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Anna Leigh 🏳️‍⚧️ @annatleigh.bsky.social · 1d

Do the normies need to know the exact dosages? Of course not.

Should they know it changes fat distribution, muscle mass, and lowers libido, and that its effectiveness drastically depends on age /early access?

Absolutely yes

Instead all we got was "pronouns & identities". Fuck mainstream activism.

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godslayer @bitdizzy.bsky.social · 19h

"the attack on trans healthcare is an escalation in hatred against queer people"

That we are specifically the target—trans people, our healthcare— reported by an account specifically for trans news— can't even go a single sentence before the emphasis is on how queer people are the target.

Why.

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Anna Leigh 🏳️‍⚧️ @annatleigh.bsky.social · 20h

Eh, most sites with non-garbage categorization (esp. pre- User Generated Content) would clearly distinguish "Transsexual/Tranny/Shemale" vs "Transvestite/crossdresser".

It's mostly nowadays with validity and UGC/poor labeling that you see no-HRT John 50 crossdressers under "Trans/transsexual"

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Anna Leigh 🏳️‍⚧️ @annatleigh.bsky.social · 20h

But particularly since the early/mid 2010s, it sounded like "hey, trans woman on HRT, you *must* jump on the transgender political bandwagon" in order not to be definitionally obliged to want bottom surgery.

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Anna Leigh 🏳️‍⚧️ @annatleigh.bsky.social · 20h

"You *must* want bottom surgery" [in order to get HRT/be transsexual] was mostly an inside concern / medical gatekeeping, rather than something that the average normie understands as a definitional requisite for "being a tranny/transsexual"

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Anna Leigh 🏳️‍⚧️ @annatleigh.bsky.social · 20h

Tbh even before the 2010s, the mainstream/normie understanding of "Transsexual" didn't generally imply "had bottom surgery".

E.g. your average porn site's "Transsexual" category would include (or actually be even fully dedicated to) "girls with dicks".

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Anna Leigh 🏳️‍⚧️ @annatleigh.bsky.social · 23h

..whenever you want to win an argument with a trans woman.

That's just twerfism but without our ability to call it out because "technicality we're both trans".

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Anna Leigh 🏳️‍⚧️ @annatleigh.bsky.social · 23h

Some people will call me "anti-transmasculinity" for this politically incorrect observation.

But hey if someone openly wants to become a big gigachad with muscles and beard, great. Clearly masculinity is not the problem here.
It's the "don't transition and revert to cis womanhood whenever.. /1

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Anna Leigh 🏳️‍⚧️ @annatleigh.bsky.social · 23h

That's a big asymmetry in the trans community.

Trans women want to transition, to be women.
But with many transmascs you get sometimes the feeling that they just want to be AFAB/women 2.0

>"Malgendering is when I am gendered as a man"

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STARTERPACKSHIT POSTOID @bsky.app.darkwo.ke · 1d

people try to tell me there is no difference between my sisters and someone like that and if we say there is a difference we are being cruel

my skin is not a fursuit for the gender fandom

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Anna Leigh 🏳️‍⚧️ @annatleigh.bsky.social · 1d

I don't care.
I'm proudly transmed (the good type).
I'm pro-HRT, and I'm tired of pretending "we're all in this together"

Anna Leigh 🏳️‍⚧️ @annatleigh.bsky.social · 15d

I think the ubiquitous conflation/ambiguity of "transmed" between
- "HRT access should be restricted/gatekept"; and
- "HRT matters, transsexual experiences differ from those of non-transitioners"

caused many trans people to instinctively side with the tumblr-validity side

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Anna Leigh 🏳️‍⚧️ @annatleigh.bsky.social · 1d

Do the normies need to know the exact dosages? Of course not.

Should they know it changes fat distribution, muscle mass, and lowers libido, and that its effectiveness drastically depends on age /early access?

Absolutely yes

Instead all we got was "pronouns & identities". Fuck mainstream activism.

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Anna Leigh 🏳️‍⚧️ @annatleigh.bsky.social · 1d

If, when asked to educate/talk about trans women, you used any definition other that "anyone who identifies as one", you'd be super-canceled.

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Anna Leigh 🏳️‍⚧️ @annatleigh.bsky.social · 1d

We're not allowed to educate the public about our own priorities and experiences.

During peak woke era (2019-2020), every, EVERY Twitter thread about transition/HRT had to have someone always chiming in with "but not everyone transitions!1"

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Anna Leigh 🏳️‍⚧️ @annatleigh.bsky.social · 1d

I was onboard when non-transitioning non-binarism still had some androgyny/GNC connotations.

But then "X people don't owe you X" got mainstreamed, and it opened the floodgates for 100% AGAB-typical cis people to "identify" as trans, all while larping as being the uwu oppressed underdog.

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Anna Leigh 🏳️‍⚧️ @annatleigh.bsky.social · 1d

The average normie person knows today no more about HRT than they knew in 2014.

Yet everyone and their grandma knows about "pronouns and identities".

Mainstream trans activism is now the activism of the "Words Must Mean Nothing" cis community.

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Anna Leigh 🏳️‍⚧️ @annatleigh.bsky.social · 1d

>splinter ourselves off
I also used to be "oh good, more people for our movement"

But look at the actual consequences of that kind of activism.
We just imported cis/cis-like people into our movement, which then proceeded to miseducate the public about our needs and experiences.

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Anna Leigh 🏳️‍⚧️ @annatleigh.bsky.social · 1d

But us transsexuals having words to delineate our own in-group and out-group, with all the real-world consequences that transsexuality/HRT entails?

Sorry but that's non-negotiable.
We're tired of your thought-terminating-cliche of "transmed le bad", used to constantly police our activism.

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Anna Leigh 🏳️‍⚧️ @annatleigh.bsky.social · 1d

"Transmedicalism" is now a pointless word, because there's no commonly shared understanding of the term.

Restricting access to HRT is clearly bad, and the mean girls cluster overwhelmingly opposes that. 1/

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Anna Leigh 🏳️‍⚧️ @annatleigh.bsky.social · 1d

>Vague non-controversial queer 101-style definition

Much like history is written by the winners, queer/trans educational content is written by a numeric majority of wide-umbrella transgender people, and by transsexuals that don't dare to criticize them (many!)

A tenderqueer posting a screenshot of Wikipedia containing a vague and tender-approved definition of transmedicalism

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Zombie Allison Parker @itszoeallison.bsky.social · 1d

I think my fear of cis lesbians and my fear of transmascs stem from the same place, well kinda… no cis lesbian has done… let’s just say *that* to me.

But I think a large part of it is that I understand both groups are involved in online spaces that are heavily infested with TERFs.

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Anna Leigh 🏳️‍⚧️ @annatleigh.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah by the time they backstab you, it's already too late to change your mind and become more cautious about this whole "cis lesbians are our best allies" meme.

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Anna Leigh 🏳️‍⚧️ @annatleigh.bsky.social · 1d

Oh yeah I also got canceled a few weeks ago by many in the transfeminist cluster [Author subcluster] for questioning their "always side with the cis lesbians" policy

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Anna Leigh 🏳️‍⚧️ @annatleigh.bsky.social · 1d

When drafting that post, I was about to write "barbie" but then opted instead for "disney princess"

"Disney princess" implies "traditionally feminine woman whose life is perfect"

"Barbie" is in many feminist spaces interpreted as "frivolous feminine woman that hasn't read enough radfeminist books"

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Anna Leigh 🏳️‍⚧️ @annatleigh.bsky.social · 1d

>cis lesbians and transmascs [...] the same amount that I fear cis men

Their modus operandi are merely different from those of cis men, but that doesn't mean they aren't able to destroy our lives on a whim.

Tumblr post by deirdreskye:

Straight trans girl problems: your Navy reserve officer boyfriend murders you because his friends saw you together at Olive Garden

Gay trans girl problems: your ex-partner and rapist Sock has convinced everyone in your city that you are a racist pedophile

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