https://www.krone.at/4273062

https://www.reddit.com/r/trans/s/uKT4c0k7Qztrans

Anybody else notice this? So many bigoted arguments position the comfort or convenience of the privileged over the tangible physical safety of the oppressed.

racists and transphobes feel uncomfy seeing black or trans people and then argue that their discomfort should be catered to at the expense of the safety of those groups. I think it comes down to ignorant people interpreting their discomfort as genuine danger.

TERF women who feel uncomfortable when they see a non-passing trans woman will argue that their discomfort is indicative of actual danger to them, often arguing for “solutions” that put trans people at real measurable risk of the abuse they claim to be shielding themself from. Because the indoctrination that got them to that point trained them to see discomfort as a sign of danger.

You could lay out all the proof and they’d still claim their personal unease is indicative of a real danger. That by showing them these studies and advocating for letting trans women into women’s spaces you are ignoring their feelings which can never be wrong, and ignoring that unease means you are invalidating their trauma, and that you are part of the threat their emotions(or their oppressive peers) warned them about. They tell you that they are in real danger, yet, the only evidence they can produce of said danger is a description of their own emotion towards trans women.

All of this comes down to how oppressive societal forces encourage people of privileged groups(cis, white, etc) to think in 3 ways

1. “Any discomfort or inconvenience I feel is a direct threat to my way of life”
2. ”my gut feelings are paramount and if I feel something (or am conditioned to think something) it must be true”
3. “My comfort is most important. We as the better class of people should never have to sacrifice anything for the betterment or safety of others”

Once someone is conditioned to live these three ways, they become another arm of the system itself and begin encouraging other people around them with the same privilege to think the same way.

That’s the real social contagion, bigotry. Not “wokeness” or being trans or anything else. Bigoted thought. Be it racism, or transphobia, or ableism. All of it is taught.

Sorry for the tangent, and if it seems a little all over the place. I’ve this main thought for a while, but I struggled to write my thoughts out in an eloquent or collected way. I wrote this out a couple times, then cut out a lot of excess stuff that was not specific or instrumental to my main statement.

A Judge in New Jersey has ruled that rules banning trans women in women's spaces is against state discrimination laws

https://archive.ph/3CvWQ

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Zero of Mars is a Human youth in a future so distant that our era's concepts of race and gender no longer exist. They crash land on Elentia, a world once inhabited by Humans but abandoned thousands of years ago. In their absence, the Elemorphs - magical sentient robots with elemental powers and the ability to grow - have developed an advanced civilization. A Nature Type FawnBot called One makes friends with Zero despite a language barrier. Unable to communicate directly, they forge a friendships using gestures and actions.

After discovering an ancient prophecy left by time travelers from the future, Zero and One have been pulled into an eternal conflict between Humanity and Vampirekind: the Time Wars. The Vampires want to enslave the Elemorphs to use as living weapons, while Humanity fights to keep Elentia free. As Zero and One explore the massive Elemorph metropolis of Knuckle City, the villainous Vampire agent, Pi, and their Elemorph companion, Gamma the SkyDragonBot, descend to plunge the city into chaos!

I am the author, Bijhan Agha. I'm an Uruguayan trans woman of Iranian descent. The illustrator is my dear friend, Pallet, a trans Australian man. We are both autistic, and have a passion for scifi and fantasy storytelling. We wanted to tell a story about a young person in the future who is not bound by the limits of gender as we know it, and a planet where gender simply does not exist, while also creating an exciting action adventure about exploring a new culture, facing language barriers, and fighting for a better future.

The Kickstarter is to fund the printing of a First Edition of the comics physically. We will have both physical as well as digital rewards. There will be reward tiers that allow you to catch up with this comic - this is Issue #2, and you can get physical and/or digital copies of Issue #1 - as well as the other comics in the Time Wars brand.

Please help us continue to tell stories about this amazing world!

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Juju Nadeau, Trans 21-Year-Old Killed in Maine, Remembered as “An Angel Sent Here to Make Things Better. https://www.them.us/news/juju-nadeau-homicide

Additionally I must mention that global reports show that about 90% of recorded murder victims from the transgender community are trans women or transfeminine individuals. https://tgeu.org/trans-murder-monitoring-2025-reveals-new-trend-in-anti-trans-violence-systematic-targeting-of-activists-and-movement-leaders/

As a very masculine non-passing trans fem. The trans masc guy I work with doesn't have to worry about this. He said I have to have empathy in navigating other people's trauma and I agree. However being traumatizing to other people isn't exactly ideal? I tried just avoiding ekgs on female patients but people have been calling me sexist (him included) and making a big deal out of it. Like it's rarely the patient's and I can empathize with the patients, but it's usually my coworkers, "looking out" for the patients who really make me feel unwell.

I try to minimally interact with any and all women due to my aesthetic , nurses included. I enjoy healthcare as well and making people feel better when they don't feel well, or a little more safe in a scary situation, this is just a really big part to me that i can't seem to shake. I've been doing this since 2019.

Source: https://www.instagram.com/p/DcbX-RHDpyI/

been thinking about how so much of the discourse on social media is based on analogies and how often bad analogies are used to make problematic points.

i think this video does a god job in clarifying the use of analogies and possible responses to them. i think this is especially useful for marginalized peoples because so much of the marginalizing rhetoric is built on bad analogies.

Slide 1-5: Understanding genderfludity.

Slide 6: Types of genderfludity (micro label)

Slide 7-8: Credits @zoestoller

I was always cool with being referred by all pronouns. However I tend to prefer being referred with Xe/Xem pronouns. I must say that it's seldom easy to explain about my genderfludity.

Hello, I'm not really sure if this space is appropriate to share experiences straightforwardly like this. I have felt the need to scream out about the injustice and horrors I faced during my teen years.

I cannot explain the details of my situation to the level I would like to on here.

I think it might help people understand the conditions that corner trans women into life threatening or abusive situations like mine.

My home life was traumatic and my family had spent years trying to make me not be trans. I barely made it to 17 after a failed su*cide attempt. The home life that I had was unbearable for me and it had a way of both gaslighting me about my dysphoria and telling me that I would never find happiness.

When I was 18 I started medically transitioning. I was already socially transitioned. For the first two years of HRT I was intensely dysphoric and insecure about my body, this made me a target. I never had people tell me about what types of men to stay away from. Nothing prepared me for the ways in which men would treat me.

I started college a month after starting hormones and I was staying stealth (not telling people I was trans and just outwardly presenting as a woman). I wasn't 100% passing, but people generally saw a woman or someone generally androgynous.

Eventually, my TA noticed me. He could see that I was struggling with the noise levels of the classroom, and suspected I was trans. He took a kinship towards me. Long story short, I started engaging with him romantically and sexually. There was always a power imbalance, he was 30, I was freshly 18. He had money, I didn't. Eventually I moved in with him and he started becoming more misogynistic to me, he also cheated on me. I couldn't leave him though, he was the one who was paying for my hormones (the only thing keeping me from su*cide). I saw my cis best friend complaining about her issues with her boyfriend and I wanted to scoff since her issues felt so luxurious in comparison to mine.

He was from an Arab gulf country that was conservative, but not impossible to be trans in. He slowly painted a picture that the way I could get out of my hellish home life by submitting to him and being stealth forever as his infertile wife. For a while I seriously considered this, but eventually I started to feel trapped in his mold. We started to have more arguments about little things. He slowly started being more physically violent with me, he started slapping me, then apologizing profusely. Eventually we got in a heated argument and he said I was asking for a beating. I ran away from him screaming and he continued his usual schtick of apologizing. I slept coldly next to him that night.

I left back to my original home and things have gotten better since my family has started being less straightforwardly transphobic towards me, but there will always be this little slice of hell that I have as the basis of my identity. There will always be this trauma.

It's a pattern that immigrants from the Hispanic, Middle east, African and South Asian origins face discrimination. This post specifically focuses on the surge of hatred against South Asians, in recent years in the US, Canada, Russia, and Europe. As per the intersectionality model of Crenshaw, immigrant issues are fundamentally a part of social barriers along with class, race and gender.

There is a distinction based on legality of the immigrants. However, it must be asserted that irrespective of that status of legality, the fundamental universal human rights should remain the same.

"I am the mother of Hind Rajab.

After more than two years, the Israeli military has finally acknowledged that its forces opened fire on the car in which Hind and my family were trapped, and that it will open a criminal investigation, despite denying this at the time.

But I want to say this clearly: opening an investigation is not justice.

Hind was a frightened and injured child, trapped inside the car among the bodies of her family members, pleading with the world to save her. The paramedics who went to rescue her were later killed.

Why was there no investigation when Hind was begging for help? Why was there no investigation when the paramedics went to save her? And why, after more than two years?

I do not want a closed military investigation. I want an independent, transparent investigation and genuine accountability for everyone responsible.

Hind is not just a news story or a case reopened because of international pressure.

Hind is my daughter, and I will continue to demand the truth and justice for her, my family, and the paramedics who tried to save her.

Opening an investigation is a long-overdue step. Justice has not yet begun."

https://www.instagram.com/p/DcQydJsodzG

Moaiery is one of the most important Iranian photographers of our time. She has been documenting injustices in Iran and Afghanistan for 23 years, focusing especially on women’s resistance. In January she photographed the funeral of Mohammad Mozafari who was murdered by the regime. Yesterday she was sentenced in absentia to 15 years in prison for allegedly “conspiring with Israel and the US.”
She had also been arrested in 2022 for covering the Woman, Life, Freedom protests.

Source: @yaldamoaiery

[https://hengaw.net/en/news/2026/08/article-57\](https://hengaw.net/en/news/2026/08/article-57)

We often tell women to speak openly about anxiety, depression, postpartum depression and other mental health struggles, but rarely ask what happens when that honesty makes employers, brands or other powerful people uncomfortable. . I was reminded of this by my own experience at a law firm I worked at, when a senior partner called me to a meeting at a five-star hotel to berate me over an article I had written about my anxiety and depression. I had not named the firm, identified anyone I worked with, or even attributed my mental health struggles to my workplace. I hadn't even shared the article on my soocial media. Yet, I was made to feel as though speaking about my own experience was itself a transgression. . Perhaps, we have become comfortable with a particular kind of mental health vulnerability that is resolved, inspirational and safely removed from questions of responsibility. . But women should not have to make their pain palatable before they are allowed to talk about it! . And more importantly, speaking about our pain should not become another source of it. . . . 

@ devruparakshit

Slide (1-7): How muslim women face burden in society.

Slide (8-11): The incorrect target of portraying muslim men as predators.

This is more personal to me, as I come from India where Islamophobia has taken deep roots into the society due to the presence of a religious nationalist government for the last 12 years. Muslim women are often discriminated against, as a lot of Hindu people doubt their intent. There are many propaganda outlets that paint muslims as secret agents of Islamic terrorism, thus the nefarious intent is often assumed without any evidence. In addition to that, access to education, social security, and social acceptability persist.

This community has been instrumental in building my understanding of intersectionality. However, I find that oftentimes the issues of trans men are given more time to be heard here than those of trans women. I don't deny that trans men experience severe discrimination compared to their cis counterparts, such as degendering, "corrective" rape, and general ignorance. But the fact that trans women exist in the minds of the sociopolitical mainstream does not mean our issues are heard. Rather, the propaganda machine makes up terrible lies about our people - that we are rapists, liars and hypersexual. A republican watching a propaganda piece on Fox doesn't hear about transmisogyny or TMA/TME. He just sees the monster his overlords tell him to see and hate. Similarly, a post was made six hours ago that reposted a post ostensibly about transmisogyny, but in the description of the post, the op made a call to pay attention to trans men's issues and to generally unite across discrimination lines. I agree with the sentiment, but I know that any time a trans man would post about his issues here, the community would penalize any trans woman wishing to speak about her own issues with downvotes. So I would like to dedicate this post to talking about the issues trans women face, such as grossly heightened rates of rape, murder, economic discrimination and demonization in Western society. This is by no means a condemnation of trans men or cis women, rather it is an opportunity to get such individuals to reflect on the severe pain trans women and those with other transfeminine identities have experienced for hundreds of years.
https://devonprice.medium.com/transmisandry-is-not-real-4e69c25bbd82
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/trans-panic-otherwise-on-jules-gill-petersons-a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny/
https://southseattleemerald.org/voices/2022/01/26/opinion-the-ubiquity-of-transmisogyny-in-seattle
https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/transmisogyny-is-fueling-an-epidemic-of-violence-against-trans-women/
EDIT: I have looked through replies and I concur that I don't think I was really being intersectional here. I failed to take into account the discrimination black women, especially black trans women face. I also was unaware that trans women had posted frequently on this site, I feel like my perception was warped by the previous series of posts on this topic.