It’s really weird to talk about reproductive healthcare because it’s all geared towards cis people. I will need to see a “womans” doctor the rest of my life, but I’m not a woman. My girlfriend will need to continue to see a “mans” doctor, in addition to a “womans”…
I have changed my pronouns before and this is the advice I like to give people when they ask how to handle it. I get that it can be difficult, especially if you’ve known someone for years before they made this change. Here are some things to remember.
1. It ain’t about you. Yes,…
The above article is an update. Her mother went to appeal to keep her out of the psychiatric ward and lost. She will be institutionalized because of her expression of her gender. She will be held until she conforms to male gender and then released to foster care, not her mother who was supporting her.
Please, if you haven’t signed the petition, sign it, reblog it, ask your friends to sign it. We’ve managed to get 40K signatures for a pageant model, we’ve only gotten 11K for a little girl about to have her life ruined. Lets get on the ball and spread the word.
I literally just repeated the f-word until I ran out of breath.
Let me catch my breath. I may go on a cursing spree again as soon as I get it back.
Seriously people…
WHY THE FUCK AREN’T PEOPLE REBLOGGING THIS??
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I had to circle around the park a few times for this one, because the blonde would not allow a photo until all the Chinese food was finished.
(Source: humansofnewyork, via )
This entire scenario has just been horrific. From start to finish. (and its NOT isolated)
CeCe McDonald, the young black transgender woman who accepted a plea deal and pled guilty to second-degree manslaughter last month will be incarcerated by the state of Minnesota as a male. McDonald was arrested after she stabbed a white male who was part of a group of that physically and verbally attacked her with transgender and racial slurs.
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Motherfuckers move for ME nowi want to preface this by saying that j-lux and i get a lot of shit from other people when in public, both individually and when we are together. last night we were walking home from a super fun open mic filled with hot babes, when i noticed a large group of macho presenting dudes walking towards us. j-lux could feel me tense up and grabbed for my hand. with a few other queers, we walked towards them with our heads held high and our hands intertwined up the middle of the sidewalk. i was definitely expecting some shit to go down, and so i made sure to look all of them in the eye, but as we got close to them they all scattered and tried to get out of our way really fast, like they were scared of us. i couldn’t help but laugh out loud as it was happening, because i’ve certainly been queer bashed before, but in that moment having a big fat bawdy felt so fucking dangerous and powerful. i savoured that sweet moment of revenge and for a moment felt invincible as we moved through the dark towards the safety of our evil lair.
heart-swelling bad-assery inspiration
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A handy dandy informational post clearing up common misconceptions on Gender, sex, and orientation (As modelled by the lovely deity Hermaphroditus)
A) Gender Identity is the one most often confused with sex. Sex is usually what you are thinking of when you think ‘gender’ but is more oft than not the wrong definition- see part C for further explanation of sex. Gender Identity is a lot more complicated and involves a number of things; primarily when looking at gender we look at cultural constructs and social ideas. Most people can name two; male and female. There is more than this however, a third gender in most societies -such as the Indian hijra or Samoan fa’afafine- and as many as ten in some cultures.
There are a lot of overlaps, as there are no official definitions of any genders and they are all defined individually by medical, psychological, and anthropological communities, and by gendered communities themselves.We do however have two main (In western societies, I can’t speak for any others) categories. That being Cisgender, a term for someone who’s gender matches their sex, and Transgender, an umbrella term for someone who’s gender does not match their sex. Some examples of transgender identities are transgender, pansgender and androgyne.
B) Sexual Orientation is not determined by gender (But more on that later). Sexual orientation is determined by the romantic and/or sexual feelings you may have towards other people. Again, the subject is not greatly researched which can lead to overlaps and slightly different definitions- but this doesn’t matter, because you don’t need someone else to define your sexual orienation, just like you don’t need someone to define your gender!
A couple of the more commonly recognised sexual orientations are:
Hetrosexual- Attraction to the opposite sex
Homosexual- Attraction to the same sex
Bisexual- Attraction to both sexes
Asexual- lack or near lack of sexual feelings (can still have romantic relationships and also identify as any of the other sexualities mentioned)
Pansexual-A sexual attraction regardless of sex/gender
There are many more, as well as subcategories that I have not included for the sake of time, but you get the idea. Lastly, back to the ‘not determined by gender’ idea- by this I mean that a crossdressing male (sex) is not necessarily transgender, or even non-hetorosexual. Similarly, a transgender female (sex) does not necessarily have a sexual attraction to the same sex. Aaand so on.
C) Sex has a two definitions as I understand it. There’s ‘coitus’, as in what you do with your partner(s), and then there is the sex defined by your genitalia.This is what most people are thinking of if they think of gender. There are three different types.
Male:
Female:
Intersex:
This category has a range of natural variations handily illustrated and explained over at The Intersex Roadshow, which I’d put here but would make this post far too long. I do reccomend you check it out. Noteably, the deity Hermaphroditus was sometimes considered to be intersex, however more oft than not he was depicted as having a female body with male genitalia. (Pointless but interesting)
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And that, I believe, is all (*kind of) I have to say on the subject. I hope this is informative and helpful. [Note: Some information gained from here and here.]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3ihe70x6C1qkg2kzo1_500.jpg)
A handy dandy informational post clearing up common misconceptions on Gender, sex, and orientation (As modelled by the lovely deity Hermaphroditus)
A) Gender Identity is the one most often confused with sex. Sex is usually what you are thinking of when you think ‘gender’ but is more oft than not the wrong definition- see part C for further explanation of sex. Gender Identity is a lot more complicated and involves a number of things; primarily when looking at gender we look at cultural constructs and social ideas. Most people can name two; male and female. There is more than this however, a third gender in most societies -such as the Indian hijra or Samoan fa’afafine- and as many as ten in some cultures.
There are a lot of overlaps, as there are no official definitions of any genders and they are all defined individually by medical, psychological, and anthropological communities, and by gendered communities themselves.We do however have two main (In western societies, I can’t speak for any others) categories. That being Cisgender, a term for someone who’s gender matches their sex, and Transgender, an umbrella term for someone who’s gender does not match their sex. Some examples of transgender identities are transgender, pansgender and androgyne.
B) Sexual Orientation is not determined by gender (But more on that later). Sexual orientation is determined by the romantic and/or sexual feelings you may have towards other people. Again, the subject is not greatly researched which can lead to overlaps and slightly different definitions- but this doesn’t matter, because you don’t need someone else to define your sexual orienation, just like you don’t need someone to define your gender!
A couple of the more commonly recognised sexual orientations are:
- Hetrosexual- Attraction to the opposite sex
- Homosexual- Attraction to the same sex
- Bisexual- Attraction to both sexes
- Asexual- lack or near lack of sexual feelings (can still have romantic relationships and also identify as any of the other sexualities mentioned)
- Pansexual-A sexual attraction regardless of sex/gender
There are many more, as well as subcategories that I have not included for the sake of time, but you get the idea. Lastly, back to the ‘not determined by gender’ idea- by this I mean that a crossdressing male (sex) is not necessarily transgender, or even non-hetorosexual. Similarly, a transgender female (sex) does not necessarily have a sexual attraction to the same sex. Aaand so on.
C) Sex has a two definitions as I understand it. There’s ‘coitus’, as in what you do with your partner(s), and then there is the sex defined by your genitalia.This is what most people are thinking of if they think of gender. There are three different types.
Male:
Female:
Intersex:
This category has a range of natural variations handily illustrated and explained over at The Intersex Roadshow, which I’d put here but would make this post far too long. I do reccomend you check it out. Noteably, the deity Hermaphroditus was sometimes considered to be intersex, however more oft than not he was depicted as having a female body with male genitalia. (Pointless but interesting)
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And that, I believe, is all (*kind of) I have to say on the subject. I hope this is informative and helpful. [Note: Some information gained from here and here.]
(via holisticsexualhealth)
According to the National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs, an overwhelming majority of the transgender woman murdered last year were racial minorities. The overall murder rate of LGBT people rose 11 percent.
The coalition tracked the murders by monitoring reports from news outlets, which often err in properly identifying the desired gender marker of victims. The prevalence of such crimes can go unnoticed, if media professionals aren’t sympathetic to the idea that, in death, a transgender woman doesn’t switch back to male.
It’s worth noting that the issues faced by the transgender community are far too complex to definitively state that transgender women of color are murdered because of their race and gender expression. Until recently, the federal government did not track the sexuality or gender identity of hate crime victims. Unless her murder is classified a hate crime, it’s entirely possible that law enforcement agencies and media outlets will fail to acknowledge the gender expression of a transgender woman, whether she be the criminal or the victim.
Click the title for the whole article.
How Do You Describe Your Gender Identity?
“I am a transexual woman. I am woman. I’m a woman in my mind and in my soul. No one is the guarantor of womanhood. Those people who identify themselves as women are women to me- and I love my womanhood.”
Bringing it back, because I loved this woman’s commentary.
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[banner with queer/trans* people of color in black and white. the words in black read: the untitled mag presents. and the words in blue read: the queer/trans* poc youth project « apply now!]
Three things!
1. The website for the magazine is opening July 18th instead of this past Monday, July 9th because we want to make this a really good opening. So please! Submit art and writing!
2. We have updated the banner for our new project and we’ve changed the title slightly. It is now The Queer/Trans* POC Youth Project!
3. If you think you’re too old to be calling yourself a youth, please send us an email anyway. We’d love to have MENTORS!
And we still want you involved! Our first post about this project got almost 500 likes and reblogs! Amazing. But I know there are still folks out there who haven’t seen this, so let’s reblog this again. And not only reblog, but send in some emails about yourself so you can join in on this awesomeness. Word? Word.
The Queer/Trans* POC Youth Project
What if there was a considerable effort to focus on queer people of color in a non-tokenizing, appropriative light in media, especially queer/trans* POC youth?
What if QTPOC youths had people that they could look to and converse with on the struggles and successes in their lives?
What could the conversation look like if we actually listened to their stories and watch them grow as brilliant, brave, creative, outspoken adults?
And what if you could be one of the people we focus on?
The Untitled Mag wants you! We want to celebrate, appreciate and give priority to your identity and personality by showcasing it in a regular series online and in print. We want to hear about your lives, how you deal with deal with the intersections of being young, queer and a person of color, create links with other older queer/trans* poc, and we want to show you to the world so others, like you, will know that they aren’t alone!
If you’d like to get involved with the Queer/Trans* POC Youth Project, please reblog this post (so others can find out more) and send us an e-mail on: who you are, what you’re up to, your experience with the intersection of being queer and a poc, and why you’d like to participate in the project. E-mail us at untitledteenmag@gmail.com and we will run this call out until July 31st!
The Managementchelsea • Pam • Shivana • Chris • Amanda • Kaki • Cassie • Helen • Elise
The Untitled Mag strives to empower a community of diverse youth by providing a space to celebrate their existence within a world that otherwise denies universal pride in their rich, personal identities. We acknowledge, celebrate, cherish and give priority to those marginalized by their sexual identity, race, gender identity, class status, ability status (physical and mental), body size, and health.
alright folks. this ends tomorrow. and not only that, we are having a skype chat with all those we choose on thursday. if you want in, email asap. there will be other opportunities to be a part of this project but if you want in first wave, like i said, EMAIL TODAY!](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m70i3dqoX11rtn20io1_500.jpg)
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[banner with queer/trans* people of color in black and white. the words in black read: the untitled mag presents. and the words in blue read: the queer/trans* poc youth project « apply now!]
Three things!
1. The website for the magazine is opening July 18th instead of this past Monday, July 9th because we want to make this a really good opening. So please! Submit art and writing!
2. We have updated the banner for our new project and we’ve changed the title slightly. It is now The Queer/Trans* POC Youth Project!
3. If you think you’re too old to be calling yourself a youth, please send us an email anyway. We’d love to have MENTORS!
And we still want you involved! Our first post about this project got almost 500 likes and reblogs! Amazing. But I know there are still folks out there who haven’t seen this, so let’s reblog this again. And not only reblog, but send in some emails about yourself so you can join in on this awesomeness. Word? Word.
The Queer/Trans* POC Youth Project
- What if there was a considerable effort to focus on queer people of color in a non-tokenizing, appropriative light in media, especially queer/trans* POC youth?
- What if QTPOC youths had people that they could look to and converse with on the struggles and successes in their lives?
- What could the conversation look like if we actually listened to their stories and watch them grow as brilliant, brave, creative, outspoken adults?
- And what if you could be one of the people we focus on?
The Untitled Mag wants you! We want to celebrate, appreciate and give priority to your identity and personality by showcasing it in a regular series online and in print. We want to hear about your lives, how you deal with deal with the intersections of being young, queer and a person of color, create links with other older queer/trans* poc, and we want to show you to the world so others, like you, will know that they aren’t alone!
If you’d like to get involved with the Queer/Trans* POC Youth Project, please reblog this post (so others can find out more) and send us an e-mail on: who you are, what you’re up to, your experience with the intersection of being queer and a poc, and why you’d like to participate in the project. E-mail us at untitledteenmag@gmail.com and we will run this call out until July 31st!
The Management
chelsea • Pam • Shivana • Chris • Amanda • Kaki • Cassie • Helen • EliseThe Untitled Mag strives to empower a community of diverse youth by providing a space to celebrate their existence within a world that otherwise denies universal pride in their rich, personal identities. We acknowledge, celebrate, cherish and give priority to those marginalized by their sexual identity, race, gender identity, class status, ability status (physical and mental), body size, and health.
alright folks. this ends tomorrow. and not only that, we are having a skype chat with all those we choose on thursday. if you want in, email asap. there will be other opportunities to be a part of this project but if you want in first wave, like i said, EMAIL TODAY!
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La Dida- http://www.critic.co.nz/columns/article/2213/straight-up—issue-18 (via purple0black)
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| person: | she-- |
| me: | it's he. |
| person: | *condescending smile* well, on your birth certificate-- |
| me: | yeah, it also says ' 8lbs, 6 oz '-- a lot has changed over the years |
It’s largely linguistic in reasoning!
The -ed removes agency and passivizes the modified subject. That morpheme suggests that the subject is operated upon, transgender-ed, by something (presumably society), and is thus altered from an original (“normal” - cisgender) state.
As evidence: there is a fairly common faulty back-formation, the verb “to transgender,” from “to be transgendered.” This is sometimes used to mean “to transition,” which is a mistaken meaning of what transgender means anyway.
This phrasing basically posits nurture over nature (regardless of the individual’s personal feelings on their identity’s source), suggests being transgender is a result of brainwashing/group-think or faulty raising or some sort of change, and leads to a pathologizing and “cure”-based approach.
Of course any individual may prefer transgendered to transgender! I have heard some folks speak up and say that they do indeed feel society made them this way. Completely valid.
But as a universal application, it is far less neutral and leaves trans folks less room to position themselves, and honestly gives people the wrong overall impression and gives media pundits a subtle way to continue painting trans people as passive victims and objects.It may not be a big issue, but it definitely does influence how people think, however subtly. Language is tricky that way!
A few of you sent me this link — thank you! Googling “transgender versus transgendered” didn’t bring it up. I knew it was “transgender” but I couldn’t figure out how to explain it. Many thanks to all the folks who helped me out :)
Oooh, this is a really good explanation.
Under the old dress code — known as subfusc for all those people who plan on sneaking into Oxford to audit classes and want to seem as legit as possible — male students had to wear a dark suit, dark shoes, and a white shirt and bow tie all under black gowns. Female students had to wear dark skirt or trousers, a white blouse, black stockings and shoes and a black ribbon tied in a bow at the neck. A transgender student, for example, looking to wear subfusc of the opposite sex would have had to, under the old regulations, seek a special dispensation from the university proctors, who, if they wanted to be sticklers, could punish students for breaking the dress code.
Simone Webb, president of Oxford’s LGBTQ Society, said that the change eliminates a pointless restriction in the dress code while maintaining the integrity of the subfusc tradition:
I am of the opinion that it is possible to keep elements of tradition in this way while making them unrestrictive to trans students, genderqueer students, or students who wish to wear a different subfusc to that which they’d be expected to wear.
To be clear, the bow ties are staying put, just in case that was going to be a dealbreaker for anyone looking to attend Oxford for some impromptu summer coursework.
(Source: jezebel.com)
