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Columbia University protest suppression, 4.30.24

Columbia's reaction to peaceful student protests will be taught in American history classes twenty years from now.

It won't make any sense in the future, either.

prince of egypt is not a christian movie. the exodus is a jewish story. it’s found in other religions, and can even have a heightened level of significance, like for black (specifically african american) christians. but it is a jewish story from jewish scripture written from a jewish perspective about jewish persecution. enjoy it all you want. but don’t go on about how much you love prince of egypt then erase the fundamental jewish spirit of it.

great time to bring this back.

anyway this is the only christian opinion allowed on this post.

PSA: the guardian is not working on a hit piece on diy hrt, and claims they are are misinformation

on the 18th, this post appeared on 4chan's /lgbt/ (slurs in thread: link). a screenshot was posted to reddit, then to tumblr. you've probably seen it:

today, the 23rd, another screenshot popped up on various discord servers, then was reposted variously to twitter. it shows a supposed email from guardian journalist and notorious TERF Susanna Rustin, claiming as the original 4chan post does.

it's now been shared around, and it's with good intentions. the message is useful: don't share your personal information or medical data with journalists, especially ones that happen to be TERFs.

but the post does this through misinformation and fearmongering. i'm still waiting on my response by email from Rustin, but she's reiterated twice (once, twice) that she did not write the email and is not working on such a story. on the 19th, i talked to other guardian newsroom journalists, who said they also did not know of a story's existence.

the moral of the story: this is misinformation, and it's dangerous. it spreads a fine message here, but it does it through spreading anxiety and terror.

you can follow along with this post on my parallel thread on twitter. also calling on @wakewithgiggli to delete their original post!

i was just scrolling through petfindr as i do and look at who i found

they’re beautiful.

a fun side effect of "every trans man passes easily" is that it takes the narrative around transphobia aimed at trans men from "it's barely anything, you're just being whiny" to "you deliberately brought this on yourself by making it obvious to everyone around you that you aren't a real man just so you'd have something to complain about". For bonus points combine that with the idea that trans men "play up" their agab specifically to oppress trans women and you end up with "trans men facing transphobia is indicative of transmisogyny on the part of the trans man". And now you have carte blanche to tell any trans man you want to kill himself and gain trans ally points for it. follow for more life hacks

hope it's ok to highlight these tags from prev

I’m glad you liked them! If you don’t mind I’ll take the chance to expand a little. I think a lot of this comes from a pervasive shared pain in the trans community: in many—especially queer—spaces, womanhood/femaleness is seen as inherently safe and manhood/maleness is seen as inherently unsafe. To be treated as safe and allowed to participate in safe spaces and access certain resources (e.g. for sexual violence), you must connect yourself to womanhood — which of course frequently manifests as transphobia.

Trans women are usually nominally included in the spaces that exclude trans men. But in practice all transfems are held to extremely high standards to prove they’ve overcome their perceived maleness enough to become safe, and if they don’t meet them they’re treated as invasive men making others unsafe. Transmascs, especially those that can pass as cis men, are also treated as inherently dangerous and subject to the same “I hate men” “you’re an oppressor” “stay out of women’s spaces” types of comments. However some are still able to access those spaces, be treated as safe, and have their pain and oppression taken seriously, if and only if people can treat them as women. This sometimes does mean making themselves more feminine — this is not unique to trans men, queer cis men do this as well because they are pressured to.

This is not a good thing for transmascs. It is not a good thing for transfems. It is not good for non-binary folks that people treat as “woman-lite” or “basically just a man.” None of us deserve to be misgendered, for any reason, and this treatment is all transphobic. Femininity is not inherently safe and masculinity is not inherently unsafe. We desperately need to accept this or we will never be normal about TGNC folks, ever.

The idea that trans men who don't pass are "playing up their AGAB" also fucks over nonbinary/genderqueer people. Folks who push that narrative expect me to. what. make myself dysphoric by only ever dressing like a cishet guy & binding even though I don't want to? Because existing in the ways that make me comfortable mean I am more vulnerable to transphobia. Regardless of what people assume my assigned sex was, they can clock me as trans. But if I talk about that I'm uhh fetishizing my femaleness and LARPing as TMA for fun and I should just recloset myself or shut up about being vulnerable to transphobia.

It's always profoundly fucked up to act like nonbinary/genderqueer people are somehow taking the easy route or playing up their "AGAB privilege" when we just exist in ways that make us comfortable. And it's extra fucked up to respond to our experiences of discrimination with "well you're asking for it by CHOOSING to not pass!" I am not obligated to binarize my identity & presentation to make it easier for others to ignore my oppression. If your understanding of transphobia relies on telling trans people that they are to blame for being discriminated against, or that they have a misgendering fetish for being honest about how they are treated by society, that is a deeply unwell way of thinking.

But also it makes sense because these types of people also never want to admit that being nonbinary/genderqueer can have a profound affect on your life and how people treat you. The only experiences we are allowed to talk about are the ones that align us within the preferred binary of the week.

"I am not obligated to binarize my identity & presentation to make it easier for others to ignore my oppression."

its 4/20 please take some time to remember everyone that has died / been incarcerated / lost any chance at a normal life for your right to smoke ur fuckin mids.

also remember the people who are currently incarcerated for cannabis possession/use! you can visit the site below if you're interested in helping inmates incarcerated for cannabis, they even have a letter writing program if you can't donate/fundraise

Given the type of shit they try to pass off as ‘upgrades,’ I think it’s good to delete everything past ‘illegal’ in that sentence

As of now, Florida and Kansas have passed bills that align with KOSA.

So many people have held back on speaking out against KOSA or signing petitions because "it probably won't pass." But we have proof that it very well can and will.

So what can we do right now?

The same thing we've been doing: bring awareness and protest.

Here are a few websites you can visit to sign petitions:

https://www.badinternetbills.com/

https://www.stopkosa.com/

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/02/dont-fall-latest-changes-dangerous-kids-online-safety-act

You can also call your state reps. This post explains how you can do that.

Good luck, everyone! Don't give up yet.

Bruh I lived in Kansas.....

me when i got the “sits in painful silence because idk how to introject into the conversation when its litterally my favorite subject” autism and not the “thinking about fictional characters all the time” autism

this is a way better model... you'll still get transphobic & intersexist drs of course but i prefer this to male / female or even having separate questions for gender & sex.

[we can't see the full form, but i'd suggest having a "something else" option and dominant hormone question too.]

as a cis woman who's had a hysterectomy and partial oophorectomy, this would be helpful for me, too! it'd be pointless to try to diagnose me for disorders that affect organs I don't have anymore, after all.

being inclusive helps us ALL. 💖

we could probably calculate the amount of man hours wasted on testing trans women and women who have had hysterectomies or oophorectomies for pregnancy every time they're admitted to the emergency room and justify it on that basis alone.

it really is crazy how women abusing men is still regularly (if "jokingly") viewed as a positive thing. like literally today i was talking to someone about having watched both misery & sunset boulevard in a film class & both of those being about men being abused by women & the person's response was smth like. haha yeah that's so empowering. like obviously these are fictional characters but y'all realize that treating individual human men like poppets to punish Mankind for it's Sins is fucked up and evil yeah. also this directly translates into how trans men are treated as free punching bags for people to take out their anger at more powerful cis men. idk call me crazy but i feel like if you can't hear about men being abused by women without making a "joke" about it maybe you just have a deep problem you need to work on

Someone tell me where to send my partner, they need a job so bad