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24 Apr, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Lots of cis people want to talk about how lesbians are supposedly being pressured to identify as trans and transition but I've found the reverse to be true. Transphobic lesbians pressure transmasculine people to identify and live as lesbians and forgo medical transition
I've encountered way more pressure from TERFy lesbians to live as a lesbian than I've ever encountered pressure from trans people to call myself trans and transition. Hell, lots of trans people I met judged me for being too genderqueer or too masc or whatever.
Transphobic lesbians do whatever they can to discourage transmasculine peope from coming out, including valorizing the idea of the "dysphoric butch lesbian", "bravely" denying the impulse to identify as trans or transition. It's just a way to glorify internalized transphobia.
Instead of freaking out about "lesbians being pushed to transition", it makes way more sense to oppose and dismantle transphobia in the lesbian community, directed not only at transmasculine people but also at trans women and especially trans lesbians.

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22 Apr
I just found an article by an ROGD mother who referred to herself and other with similar views as being "trans-realists". Do these people not know what they sounds like? I guess I shouldn't be surprised since many ROGD parents are fans of Quillette and "anti-woke" bullshit.
If you want people to think that you're not a bunch of bigots maybe don't use language that sounds like "race realism", the kind of bullshit white supremacists use to try to hide their racism behind pseudo-science.
The author also mentions trying to help two detrans men find legal assistance so they can file lawsuits and says that more lawsuits by detrans people are coming. They're going to try to pull some Keira Bell shit in this country.
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5 Apr
Taking t signficantly reduced my dysphoria and made me feel more comfortable with my body. I couldn’t say this when I was detransitioned. I couldn’t be honest because I was supposed to be discouraging people from transitioning and promoting “alternative treatments” instead.
When people asked me how I overcame my dysphoria, I couldn’t tell them that taking t for four years and then stopping once I’d gotten the changes I wanted had helped me feel more at peace with myself and less disconnected from my body.
I always said I felt more at peace with my body because I had worked through trauma or internalized misogyny and maybe that helped too but I didn't say that until after I became a radical feminist. Before that I acknowledged that taking testosterone had helped a lot.
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5 Apr
Something else left out of many media detrans stories is that many detrans people still deal with dysphoria after detransitioning and rely on "alternative treatments" to cope. Most detrans women I knew were struggling with some degree of dysphoria.
It's not like most people in the detrans women's community detransition and are then are totally comfortable living as women. There are plenty of detrans women working hard to "accept that they're female" because that's what they think they need to do to be happy.
A lot of detrans women struggle with gender dysphoria but are convinced that they can't find happiness transitioning or living as a trans person. They live as women because they think their dysphoria is rooted in internalized misogyny or trauma.
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10 Mar
I recognize that gender dysphoria can manifest in many different ways and different people are going to find that different treatments work best for them but I in no way support "alternative treatments for gender dysphoria" that are really conversion therapy/practices.
Not everyone needs to medically transition but often "alternatives to transition" is just a euphemism for conversion practices. There's nothing healthy or feminist about suppressing who you are or denying yourself something that could make you happier.
Accepting one's body without modification is not inherently good or superior to transitioning. Transitioning isn't selling out, betraying women/lesbians, indulging mental illness or whatever. How many people would go for "alternatives" if transition wasn't stigmatized?
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8 Mar
I've been thinking a lot about anti-trans conversion practices and gender identity change efforts and how they include conversion therapy but also include so many other more informal interactions between trans people and other people who try to get us to change who we are.
How many trans people have encountered people who tried to discourage them from being trans and/or encouraged them to try being something else? It's so common. It's also abusive and harmful and we shouldn't have to deal with that.
If a parent, friend, partner, people in your community, etc make an effort to make you not be trans, encourage you to be a (cis) gay/lesbian instead, try to get you to see your transness as a result of trauma, mental illness or internalized sexism, that's a conversion practice.
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5 Mar
Here's an example of how detrans people's experiences can be turned into anti-trans conversion practices. Partners for Ethical Care created a "desistance/detransition" survey and are now using the findings to write a book for parents on how to "detrans" their trans kid. Facebook post by Maria Keffler read Some interesting finding
PEC's survey was targeted both at detrans and desisted people and at parents of detrans/desisted people. Through out the survey, detrans/desisted people are referred to as "the child" regardless of age, even if the person is an adult. Creepy. Desistance and Detransition Survey This survey is for peopleThroughout this survey the word "child" is used toQuestion from survey I am a child who desisted/detransitionSurvey question At what age did the child announce a transge
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