I wouldn’t feel bad about not getting it, because honestly I don’t get a lot of stuff coming out of the discourse nowadays.

Yeah I’m a trans woman and calling this “misgendering” feels kind of insulting, honestly. If you say you’re comfortable with two sets of pronouns, you can’t act like it’s this massively egregious thing for people to default to one or the other. I get that people always defaulting to “cis” pronouns feels like they’re…

As a post-op trans woman, I was extremely disappointed with the genital customization option in this game. I never liked the OEM equipment I was issued (obvs), so I was looking forward to having some fun “mixing it up” in this game with a fancy RGB Gamer™ penis. But it was so uninteresting that I just went with a vjj…

Well I could understand why it might bother other enbies that they’re continuing to play on a woman’s team because they might perceive it as making nonbinary identities seem contrived or fake. But it seems almost deliberately obtuse to act as though the primary dividing line in sports *hasn’t* always been sex, and the…

To me the pedantry seems more a question of focusing on identity rather than bodies, because historically we’ve split up sports based on bodies rather than how one identifies, which is why the requirements for trans women to compete at the Olympics are about changing one’s sex rather than what one considers oneself to…

Err... why wouldn’t they? If they’re DFAB and have testosterone levels within the normal female range, then it’s largely a non-issue because the discussion surrounding trans athletes has nothing to do with how nonbinary people identify, but how “non-male” your body has to be in order to compete in women’s sports, and…

All I can really tell you is that there are many, many good things in my life I would give up in a heartbeat to be able to go back in time and stop the wrong puberty - even beyond considerations of passing, it’s genuinely traumatic, in a way that I don’t know if you really ever fully recover from.

I mean, if you absolutely, 100% have no way to get your daughter on some kind of testosterone blockers, or even estrogen (which will naturally knock down T via the HPG axis); well, that really sucks. But if there is a way for you to do it, I would definitely give it more thought.

Just wanted to chime in that there’s nothing to be afraid of - there are ton of good, compassionate, skilled surgeons out there, and new talent coming to the field now that insurance is starting to cover it more.

To say Kathy Rumer has a “reputation” in trans circles would be a bit of an understatement. Like, even the best surgeons will have some complications, mediocre results, disgruntled patients, or whatever else on their track record. But Rumer has more than the rest of the well known surgeons combined, and never in a…

Well, the fact that a game could instigate so much transphobia because of a muscular cis woman instead of *the actual trans character in the damn game* will certainly be a prime example of the Gamer™ mindset for many years.

Just here to listen to all the cis people who claimed something like this would never get made without ScarJo’s star power attached to admit they were wrong, and that maybe it made sense for trans people to stop accepting compromises at every turn and instead hold Hollywood’s feet to the fire and demand actual decent…

I mean... isn’t commenting on Jezebel armchair activism by definition?

Sex is far, far more than what parts you are born with - hormones alone control the expression levels of thousands of genes.

(I apologize in advance for any parts where this comes off as overly defensive or accusatory - I just honestly don’t know how else to describe some of these things that would accurately convey these feelings).

Objectification is kind of a complicated subject for trans women to navigate, because objectification comes in more than one flavor. In the past, the only kind of “beautiful” we were ever allowed to be was not actually beautiful at all, but heavily fetishized and pornified for the explicit titillation of men, to be…

“That’s a woman,” Berry said later. “That’s a female story. Yes, she transitioned into a man but I want to understand the why and the how of that. So I’m hoping that I get to do it.”

It’s really crazy how much changes - I remember the first time I tried to throw a football after being on HRT for a while, and I nearly threw my arm out of my socket. Like, people will talk about “oh your skeletal structure doesn’t change” and yet in addition to whatever the hell happened to my hips, A) I lost 2…

This is what drives me fucking insane as a trans woman. Because on the one side, you have a ton of cis people saying things that are just blatantly incorrect because they don’t understand just how much HRT changes your body, especially if you start young. To give you an idea, I started at 19 and the movement of my…

If it’s not a complete fabrication, chances are it was one of their own members making a few sockpuppet accounts in order to create the trans women boogeymen that they need to justify their hatred. It’s something that terfs have been caught doing in the past.