Don’t ignore this. Trans black lives matter.
London Chanel, a 21-year-old transgender woman, was stabbed to death in North Philadelphia early Monday, a city official told BuzzFeed News.
Chanel is the eighth transgender woman of color killed in the United States this year — a trend that anti-violence advocates have called an epidemic. And as in many of the cases, Chanel was misgendered in early reports.
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I really hope your girlfriend realizes she’s dating a pathetic waste of a human being and finds someone infinitely better.
A lot of lesbians are turned off by the idea of their gf having sex with men. Why is that such a bad thing? Why is it so wrong to only like women who like other women? I think the anon who asked this should be honest with her gf and break up with her though if it’s that much of a turn off.
At first I wasn’t going to reply to comments like these but now that I’ve had a couple of beers the idea of repeatedly hitting my head against a brick wall seems more enjoyable so here we go.
I have a problem with lesbians who claim that they have a “preference” towards dating other lesbians over bisexuals. I understand having a preference, I personally have a preference for girls who are my height or taller than me. However, does this preference make me view my own voice, safety, and representation in my community as superior and of more importance than those I do not have a preference for? Nope. That’s why this anon (and unfortunately other like minded individuals) don’t have a “preference” they are biphobic and overall prejudicial assholes.
If you’re not comfortable dating bisexual people because you feel they will ultimately leave you for the opposite sex or (insert other stereotypical view of bisexuals) you don’t have a preference, you are biphobic, and have some huge insecurities that you should probably deal with before you enter a relationship.
If you’re a lesbian and do not feel comfortable dating a woman who is also attracted to individuals with dicks because you find it “icky” or “gross”, it must blow your mind when you find out your partner likes watermelon and you don’t. How do you even move forward from there? Is the relationship just doomed? And yes it is the same thing. Those individuals are judging someone based on something they cannot control.
Prejudice and phobia inside the queer community is something I will never understand and is absolutely infuriating.
Also, by saying you don’t want to date women who’ve “touched dick” before, you’re reducing women to their sexual exploits and objectifying them. Not cool, and definitely 100% biphobic. You can’t pretend it’s a freaking preference when it’s built on ignorance and stereotypes.
@ lesbians who are “turned off” by bi girls who have had sex with men: sorry that a girl’s personal sexual history turns you off, sorry that something they can’t change turns you off, but it’s almost… as if… it’s some serious misogynist bullshit to judge a woman by her sex life… holy shit
Is the whole markiplier shit still happening? Damn. Y’all markiplier fucks keep railing off at the mouth about shit you know nothing about and expecting people to give a fuck about you and your “fav”.
Mark was transmisogynistic as fuck and y’all literally can’t wrap your damn brains around a simple concept as “Don’t wear makeup as a fucking joke if you’re a cisgender male”?
Fuck off with your bullshit.
Hi. Genderqueer, male-presenting DFAB person here.
Ahem.
Please stop. Makeup is literally powder and liquid and has no specific gender connotation. Yes, it was designed as a female product but it’s POWDER. For your FACE.
Clothes have no gender. Makeup has no gender. It’s only the societal “rules” that give it gender, and by saying that someone can’t wear something, even as a joke, you’re enforcing that societal norm. The same societal norm that says that you as an agender person are wrong for being who you are.
Mark can wear whatever the hell he likes, if he enjoys it and it makes him happy. So long as he’s not saying anything directly against the trans community (which he wasn’t) by doing it, then there’s no harm.
PS: I wear makeup, men’s clothes and a packer to work because it makes me feel hot as fuck. I put on literally the worst shades I could find as a ‘joke’ for a party because it was fun. I enjoyed myself and the people around me enjoyed it. Gonna call me a transmysoginist too?
Hi, Trans Woman here.
These jokes are made at the expense of trans women.
You are a male presenting DFAB. A male presenting DFAB is not a trans woman. These jokes are not being made at your expense. You are not the one harmed by them.
You do not get to dictate what is and is not harmful to somebody else when you yourself are not harmed by it.
Your input means nothing and you are in fact a transmisogynist.
Mya Hall wasn’t looking for trouble when she took a wrong turn on March 30 and wound up on the wrong exit of a Fort Meade, Md. parkway, which led to the Baltimore headquarters of the NSA.
But she still wound up dead after security opened fire on her vehicle, apparently causing it to crash into the gates of the compound. …
Initial reports of the incident that led to her death described Hall and Fleming as “men dressed as women,” “crossdressers,” “men in drag,” and “transvestites.” Hall was also frequently misgendered and typically referred to as a man, using her legal name.
The few media reports on Hall’s death have been tinged with transphobia, with a Washington Post article continuing to describe Hall and Fleming as “men dressed as women,” a revelation which it referred to as a “shocking twist.” The Post also described the street scene where Hall and Fleming worked as a “choreography of cliches,” focusing on the high heels, short shorts, and heavy makeup of the women.
In contrast to the outrage that the deaths of black men like Mike Brown, Eric Garner, and Freddie Gray have prompted on social media, there has been very little attention given to Hall’s death. As a black trans sex worker, she and Fleming have been written off as “troubled.” On Tumblr and Reddit, platforms that are usually supportive of transgender victims of violence and black victims of police brutality, Mya Hall’s name has been notably absent.
But the Baltimore protests have renewed public concern over Hall’s death, as well as criticism of the lack of attention it received and the way the media has covered it.
Mya Hall wasn’t looking for trouble when she took a wrong turn on March 30 and wound up on the wrong exit of a Fort Meade, Md. parkway, which led to the Baltimore headquarters of the NSA.
But she still wound up dead after security opened fire on her vehicle, apparently causing it to crash into the gates of the compound. …
Initial reports of the incident that led to her death described Hall and Fleming as “men dressed as women,” “crossdressers,” “men in drag,” and “transvestites.” Hall was also frequently misgendered and typically referred to as a man, using her legal name.
The few media reports on Hall’s death have been tinged with transphobia, with a Washington Post article continuing to describe Hall and Fleming as “men dressed as women,” a revelation which it referred to as a “shocking twist.” The Post also described the street scene where Hall and Fleming worked as a “choreography of cliches,” focusing on the high heels, short shorts, and heavy makeup of the women.
In contrast to the outrage that the deaths of black men like Mike Brown, Eric Garner, and Freddie Gray have prompted on social media, there has been very little attention given to Hall’s death. As a black trans sex worker, she and Fleming have been written off as “troubled.” On Tumblr and Reddit, platforms that are usually supportive of transgender victims of violence and black victims of police brutality, Mya Hall’s name has been notably absent.
But the Baltimore protests have renewed public concern over Hall’s death, as well as criticism of the lack of attention it received and the way the media has covered it.
This is disgusting. I hope she’s okay. They really don’t give a fuck about us out here y’all. Stay woke.
here is a video of here speaking about her arrest and a link to the article above (x)
[Transcription of the video: My name is Sadaisha Shimmers. On the 21st of April I requested to meet with Hillary Rodham Clinton on the Ellen Degeneres show. Within 24 hours of requesting to speak with her about the 20 transgender deaths in our country, the lack of military inclusion, and the segregation that is being lobbied for jails as well as bathrooms in our country, I was leaving my place of residence when I was thrown on the ground by two male officers. I had no idea what was going on and I was subsequently held and detained in down-town San Francisco jail for 24 hours. During which time I was strip searched one time by six male officers and a second time by another male officer by another male officer. They also changed my legally changed gender from female back to male. While I was incarcerated they refused to feed me stating that I was a vegetarian and that they were unable to process a vegetarian tray within the first twelve hours.
During my incarceration I was not charged with anything. There was no crime attached to why I was being held in jail. These officers came out after I had called 911 saying that there had been people harassing me as a transgender female and I was in fear for my life. They said they were unable to come out to respond to my call and that I needed to go in. After getting dressed to go in and make a police report I was leaving my house when the officers grabbed me, threw me on the ground and arrested me.
This is illegal. It is illegal to hold somebody without any formal charges. It is illegal to strip search a female when you are a male officer. And it is certainly illegal to deprive me of the medical care that I required. During my incarceration for that 24 hour period I was deprived of various central medications to my health, which resulted in a 24 hour hospital stay due to bleeding ulcers in my stomach. This is a violation of my civil rights. I am in fear for my safety and I fear retaliation. Is this what happens in our country when we ask our future president to help us out?
This is our trans nation. I need each and every trans person to not allow this to continue to happen. Share this video. God bless.]
markiplier: -uses the t-slur-
markiplier: -makes a video of him doing a “creepy girl makeup”-
markiplier: -gets called out for it being transmisogynistic by several actual trans women-
markiplier:
markiplier: -says and does nothing when his fanbase humiliate and harass the trans women who spoke out against him, some of whom deleted their blogs out of fear for their safety-
markiplier: “i love “all” my fans and will listen to whatever they have to say. :)”
He does not care about us.
So, maybe people have already seen this, but this is a piece by Megan Murphy at FeministCurrent.com and a small snippet of the comments the article received and allowed.
Megan Murphy herself concedes that the naked female body isn’t inherently sexual and for the male gaze but insists that Laverne’s photoshoot is objectification.
She then precedes to mock what she calls Laverne’s body as a “cartoonish version of a woman””. This kind of language surrounding trans women is not new. I can’t even count how many times I have seen trans women referred to “caricatures” “imitations” and “masquerades”, language layered over the top of each other to mock the very idea of a trans woman and to pick apart her body, but in the name of “feminism”.
Bodily autonomy pushed aside in order to reduce Laverne to some child who is not capable of making decisions for herself. A decision she made to express her pride in her own black, trans identity becomes fodder for women to infantilise her and ridicule her.
But don’t worry, she justifies not allowing Laverne her own bodily autonomy in the comments section, because apparently you cannot aim for collective liberation while having control over your own body and sexuality.
We need to remember that this kind of feminism exists, the kind that will speak about black, trans bodies with contempt and breeds transphobic “gender critical” nonsense.
“Trans women of color are historically objectified by mainstream media with this basic narrative around genitalia and surgery. I believe this “exposure” could be better served towards issues that affect marginalized community; poor, disabled, incarcerated, undocumented trans people of color. We know eight trans women were brutally murdered within the first 60 days of 2015 with no media outrage or outcry, no Diane Sawyer interviews.”
Read this.
“The media wants to maintain the status quo of capitalism and white supremacy. Bruce’s story is based on privilege. Despite Bruce’s internal truth seeking, [Jenner] will have access to health care, housing, jobs etc. Many trans people of color I know don’t even have access to safe and affordable health care or housing. Mainstream media wants to prop up this narrative of “transition” when for many trans folk that is not the goal!“
“Trans women of color are historically objectified by mainstream media with this basic narrative around genitalia and surgery. I believe this “exposure” could be better served towards issues that affect marginalized community; poor, disabled, incarcerated, undocumented trans people of color. We know eight trans women were brutally murdered within the first 60 days of 2015 with no media outrage or outcry, no Diane Sawyer interviews.”
“The media wants to maintain the status quo of capitalism and white
supremacy. Bruce’s story is based on privilege. Despite Bruce’s internal
truth seeking, [Jenner] will have access to health care, housing, jobs
etc. Many trans people of color I know don’t even have access to safe
and affordable health care or housing. Mainstream media wants to prop up
this narrative of “transition” when for many trans folk that is not the
goal!“
a few days ago on twitter, i pointed out that i’d noticed an interesting (but not surprising) pattern in the arrests made for murders of/violence against twoc (primarily Black women, since i’m talking about the US here). so the thing i noticed was that the only people i really ever saw getting charged, arrested, and convicted for murdering or attacking Black and/or Latina trans women were Black men.
To make how I can notice just a pattern clear: I curate news for @girlslikeusnews on twitter. I’ve been on hiatus to recharge my batteries and I’m just now trying to catch up on a month’s worth of news. But this means that I read and scan A LOT of articles. My google alert query is pretty fucking broad. And I’ve been doing this for a few years now.
A few… other observations. First. Very few arrests/convictions are ever made in these cases, most go unresolved. Second. Black men are arrested/convicted/incarcerated at highly disproportional rates in the US.
One of the things I wanted to know is why the police only seem to be able to find Black men in cases involving Black trans women. Is it because ‘Black on Black’ crime is that bad? Is it because the Black community is uniquely transmisogynist? Is it because people of other races don’t kill or attack Black trans women?
The answer, of course, to all of these questions is a loud and resounding “NO”.
What I think it is, and this should be fairly obvious, is that the police’s apathy towards the deaths and violence experienced by Black trans women doesn’t get in the way of their need to incarcerate as many Black ppl as possible. The police may not care about Black trans women, but they always care about incarcerating Black ppl. Always.
Where becomes a really big problem is in the case of Islan Nettles. Only last month was an arrest made in her murder. The police arrested one Black man when it was said that there were maybe seven people involved. But they also arrested him two years after her death. Which leads us to this article where he defends his innocence:
Police initially arrested another man, Paris Wilson, in connection with the killing, but on Aug. 20 2013 — the same day Nettles died — Dixon went to the 32nd precinct stationhouse and told investigators he attacked her, according to officials. Dixon declined to elaborate on what he said to police….
The reason for the delay in charging him for Nettles’ death was not clear, but investigators say they struggled because witnesses had difficulty telling Dixon and Wilson apart.
Okay… are you seeing what the problem is here? Like. Yeah. I want justice for Islan Nettles, but this? Does not look like it. My confidence that the ‘right’ man was arrested is about -1. The thing is, is that Black men are convicted of crimes on evidence this flimsy and investigations handled this poorly.
Leaving aside the transmisogyny he expressed in this story (“I can tell the difference between a man and a woman,” he said.), I’m just… yeah. Not convinced that the NYPD actually gives two shits about Islan and that their ‘investigation’ was anything more than perfunctory.
What I found interesting about this is that one day after expressing this, I read about another Black man being arrested for the murder of a Black trans woman — Gizzy Fowler. And so the pattern continues…
I have nothing really substantive to say about any of this, other than pointing out the pattern. The only real ‘solution’ to this is prison abolition. Especially when you consider what I realized the other day: the men who are convicted of transmisogynist hate crimes go to the same prisons as twoc. Think about that. This was confirmed by something Dixon said himself:
“There are transgender people here in jail and I get along fine with them.”
This is…. yeah. I guess I do have one last question for the trans*nationalists and homonationalists who’ve been pushing hate crime designations as a ‘solution’ for violence in teh community: does this look like justice to you?
a few days ago on twitter, i pointed out that i’d noticed an interesting (but not surprising) pattern in the arrests made for murders of/violence against twoc (primarily Black women, since i’m talking about the US here). so the thing i noticed was that the only people i really ever saw getting charged, arrested, and convicted for murdering or attacking Black and/or Latina trans women were Black men.
To make how I can notice just a pattern clear: I curate news for @girlslikeusnews on twitter. I’ve been on hiatus to recharge my batteries and I’m just now trying to catch up on a month’s worth of news. But this means that I read and scan A LOT of articles. My google alert query is pretty fucking broad. And I’ve been doing this for a few years now.
A few… other observations. First. Very few arrests/convictions are ever made in these cases, most go unresolved. Second. Black men are arrested/convicted/incarcerated at highly disproportional rates in the US.
One of the things I wanted to know is why the police only seem to be able to find Black men in cases involving Black trans women. Is it because ‘Black on Black’ crime is that bad? Is it because the Black community is uniquely transmisogynist? Is it because people of other races don’t kill or attack Black trans women?
The answer, of course, to all of these questions is a loud and resounding “NO”.
What I think it is, and this should be fairly obvious, is that the police’s apathy towards the deaths and violence experienced by Black trans women doesn’t get in the way of their need to incarcerate as many Black ppl as possible. The police may not care about Black trans women, but they always care about incarcerating Black ppl. Always.
Where becomes a really big problem is in the case of Islan Nettles. Only last month was an arrest made in her murder. The police arrested one Black man when it was said that there were maybe seven people involved. But they also arrested him two years after her death. Which leads us to this article where he defends his innocence:
Police initially arrested another man, Paris Wilson, in connection with the killing, but on Aug. 20 2013 — the same day Nettles died — Dixon went to the 32nd precinct stationhouse and told investigators he attacked her, according to officials. Dixon declined to elaborate on what he said to police….
The reason for the delay in charging him for Nettles’ death was not clear, but investigators say they struggled because witnesses had difficulty telling Dixon and Wilson apart.
Okay… are you seeing what the problem is here? Like. Yeah. I want justice for Islan Nettles, but this? Does not look like it. My confidence that the ‘right’ man was arrested is about -1. The thing is, is that Black men are convicted of crimes on evidence this flimsy and investigations handled this poorly.
Leaving aside the transmisogyny he expressed in this story (“I can tell the difference between a man and a woman,” he said.), I’m just… yeah. Not convinced that the NYPD actually gives two shits about Islan and that their ‘investigation’ was anything more than perfunctory.
What I found interesting about this is that one day after expressing this, I read about another Black man being arrested for the murder of a Black trans woman — Gizzy Fowler. And so the pattern continues…
I have nothing really substantive to say about any of this, other than pointing out the pattern. The only real ‘solution’ to this is prison abolition. Especially when you consider what I realized the other day: the men who are convicted of transmisogynist hate crimes go to the same prisons as twoc. Think about that. This was confirmed by something Dixon said himself:
“There are transgender people here in jail and I get along fine with them.”
This is…. yeah. I guess I do have one last question for the trans*nationalists and homonationalists who’ve been pushing hate crime designations as a ‘solution’ for violence in teh community: does this look like justice to you?
typoes aside, the fact that tucking is seen as weird and uncomfortable to talk about where binding is seen as revolutionary and the Epitome of Queer has a lot of interesting interlocking causes, including:
And many more keystones of transmisogyny!
trying to excuse transmisogyny in children’s media by saying “it’s just a joke! don’t try to complicate things! the kids will only see it as a joke!” means you only care about cis kids. because for us trans ladies, no matter when in our lives we ended up coming to terms with our gender, we knew what those jokes meant. it meant we were the jokes and we were only worthy of mockery, and we internalized that shit because we had nothing else in our lives telling us otherwise and we had no defenses against it.
we aren’t trying to “overcomplicate” children’s media, we aren’t trying to “appropriate” media that isn’t meant for us, WE’RE TRYING TO PROTECT TRANS GIRLS AND KIDS WHO MIGHT GROW UP TO BE TRANS WOMEN BECAUSE NO ONE FUCKING PROTECTED US
It’s not fucking rocket science.
If you’re invoking the bad tropes then you’re invoking transmisogyny.
If your character is dude coded and wearing a dress the following tropes are going to be a fucking problem
There’s more too but those are typically the only ways you see a dude coded character in a dress so don’t fucking pretend please.
And with the context of our shitty society, you’re going to need to be pretty blatant about this being a serious and important and needed exploration of self for a dude coded character to wear a dress. Something the other characters take seriously and find important to that char.
And even then it could still backfire if you fuck up a little.
i can’t count on my fingers how many arguments i’ve seen in favor of Dude In Dress Jokes because they “weren’t intending to make fun of trans women” and
i cannot tell you
how much
i do not care
about your fucking Intentions
like please pull your head out of your ass and consider that regardless of your intentions, regardless of how you try to frame it off-screen on your personal tumblr (where most of your audience won’t see), your audience is going to see a dude in a dress the same way they’ve always seen a dude in a dress. as a joke. because that’s how they were raised, and you’re not doing anything to challenge that.
like you can argue about what your Real Intentions were on tumblr all you want, but i dare you to go up to any average kid and ask them whether or not they think uncle grandpa in a dress is funny, and how they feel about trans women. and then ask yourself whether you’re DIRECTLY CHALLENGING these opinions, or if your audience, who is so skewed towards hating trans women, is going to interpret this Dude In A Dress joke how they want.
"Confidence comes from within"
"Who the hell told you that?"
Our mothers, if we’re lucky, and nobody, if we’re not.
trans woman makes a joke on a tv show, transmisogynists are perplexed and can’t stop pissing into their own mouths
don’t you fucks constantly talk about weaponized femininity and killing men with your stillettos and your eyeliner or some shit like shut the fuck up and care about important things
Weaponized feminism is only okay if a white cis woman Does it.
As soon as a Trans Black Woman Does it, it becomes a threat.
Literally all I ever see them talk about is how they “paint their lips with the blood of men” and as soon ad Laverne Cox says it???? They get upset??????????
I’m so confused lmao
B. Binaohan’s tweets about TDOV.
While I enjoy how many Black and Brown trans people are on my dash right now, let’s not sit here and pretend like this day isn’t based around the wants and needs of white folks.
