"I am not femme because I am a woman, rather, I am femme because I am a feminist who is self-empowered to express herself and make choices according to her personal preferences."
Transphobia
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"In my zeal to be a 'real woman', I was once prepared to do anything and everything to pass as cisgender—banking my identity not on self acceptance, but on being accepted by everybody else. "...
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"See, canon is a tricky thing, as tricky as gender itself."...
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Venus Lux Discusses TSA Abuse and Flying While Trans
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"This desire to hypersexualize the trans experience actually requires a person to retroactively sexualize me as a child."...
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LBG Voice "Drops the T", and the Ball, in Pursuit of Equality
TPh"Remember the “Drop The T” petition? Neither do I, but it spawned a depressing website."... -
“That’s another thing. I hate being coddled. What, I have a baby and suddenly I can’t talk to serial killers anymore?”...
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When We Ask Straight Men About Their Desire For Trans Bodies
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"'I don’t know mom, I think it was just a phase,' I told her. Her whole body relaxed, she audibly sighed in relief. She didn’t want me to be her daughter."...
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On The Joys of Cis People Telling Me How Well I Pass
TPh"You suffer, you learn, you suffer, you learn, you suffer until you reach a point where you can finally be comfortable in your own skin (and sometimes that never happens). It’s a lifelong process."... -
The Calculated Republican “Trans Bathroom” Wedge Strategy
TPh"Make no mistake, this isn't just about bathrooms."... -
"No matter what I wear, no matter how I look, and regardless which bathroom I use at work, I hold no illusions of safety."...
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(CW: Transmisogyny) Roller derby has an identity that is inherently female. It was started by women, it was built by women, it has been maintained by women and spread by women. It isn’t just a sport for women, it’s a sport in which women support each other...
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by Dorian DawesShe stands, a cleric with an unusual name pieced together herself from her own experience. Her dialogue is brief and limited. She is Mizhena and she has somehow absolutely destroyed Baldur's Gate and by that extension Dungeons and Dragons forever....
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by Dorian Dawes"A knife only has to stab you once to wound."...
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"Seeing a trans girl who struggled with being seen as a woman having her womanhood validated? Why’d I like that so much? I was very, very misinformed."...
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by Kay GabrielKay Gabriel presents a critical and studious critique of The Antioch Review's "“The Sacred Androgen: The Transgender Debate."...