CW: Mention of abuse, oppression, sexual violence (no descriptions), discussion of transantagonism, transmisogyny, misogyny — ** Notes on the latest revision and thoughts on the feedback are in a reply to this article. ** This piece is not meant to be exhaustive, but to offer an attempt at a better framing for the conflict between TMA and TME trans people than commonly applied, and to…

CW: Transfeindlichkeit, Fragilität *** Update unten angefügt *** Unter meinen Tweets, dazu wie das Gendern von Kindern vor dem Zeitpunkt ihrer Selbstbestimmung negativ auswirkt und als Praxis ohne Frage transfeindlich ist, haben sich nun Eltern eingefunden, die gerne über ihre Perspektive sprechen möchten. …

CW: feces-analogy, bigotry and “allies” — It’s A Metaphor Them: “I made you cookies, I’m sure you will like them!” Me: “Oh thank … wait, what is that on the cookies?” Them: “What do you mean?” Me: “There’s brown frosting on them and it stinks…” Them: “What? I made you cookies!” Me: “… is that frosting… shit?” Them: “What are you on about?” Me: “You’re…

CW: Victim erasure, murder, suicide mention Relatable One very common narrative you’ll be happening upon when discussing oppressed people and how to achieve their liberation is that “it takes time” for things to improve in some way. …

CW: Discussion of oppression, ableism, misogyny, racism, police violence While it might not be obvious in the way we’re taught about oppression, as far as we’re taught about oppression at all, but all forms of oppression share certain dynamics. That’s not saying that all oppression is equal or that you…

CW: Transantagonism, Binarism, Racism, Violence, Suicide, Surgery, Truscum, etc Trans and polynary (non-binary) people are not a new phenomena, we’re not strange, we’re not deviants, we’re not a product of “western decadence” and we’re not disordered. This is actually news to many people, especially within the “western world”. And yet…

CW: Transmisogyny, transantagonism, misogyny, mention of abuse and murder, genitals, etc *** Update: I trimmed this piece by about 30% and removed some parts that deserve to be unpacked in their own space. So please don’t feel gaslit if you are missing a certain passage or phrasing that was present…

CW: mention of child abuse — Inspired by an exchange with my mother where she criticized me for behaviors she had taught me by example. When I told her that I learnt it from her, she laughed and said that she had left this behind, and I should too. The Romanticism It’s probably a result of an acquired…

This is an “I told you so”… .. but not a gloating one that revels in the fact that I knew what was coming. This is a tearful, devastated and desperate “I told you so”, one in pain about all the foreseeable and preventable, unnecessary suffering that unfolds now. It’s not even my “I told you so”…