lol

dad screams like a girl innit

a gender for every chakra? *checks scanner* awww piece of crap, it's broken!

no, dad, i will not "get down with the cis-tem"

these rules will be posted outside the NO CIS ALLOWED treehouse and don't even THINK about sneaking in the "it's a trap" door

if you use the game genie code DMAB [$foo] on bionic commando on the nes super joe grows a sweet pair

you have to live with the implications of a man having to rescue a woman though, so its kind of bittersweet

at some point in a young troon's transition they have to go on an epic quest to capture all 7 gender balls

Are you loving kidding me? Okay, cissexist rear end in a top hat, let me break this down for you. If you are male, and you identify as a male, would it not offend you if people insisted on calling you “she”? Even after you corrected them multiple times? Well, loving of course it would! Misgendering may be irritating to cisgender people like yourself, but it can be panic-inducing for many trans* people.

Stop your oppressive bullshit. This isn’t “special snowflake syndrome” (which is loving bullshit in the first place). This is a person’s identity we’re talking about. Shut the gently caress up.

lol so honestly they can just switch modes at whatever time or what

I’m with Zev. I know that I gently caress poo poo like this up, too. A lot, actually. I am the only non-cis person in the group of people I see regularly, and a lot of them don’t even know that I identify as other-than-cisgender, so I don’t get to hear or use the accepted terms frequently (or at all). It’s not just cis people who need to know these things.

That seems reasonable

cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis cis

Gender isn't static, fuckhead.

DO:

• Ask for pronouns and such in a way that doesn’t put individuals on the spot. This can be accomplished by making pronoun announcements part of introductions for your group or asking someone in a private setting (the latter option is probably the better choice to keep from messing up on the next point).
  
• Respect someone’s closeted/stealth/out status. Each trans* person is going to have their own reasons for how open they are about their trans* status/history. Don’t out people or shame them for being closeted/stealth, even if you have an out trans* friend who thinks that all trans* folks have an obligation to be out ~to further the cause~.
  
• Ask permission to ask someone personal questions. People aren’t textbooks; sometimes they don’t have the energy for your questions. Or maybe a question is inappropriate in certain environments or around certain people.
  
• Educate yourself. I and many (though not all) other trans* people are more than happy to help you out, but there are many Trans* 101 resources available to answer most basic questions. Please try to find an answer to a question before using the trans person/people you know as your own personal transyclopedia.
  
• Remember that allyship is something you do, not something you are. Some trans* people will be suspicious of you because of a lot of self-identified allies are terrible at allyship and refuse to listen when they’re called out. As someone who is part of a society that devalues trans people, you will inevitably mess up and, at the very least, commit a lot of microaggressions. Working towards allyship means accepting any call-outs, acknowledging your oppressive behavior, and working to fix that behavior.
  
• Keep private things private. If someone tells you personal information, assume it’s private unless otherwise specified. If you’re unsure, ask if the person if they consider the information between the two of you.
  
• Be intersectional! There are certain groups such as trans people of color and trans women who are hit particularly hard by anti-trans* bigotry. Make sure any activist work you do does not erase this reality or only speak to more privileged trans people’s realities.
  

DON’T:

• Ask questions about body parts and surgeries without specifically requesting permission to ask about these things. These conversations can be particularly dysphoria-inducing. Also? They’re really personal questions. You wouldn’t just ask a cis person about the state of their genitals in public; please extend trans people the same courtesy.
  
• Complain how hard it is to remember someone’s new name, pronouns, or other identifiers. It’s a minor inconvenience for you and trans* people already get a lot of messages telling us that living out our realities is wrong and/or selfish. It hurts even worse when people who claim to be allies send us these messages.
  
• Equate genitals with gender. For example, do not name your women’s-only bicycle group The Ovarian Psychos. Not everyone with ovaries is a woman, and not every woman has ovaries. Some women have what is normally called a penis (she may not call her bits a penis though) and/or may be intersex. Yes, this is important; you don’t get to erase marginalized groups because their realities inconvenience your sloganeering.
  
• Assume you know someone’s gender until told. This is super-basic. You cannot discern someone’s gender just by looking at them. Assuming you can reinforces cissexism.
  

Incorrect as major hell

1. It’s the cis people that need this kind of education.

2. It’s directed towards cis people.

3. No, I absolutely do not want or care about what cis people have to say on this. I don’t want their opinions.

Lol there's such an intrinsic flaw in the logic of gender being a construct, fluid, and something that your definitely born with

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

btw whats this newest fad with the asterisk after trans??

How's your labias doing, dude. Soft and pretty as hell I hope! Ha ha ha, now let's get some beers

being born a certain way actually grants you the, err, privilege, to tell people how to speak to you

i have no idea, fullmetalbitch is reblogging poo poo at the speed of light

Translation: “This doesn’t affect me personally, and I’m not the kind of person who can be bothered to put even the tiniest bit of effort or thought into making life pleasant for the people around me, so instead of just admitting I’m an arsehole who doesn’t care about other people’s happiness, health and safety [because that’s what we talk about when we talk about trans* people’s issues, we talk about whether life is safe for them to live as they really are] I’m going to try and make out like everyone is making a fuss over nothing. Perfect.”

I see from your front page that you’re also one of those people who is all “BUT WHAT ABOUT TEH MENZ???” whenever feminism comes up in conversation, so lol.

dude dont tell me you never watched transformers

Actually, God gaves all of us the golden rule, which is treat others with respect because theat's how we'd like to be treated.

It is not okay to fetishize us or dismiss us out your dating/sex pool out of hand.

it's cool+fun to switch from boymode to boy in makeup and ill-fitting clothes mode

lmao

You're not allowed to say you don't want to date us. We're Pro Choice. Pro my choice to tell you what you're allowed to think, say, or do so that I don't feel as bad.

that's why good people get the golden glow before they perish

yes your Cisgender T DMAGness *bows and scrapes*

im the tranny nervously backing away from the dude ive been dancing with all night when funky cold medina starts playing ironically at the club

im the pink internet comedy forum where the final battle between good and evil will be fought with emoticons, macros and beautiful, terrible posts.

lmao