So, letting people be who they want to be is a good thing. That’s shocking I tell you, just shocking. All I want to know is, how much time and money went into this research when you could’ve just asked trans folks how they felt for free
okay, A: they didask. they did listen. like… I don’t wanna exaggerate here but “asking trans kids how they feel” is literally the entire study:
“children (9–14 years old) and their parents completed measurements of depression and anxiety (n = 63 transgender children, n = 63 controls, n = 38 siblings). Children (6–14 years old; n = 116 transgender children, n = 122 controls, n = 72 siblings) also reported on their self-worth”
and B: this isn’t the kind of study researchers do because “oh gosh we just aren’t really sure yet, we really just don’t know”, they do it because cis people have been sitting on their asses for decades ignoring anything that’s not an Official Scientific Study, so they said “okay fuck you, here’s the study, you’re wrong, now do something helpful or shut the hell up”
#Thank you #I’m super over this smug ‘yeah we knew that’ response to studies #I mean I get the impulse to go ’…yes and water is wet thanks captain obvious’ #But the thing is that you *need* this kind of hard data in order to act on it #Which is actually a good thing #BC ‘we don’t need no stinkin science’ policies based on ‘we just Know This ok don’t ask for our data just shut up and do it’ #Is how you get anti choice laws based in pseudoscience and religious belief #And climate change not being addressed in law and policy #Besides. Just think how satisfying it is to throw hard data in some asshole’s face to counter their claims.
Scientist: Treating trans people like people is the way to make them happy. Cis Person: Yeah but…………how do we KNOW? Scientist: *sighs* can I have a grant to study it? Cis Person: Sure. Scientist: Hey, Trans Person, would you be happier if people treated you like people? Trans Person: Of course. Scientists:
Specifically, this study can now be used in medical offices and courtrooms. A trans kid’s parent can take this study to their bigoted local doctor and say “see, this is why you should either treat my kid or give us a referral to a doctor who will.” Or this can be taken into various legal proceedings about name changes, birth certificate changes/corrections, and custody hearings where it becomes necessary to prove to a judge that yes, helping the kid transition (and perhaps leaving the kid with the parent/guardian who is willing to help) is what is best for the kid.
These kinds of studies are exactly what we want, folks. Don’t knock it just because it’s something you already knew.
“These kinds of studies are exactly what we want, folks. Don’t knock it just because it’s something you already knew.”
We already knowed it, we just had to prove it – don’t knock the proof.
Happy pride month reminder that it was a gay who defeated the nazis and was responsible for the turning point in WW2 leading to the end of a terrible genocide, and also who invented the first computer
what a lovely day to remember that aces didn’t exist until like 20 years ago and aren’t inherently lgbt+
what a lovely day for me to be in this tag.
Let us first turn to the talking about drivelessness, but we have to answer the question beforehand: “Are there even anerotic people, men and women of a post pubic age without any desire for sexual activities?” It is often said about someone, even male but especially female persons who don’t have any sexual desires whatsoever. They be called asexual, anerotic or how one could also say “atropic” [i haven’t found any reference for that word…maybe he meant “atrophic”?]; It is not uncommon that such claims are made by relatives of those people. It is also not uncommon to claim from people who are celibate -something that is from a standpoint of biological and psychological factors something that goes against nature- that they have no sexual feelings
We affirm that all people are sensual, sexual, and compassionate beings and shouldn’t be labeled as hetero- homo- bi- or asexual.
December 1, 1970. “It Ain’t Me Babe”, a feminist newspaper from California.*
47 years.
“this right can be for us all – lesbians, celibates, bisexual, asexual, amazon virgins and heterosexual….
“For the most part, the herstory of heterosexual women can be summed up in three words: used, abused and abandoned. Not that the destructive male spares the lesbian or the asexual woman when he is set to mate the female.
1975, for both of these. (Also note how it doesn’t group asexual women with heterosexual women.)**
42 years.
1976, in a publication of Move, a UK newspaper.***
*I do not necessarily share the opinions of any of these authors.**Bi erasure.***TV/TS appears to likely indicate outdated slang from 1976 to refer to a trans person.
Remind me – how long has ace exclusionary discourse existed?
‘Marvel deliberately cut a scene in which Valkyrie’s bisexuality is made explicit’
‘Tessa Thompson had to beg for it to be shot only for them to cut it last-minute because ‘it distracted from the final exposition’’
“Taika Waititi also fought to keep the scene and yet it was still cut”
Asexuality = Queer. People don’t get to gate keep what is “queer enough”. It is always some identity that is demonized. The rhetoric that is used a lot about asexual people is the same rhetoric I used to see about bisexuals.
It’s 100% fine if you don’t understand what queerplatonic relationships are, what they’re about, or how they differ from friendships. What isn’t fine, though, is insisting that because you don’t understand QPRs it means that they’re not real, that they don’t exist, and that people who are in them or want to be in them are “confused” or are “too foolish” to know that QPRs are “actually just friendships”.
If you don’t get QPRs, that’s fine! You don’t have to be in one or define any relationship you’re in as being queerplatonic, but what you don’t get to do is shit on people who DO find queerplatonic to be a useful term to describe their relationships or act like you’re more of an authority on their experiences than they are.
You don’t have to understand QPRs to realize that there are people who DO understand them and you don’t have to find the term useful to understand that there are people who do.
please take the time to remember every member of our community who was lost from aids. our government did nothing to save them. our schools do nothing to remember them. an entire generation of lgbt culture and history has been lost, the generation just before our own. remember them when people ask why theres suddenly so many lgbt kids in this generation. we’ve always been here. we cant be stomped out. we will remember our roots and by doing so we can keep those we have lost alive.
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remember them when people ask why theres suddenly so many lgbt kids in this generation
Water Witches 