/lgbt/ - LGBT

>>6470
The idea of deserving transition is so dumb. It's just body modification to fit your personal aesthetic. The fact that you feel distress over how your perceived and seek to make your body conform to internal standards most likely impressed on you by society is shared with cis people. No one deserves or doesn't deserve transition or any body modification. If you can afford it and it's a priority you do it. Sadly we live in a competitive world and maybe that's why you feel hostility, because people with more privilege are able to pay to win in the social and sexual marketplace, and that relative loss becomes an absolute loss when we're competing for something scarce (whether it's acceptance or whatever).

I personally thing "transgender" is an evil invention that binds us more than it liberates us.

the foundations for institutional standards of care regarding medical transition were established by people like Ray Blanchard and J. Michael Bailey based on pseudoscience (even within the already pseudoscientific standards of bourgeois psychology & sexology) and particularly in the latter's case it's a known fact that they were chasers who created misogynistic gatekeeping standards around who is a "real woman" based on performance of straight middle class assimilationism, because these were the trans women that would submit to getting raped by these credentialed chaser rapists. the ones who didn't, either because they didn't resemble cis women enough for these credentialed chaser rapists or because they refused to allow themselves to be raped by them, were labeled as fetishistic men to gatekeep them from having access to hormones.

in the 90s a false alternative was invented to this archaic pseudoscience of transmisogyny whose explicit purpose was to make transfems' bodies available to men and to genocide everyone else out of existence who didn't want to assimilate into an imitation of the straight existence. by building off the liberal idealism of theorists like Judith Butler who reduced all feminist theory and critique of the so-called "second wave" (which was often imperfect but nonetheless contained radical potential), instead of any understanding of trans people that approached the issue from a materialist basis and took it for granted that we should seek to understand the science of transition better, to improve on it as much as possible, and to increase the bodily autonomy for people who wish to transition rather than invent more standards for it, all standards were thrown out the window. the category of "transgender" was invented by literal NGOs working with inner-city predominately Black and Latina transfem sex workers and imposing this single category onto them which also lumped them in with assimilationist white transfems and even literal crossdressers, transvestites, and various other people that we now recognize today as not experiencing transmisogyny.

my point is that this very abridged history of how the "trans" category and discourses were invented were all done not only explicitly without us having any say in any of it but specifically for the purposes of controlling and using us. this continues to this day with how the two mainstream tendencies in transfem culture reflect these two things: the assimilationist transmed types who largely exist on /tttt/ and adopt all of this transmisogynistic gatekeeping rhetoric to a degree that is essentially mass psychosis, and the idealist tucute types who largely exist in spaces like r/traaa who level out all analyses and critiques of trans issues and theory to a homogeneous gray paste of "queerness" or "transness" or whatever the fuck that is explicitly in denial of the qualitative differences between different people who fall into these categories, people who wish to medically transition, people who are subject to transmisogyny, versus (at the other extreme) people who are effectively non-transitioning cis people who just want to use different pronouns.

all of us go into transition not being prepared for the reality of how much of a fucking nightmare being transfem really is in the sort of world we live in, how isolating and destitute it is, how all of medical science related to transitioning is essentially still stuck in the dark ages. the only solution to this is to ruthlessly critique everything that doesn't involve transfems prioritizing our needs as a uniquely oppressed class of people and acting in solidarity and sisterhood with each other. we have to essentially do biohacking on ourselves to crowdsource transition science and we need to produce our own autonomous culture and theory with real networks of mutual aid.

if we don't fight back against what amounts to a doubly-articulated circuit of discipline and control, many more will go through the same things as you.

Cis Wombyn: unbearable bitch 1/4 of each month due to biology
TIM Woman: unbearable bitch all day every day due to psychology

>>6473
do you got a discord intellectual shawtyma?

>>6475

we used to have a Matrix thing, idk what happened with that, i think it died along with Shay's online presence

>>6475
>>6476
in my experience hosting and using Matrix servers they tend to destroy themselves because of how dogshit the protocol is. I could maybe be convinced to host an IRC for leftytrans if there was interest in having such a thing.

>>6478

I still dunno why everyone was/is so opposed to using Discord as if there was really a safe in the internet nowadays

also Leftypol had a unofficial discord awhile ago but i got rejected because they couldn't figure out what kind of communist i was.

>>6473

how do i explain my bf that AGP isn't real?

>>6479
I'm not opposed to Discord in this instance for security/privacy reasons and do have aan account. I just find Discord to be a viscerally disgusting experience to use with how obnoxious and noisy the UI has become over the past few years and try to avoid using it too much.

anyway, aside from everything I said above about how the entire AGP/HSTS thing is pseudoscience that was made up by chaser doctors who mostly just wanted to rape trans women and be able to cope about how the ones that they raped are actually the real valid women, another anon posted something in another thread recently about how "AGP" is a thing that is only applied to trans women to make us feel ashamed for having any degree of positivity about our own appearances and bodies even though there is nothing qualitatively different about trans women feeling good about their appearances as there is in cis people feeling hot. it works into the broader tendency to strip us of as much autonomy and agency as possible where we aren't even allowed to feel good about ourselves without it being made into a pathological thing to gatekeep HRT from us, but this is a double-standard that isn't applied to like literally any other category. certainly not cis people, not even other trans people; it's something that is uniquely weaponized against transfems.

I also think there's some degree of obfuscation that has happened over time because as I said in the 90s the category of "transgender" was created to encompass both transsexuals and transvestites, and then later on in the 2010s things got even more muddled with everyone just being "queer", and once again it's only transfems who have to deal with all the contradictions of these arbitrary categories that were made up by cis people for completely cynical transmisogynistic reasons. you can make the argument that there is something that exists in the world that gets erroneously diagnosed as "autogynephilia" and that the conflation of this with Blanchardian pseudoscience is the result of how discourses around trans people have evolved over time. really, what this more accurately describes is crossdressers and transvestites, men who self-identify as men and that we now recognize as not being transfem because they have no desire to live as women or identify with women as a class of people (speaking of which I highly recommend reading Monique Wittig for some actually good and serious feminist theory). whenever people talk about this AGP/HSTS horseshit it's always tgirls who are concerned about whether or not they're real and valid or whatever the fuck, but the transvestite men who actually are AGP do not think about any of this shit because they are men and have no desire to be seen as women.

I'm also saying this as someone who for most of my transition could count the number of times on one hand that I had ever felt attractive, and that was entirely because of brainworms and being severely depressed. I didn't ever consciously diagnose myself within the AGP/HSTS pseudoscience matrix but feels worth noting because all of what I'm saying can be deduced independently of your own personal experiences.

hope this is useful.

>>6479
its not even necessarily that AGP (in the literally interpretation of the term) is fake, its more so the Blanchardian interpretation and construction of it.
The self attraction to one's femininity isn't bad or new, its just sorta normal in a lot of people (but obviously not everyone)
if ur bf is a chud that cant see nuance than its over

>>6478
id have interest in such a thing

my favorite shitty transhumanist thing is that you're basically forced to get srs, it's often the only real requirement even though it's just objectively quite gross, literally a government mandated hole added to your body exclusively for sex
i wish i had a female reproductive system but srs just isn't that, it barely even mimmicks a real vagina
i dont want to have sex with my penis but i also don't really want to go through with the whole thing of gambling on a surgery that i dont even really want, but i feel so forced to because im not considered valid by anyone including the government if i dont

>>6470
The Medical perspective on transgenderism is misplaced imo, the libertarian perspective makes much more sense, do whatever you want, it doesn't matter if you're 'valid' or not.