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Nov 29 • 10 tweets • 4 min read
This #GivingTuesday, please consider donating to @the_TFP. We are an entirely volunteer run organization that relies entirely on individual donations to fund our work. We are dedicated to tracking, educating, and acting on the anti-trans legislative crisis in the United States. The Trans Formations Project logo, which features a phoenix
Despite being less than two years old, our work tracking anti-trans legislation has been praised and cited by a variety of sources, including The Independent, The Washington Post, CNN, The Daily Beast, NBC, and most recently, NPR.
We were honored to be able to present our findings and an overview of the crisis and our work against it at the Philly Trans Wellness Conference (@TransPHL), the largest trans-specific conference in the world, this past summer.
Recently, we were also extremely grateful to partner with @lawyers4goodgov to publish this report on the crisis and how it is affecting trans people in the United States.
Although we are small, we have already accomplished more than we could have imagined. But we have big dreams and are constantly growing.
To donate or volunteer with us, please check out our website at transformationsproject.org.
To keep tabs on the anti-trans legislative crisis, tune in to our social media for updates on all legislation every weekday (with links below) or sign up for our newsletter for a weekly summary of what has gone on in the sphere of trans legislation and trans rights in the US.
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Please also use our website (transformationsproject.org) to explore our database, which contains info on both state level and national level pro- and anti-trans bills, with bill descriptions in plain language and the contact info of your representatives to shorten the path to action
Please also check out our new Legislator Scorecards! This is a new feature of our site that allows you to see with a simple search where your state-level representatives have stood on anti-trans legislation.
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Nov 30
This is a really important thread, and I want to take a minute to add my experience.
I was "diagnosed" with BPD (borderline personality disorder) when I was 18. It was one of the most destructive decisions a mental health professional ever made for me. 🧵
BPD is HIGHLY stigmatized, including within the medical community. Labeling someone with "BPD" essentially signals to other clinicians that the patient is too difficult to work with, a lost cause.
I was an 18 year old kid, struggling so much with mental health issues that had surfaced when I was a child and continued to get worse as I grew. I was desperate for an answer as to what was "wrong" with me, and what I could possibly do to manage my deteriorating mental health.
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Nov 29
If you believe that fascism will be obvious to you when it comes, or that it only looks like its most extreme examples, or that marginalized people calling out fascism are "overreacting" or "taking things out of context", you are a useful tool to fascism.
You do not have to agree with fascism to aid its rise. You are incredibly useful to fascism by doing nothing at all, in fact.
The average people, the ones who do nothing at all as fascism rises, they are the foundation of a fascist society. The ones who are willing to look away because it's uncomfortable to acknowledge the truth. The ones who are successfully held in line by threats.
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Nov 28
We don't talk nearly enough about how a core tenet of toxic masculinity is that men are only allowed to have emotional intimacy alongside sexual intimacy.
This leads to many, many men either 1) depending solely on one woman (their partner) for all their emotional needs (a massive burden placed on women) or 2) expressing their traumas/emotions immediately towards a sexual partner (a massive burden placed on women).
This lack of an emotional outlet has severe emotional and cognitive consequences, often leading to emotional instability, that combined with emotional repression leads to anger and resentment. Burdening only one person with all of your emotions also degrades that relationship.
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Nov 28
It is dangerous to think of oppressive systems as being direct interactions between an oppressor and an oppressed. The actuality of lived experience is much more complicated and nuanced.
This idea that oppression is carried out primarily by individuals leads to the logic that no one from an oppressed group will ever uphold their systems of oppression. This is false. Identity is not equivalent to positionality.
It's dangerous, and obscures the issues at hand to think of fights against oppression as being between individuals, rather than between groups and systems.
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Nov 25
Thinking a lot about how "true manhood" is used as a carrot under patriarchy - where socially ascribed masculinity is given by and large to those who enforce patriarchy - overwhelmingly privileged men.
Thinking a lot about how the threat of taking away socially ascribed masculinity - in short, the threat of someone being perceived as less masculine - is used to keep men in line under patriarchy.
Anyway marginalized men who know and insist they are men regardless of the threat of socially ascribed manhood being reduced or taken away entirely are incredibly powerful.
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Nov 25
Cis women have systematic power over transmasculine people. Many cis women are aware of this and actively weaponize that power to coerce, threaten, and harm transmascs. This is gendered violence. This is transphobia also, and it hurts when it's not recognized as such.
So yes, it is possible for there to be gender based systemic violence stemming from women and directed towards men. Other examples of this include gendered violence towards men of color, disabled men, men of religious minorities, and more.
Once you realize gender permeates many flavors of oppression, you realize that the blanket model of "men as oppressors and women as oppressed" is simplistic to the point of falsehood. It does marginalized men a severe disservice by denying the gendered violence they face.
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