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May 13, 2023 18 tweets 4 min read
I wasn’t there, but I’ve read about it extensively and I understand it. respect it, and benefit from it.

But that isn’t the issue or why you are called fascists now.

The problem is the same problem that trans women, BIPOC women, and LGBTQ people faced at that time. One of the best known examples of this conflict was in the mid 70s at the West Coast Lesbian Feminist Conference.

Beth Elliot what is a trans woman who transitioned in her teens it was an editor on lesbian newsletters and a folk singer
May 13, 2023 5 tweets 2 min read
She’s calling me a creature and saying I have autogynephelia.

This was a term used by a debunked sexologist to separate self loving homosexual trans women from lesbian trans women blah blah ..

The thing is — I am old enough to have had that conversion therapy — 🧵 In 2002 I started trans therapy with Dr. Karol Jensen in Minneapolis. I found out about her from Lavender magazines

I had moved to the city just before that, and it was my first chance to access trans healthcare.

Dr. Jensen was THE trans therapist in Minneapolis. Image
May 13, 2023 9 tweets 4 min read
@phemoid The second wave definition of gender that you believe — because you have only taken feminism 101 — basically means sex stereotypes. Trans people used the original definition of gender as applied to people by sexologists 20 years earlier. Which means behavior unrelated to sex. @phemoid It first applied to humans to describe the inclinations of intersex and trans people — how they ingrouped and what performance they used. This is sometimes also called “subconcious sex” in books like Whipping Girl.
May 1, 2023 9 tweets 2 min read
In what world is Hollywood pro-trans?

The decades of exclusions and anti-trans jokes?

Having men play trans women while we fought against it for years -- and then flipping to casting almost entirely cis-passing beauty standards trans women in all trans femme roles? How many stories in the last four years have you seen that feature trans women where they even mention they are trans -- much less really dramatize our internal worlds?

How many shows have been created by openly trans women in the entire history of Hollywood?
Apr 15, 2023 9 tweets 2 min read
Re: “transing gay kids”

I’ve wondered A LOT if my transness was being a neurodivergent gay boy who liked rules and wanted to express femme but had no model for it

I have talked about this in therapy a zillion times.

I’ve talked about it with tons of trans women — And here is the deal

1. I wanted to be a girl SUPER young. Earliest experience stuff. Way before sexuality.

2. Once that locked in, I leaned in hard to certain socializations and rejected other.

So if this modeling had taken place — it would have to be like pre-four
Apr 15, 2023 4 tweets 1 min read
It’s something I am constantly vigilant for in all the stuff I do.

I have “bigger hands please” notes on the comic I just wrote.

It’s a real challenge in this industry, even in comedy, to push back against white cis beauty standards and… Plenty of people don’t want brick visibility.

Like just show trans people that like the most like cis people to normalize them.

It’s super difficult.

It erased my own on-screen, stand up ambitions pretty quickly.
Apr 14, 2023 8 tweets 2 min read
This is trick question. Dylan wasn’t put into ads.

The brand were put on to Dylan’s platform to MILLIONS of engaged followers and potential customers.

The products wanted to a part of what Dylan is selling —- Dylan’s brand — not the other way around. And while commenters claim that transness is “being shoved down their throat”

The sponsorship is on Dylan’s platform or targeted keywords.

You only know about the ad via outrage — the people claiming to not want to see it — ARE THE ONES WHO CANT STOP TALKING ABOUT IT