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Jul 28 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
The detrans lizard symbol originally came from a pride flag created by a detrans TERF. And it was only supposed to be for detrans women. Anti-trans detrans activists don't even know the history of the symbol they're using or how they're distorting its original meaning. Quote tweet by Tullip/Ritchie reads Nope, no flags. Lizard eTumblr post reads Female Detransition Pride Flag Red: female
I'm pretty sure the original lizard is supposed to be a whiptail, one of the species of lizard that are all female & reproduce asexually. Whiptail lizards were popular among lesbian TERFs on tumblr for a while because they saw them as "lesbian separatist" lizards.
And now some detrans man is using a symbol created by a lesbian separatist detrans TERF & first used on a fucking flag to say there should be no detrans flag. Already happened, you wouldn't have the lizard without the flag & it was never meant to be used by dudes like you.
More on the history of the detrans lizard symbol here.
And here's an archived link to post about the original detrans TERF pride flag. I remember when it came out. My old community was separatist as hell, I can't imagine that they're happy seeing detrans men using the lizard symbol for themselves.
archive.ph/U71R4

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Jul 28
Jennifer Bilek came up with the whole "synthetic sex identity" thing because she thinks calling trans people trans "promotes gender ideology" but being called a "synthetic sex" just makes me feel like a character in cyberpunk story & kinda badass just for existing.
Like you might as well call us "replicants" or "skinjobs". It makes me think of fucking Bladerunner. It's validating in a bizarre way. I've been into trans cyborgs since I was a teen. Seriously, I wrote a paper about trans cyborgs & cyberpunk years ago when I was in college.
It's also very disturbing at the same time. I know the point of Bilek & others calling us "synthetic" is to dehumanize us & justify violence against us. I don't want to make light of that. It's very bad & it scares me to see her theories catch on among more people on the Right.
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Jul 21
The thing that really stands out to me about this bullshit graph is how no women/girls are as masculine as the most masculine of men & vice versa for men/boys & femininity. Aside from being extremely transphobic, it also puts limits on gender nonconformity.
Many transphobes can’t deal with the idea of trans women or cis men being as feminine as cis women or trans men or cis women being as masculine as cis men. They think “real” masculinity belongs to cis men & “real” femininity belongs to cis women.
I felt this when I was living as a detrans lesbian. Identifying as a woman wasn’t enough, I felt pressured to tone down my masculinity because I was still too mannish & so it was assumed that had to be inauthentic, a sign of internalized patriarchal thinking, etc.
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Jul 21
I wouldn't be surprised if ideological detrans/ex-trans groups have a harder time keeping people long-term compared to other parts of the anti-trans movement because trying not to be trans leads to profound psychological distress & dysphoria never actually goes away.
I was rereading journals I kept when I was ex-trans & I was suffering the entire time. My dysphoria never went away, instead it increased over time. Interestingly, the time I was most "womyn-identified" & deep into TERF ideology was the time when I was most distressed & suicidal.
I couldn't be an ex-trans TERF without hating myself & struggling with depression & suicidal impulses. I also missed hanging around other trans people & was distressed about how my beliefs & actions (justifiably) angered them. I was unhappy being in conflict with trans people.
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Jul 4
Can confirm that one of the leaders of several online detrans TERF spaces would ask some people to see their birth certificates to prove that they were "really female". She acted like she did this for everyone but really only some people had to show their birth certificates.
This typically was only asked of people who "looked male" to this detrans TERF leader who was screening people. She believed that cis men & trans women (but mostly the latter) might try to infiltrate those spaces. Once again transmisogyny leads to gender policing.
Of course no trans women were trying to infiltrate those groups! Why would they? That was all transmisogyny & paranoia. But this detrans TERF used made up "predatory trans women" to police detrans women who didn't look "female enough" to her. It was fucked up in so many ways.
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Jul 3
Transphobic detrans activists lie all the damn time & I know this because I used to be one of them! We'd tone down our anti-trans views to get our propaganda in liberal media, influence people working in trans healthcare, try to get presentations at trans health conferences, etc. Tweet by Buck Angel reads So insane how some trans people ju
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We were trying to influence liberals & people on the left, so our strategies differed some from more right-wing anti-trans detrans activists who tend to be more blatant with their transphobia but I can't imagine that they're any more honest. Just lying in a different way.
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Too many cis people are "concerned" about whether there are "too many" young people coming out as trans & transitioning instead of dealing with how young trans people are being harmed by conversion practices. There's a growing network of anti-trans conversion therapy groups.
For years transphobic parent groups, conversion therapists & ex-trans/detrans people have been working to restrict access to transition & promote conversion practices instead. They've been trying to influence trans healthcare including groups like WPATH & it's working.
I know this because I used to be one of the detrans/ex-trans activists working behind the scenes. I worked closely with other anti-trans detrans activists & came in contact with "ROGD" parents groups & conversion therapists. That wasn't my main focus but I still saw a lot.
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