This is a *really good* article that both handles anatomy concerns and presumes zero background makeup knowledge. Well done.
It’s amazing that the cover photo is showing both older women and people of color, something that the media consistently ignores regarding the trans community.
No Federal civil rights law shall be interpreted to treat gender identity or transgender status as a protected class, unless such law expressly designates “gender identity” or “transgender status” as a protected class.
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@yall I see ignoring this please dont. I get it its upseting, but this is IMPORTANT information that could SAVE our lives and our rights.
Also this boils down to stripping rights away from intersex and trans ppl from what I understand, meaning that we would no longer be protected under federal law. This is scary. Call your reps and get this shut down as soon as you can. We can beat this together. We need each other right now. Share this, spread this information.
how you can help:
call your local senator and representatives! websites like 5calls tell you your national representatives based on your location and if you use their mobile site, you can call those representatives through their site. they don’t yet have hb2796 on their site, but you can use their system regardless!
here is an example of something you can say: “My name is (your name) and I am a constituent in (your town/city/district). I strongly oppose house bill 2796, which aims to remove gender identity protections from civil rights legislation by forcibly clarifying “gender” or “sex” to indicate only a person’s assigned gender at birth. Transgender people require civil rights protections as a vulnerable part of our population, and it is extremely important to me that they receive those protections. Thank you for your time and attention.”
IF YOU LEAVE A VOICEMAIL: leave your street address to ensure your call is tallied!
when you call, they will not argue with you, and basically just tally how many people contact them on a certain issue. also, if you want to support other issues on the 5calls site, don’t be afraid to make multiple separate calls! call volume matters and if you call more separate times it will be better.
Dammit I hate to use this blog for this but- from one trans guy to yall- this is important!
It looks like this bill isn’t getting fast tracked and is actually going through the entire legislative process so keep at it!
This is important. Calling all witches! contact your representatives and then get out those spell ingredients!
Today is August 25th, 2018.
HB 2796 is still in this stage:
It has not passed the House. Keep it up, folks. Eliminate this monstrosity.
Above is still true as of 10 September 2018. Contact your representatives, and vote in November for people who will kill this resolution.
reminder that if you’re trans there’s a good chance your local planned Parenthood not only does HRT but also does informed consent so you don’t have to get a note from a therapist! i would absolutely recommend looking into your local planned Parenthood by calling them or seeing the services they offer online. i thought hormones would be a huge lengthy process for me but when I went i got my prescription more or less the very same day i went in. transition IS possible and its closer than you think.
You know what I want out of a Buffy reboot? I want a trans slayer. I want someone assigned male at birth but pre-transition to show up with all the slayer abilities and everyone to be like “a boy slayer wtf???!!!” and then she’s like “oh I’m a trans woman” and everyone is like “ohhhhh.” I want the slayer line to transcend biology and genetics. I want slayer powers to be something so innate that it’s tied into one’s own gender identity. Please. Give me a trans slayer.
Y’all this is pissing off terfs in the Buffy fandom, reblog it to support trans women and piss off terfs
all those soft uwu trans boy positivity posts are nice and all but they never help me so I made some more aggressive ones. imagine a really tough buff guy is yelling them at you for full effect
The Alpennia books by Heather Rose Jones are everything I wanted when I was a teenager and I’m so happy they exist now–19th century costume drama fantasy taking place in a tiny imaginary country near France, Switzerland, and Italy, starring a bunch of lesbians who do magic or swordfight and also featuring bi women and a trans guy. The books are full of political intrigue, pretty clothing, all types of relationships between women from romantic to friendship to rival princesses.
In the first book, Daughter of Mystery (review), a young mystic is forced into close proximity with her godfather’s crossdressing bodyguard girl when he leaves his entire fortune to her on condition that she retains the bodyguard as her own until they both reach the age of majority. That’s them in the top pic. By the third book, the mystic has literally founded a women’s college.
The second book, The Mystic Marriage (review) is about a middle-aged social butterfly who falls for a young demisexual alchemist (in purple.) This is a story of wildly contrasting personalities coming together while creating magic rocks, and introduces Sephardic Jews, a trans man, and a woman whose parents are from Ethiopia into the cast, all of whom also appear in the next book too.
Mother of Souls is the third book, focusing on both the above couples plus detailing new adventures of the Ethiopian-Italian woman who has a few relationships with other bi women while trying to navigate the complex worlds of both magic and Alpennian society. I can’t wait until she finds her permanent female partner in a future book (according to the author) so that I can hire art of her and that woman together to add to this art series.
Each book features a different threat to Alpennian national safety, and truth and light and rescue can only come from sapphics with magical powers (which we already knew, right?)
They’re a little pricey, but thoroughly worth it. If you can afford to get all three at the same time, the publisher @bellabooks has the eBook bundle for $23.95. Otherwise, here they are on Amazon; if you’d rather try the library, my local branch has had very good luck getting them after I fill out a request form, and if yours isn’t, consider borrowing them through interlibrary loan (ILL)–look at all the libraries that have the first book, for example. This is the series. They are fabulous books, each one long and complete and thorough and full of women in love, and I’d really like to help spread the word about them because I know far more people are looking for magical lesbians (and lesbians with swords) than have found them–so reblogs are appreciated.
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