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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...school-attack-caught-camera-says-bullied.html

A transgender girl accused of assaulting two students at a Texas high school alleges that she was being bullied and was merely fighting back

Shocking video shows a student identified by police as Travez Perry violently punching, kicking and stomping on a girl in the hallway of Tomball High School.

The female student was transported to the hospital along with a male student, whom Perry allegedly kicked in the face and knocked unconscious.

According to the police report, Perry - who goes by 'Millie' - told officers that the victim has been bullying her and had posted a photo of her on social media with a negative comment.

One Tomball High School parent whose daughter knows Perry said that the 18-year-old had been the target of a death threat.

'From what my daughter has said that the girl that was the bully had posted a picture of Millie saying people like this should die,' the mother, who asked not to be identified by name, told DailyMail.com.

When Perry appeared in court on assault charges, her attorney told a judge that the teen has been undergoing a difficult transition from male to female and that: 'There's more to this story than meets the eye.'

Perry is currently out on bond, according to authorities.

The video of the altercation sparked a widespread debate on social media as some claim Perry was justified in standing up to her alleged bullies and others condemn her use of violence.

The mother who spoke with DailyMail.com has been one of Millie's most ardent defenders on Facebook.

'I do not condone violence at all. But situations like this show that people now a days, not just kids, think they can post what they want. Or say what they want without thinking of who they are hurting,' she said.

'Nobody knows what Millie has gone through, and this could have just been a final straw for her. That is all speculation of course because I don't personally know her or her family, but as a parent and someone who is part of the LGBTQ community this girl needs help and support, not grown men online talking about her private parts and shaming and mocking her.'

One Facebook commenter summed up the views of many, writing: 'This was brutal, and severe! I was bullied for years and never attacked anyone!'

Multiple commenters rejected the gender transition defense and classified the attack as a male senselessly beating a female.

One woman wrote on Facebook: 'This person will get off because they're transitioning. This is an animal. She kicked, and stomped, and beat...not okay. Bullying is not acceptable, but kicking someone in the head. Punishment doesn't fit the crime.'

FB https://www.facebook.com/travez.perry http://archive.is/mnEmm

 

[Sexual Chocolate]

If I understand this right:

(Classical) Feminism: gender* isn't real, it's all a vast, right wing conspiracy by The Patriarchy that's been going on since the Neolithic

Troonism: biological sex isn't real, it's a vast, right wing conspiracy by The Patriarchy that's been going on since the Neolithic

*Tbf a lot of "gender" stuff is bullshit, but there are inevitable social and psychological consequences of the realities of biological sex which we might call "gender" and which feminist academics are obliged to deny in their dogma

They're both bugfuck insane and result from serious emotional problems, but troonism is a more aggressive social cancer (because they're men), and feminists can theoretically get better and become useful members of society while castrated males serve no social purpose.

 

[DrunkenDozing]

Good. Always happy to see bitches getting stomped on by movements they sheltered and helped along the way. It sure as shit wasn't traditionalist Catholic based conservatism that spawned this tranny bullshit. Was it?

Also I love how its always attacking lesbians. Again, gay men just dance under the radar as usual. Is it because no person out there with a functioning vag identifies as a gay man because being a male when you are biologically not carries no benefits so women dont bother?

 

[ZeeMarin]

The author is trans. shock.

This Author Wanted to See a Trans Woman at the Center of a Novel – So She Wrote Her Own

25-year-old Kai Cheng Thom talks about her YA book and representation.

www.teenvogue.com

 

[ColtWalker1847]

As a member of my generation (a millennial) who strives to be somewhat reasonable,

This is like one of those errors you get on a calculator when you try to divide by zero. (feels+agenda*millenial)/(girldick-reason)=ERR

 

[usernames can change now!]

Imagine having the audacity write "trans women totally aren't raping you" three or four times and then end your article with "but you totally need to have sex with us or you're a bigot"

The troon cries out as he strikes you

 

[Getting tard comed]

It's not really inconsistent with the core tenets of feminisms IMO. The insistence that women and men should have the same roles in society implicitly assumes that the traditional roles of women have less value. And if the differences between the sexes are essentially superficial, then why shouldn't it be possible to become a woman simply by changing your clothes?

Are the core tenets of feminism that the strength, endurance, bone structure, brain shape, muscle density, sexual reproduction, mammary differences superficial? You learn something new every day. Then never mind as Joker said "You get what you fucking deserve"

 

[trannyfucker]

https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/facebook-axes-political-ad-saying-trans-athletes-will-destroy-girls-n1240262

A political ad that takes aim at transgender participation in high school sports has been rejected by Facebook as a paid advertisement and will have a “fact-check” label applied to it if posted organically on the social platform.

The move comes after LGBTQ rights groups condemned the ad, along with two others run by the conservative American Principles Project, and PolitiFact, an independent fact-checking project within the nonprofit Poynter Institute, said that the sports ad in particular was “missing context and could mislead people.”


The ad features a male runner easily winning a race against female competitors, in an apparent swipe at transgender inclusion policies, while decrying the support of Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and Sen. Gary Peters, D-Mich., for the Equality Act, which the ad says would “destroy girls sports.”

The Equality Act, which passed in the House but has not received a vote in the Senate, seeks to amend existing federal civil rights legislation to bar discrimination on the basis of gender identity and sexual orientation in employment, housing, public accommodations, jury service, education, federal programs and credit.


The sports ad is part of a larger $4 million campaign from the Michigan-based American Principles Project, or APP, that featured two additional spots denouncing access to gender-affirming health care for people under the age of 18.

Currently, the World Professional Association for Transgender Health recommends a professional diagnosis before providing puberty suppression or hormone replacement therapy for minors with gender dysphoria.

Facebook confirmed to NBC News that the ad will no longer be able to run as a paid advertisement because of the rating from independent third-party fact-checkers. The ad can still be posted organically, but it will carry a fact-check label.

Paul Dupont, a spokesperson for APP, said the group was told it “would need to modify the ads in order to have them reinstated” on the social platform — both as paid ads and as organic posts without “fact-check” labels — though he said the group has not been given “guidance as to what changes would add the necessary ‘context’ that they are supposedly missing.”


Gillian Branstetter, a transgender advocate and spokesperson for the National Women’s Law Center, told NBC News that this ad is part of a larger “misinformation campaign targeting trans youth” that exists on social media platforms such as Facebook. Given the platform’s reach to billions of people worldwide, Facebook, she said, has a responsibility to prevent people from being funneled toward dangerous information, which could prove harmful for young people exploring their gender identity and their parents.

“Certainly it is good that they have taken the extra step of calling out this particular ad with its spurious claims and misleading nature,” Branstetter said. “One hopes that Facebook takes a larger responsibility for a wider swath of anti-trans misinformation that exists on their platform, including and especially lies about transition related health care.”

The Human Rights Campaign, the country’s largest LGBTQ rights group, lauded Facebook’s decision to apply a “fact-check” label to organic posts of the ad, saying the APP is “misrepresenting the transgender community.”

“While this is a great first step, we will continue to dialogue with Twitter, YouTube and other social media platforms to ensure that APP and their misleading advertisements are labeled for the misinformation they are or removed entirely,” the campaign's president, Alphonso David, said.


High school sports have become a national conservative talking point after the families of three high school girls in Connecticut sued in federal court to block transgender participation on the basis it denies scholarships to cisgender women. Regulations allowing for transgender high schoolers to participate on sports teams that align with their gender identity vary from state to state, according to TransAthlete.com.

Idaho, for example, recently passed a bill banning transgender high schoolers from competing in school sports according to their gender identity, but a federal judge granted a preliminary injunction halting the law from taking effect, as it is being challenged in court.

A number of conservative groups say transgender girls have an innate advantage in sports because of being assigned male at birth, despite rules in place by both the National Collegiate Athletic Association and the International Olympic Committee that allow trans athletes to compete without restriction after medically suppressing testosterone levels.

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The ad:

https://twitter.com/approject/status/1305902971264344066

says

'All female athletes want is a fair shot at competion
At a scholarship
At a title
At victory
But what if that shot was taken away by a competitor who claims to be a girl but was born a boy?
Senator Gary Peters and Joe Biden support legislation that would destroy girl's sports
They call it equality
Really that's not fair not fair at all
Vote against Gary Peters & Joe Biden, they are too extreme for Michigan'

and shows a muscular male with short hair easily winning a race against girls.

Something that would, uh, never happen

The 'fact check'

https://www.politifact.com/article/2020/sep/15/ad-watch-peters-supports-ending-discrimination-bas/

The fact check concludes, essentially

> Supporters of the bill dismiss this argument. "There may be individual success by particular trans athletes just as there are with any athletes," said Neena Chaudhry, general counsel and senior adviser for education at the National Women’s Law Center, which supports the Equality Act. Some transgender girls and women have won competitions participating on girls and women’s teams while some performed worse competing against girls and women, she said.

> In any case, she said, "women’s sports hasn’t ended."

so because the trannies haven't murdered and eaten all the women in sport yet, they rate this 'pants on fire'.

So in other words, yes, it's true that the Bill is intended to guarantee anyone claiming to be a tranny the right to beat women/girls at sport, and, yes, it's true that Peters co-sponsored it, and yes it's true that boys are winning races by claiming to be trannies, it's not really true because, uh, well, yeah.

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

Yet it is important to note that, in reality, the vast majority of sexual violence and harassment against cis women is not perpetrated by trans women. In fact, when researching this column, I could find no significant statistics at all of trans women committing violence against cisgender women, though I did find many studies reporting that trans women are at heightened risk of receiving both physical and sexualviolence, largely from cisgender men.

Based on my own experience, I would hazard to assert that the vast majority of cis women do not walk through the world in terror of being sexually harassed and assaulted by trans women. On the other hand, if you ask any handful of women (cis or trans) if they have ever been sexually harassed or assaulted by cis men, well, the answer is obvious. Men, as a category, are the primary perpetrators of sexual violence. Trans women, as a category, are most often the targets of sexual violence—just like our cisgender sisters.

It's pretty fascinating how the writer immediately switches to victimhood to portray trannies as the weak side who really deserves getting their female penis sucked by a 60 year old lesbo.

BTW, while no university would dare looking into trannies beating the shit of their domestic partner, we can get an indirect correlation by both trannies being more likely to being distressed and drug abuse as well as high correlation of domestic abusers having bad mental health and abusing drugs.

 

[spiritofamermaid]

It's Y'all but censored. The Rainbow crowd really out here trying to claim ownership of a typical Southern contraction word.

It's TRUE cultural appropriation!!

I need to go on Tumblr and complain about it.

 

[AnOminous]

Why are people electing trannies?

Why not? You won't even have to bribe them. Just put on some pronoun bullshit and you own them completely.

 

[nicetry]

Also I love how its always attacking lesbians. Again, gay men just dance under the radar as usual. Is it because no person out there with a functioning vag identifies as a gay man because being a male when you are biologically not carries no benefits so women dont bother?

i think it's mostly b/c men are more likely to react with an 'lol, fuck off' when told to examine their sexual preferences. troons are partially counting on/preying on certain aspects of female socialization to pressure lesbians into relationships that clearly almost none of them are interested in. shocking

 

[Safir]

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"If you identify as the gender your were given at birth, you are called cisgender. Other labels exist, but many people would rather not give themselves any labels at all."
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"Whatever you wish to identify as, we will respect your decision. Unless you're normal, then we'll call you a slur and you don't get to argue."

 

[melty]

So in other words, yes, it's true that the Bill is intended to guarantee anyone claiming to be a tranny the right to beat women/girls at sport, and, yes, it's true that Peters co-sponsored it, and yes it's true that boys are winning races by claiming to be trannies, it's not really true because, uh, well, yeah.

This section caught my eye:

Joanna Harper, a researcher at the Providence Portland Medical Center in Oregon published the first study examining the effect of hormone therapy on transgender athletes. The study, published in the peer-reviewed Journal of Sporting Cultures and Identities, looked only at distance runners and found that the transgender women studied did not have a competitive edge over competitors born female.

I did a little digging and it turns out that Joanna Harper is actually a trans woman and an athlete and that's why she does this research. However I also found she had this to say:

But because more than 99% of women have testosterone levels less than 3 nanomoles per liter, some researchers have suggested that limit is too high. Harper is among them. "If you're competing in the women's division, you should do so with women's hormone levels," she says. "I understand just how much difference they make."

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/07/scientist-racing-discover-how-gender-transitions-alter-athletic-performance-including

So even the trans athlete researcher who is admittedly biased thinks it actually matters a whole lot.

 

[trannyfucker]

This section caught my eye:

I did a little digging and it turns out that Joanna Harper is actually a trans woman and an athlete and that's why she does this research. However I also found she had this to say:

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/07/scientist-racing-discover-how-gender-transitions-alter-athletic-performance-including

So even the trans athlete researcher who is admittedly biased thinks it actually matters a whole lot.

More relevant is the fact that the study he conducted compared running times between a man aged 19 and the same person aged 53, post-transition, as if they were in anyway comparable.

 

[OttoWest]

This section caught my eye:

I did a little digging and it turns out that Joanna Harper is actually a trans woman and an athlete and that's why she does this research. However I also found she had this to say:

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/07/scientist-racing-discover-how-gender-transitions-alter-athletic-performance-including

So even the trans athlete researcher who is admittedly biased thinks it actually matters a whole lot.

John Harper and his study been discussed a bit in Rhys’s thread. The sample size was like 8 athletes. @Positron talked about it here as Harper was part of the whole Caster Semenya case.

ETA The author of the NBC article, Aaron “Sydney” Bauer is himself a troon and is good pals with Kyle Burns and Todd VanDerWerff. Like Todd, he’s married to a woman.

 

[Xenu Warrior Princess]

This is a bit from a professional society that I am part of concerned with a branch of biological sciences. Ticks all the bullshit boxes. Sex is a spectrum, everyone can be anything... (1)They also recently published a piece saying that the push for gender equality in higher positions of academia was actually transphobic because it was concerned with a binary and largely centred around the issues of pregnancy, childcare etc.

The pic above was published as part of their push to make everyone wear pronoun badges at their meetingst and to explain why there were (2)suddenly no more female toilets (only male and unisex). I did anonymously complain that this was infringing on my religious beliefs as a strict Muslim woman ( not Muslim but hey, might as well fight them with their own idpol weapons). So the year after that they had female and unisex toilets. Which had the men seething. Too bad this year is cancelled, would have loved to see the third iteration.

(3)But overall, same scenario. Most of my colleagues think this is either bullshit or just silly student politics. But nobody dares to say anything, including myself. Don't want to lose my career because of these depraved psychos.

1. As there are some actual issues of disparity in income or opportunities based on the fact only women can get pregnant (so may take off time from work or are perceived to be at more risk of taking time off from work), this was written by someone who is only concerned about the part of womanhood based off of cultural ideas like wearing make-up, buying fancy shoes, winery trips with the gals, etc, and not real life issues based on their biology, which males who "think" they are women do not ever share.
I can see the person saying this, finding a company or board trying to achieve "gender parity" by hiring trans women to be perfectly fine.
Sure, many TW will use up a lot of HR time complaining about being violently misgendered and require the bathrooms to be altered, but they won't waste money like those silly bio women having kids and stuff.

2. Why, when women use the bathroom for more than just peeing and pooping (periods, child-related care), have known issues with bladder issues from pregnancy (that can be permanent), they only use the stalls, and it is not just a stereotype that women take longer in the bathroom, would it EVER be "Men and Unisex"? It makes no sense. Men have 2 choices, whereas women get part of one.

3. This is called Pluralistic Ignorance
We all experience this, and I was happy a few years ago when I finally came across the word for it.

 

[Prolego]

I can't believe Native Americans are this gay and pozzed.
No wonder Whitey colonized their land with effortless glee; they let faggots run the show.

The Germans predicted this a couple of decades ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXBwnIiw8K8

 

[Xenu Warrior Princess]

https://www.them.us/story/geo-neptune-transgender-nonbinary-two-spirit-elected-official

Geo Neptune quietly made history last week after winning a seat on the local school board.

Neptune, who is nonbinary and Two-Spirit, was elected to represent the Indian Township School District in a landslide victory. The top three vote-getters all earned spots on the school board for Indian Township, which comprises tribal lands belonging to the Passamaquoddy tribe in Eastern Maine, and Neptune earned about half of all ballots cast in the race.


The position might seem like a relatively modest one, representing a population of 718 people along the Canadian border, but it represents a major milestone for Maine. Neptune’s win makes them the first transgender person elected to public office in the Pine Tree State’s history.


Prior to last week’s vote, Neptune also said they were the “first Two-Spirit person to run for any kind of office” in either Indian Township or the state at large.



“I mention this because it is a big part of who I am,” they said in a statement posted to Facebook. “Being transgender and nonbinary is part of who I am, and part of who you would be electing, should you select my name.”


In an interview with Maine Public Radio, Neptune said they were inspired to run for the school board at the urging of friends and fellow community members. The 32-year-old is an educator, storyteller, and activist, in addition to being a skilled basket weaver and drag performer. Neptune has been performing in drag shows as “Lyzz Bien” since their freshman year at Dartmouth University.

Neptune, who has previously taught art in afterschool programs, hopes to use their position to create greater access to the language and culture of the Passamaquoddy people. (The tribe consists of around 3,500 members.)

“The education system treats our own culture as supplementary, as an extracurricular activity that the kids are allowed to do, instead of treating Passamaquoddy culture and history as one of the main priorities in the education system,” Neptune told Maine Public Radio.

Although Neptune is the first trans person in Maine’s history to win election, they aren’t the first to run for office. In 2019, Bre Kidman — a nonbinary activist and burlesque performer based in Portland — competed against eventual winner Sara Gideon in the Democratic primary to take on U.S. Senator Susan Collins. Kidman finished in third in a three-way race, garnering just 5.6 percent of the overall vote.

Quinn Gormley, executive director of the community organization MainTransNet, said one of the exciting things about Neptune’s election is that it happened in an area where many people may not be aware that they know an LGBTQ+ person. Gormley suggested it could help change perceptions about rural life.

“We expect these electoral victories to happen in Portland, but often small communities are more willing to embrace whole identities,” Gormley told Maine Public Radio.

In comments to Bangor Daily News, Neptune added that they hope their community views the milestone as a moment of affirmation.

“To almost stand up and say that they’re embracing me in this leadership role as a Two-Spirit was incredibly affirming,” they said. “I feel very lucky that I live in a place where my community accepts me because a lot of trans people don’t have that.”

Neptune is not a First Nations' name.
They is appropriating the sea god from the indigenous religion of Rome (which itself was appropriated from Hellenistic nations.)

 

[melty]

Why, when women use the bathroom for more than just peeing and pooping (periods, child-related care), have known issues with bladder issues from pregnancy (that can be permanent), they only use the stalls, and it is not just a stereotype that women take longer in the bathroom, would it EVER be "Men and Unisex"? It makes no sense. Men have 2 choices, whereas women get part of one.

It's not the first time I've seen complaints that the choices are "male or unisex", ie women are the only ones that have to concede to troons. I guess it's because they think women are more accepting of troons (true) and men will complain more (also true). @Apteryx is a hero for pretending to be a traditional Muslim woman to complain, but I've also seen some women argue that it's just regular sexism. It's probably best to fight this bullshit with their own bullshit though.

 

[Xenu Warrior Princess]

https://www.dailyxtra.com/lesbian-trans-women-attraction-179626

Dear Kai,
I’m an out, proud lesbian and radical feminist who’s happily loved other women for more than four decades. (I came out in my twenties, and it was a big deal back then.) I support trans rights, but I have to admit that I am just not attracted to most transgender women, especially those who have not had surgery. I don’t mean that there is anything wrong with the way that trans women look, but it’s simply not what floats my boat. After all, I am a lesbian—not bisexual—and to come right out and say it, I just do not find penises attractive. I suppose this could be taken as offensive, but I’ve never been able to do anything except speak my mind as I know it.


Recently, I’ve heard that there is a faction of trans rights activists saying lesbians have to be attracted to trans women or else we are transphobic. This feels very wrong to me, like trying to control whom lesbians have sex with. Corrective rape and conversion therapy are forms of violence that have been used against gay and bisexual women for centuries. But then again, I recognize that I am of a “certain age” (i.e., old! ha ha), and I know I might be missing something. As a member of your generation who seems somewhat reasonable, can you help me understand?

Ornery Lesbian Dissident

Dear OLD,

Thank you for speaking your mind and asking this bold question! In my experience, it’s true that the topic of lesbian sexuality and trans women can be politically and emotionally charged. Yet I think you have brought this up in a respectful way, which I deeply appreciate. How will the queer community ever learn to get along if we don’t ask hard questions and open up deep conversations? As a member of my generation (a millennial) who strives to be somewhat reasonable, I believe that it’s especially important for queers of different ages to form respectful intergenerational connections so that we can become stronger as a movement.

Now to your question, OLD: Is it wrong for cis (that is, non-trans) lesbians to exclude trans women as potential sex and romantic partners? And on the flip side, is it wrong for trans women to advocate that lesbians should treat them as sexually and romantically equivalent to cis women?


These questions are powerful, and they have sparked no small amount of debate in recent years. They touch upon many other, deeper questions that go straight to the messy heart of discrimination, desirability and consent: Are trans women “really” women, and if so, are they equal to cis women? Is discrimination based on identity or appearance acceptable when it comes to sexual preference? Is it ever okay to tell someone whom they should or shouldn’t be attracted to?

Just reading the above paragraph sends a jolt of electricity through my body. When it comes to such hot-button—and tender—issues, it’s very easy to jump to simplistic conclusions, and to self-righteously condemn the opinions of others. Our personal histories, sacred values and political belief systems are all implicated, so the stakes are very high indeed. Our answers seem to reflect whether or not we are good people and so, naturally, we want to be right—which means that everyone else must be wrong.

I believe the most helpful and compassionate way to navigate this emotional and ethical maze is to soften our stance and take a step away from ideology (how we think the world “should” work) toward what actually works in relationships. We might think of this as a shift from a “right or wrong” approach to a “getting along” framework.

Let’s begin, in this case, with what is most obvious: That all people—cis, trans, straight and queer alike—are entitled to sovereignty over their own bodies. No one can or should tell us whom to have sex with, ever, and historic attempts to do so have resulted in terrible legacies of violence and trauma. Therefore, OLD, you are entitled to decline the sexual or romantic invitations of any person, trans women included.


With that said, I want to address your concern that a cis lesbian might be coerced or pressured to have sex with a trans woman, or else be labelled “transphobic.” I’ve seen this concern brought up a lot in the debate about whether cis lesbians “should” be attracted to trans women, and my guess is that a lot of the anger and fear that some cis lesbians have expressed about this comes from the long history of the dominant culture attempting to control and redirect lesbian sexuality. For some cis lesbians—especially those who have lived through sexual violence—being told that they “ought” to be attracted to trans women might trigger powerful, painful feelings about being coerced into unwanted sex.

Yet it is important to note that, in reality, the vast majority of sexual violence and harassment against cis women is not perpetrated by trans women. In fact, when researching this column, I could find no significant statistics at all of trans women committing violence against cisgender women, though I did find many studies reporting that trans women are at heightened risk of receiving both physical and sexualviolence, largely from cisgender men.

Based on my own experience, I would hazard to assert that the vast majority of cis women do not walk through the world in terror of being sexually harassed and assaulted by trans women. On the other hand, if you ask any handful of women (cis or trans) if they have ever been sexually harassed or assaulted by cis men, well, the answer is obvious. Men, as a category, are the primary perpetrators of sexual violence. Trans women, as a category, are most often the targets of sexual violence—just like our cisgender sisters.


Why, then, is there this idea out there that cis lesbians today are being sexually threatened or pressured by trans women who are attracted to other women? Video blogger Riley Dennis asserts that it comes from the persistent social stereotype that trans women are not really women at all, but actually men in disguise who are invading women’s spaces for predatory reasons. Yet, as mentioned above, there is literally no statistical evidence to support this idea. And while I could believe that some tiny minority of trans women are predators, that’s true of people of literally any gender.

So, OLD, I think we have established that cis lesbians are not in danger of systemic violence from trans women—in fact, cis and trans women ought perhaps to be united as partners in working against the patriarchal violence that affects us all.

But what about trans people like Dennis and writer Brynne Tannehill, who suggest that it is transphobic for cis people to not want to date trans people?

First, I would suggest spending some time with Dennis and Tannehill’s work, because they present their perspectives with intelligence and nuance. They point out that all sexual and romantic preferences are in some way shaped by cultural and political forces. We are taught, for example, that thin is attractive and fat is ugly; that young people are deserving of sex while elders are not; that white skin is more beautiful than dark skin. While we shouldn’t let this observation dictate our sexual behaviour by immediately (and tokenistically) seeking out “diverse” sexual partners in the name of political correctness, it’s worth thinking about in the long term.


Radical feminist and scholar Gayle S. Rubin observed that there is a “charmed circle” of sexuality that the dominant culture constructs, with white, heterosexual sex between married partners at its centre and sex with trans people at its farthest edge. (For the record, Rubin places cis lesbian sex just one step closer to the centre than trans sex.)

There are a lot of lessons that we can pull from this, but I think the most salient one is the issue of access to erotic love and pleasure. Both cis and trans women who love women know the pain and loneliness of being shut out of the world of erotic fulfillment. A deep and compassionate understanding of this is crucial to an understanding of desirability politics: The struggle of people who are classified as “unfuckable” by the dominant culture—or whose desires lie outside the borders of the dominant culture—to be recognized as erotic beings with erotic worth and agency.

Interestingly, my own experience is that there is great inconsistency in the world when it comes to desirability politics. Some people will immediately agree when a fat woman asserts her right to be seen as equally beautiful and desirable as a thin woman, but then will have nothing to say when Asian men complain that they are heavily desexualized in Western culture; some will argue that it’s transphobic not to date trans people but then refuse themselves to date visibly disabled individuals.

I believe this speaks to the fragmented, highly traumatized state of sexuality in our collective consciousness. Sex, eroticism and attraction are a part of our deepest selves, yet they are inextricably intertwined with violence and shame in the dominant culture. So when we talk about sexual preference, I believe that it is both possible and preferable to work towards healing our erotic selves by entering into a more mindful and intentional relationship with desire. This is decidedly not about forcing ourselves into sex with someone we aren’t attracted to, but rather about making empowered choices to experiment and expand our desire at a pace and direction that feels right.


You mention, OLD, that you are not attracted to penises or “the way that trans women look,” which I think is fair in the sense that you know your own feelings best. Yet I have to point out that not all trans women have penises, and not all trans women look the same. You also identify as someone who loves women, and I imagine that you love more than their genitalia and their outward appearance. So what does this mean for your assertion that you are not attracted to trans women?

Choosing to stay open to new possibilities while also staying grounded in empowered choice offers us a third way forward in a world where clashing ideals tell us that we can only have love for trans women or consent for cis women, not both. Yet of course, love and consent can only thrive in the presence of one another. Reclaiming control over our own bodies can sometimes open new pathways to erotic joy—throughout history, a great many cis people have discovered a deep and powerful attraction to trans people despite being taught to revile us.

So much of the dominant, colonial, patriarchal culture is about force, violence and power over others—and sex is no exception. We are taught to see each other through suspicious eyes; the patriarchy tells cis lesbians to fear trans women and vice versa. What if we made the choice to let go of the impulse to cast each other in the roles of victim and villain, to regard each other through the eyes of possibility instead? What might we see?


I see women longing for safety and love, OLD. I see women who are worthy of both. I see a sisterhood that is strong enough to heal this whole broken world and breathe a new way of love into being.

Shorter:
"Of course you have every right to decline sex for any reason

BUT

If that reason is because the woman has a Lady Dique, it is because you're transphobic, because trans women are not men."

Especially when you remember that for the feminist side, all of this shit was entirely self-inflicted.

Great plan, ladies: Boost the numbers of your side with hyper-misogynistic brokebrained Incels in skirts to own the Religious Right Patriarchy

I think a big part of this is many women (conditioned,genetically or both) being predisposed to "be nice", 'keep sweet". Shame from others for not being welcoming can be a strong force.
I was not familiar with the different types of feminists before the whole "trans women are women" mantra started being common.
The older ones I don't think ever wanted this. They might be nice to trans women, but would never back down and say they actually are women.
Women from this mindset closed down Mich Fest rather than let any male over the age of 5 inside the venue.

I knew it would be men's fault, despite apparently not involving men in any way.

Well other than the trans women lesbians with lady diques