It’s incredible how much ravage tucuteism, theyfabism and general liberal (and even left-leaning) moral performativity have caused. Like off the charts : /

What a great take! Txs ☺️

Still think that the non-transitioning people should have a non-trans label though (or be outside of the trans umbrella).

I just can’t (my nervous system risks a meltdown) genuinely share it with people who absolutely not share the same social & material struggles as I do.

WTF do you like incest? Kill yourself bitch. Your existence is an INSULT to all incest survivors. FUCK YOUR SOUL DUMBFUCK

I loooooove how you constantly EXPOSE the fundamental incoherences and deep biases of afabism / theyfabism / queertopia as well as—a classic—the everyday cisfeminist academic bullshit soooo convinced of its profound relevance ❤️❤️❤️

Oh, the classic transgender-identified cissexual ontological disgrace. These ppl really have NO shame it makes really wonder if they have any capacity for consciousness at all

This dress is EXQUISITE omg I love it 💚💛❤️

Not to question that in any way, but could you list how she exemplifies ‘traditional’ academic theyfab behavior in your opinion?

Some people really show an unwavering commitment to be professional disgraces. Sorry for that.

Trans men deserve SO much better ❤️‍🩹

Thread on the epistemic violence of single-root cause narratives against non-standard lived experiences.

Political messaging inherently requires to simplify reality. This however sadly results in flattening or erasing whole non-standard existences.

Beware the pitfalls of rankism. #DignityForAll 🎈🏞️

Reactive violence is a thing that is queers IMO do not consider enough. I know this first-hand, but I have both witnessed and heard transmascs & trans men experience the same.

I won’t be silent again.

DIGNITY FOR ALL. End of the discussion.

It’s perfectly possible to belong to a dominant group and not enjoy its theoretical privileges. Or even to experience oppression, violence and trauma on another societal sub-level.

In reality, well-polished and well-cleaned narratives seldom do truly justice entirety to the complexity of our embodied experiences. They may even harm them.

People whose experience of the world is not represented and marked as valid do suffer from another type of oppression: epistemic erasure.

Yes, we need simplified representations of reality; complexity isn’t by default made to be politically actionable.

But this shouldn’t result on the intellectual and interpersonal levels in the systematic erasure of non-standard lived experiences.

We absolutely need narratives and theory to make sense of the world, but no root-cause analogy will EVER do sufficiently justice to the incredibly complex system we are in.

I wholeheartedly disagree on the ground that multi-level oppressions (and reactions to it) ultimately target individuals whose experiences cannot be reduced to a single-cause systemic analysis only.

Afab only space

I love and admire coyotes; their ability to survive, adaptation, and tenacity has been nothing less than inspirational. They've always been here, and will still be here. #transgender #trans

Oh, thank you! This was the kind of info I was looking for 🤍

… reaping ‘inclusivity’ (virtue-signaling) benefits at the expense of the erasure of meaningful and hard-lived differences who have dire real-life consequences.

I think for them, gender is less à lived reality than a continuous aestheticized socially-rewarding performance. A theater play. 🤯🥵😱

Also, AFAB NB discourse is very ‘AFABist’, this meaning it is predicated on the widespread implicit belief that AFABs are fundamentally innocent (thus irreproachable) and function as an extension of AFAB-centric moral economies—…

Sadly, in my experience, AFAB NB continuously pull some of the most ungrounded and untethered discourse I ever read—on a level on par with the blindsided arrogance of archetypal ‘bad’ cishet white man.

Looked a bit further into this account. Felt my chest, butthole and throat and gut tighten. Blocks them. Felt a bit relieved but exhausted by this ostentatious violence*

*looks at post, then at profile of OP*

*see they are an AFAB NB lesbian*

Yes, “sex doesn’t matter”.

Those people are ontological disgraces. 🤮🤮🤮

Most journos are the very happy subservient stenographers of the social order.

If you are ever interviewed, insist to separately record the whole exchange. You’ll see how many will become nervous & defensive.

Then ask: “Do you fear accountability? Why?” What they‘ll respond tells a lot about them.

Most journos are the very happy subservient stenographers of the social order.

If you are ever interviewed, insist to separately record the whole exchange. You’ll see how many will become nervous & defensive.

Then ask: “Do you fear accountability? Why?” What they‘ll respond tells a lot about them.

I’d add to that: *while structurally preserving and expanding matriarchal cultures of social control under the guise of establishing male-free (or cis men-free in non-TERF spaces) safe spaces and fostering intragroup solidarity*.

Implicit AFAB-only (or AFAB-first) bias didn’t disappear, it morphed.

Wow! Feels so real.

Literally one of the key reasons I am on bsky. Got trashed by my local trans anar-“girls” who are obsessed with antifascism to the point of… mirror it in many ways 🤦🏻‍♀️

Scapegoating works in multiple ways, but it always hurts far less when it’s not done by ppl you consider close 🫥

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This was an extremely long explanation. I (inevitably) got carried away, but I really think it addresses (albeit partially) some of the core underlying issues in these intra-trans conflicts and enmity.

Perhaps I am wrong. Tell me.

Regardless, I wish you a very good day 🐢 🌳 🦢 ☀️

If every time we encounter a triggering ‘Other’, we feel safe and resourceful enough to try to bond over a shared feeling (like hurt, humiliation and so on), we create bridges with different alterities of the world so that might be able each time to build a little more of a more decent society.

I wish us that. I really do. To foster our sense of relatedness so that we actually *grow closer* than *more apart* even if it means accepting unresolved disagreement.

I believe we deserve that. Not only as trans people, but as humans.