Closet Cases – Republicans secretly love what they publicly hate So far in 2022, more than 300 anti-LGBT bills have been proposed across 36 states – at least one third of which are directed at trans youth. This surge, especially in anti-trans legislation from Republicans, stands in stark contrast to a startling fact. Republicans love […]
Yeah, that’s so unbelievably not fucking surprising. A weird amount of harassment I’ve gotten for being trans has been kinda (or occasionally extremely) sexual. Also the redder the area the more I get street harassment.
ETA: Oh upon reading the article, the city I’m thinking of (Lexington, KY, I basically couldn’t take a walk without being catcalled there) is in the top 10 cities.
And yeah, anti trans bigotry is interesting because it seems to be an alliance of exterminationist bigotry (“x people should not exist or should be hidden and we should work towards that goal”, examples of targeted groups include disabled people, Jewish people, and gay people) and supremacist bigotry (“x people are our lessers and must be forced into their place beneath us”, anti black racism is the classic example). You have plenty of transphobes who just want us gone no matter what, but you also have quite a few who think our place is as discreet sex workers and are mad that we are insisting we deserve to live in society as equals and do whatever work we want. They were fine with us as prostitutes, but not as mechanics, as shameful side pieces but how dare we say we deserve to be spouses.
That perspective of us is deeply entwined in the insistence that anything pertaining to us is sexual. They look at us and reduce us solely to the lens of sex then condemn us for it. Then when some of us internalize that our only value as people is as sex objects they point and say “see look, we told you”.
Same is true for men/women who exhibit strong/exaggerated secondary sexual characteristics. Often it is viewed as inviting sexual harassment under the ‘they were asking for it’ stupidly.
I think there is a lot of overlap too, with people’s perceptions of trans presentation and say bimbofication, like they see your presentation as necessarily trying to call attention to yourself. And yeah for some really douchey people they see someone in wheelchair or etc as doing the same thing and for some reason it gets them angry for having to perceive difference in others.
Its almost like a form of OCD where they hyper fixate on something that is different that entered toeir awareness and then they become upset that they are hyperfixated on it and blame the person.
But also, unpopular opinion, but I do think there has been a large adoption of the patriarchal feminine archetypes in the trans community of trying to adopt that hyper femininity that grosses me out. You shouldn’t be inspired by the sex dolls of men to be a woman.
Oh hey, yeah I have noticed a lot of that too. People do weirdly feel the need to police other people’s body parts. A lot of the straight/bi women I have dated are particularly nasty about this and will make casual commentary about strangers presentation or bodies, and it’s a total double standard if I did that.
Trans community has it’s own massive issues internally. I have noticed also there is way more support and positivity for MtF than there is for FtM, and a lot of really hostile commentary on other people’s stage of transition, or their sexuality.
Sometimes I wonder, there does seem to be a cultural obsession with gatekeeping femininity and the so-called privileges of it, and yet nobody is seeking the privileges of masculinity. There is also a huge uptick in gender sentimentalism for cis people in bother presentation and gender roles, with those of us who don’t focus on such things as being considered less than.
Their hyper-conservative, hyper-religious cultural programming has them willing to do anything to alleviate the cognitive dissonance caused by is contrast with their natural inclinations. Because toxicly masculine patriarchy runs their world, they have no idea how to process their emotions and so they can out. They feel a deep rooted need to adhere to their socia pressuresl and psychological programming, and the result is their contradicting activities, and venomous denial of their taboo activities and thoughts.
I don’t have a solution, other than to stay the fuck away from these places.
Yeah, that’s so unbelievably not fucking surprising. A weird amount of harassment I’ve gotten for being trans has been kinda (or occasionally extremely) sexual. Also the redder the area the more I get street harassment.
ETA: Oh upon reading the article, the city I’m thinking of (Lexington, KY, I basically couldn’t take a walk without being catcalled there) is in the top 10 cities.
And yeah, anti trans bigotry is interesting because it seems to be an alliance of exterminationist bigotry (“x people should not exist or should be hidden and we should work towards that goal”, examples of targeted groups include disabled people, Jewish people, and gay people) and supremacist bigotry (“x people are our lessers and must be forced into their place beneath us”, anti black racism is the classic example). You have plenty of transphobes who just want us gone no matter what, but you also have quite a few who think our place is as discreet sex workers and are mad that we are insisting we deserve to live in society as equals and do whatever work we want. They were fine with us as prostitutes, but not as mechanics, as shameful side pieces but how dare we say we deserve to be spouses.
That perspective of us is deeply entwined in the insistence that anything pertaining to us is sexual. They look at us and reduce us solely to the lens of sex then condemn us for it. Then when some of us internalize that our only value as people is as sex objects they point and say “see look, we told you”.
Same is true for men/women who exhibit strong/exaggerated secondary sexual characteristics. Often it is viewed as inviting sexual harassment under the ‘they were asking for it’ stupidly.
I think there is a lot of overlap too, with people’s perceptions of trans presentation and say bimbofication, like they see your presentation as necessarily trying to call attention to yourself. And yeah for some really douchey people they see someone in wheelchair or etc as doing the same thing and for some reason it gets them angry for having to perceive difference in others.
Its almost like a form of OCD where they hyper fixate on something that is different that entered toeir awareness and then they become upset that they are hyperfixated on it and blame the person.
But also, unpopular opinion, but I do think there has been a large adoption of the patriarchal feminine archetypes in the trans community of trying to adopt that hyper femininity that grosses me out. You shouldn’t be inspired by the sex dolls of men to be a woman.
Oh hey, yeah I have noticed a lot of that too. People do weirdly feel the need to police other people’s body parts. A lot of the straight/bi women I have dated are particularly nasty about this and will make casual commentary about strangers presentation or bodies, and it’s a total double standard if I did that.
Trans community has it’s own massive issues internally. I have noticed also there is way more support and positivity for MtF than there is for FtM, and a lot of really hostile commentary on other people’s stage of transition, or their sexuality.
Sometimes I wonder, there does seem to be a cultural obsession with gatekeeping femininity and the so-called privileges of it, and yet nobody is seeking the privileges of masculinity. There is also a huge uptick in gender sentimentalism for cis people in bother presentation and gender roles, with those of us who don’t focus on such things as being considered less than.
Their hyper-conservative, hyper-religious cultural programming has them willing to do anything to alleviate the cognitive dissonance caused by is contrast with their natural inclinations. Because toxicly masculine patriarchy runs their world, they have no idea how to process their emotions and so they can out. They feel a deep rooted need to adhere to their socia pressuresl and psychological programming, and the result is their contradicting activities, and venomous denial of their taboo activities and thoughts.
I don’t have a solution, other than to stay the fuck away from these places.