Tell her she has cis privilege and move on
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Having a penis is so great I’m having 5 more surgically attached
BE NOT AFRAID
causing a stack overflow error to fix bottom dysphoria
This created quite the images in my mind
NSFW but only in a literal sense, it’s not that weird: if you took off his boot you would see the dicks growing out of his feet
You know what this sounds like to me? The gender equivalent of bigots who pull the “the problem isn’t [insert ethnic minority] genetics, it’s [insert ethnic minority] culture.” Especially as they could’ve just gone with “well the experiences and perspectives of cisgendered women will be different from that of trans women/trans feminine” gambit instead of calling your gender identity into question.
What's funny is that my partner, who is a cis woman, agreed with what I said, but this transphobe conveniently neglected that because she saw an opportunity for misgendering me and accusing me of "male privilege" in the process.
The "you can't change your sex, just gender" feels transphobic. Same with amab/afab. It's all a way to say "you're really still just a man/woman." Most cis "allies" still see trans people's gender as matching their birth sex, and are just correctly gendering us because it's what we ask for, not because they actually believe we are that gender.
The differentiating between sex and gender is definitely transphobic but I don’t see a problem with a trans person menioning that they were amab or afab. I think that the difference in which male presenting and female presenting children are treated are important topics to talk about, also for trans people (if they want to obviously).
I view my experiences of sexual assaults and aggressions when I was a child as part of growing up while presenting as a girl. These events would not have happened if the perpetrators did not see me as a girl. And these events have had a huge impact on who I am today, and I need to share the afab part to anyone that is important enough to me that I want them to understand who I am and why I am who I am. Transphobes will use it to disregard my gender, but anyone smart enough to be able to distinguish gender identity and assigned gender at birth will understand what I mean when I tell them that my assigned gender at birth was female.
Idk if I need to add a disclaimer that I recognise that sexual violence can be a part of a boys’ childhood as well same for trans children who present as boy or non binary. It’s just that in the violence that I experienced my female presentation was very explicitly the reason why I was assaulted. I’m pretty sure that the median cis woman gets most frequently sexually harassed when she is a child (for me it was between ages 10 and 16), so sexual harassment is a pretty big part of growing up when you are perceived as being a girl as well.
I'm talking about the shit like "queer household looking for roommates, afabs only" that's just the woke way to call transfems men and transmascs women.
Ew, I’ve never seen that but that’s very transphobic
"AMAB" and "AFAB" are absolutely not inherently bad, but they've been tainted by certain kinds of people, being used as some sort of "woke" loophole for misgendering. For instance, since trans women and transfeminine people are undeniably AMAB by definition, people find that using "AMAB" instead of "man" isn't misgendering even though it can still be incredibly toxic. This could manifest as people disgustingly saying things like "AMABs tend to be more violent than AFABs."
Yeah, it can be a useful descriptor sometimes, but way too often it’s just used by people who believe in the sex/gender dichotomy as a substitute for male/female
It's just that in the violence that I experienced my female presentation was very explicitly the reason why I was assaulted.
I know this probably isn't what you meant, but I wanted to say it anyway. Nothing about you or your appearance can be blamed on you. It was the responsibility of your assaulters to not attack and hurt other people. It's done by people who think they have a right to someone else's body.
The "you can't change your sex, just gender" feels transphobic
It feels transphobic because it is. Like just straight up transphobia. It’s also just factually untrue.
Most cis "allies" still see trans people's gender as matching their birth sex, and are just correctly gendering us because it's what we ask for, not because they actually believe we are that gender.
Absolutely feel the same way. I'm surprised more people don't.
correctly gendering us because it's what we ask for, not because they actually believe we are that gender
Ray Blanchard and his consequences have been a disaster for the human race.
I am a transSEXUAL I have transed my SEX.
My gender has not changed.
It really feels like half the time cis people ust think it's the opposite and you change your "gender" by being a man who wears woman's clothes and uses different pronouns.
I fucking hate cissies.
"I didn't say anything about your gender, just your malene.."
Sounds like you had the bad fortune to run into a TERF.
I feel like that TERFs aren't usually the kind to hide behind the "gender/sex distinction" shit in this manner (y'know, "adult human female"), but I guess they could be. I find that it's something that a lot of """"well-meaning"""" libs will do to make the concept of trans people sound more digestible for conservatives.
From what i've seen it seems fairly common in the UK, at least among lib transphobes. Post-purge Labour uses this shit a lot.
Oh, some of them certainly do. Julia Serano goes into it repeatedly in Whipping Girl -- at the end of the day, it's a combination of cis gender entitlement and oppositional sexism. Anyway, down with cis.
This reads to me like somebody believes that life, and power structures come with well defined and immutable rules like a board game. Like if you just know the rules really good, that then you'll win.
Guess you just didn't know the rules good enough
Being a feminist who thinks that having a Y chromosome automatically puts you on a specific part of the hierarchy is absolutely fucking crazy. How can a feminist have such an immaterialist perception of patriarchy? Bioessentialism rots the mind.
"I didn't say anything about your gender, just your maleness."
I think the sex v gender thing can be valuable as a little white lie to help people begin to understand without getting too complicated—kinda like how kids often don't learn about plasma when they're learning states of matter because it's kinda confusing at that stage, or how physics problems often assume an impossible frictionless environment to make learning other elements easier.
No, teaching people an incorrect model first necessitates re-educating them later or else they're going to cause issues. This isn't like Newtonian gravity and relativity - a brief explanation of the social construction of sex can be done in just a few sentences.
states of matter is a great analogy because there are way more than four of them too
jfc, "deeply unserious" is right
as a medical professional sex is when I get out the big calipers and gender is when I get out the tiny fMRI calipers
If a trans person works as a post person, they have mail privilege, see, see?? Mail privilege is getting assaulted for having my hair out and holding hands with my bf, but i have a parcel waiting for me at home!
sorry you had that interaction Angel, you deserve better
jfc, "deeply unserious" is right
"The difference between sex and gender? Well let's just say me and your mom didn't discuss sex last night." c:<
The "sex and gender" distinction
It is so hard for cishets to break free from this thinking. They almost grasp the concept when they nominally understand 'gender' to be constructed and distinct from 'sex', but then make the same mistake as reactionaries by lumping some non-biological aspect of 'gender' back into 'sex' in a trans-exclusionary way. At-best they end up misunderstanding the trans experience in a deeply bigoted way, and at-worst they cynically use 'sex' as a biologically deterministic justification for transphobia and sexism.
'Sex' is almost not even worth preserving as a classification in people, except in some very specific medical treatment questions - but even then, to someone who is transitioned/transitioning many of those medical distinctions become blurred and nonrigid again.
This person sounds like a TERF to me, they can fuck off.
frankly i dont even like the designations like AMAB or 'biologically male'. i dont feel like im biologically male after 10+ years hrt. my body works very differently than it did before. im something in between sex wise
What I'm "in-between sex wise" is your mother's legs.
i'm really glad she's started to branch out but shes probably too old for you