If you are transphobic unfollow me and never interact with this blog again.
Tbh I reblogged this like an hour ago and in the mean time I’ve dropped 15 followers so let me just reblog this again cause I don’t want y’all transphobes anywhere near me 👋🏽👋🏽
just a quick note- no trans person has ever said “did you just assume my gender.” trans people are very aware of how their gender and physical appearance differ and that visually one might assume that they are a man/woman when they are actually not. that’s kind of the whole idea of gender dysphoria.
and also you’ve beaten your “attack helicopter” joke into the fucking ground. cut that shit out.
i wanted to add one more thing to this post that other people have pointed out: i know its an awkward question, but a lot of trans people are going to be 100% fine with you asking what their gender is, or with calmly correcting you if you get it wrong. and if they’re not, then they’re way more likely to keep it to themselves than get visibly angry with someone. this idea that trans people just go apeshit when people misgender them accidentally/when first meeting them is a complete fabrication for a stupid joke and that’s why i despise it so much.
I can’t afford to get visibly angry about people misgendering me because that puts me in danger of getting harmed. once a cis person finds out my gender, one of two things will happen: they either accept me to various degrees, or they reject me and potentially escalate the situation. politeness is the only way I can decrease the risk of the latter.
the “DID YOU ASSUME MY GENDER?!” trope only serves to make trans people look ridiculous/unreasonable in the eyes of cis people, and places in their minds preconceptions about us that makes it harder, ultimately, for us to come out safely. if all they know about trans people are shitty jokes, then we as a people become those jokes to them.
yeah cis people, seeing as you’re literally the only people that make these jokes I’m gonna need you to reblog this
v for vendetta is a film with a female protagonist that criticises capitalism, condemns pedophilia, encourages the viewers to question their governments, has a central plot about how LGBT people are condemned in right wing societies (more than three LGBT characters are in it) and was directed by a trans woman and her brother.
why has this become a fuckboy classic
because they mistake V for the protagonist and Evey as simply the viewpoint character, wilfully ignore the part of the plot about LGBT discrimination, and concentrate on how cool V is with his mask and his government-rebelling plots.
What I find interesting is that – V is actually, imo, coded as trans, especially in the original graphic novel. Alan Moore claims that clues to identity of V ‘are all there’, which implies it might be a named character. If it was one, the only person matching would be Valerie, the woman whose journals V gives to Evey. Everything would match – Valerie was an actress, which would fit with both costume and tastes of V, and also why said letter was so important – and really, how the hell an occupant of a high-security concentration camp under constant observation had ability to write a letter, and also how a letter written on toiler paper would survive all these years, and burning down of Larkhill camp. (answer – by being written AFTER all these events).
Except, V appears to be male. Everyone is using male pronouns for him, in the movie he speaks in a masculine voice, and in the novel we do see a panel of his silhouette naked in Larkhill, and he definitely has a masculine physique.
But, if Valerie becoming V was metaphor for transition, that’d make sense.
That’s in addition to well, the fact that a lot of trans men begin their self-discovery as butch lesbians? It’d sure fit.
Why do I believe that theory? In addition to whole LGBT themes thing, and the letter thing, there’s one more reason. Well, I think this was skimmed by in the movie, but in the novel, we get a pretty solid clue. See, in the movie, exact nature of experiments performed on Larkhill inmates is kept rather dubious if I recall – we know they gave V abilities slightly above normal humans, but that’s it.
But in the novel, it’s more specific. So, what is the field of experiments that are being performed Larkhill concentration camp that they needed human specimen?
Hormone research.
V got strength to throw off chains of opression and fight back and yadda yadda, became a character who ticks off literally every single checkbox on definition of a superhero, including superpowers…
By literal fucking hormone therapy.
Administered to him, ironically, by the very oppressors.
From what I’ve read of Alan Moore’s stories, he doesn’t leave details up to a chance. Everything has a reason, and everything is interconnected with each other. And this, this doesn’t look like a bit of dark irony Alan Moore would pass up, since he loves that shit.
So, those are my reasons for this particular interpretation.
both the wachowskis are openly trans women now but yes
No, I think you’re misunderstanding. I take a very libertarian stance of LGBT issues.
You can do whatever you want with your life and body. Take hormone treatments, get surgery, cut your hair, change your name. I don’t care.
I just don’t think it’s right that I should be forced to call you a he when biology dictates that you are a she. That doesn’t mean I don’t think you should be alive. I just don’t believe that you are what you think you are.
You can be offended all you want, but when we get into the territory of legal ramifications for speech, I have a problem with that. There are plenty of people in this world willing to call you a he. If you don’t like me, disregard me and go find those people.
I don’t care what you do with your life and body. That is all 100% your choice. I just don’t want to be dragged into it against my will.
Biology doesn’t dictate pronouns.
Unless you’ve done a thorough medical evaluation including a hormone panel and chromosome analysis, every single pronoun you’ve ever used in your life has been your best guess. Or more likely, people tell you their pronouns and you take their word for it.
When you have to be ‘dragged into’ using correct pronouns for trans people but don’t check the ‘biology’ of people you assume are cis; your behavior is based on bigotry, not biology.
So you can double check, “Is it Ms, Miss, or Mrs?” but god fucking forbid you use correct pronouns. Like it is LITERALLY any skin off your bigotted nose if someone says, “Actually, I’m he/she/they.” You go, “Oh, k, sorry about that,” and go the fuck on with life. But oh NO, the GAYS REQUIRE ONE OUNCE OF RESPECT. IT CANNOT BE ABIDED. WE MUST PUT THEM IN THEIR PLACE BY USE OF BIOLOGY.
Which kindly go fuck yourself, considering how complex and misunderstood biology is. For fucks sake you ignorant ass.
“She says her name is Jennifer but I don’t beleive in Jennifers so I’m just gonna call her Tracy.”
ATTENTION: We are no longer drinking Respect Transgender Juice; we are bathing in it.
this is for Lush America, which is A+.
here in Australia we have the Love Wins soap, https://au.lush.com/products/new-products/love-wins which goes straight to LGBT+ grassroots charities! we haven’t got the bath melts this year yet (they’re seasonal here because they would Die in summer) so it’d be cool to get that here too ❤
I had a boss who’s legal name was Marvin. His middle name was Scott. He asked everyone at work to call him Scott. People who knew him as Marvin slipped up and called him that sometimes, but he preferred to be called Scott. His employees and peers respected that request. HR respected that request and changed his name in our systems and in his email. It became his name because he asked it to be.
People make the argument that they “just can’t” call trans people by anything other than their deadname because that’s how they know them. Still others will go a step further and say that your self-expression infringes on their rights somehow.
It doesn’t. It’s common decency. Sure mistakes happen; but when someone asks to be called by a particular name, we respect that. If you can do it for cis people, you can do it for trans people.
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