Edinburgh-based root system of starchy tubers posing as a trans woman. Trans liberation, autistic pride. :autism: :heart_transgender: 🥔 :heart_lesbian: 🏴
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Last Notes npub1qyr35n05fgvc30kk4xjg5lf7hnyflkskfy9tpgwzfhn9j34hh46qdhrefj Tattie I'm low-key furious. A friend just took the immensely brave step of telling her GP she thinks she is trans and wants to go on hormones, and he (a cis, gay man) tried to "supportively" convince her that she wasn't really trans, because he "has trans friends" and knows that if she was really a woman "she would know". npub1qyr35n05fgvc30kk4xjg5lf7hnyflkskfy9tpgwzfhn9j34hh46qdhrefj Tattie Slightly more controversial addition from me: this is one of the areas where I see women being as much of a driver of toxic masculinity as men themselves are. If you're the kind of person to make fun of guys for having silly little hobbies, for being a bit goofy, could you please stop that? npub1qyr35n05fgvc30kk4xjg5lf7hnyflkskfy9tpgwzfhn9j34hh46qdhrefj Tattie Spotted this fantastic video on Instagram about how hegemonic masculinity expects even male *happiness* to be aggressive npub1qyr35n05fgvc30kk4xjg5lf7hnyflkskfy9tpgwzfhn9j34hh46qdhrefj Tattie It's my fifth rebirthday! I'm wearing Labradorite, symbolising transformation and magic. npub1qyr35n05fgvc30kk4xjg5lf7hnyflkskfy9tpgwzfhn9j34hh46qdhrefj Tattie I do think it's absurd, tho, how I got words like "wuss" thrown at me growing up, because I refused to participate in the boys' displays of masculinity. npub1qyr35n05fgvc30kk4xjg5lf7hnyflkskfy9tpgwzfhn9j34hh46qdhrefj Tattie I mean it does seem churlish, this call out. Because it wasn't only this guy who said nothing at the time. There were another two men sitting there, wordlessly. npub1qyr35n05fgvc30kk4xjg5lf7hnyflkskfy9tpgwzfhn9j34hh46qdhrefj Tattie And there are closeted trans people out there in conservative-fascist circles, who are pretty much indistinguishable in everyday life from the worst sort of misogynist cis white dudes— just like I once made myself indistinguishable from a shy geeky bearded dude. (And acted as one.) npub1qyr35n05fgvc30kk4xjg5lf7hnyflkskfy9tpgwzfhn9j34hh46qdhrefj Tattie When you're only permitted to explore your femininity as a "sex thing", then that's what you do. npub1qyr35n05fgvc30kk4xjg5lf7hnyflkskfy9tpgwzfhn9j34hh46qdhrefj Tattie I am not One of the Good Trans. I have always said this. npub1qyr35n05fgvc30kk4xjg5lf7hnyflkskfy9tpgwzfhn9j34hh46qdhrefj Tattie Just one trans woman's opinion, but I hold that the ideal way to recover from accidentally misgendering a person and being called out is to *simply repeat the sentence, corrected*. No apologies (or just a quick "sorry" or "pardon" if it flows), no justifications. It happens. We get it. Nobody's looking to shame anyone, only correct a mistake before it perpetuates. npub1qyr35n05fgvc30kk4xjg5lf7hnyflkskfy9tpgwzfhn9j34hh46qdhrefj Tattie *No, wait* npub1qyr35n05fgvc30kk4xjg5lf7hnyflkskfy9tpgwzfhn9j34hh46qdhrefj Tattie Getting dressed, I lift my skirt to pull on my Doc Marten boots, and then pause for a second— just a second— to appreciate the scene. npub1qyr35n05fgvc30kk4xjg5lf7hnyflkskfy9tpgwzfhn9j34hh46qdhrefj Tattie New music service, tell me what you think: a *guaranteed advert free* playlist of around an hour of a particular artist's works, carefully curated and mixed *by the artist themself*. It gets better: *pay one flat fee* up-front for unlimited replays, even when offline! npub1qyr35n05fgvc30kk4xjg5lf7hnyflkskfy9tpgwzfhn9j34hh46qdhrefj Tattie as usual, it's UK vs US English npub1qyr35n05fgvc30kk4xjg5lf7hnyflkskfy9tpgwzfhn9j34hh46qdhrefj Tattie I think if I were to point to a moment where things truly shifted, it would be over two decades ago— the Stop The War protests, and Blair's ignoring of them. npub1qyr35n05fgvc30kk4xjg5lf7hnyflkskfy9tpgwzfhn9j34hh46qdhrefj Tattie I am now above the median age in this country. And voters tend to skew older, but not *that* old. I'm probably just about a median age voter. npub1qyr35n05fgvc30kk4xjg5lf7hnyflkskfy9tpgwzfhn9j34hh46qdhrefj Tattie I strongly disagree with the last paragraph. The implication seems to be that voters are voting Green with the hope that Labour will return to being the left-leaning party they remember it being in the seventies. npub1qyr35n05fgvc30kk4xjg5lf7hnyflkskfy9tpgwzfhn9j34hh46qdhrefj Tattie erm I was with you til this point. 😅 Being blocklisted seems to be only the start of the harassment in many cases, it has seemed to me. 🫤 npub1qyr35n05fgvc30kk4xjg5lf7hnyflkskfy9tpgwzfhn9j34hh46qdhrefj Tattie What changed my mind? Broader study? The humility that comes with age and life experience? npub1qyr35n05fgvc30kk4xjg5lf7hnyflkskfy9tpgwzfhn9j34hh46qdhrefj Tattie When a human being, of any gender, is allowed to operate without accountability, they go *nucking futs*. (Technical term.) Look at Musk. Look at Trump. Look at the manosphere. npub1qyr35n05fgvc30kk4xjg5lf7hnyflkskfy9tpgwzfhn9j34hh46qdhrefj Tattie But we are *not* going down without a fight. A growing consciousness is hard to suppress. They've got a lot of dangerous tools at their disposal-- book bans, internet censorship, mass media ownership, AI bullshit. But people still have an instinct to resist. npub1qyr35n05fgvc30kk4xjg5lf7hnyflkskfy9tpgwzfhn9j34hh46qdhrefj Tattie And as we became more visible, patriarchy as a whole sat up and realised the danger we represented. npub1qyr35n05fgvc30kk4xjg5lf7hnyflkskfy9tpgwzfhn9j34hh46qdhrefj Tattie Trans women tend to be complete anathema to people like this because we represent *liberation in femininity*, which their internalised patriarchy long ruled out as a possibility. The way to power is being *less* feminine, they say. What are you doing? This must be a trick! npub1qyr35n05fgvc30kk4xjg5lf7hnyflkskfy9tpgwzfhn9j34hh46qdhrefj Tattie hold up: npub1qyr35n05fgvc30kk4xjg5lf7hnyflkskfy9tpgwzfhn9j34hh46qdhrefj Tattie Many poppy #bloomscrolling npub1qyr35n05fgvc30kk4xjg5lf7hnyflkskfy9tpgwzfhn9j34hh46qdhrefj Tattie It's not enough that we adopted an umbrella term. We've got to keep it umbrella. We've got to resist slamming the gates shut, pushing others away. Our power doesn't derive from cis acceptability, but unity. npub1qyr35n05fgvc30kk4xjg5lf7hnyflkskfy9tpgwzfhn9j34hh46qdhrefj Tattie But this distinction was always artificial. There was a joke acknowledging this: "Q: What's the difference between a transvestite and a transsexual? A: About two years." npub1qyr35n05fgvc30kk4xjg5lf7hnyflkskfy9tpgwzfhn9j34hh46qdhrefj Tattie "All the information is on the internet" npub1qyr35n05fgvc30kk4xjg5lf7hnyflkskfy9tpgwzfhn9j34hh46qdhrefj Tattie LLMs are mansplaining as a service, but more specifically that type of mansplainer who googles your question and replies authoritatively with the first result that comes up, despite having zero understanding himself. npub1qyr35n05fgvc30kk4xjg5lf7hnyflkskfy9tpgwzfhn9j34hh46qdhrefj Tattie Poll: do you know what "body doubling" means? npub1qyr35n05fgvc30kk4xjg5lf7hnyflkskfy9tpgwzfhn9j34hh46qdhrefj Tattie Even in Tarot, I'm a heretic. The system I've developed for reading the cards explicitly gives the querant the right to arrange the cards how they see fit, or even outright reject any they disagree with-- I tell them in that case to invert it and push it back towards me. npub1qyr35n05fgvc30kk4xjg5lf7hnyflkskfy9tpgwzfhn9j34hh46qdhrefj Tattie Anyway. I've never liked astrology. But I do like Tarot. What's the difference? npub1qyr35n05fgvc30kk4xjg5lf7hnyflkskfy9tpgwzfhn9j34hh46qdhrefj Tattie From now on, anyone demanding a star sign from me will be told "Pisces", because it seems the closest to my own knowledge of myself. After all if I have the agency to define my own gender, why the *hell* wouldn't I be allowed this act of self-actualisation as well? npub1qyr35n05fgvc30kk4xjg5lf7hnyflkskfy9tpgwzfhn9j34hh46qdhrefj Tattie Maybe astrology stings me more than most because I was born under the star sign that most aligns with the expectations of me based on my AGAB; the one I bitterly describe as "the sign of the penis". Another fucking system telling me I should be extroverted and self-confident and a born leader and shite like that. npub1qyr35n05fgvc30kk4xjg5lf7hnyflkskfy9tpgwzfhn9j34hh46qdhrefj Tattie When a child is born, we take a look between their legs, and then assign them one of two sets of assumptions about their personality and future life direction. This practice I've seen referred to disparagingly as "genital astrology", a phrase I love. npub1qyr35n05fgvc30kk4xjg5lf7hnyflkskfy9tpgwzfhn9j34hh46qdhrefj Tattie Normalise simply being *interested* in other people.
