of women’s rights rather than an oppressive social system.
Now that you know, at least argue what we actually believe.
….gender is WAYYYYY more nuanced than that
as a gender abolitionist myself, i agree that gender and sex as an indicator of behaviors and roles is bullshit, but that DOESN’T limit anyone’s personal expression, and being trans is just one stepping stone to a larger ideal world where gender doesn’t exist except in an individual means of expression and feeling.
as an afab person who doesn’t prescribe to ANY gender identity, i know this personally after transitioning through several identities, detransitioning, and then eventually refusing to give a shit abt it.
also, gender as a social construction HAS been warped by straight cis white men in power, but one can easily subvert it while still id’ing as whatever you want to id as. the fact of the matter is gender as a construct has yet to be deconstructed, and yelling at trans women bc you only see them as the equivalent of 24/7 drag queens isn’t going to help your case OR further the progress of the cause. rather, it scares most people away outside of bitter cis women who only see femininity as one thing.
You say “i agree that gender and sex as an indicator of behaviors and roles is bullshit” but then proceed to talk about the behaviors of “straight white cis men in power”. And gender abolition is saying people can dress how they’d like and act how they’d like, and it has nothing to do with their gender, because they don’t have one. They still, however, have a sex. And biological sex DOES matter. Male and female cats act differently in a general sense, and they need different things in a medical sense. Male and female humans ALSO have biological differences that need attending to. And you’re not a true gender abolitionist if you’re just subverting it. Subversion is different than rejection, and personal beliefs are different from activism. Also, gender critical radfems say “femininity” isnt an aspect of a person’s personality, but rather a tool of oppression. So you’re still confused as to what we believe.
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