As another trans woman who was circumcised at birth and not thrilled that it still goes on, you really need to cut this bullshit out. Even if you sincerely believe that a circumcision is comparable to a clitoredectomy (lol) I can guarantee you that all you’re doing right now is pissing off would-be allies and giving…

No there’s really not much doubt. Citing Paul McHugh for anything related to LGBT people is like citing Charles Murray for why white men are inherently superior. The guy is a far-right Catholic extremist who has it out for LGBT people and trans people in particular. He’s basically the 1% of scientists claiming that…

I don’t think you can attribute the godawful comment section from Raquel’s Monday article to trolls. I love reading the Root because as a white trans woman I’ve found myself agreeing so hard with all the black feminist/womanist critiques of White Feminism, but seeing how many “I’m not racist transphobic but...”…

Thank you so much for sticking up for us, Kelly. It means so much to me that you could do it even with all you’ve just been through. I wish all cis women were like you.

This is why I could never date a chaser, despite craving the physical intimacy that has eluded me since I transitioned almost 10 years ago. You’re looking for love, and all they want you for is a cheap thrill, something as easily discarded as the browser window on their favorite shemale porn site.

I didn’t say “everyone who hates trans women is secretly a chaser.” I said that the kind of guys who go out of their way to stalk and harass trans women and waste a significant amount of time they could use to do literally anything else usually have something deeper going on than a simple dislike for us. Protest too…

Speaking as a trans woman, what’s going on is pretty obvious from my perspective. Notice how many outspoken conservative homophobes get caught with a young male “assistant?” The kind of guys who are committed to this level of harassment - well let’s just say that pizza probably isn’t the only thing they enjoy more…

What you said applies to trans women as well. We also get beaten, murdered and discriminated against in a whole host of ways if we do not conform to the typical patriarchal standards of what a woman is “supposed” to look like. We also have the threat of being thrown into men’s prisons when we fall out of line (aka…

The problem is that literally everything you said also applies to cis women. All the other Vogue cover models are complicit in propping up this system of traditional femininity, except that they outnumber us by orders of magnitude, and thus wield far more power and influence in setting the standard and are far more…

But judging people based on physical appearance is the reality of our lives, and it’s unfair to expect trans women to be out on the front lines of a system we have zero power to change. The obsession with women’s physical appearance is a standard that marches along whether or not trans women are a part of it, and it…

Narrow definition of feminine beauty? Have you ever seen a Vogue Magazine before?

I understand your point but the word ‘beauty’ is used in reference to cis female bodies literally thousands of times a day. This is a pretty nice victory for normalization of trans women’s bodies, and a tiny drop in the bucket in terms of society’s obsession with women’s physical appearance. It’s really not the…

Speaking as a trans woman, you’re technically correct but only really because of how low the 2nd wave set the bar with their bald-faced bigotry against trans women. The way we get treated by 3rd wave white women is more akin to how they treat women of color: fair-weather friends who are thrilled to have us around when…

I can’t even wrap my head around the otherkin thing. Like, what are you even trying to accomplish? What are the political goals?

How? We’re a tiny, powerless minority that can’t even get taken seriously about our own issues and already leans overwhelmingly liberal/Democratic. (Which to be blunt, is not something you can say about the 54% of white cis women who voted in favor of Trump). Even if we weren’t, if we spoke out against reproductive…

I’ve never really understood that either. For me trans is just a convenient label to describe a particular set of experiences and issues rather than an identity. And rather than focusing on the fact that not all women have uteruses, in this context I prefer to think of it as just another reason why a woman might not…

Yeah the Tumblr SJW scene is full of young kids trying to “out-purity” each other, and they invariably get the most attention as the most extremist members of any demographic tend to. Honestly I’m still not entirely convinced this isn’t a 4chan joke that got waaaaaaay out of hand, but even if that’s not true most of…

I’ve never met a single trans woman who thinks this way, but I’ve met some trans guys who get annoyed at their body parts being coded as female. However, I’ve seen about a million trolls behind sock puppet accounts claiming to be trans and make the most outlandish claims in order to make us look like loons.

Can you cis people stop trying to justify your vindictiveness by claiming your real concern is how unfair this is to other trans people? Because you don’t really give a shit about them and chances are you’d bitch and moan just as much if she was a perfect law abiding citizen whose surgery was covered under a plan that…

Well as a trans woman, I certainly know how much Germaine Greer hates me.