This just in: TERFs believe in spontaneous generation. They do not believe that the Lactobacilli and other good bacteria and yeast that should be present in a healthy vagina moved in from outside. They believe they were spontaneously birthed from their XX chromosomes.
They don't believe these are independent, genetically unique organisms that symbiote with humans, they believe that they are birthed spontaneously from "female bodies" the way folks used to believe maggots came spontaneously from meat, and mold from bread.
In fact it is impossible for lactobacilli or any other bacteria or other microfauna to be "produced" by the human body, XX chromosomes or not. They're unique organisms that exist all around us, and migrate in and stay wherever they find a nice home like a vagina. #TheMoreYouKnow
I should also add that they also apparently believe that people with a Y chromosome must produce some kind of something or other on our skin that kills the microflora that normally lives in a vagina. We not only don't "produce" it, we CAN'T sustain it. It'll die. Y Chromosome.
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TERFs don't believe sweat accumulates in the vulva and have clearly never seen @stevieboebi's video "Why does my vagina smell?" Which I can't find anymore for some reason, but yeah, maybe listen to a sex educator instead of making shit up about "there's no sweat glands there..."
She's a cis woman too, if that helps.
Anyway, your vulva has fucking sweat glands, bitch. Sweat is indeed a part of your coochie scent. *facepalms at the continued ignorance.*
"women don't sweat."🙄Yeah, you sure keep owning with that "biology" you're so knowledgeable about...
I had the most horrendously transphobic experience I've ever had at a pharmacy at a @riteaid today.
Every other pharmacy I've ever been can track a preferred name for a trans patient. Actually so can they... but the tech wanted spent literally 15 minutes arguing that he couldn't.
He kept trying to talk over me to explain "I can update your name, but then your insurance won't pay for your medication," which is a lie. My insurance covers my meds at every other pharmacy that has my preferred name in the system as what to call me. It's separate from insurance
This is the case at rite-aid too, but he was determined to give me a hard time for being trans. He tried to lie to me for 15 minutes about how the system works to say that they can't even track a trans person's preferred name to call us what we go by.
I had an endoscopy today. It's amazing how they put you out and it's just like blink and you're awake again, but I wish I hadn't woken back up. I wish I'd died under anesthesia. It has me thinking though that maybe dying doesn't have to be so hard...
The only methods I have to kill myself would be traumatic, but once I pass out, that's it. Nothing. No TERFs, no violence, just nothing. I long for that... Nothingness...
If I'd died under anesthesia, I wouldn't now face having to resort to more traumatic methods, but once I have so little blood, I will just pass out, and that's all. Nothing else. No pain. I can remember how I got to meet Kesha while I fade out and it'll be the last thing I knew.
If a TERF finds out you were AMAB and have been raped by multiple cis women, that your first sexual experience was being raped by a cis woman she will get absolutely giddy about intentionally triggering you. TERFs don't believe vagina-owners have to follow the rules of consent 🧵
It goes so much further than simply embracing what patriarchy taught them, and what they'll go to great lengths to explain to rape survivors whose PTSD they want to trigger: Every penis owner wants sex from every vagina owner all the time, so it's impossible for women to rape.
This is actually a central tenant of rape culture, and they embrace it wholeheartedly just to give themselves an excuse to commit further intentional violence against people with a dick... Why? Why would a "feminist" embrace patriarchal misogyny just to hurt penis owners?
I'm doing worthwhile things with my life now that I've transitioned. I'm making music. When I can cope with my trauma enough to get back on camera, I'll be making more content. These are things I never would have been able to do before. I just drank and cut myself.
I haven't cut in five years, and the last time I did, it was a reaction to abuse, not dysphoria. I've fallen off the wagon times I've been homeless, but now I've been sober since the night I met Kesha, which was a year and a half ago, and before that night I'd been sober a year.
Quitting drinking took time, oh, and I quit smoking too, and that took time and I struggled back and forth with it when I was homeless too, but when youre homeless you don't want to live anyway...
I don't understand how you can refer to having my testicles removed as "harm" when I want them gone, when testosterone actively sabotages my mental wellbeing when it's not blocked...
It's not your place to be concerned with whether or not I can have kids either. I don't want or need them to be happy. Keep your forced-birth agenda away from my body. My marital rapist wanted to act like my sperm belonged to her too. It's literally mine to get rid of if I want.
After I spent one and a half years being raped to try to coerce my decisions about what I do with my body, and 35 more of never wanting testicles to begin with, I'll absolutely "castrate" myself if I want to. You don't get it. It's *MY* body, not yours, *MINE.*