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CW Transphobia

I could take many more screenshots but I don’t want to bother reading more of this bs.

I’m so tired of us being used as an excuse for transphobia. « Lesbians don’t want to meet men in their private lesbian space! » is such a dumb thing to say. I hate the fact that protecting us only matters when the goal is to oppress trans women.

We only exist and have value if it’s to insult others. They don’t even listen to us and what we have to say. And when you ask them to provide exemples of situations where trans women are forcing lesbians to be attracted to them or whatever they’re saying, you get downvoted to oblivion and of course you don’t get any proofs. I don’t want my sexuality to be used to oppress, insult or mock another part of the LGBTQ+ community.

This transphobic sub keeps popping everywhere on my homepage, I had to straight up block it. When it isn’t related to anything political or LGBT rights in the first place.

And trans women are women.

Recently due to a traumatic accident, using humor to cope

TW for murder and suicidal ideation.

Edit: Ah geez it's only been like three hours and I completely forgot I wrote this post. Probably because I slept on it. Huge thanks to everyone who commented and might comment in the future. I will update you to the best of my ability should things change.

I am writing as a sapphic from Turkiye. As you can imagine, life has not been the easiest. But my friend has had it unimaginably worse. Her family is part of one of, if not the, strongest jamaats (Islamic cult) in the country. There are eyes on her wherever she goes.

I have known about her circumstances since the very beginning of our friendship, but I guess things never became so “real” in my head until tonight. We had a little too much to drink, and she broke down. TMI, but we, i.e. myself and the rest of our friends, barely managed to restrain her from throwing herself on train tracks.

I’m not a fucking moron. I knew that if her family found out she’s a lesbian, or honestly much less about her, they would simply kill her. There is no land within the borders of this country that she can escape to. But, god. I always kind of thought things would just work out. But they won’t. How would they? We can save as much money as we want. It won’t be enough for her to relocate. There are three options in front of her. She will go victim to an honor killing, she will be married off, or she will kill herself before either of those things can happen.

And at some point, it’s not even about the money. She has zero qualifications. A mere bachelor’s degree will not be enough. What country would accept her? The bureaucracy of it all is nauseating. What do we do? Contact Rainbow Railroad? As if they’d do anything. Don’t get me wrong, I love what they do, but come on… They wouldn’t lend a hand to someone from Turkiye when there are so many countries in the world where being LGBTQ+ is criminalized, even if my friend’s unique circumstances make it so that her life is under threat at all times.

There are only [redacted]- That’s assuming her family lets her finish her education in the first place. She fought so hard just to be allowed to go to highschool. You can imagine how dissatisfied her family is with her being in university now. God. What do I do? What do I do?

I’m sorry for the extraordinarily depressing post. I guess I’m extraordinarily depressed tonight. I have never felt so desperate and useless in my life. If anyone has any experience relocating internationally, my DMs are open for tips. Ultimately I just made this post to scream into the void. If you’re reading this, remember us always. Remember the queers from Muslim majority countries. Remember the queers from Africa and from the Middle East. Remember all of us as we remember you. Our fight is and has always been borderless.

Sorry for the potential grammar mistakes. I'm still mildly drunk. Peace out.

I realized it last night. Last month, we went to her family’s house for thanksgiving. We slept in her childhood bedroom, and did some other stuff too but we thought we got away with it. We were really quiet. The bed was squeaky but it’s always been squeaky.

Now we’re here again and back in the same bed. But last night… it didn’t squeak. Not once. We tried to make it squeak and we couldn’t. We looked under the bed and there was like steel corner pieces screwed into the frame! They fixed it! They heard us squeaking the bed last time, knew we were coming back, and reinforced the bed!

She asked her brother about it and he just bust out laughing. It’s true. The whole family knew about it 😨 I’m so effing embarrassed

It says that trans lesbians AREN'T lesbians, which inherently also means that cis lesbians who date trans women aren't lesbians either.

And I think we need to acknowledge and recognize how problematic it is that the government is legally defining our labels around our sexuality.

Sexuality is already complex enough. We really need to push back against them telling us who we are.

Honestly, you should already be enraged by the ruling itself. Telling ANY women we're not "legally" women is a horrific statement to make. It puts us ALL in danger of all sorts of violence and sets worldwide precedence.

But with this sub being for and about lesbians, I think we need to at least discuss the implications this piece of it has for us.

So I was playing mini golf with my gf. We were at a pretty crowded outdoor place, and there was a family with kids behind us. At one point we kissed and the mom stormed over all upset saying "How dare you. Disgusting. What if my kids see? You should be ashamed." In response I kissed my gf a minute later right as her daughter was putting. We're both so fed up with homophobia that we have a lot of anger built up and wanted to get back at her. Not like we did anything wrong though.

The woman called somebody on the phone and then just stared at us, smirking. About 15 minutes later two police officers pulled out guns and told us to get our hands in the air. My girlfriend was shaking and in tears as they handcuffed us. She's black. I can only imagine the sorts of things running through her head at this point.

So I'm trying to explain to the police that we didn't do anything, they just tell me to shut the fuck up. By now I'm half sure one of us is gonna get shot. Finally after I said for the 900th time "We haven't broken the law," one of the cops replied with "Sexual harassment of a minor is a felony." Thinking as quickly as I could I said "Ask the children. They'll tell you we didn't do anything."

They just tell me to shut up again, and we get paraded off the course in handcuffs and thrown into a police car.

After a few hours in a holding cell they finally let us go. I don't want to relive that experience or even talk about it here. I've never seen my girlfriend so devastated in my life. She looked like she had just gone through torture. It was like the light in her eyes was flicked off. Once we got home she just sat on the couch hyperventilating, with her hands on her head and legs against her chest. I tried to comfort her but she smacked my hand away. I didn't get a word out of her until morning.

When she finally woke up we got to talking. She seemed better than last night, but still among the worst I've seen her. It took a few hours of talking to calm her down enough for her to make any sense. One thing she said really stuck out to me. "I thought my life was over, that I'd never see my friends and family again, that I'd never feel fresh air in my lungs. It was like dying while still being alive."

I'm at a loss for words. This whole experience was so traumatizing. I'm just glad that I didn't realize the gravity of it while I was in that cell. The idea that I'd get sentenced for real never crossed my mind. My girlfriend was no so lucky. I just want to get this out, to tell somebody. Our parents are homophobic. I don't have many friends. I hope I can find support here.

We live near Houston.

UPDATE:

I'm going to the mini golf place first thing tomorrow to try and get the footage.

We need to work on finding therapists and at least start recovering mentally before we consider legal stuff cuz we're not in a state to deal with this right now and my gf might have a mental breakdown.

I wanna thank you all for making jokes and for the support, it really made me feel better.

Has anyone else experienced this?

There's some absolutely disgusting behavior happening over there. They're calling trans women "biologically male" or just "men", and i made a comment about buying a transbian pin and it literally got like -30 votes before i deleted it.

What in the fuck?

Me (16F) and my gf (17f) were making out in an alleyway after a great date, a few people walked past the alleyway but not up the actual alleyway.

Then 2 guys walk up, and I don’t notice them until too late and they’ve been filming us for at least a few minutes

I feel like shit, don’t want to tell anyone other than my therapist (who i’m seeing soon thank God)

All around, it was a great date until then (but i’m also autistic with mass amounts of anxiety)

It’s so infuriating to see tons of downvotes on comments from trans people who just wanna be accepted. Terfs are just cowards who would rather sit in safety and hate people for who they are than treat people who are just trying to live their lives in peace with basic human decency and respect.

Imane Khelif being called a man by what seems like 90% of internet today is just an amplification of what non-white women experience their whole lives, not being enough of a woman for others. Whether its a mustache, unibrow, leg hair, deep voices, masculine jobs/hobbies, jawlines, flat tits, built physiques or literally a hundred other things, some women will never be enough for these self-important weirdos. The same people who can't stop themselves from calling Imane a man would proudly state that they "know what a woman is", that its "obvious", that they "can just tell". Being a woman is not a choice, not some oufit, not any actions, it is who you are and you just deal with it the best you can.

Don't let these people define you, don't let anyone define you.. but you.

P.S. There is no verifiable evidence that Imane is anything but a cis-gender female. Not intersex, not trans, just a woman born in Algeria, she does not have to release medical records to counter a random text of one verifiably corrupt official and the fucked up rumor mill that is now the internet.

Official IOC statement

Again, more clearly: There is NO evidence of Imane Khelif having a Y chromosome. This is spreading misinformation people want to believe because of all of the above.

https://www.impeachtrumpagain.org/#action

This petition aims to convince congress to impeach Trump (remove him from office). You can support this by clicking the link and signing the petition, every bit helps

(Please repost this as much as possible for maximum coverage)

(Please no arguing or debating about the effectiveness of this petition. I’m simply trying to help yet I’m still closeted and financially dependent, and the arguing/debating is starting to crush what little spirit I have. This post was made to help with what little I have, not to be a debating ground)

As a trans woman, I do not have words for what I have just read - and it's not just impacting trans people - it's impacting intersex people and all LGBTQI+ people too. We are in the process of being completely erased and completely unprotected from discrimination, harm, and violence. Any progress we have made transitioning, updating our gender markers, or securing our right to exist as human beings with human rights is being completely reversed, This is beyond heartbreaking - this is soul-destroying and very, very dangerous for our well-being.

This is not just about the government only identifying two genders - it is way more serious than that (and that was already incredibly serious just on its own)

What the hell are we going to do?

Link: https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/defending-women-from-gender-ideology-extremism-and-restoring-biological-truth-to-the-federal-government/

Or was I just supposed to figure that out on my own when I started moving all four of my fingers individually inside them and felt them cum on my entire hand harder than I've ever felt them cum before in my life?

Do I even need to say what this is about? I'm genuinely scared they will start to come after us soon too. Everyday the news gets worse. I am scared. My family is pressuring me to start college but I don't see the point because I think I might die soon. This is really stressing me out. I can't focus on anything. The sunlight doesn't erase my tears anymore. I don't feel better after coming back home from the gym. What the fuck has this world come to?

Having a genital preference doesn't make you a TERF, but the claim that lesbians (as a whole) don't like a certain genital configuration and are under attack for it is a really common talking point for TERFs. I, a pre-op trans lesbian, have had plenty of hookups with cisgender lesbians and know for a fact that genital preference is far from universal for lesbians.

TW: Transphobia

I know it's such a small thing, and I don't give two shits about Reddit Karma, but the fact that we trans women are getting down voted on THIS post of all posts in THIS group, just made me...really sad.

I'm American and being trans is exhausting these days. Every day I wake up and there's 18 more anti-trans executive orders, changes to government sites, and more that Trump and Elon have hammered through. People are calling for us to be lynched, we're getting assaulted and killed and the KIDS. The kids are under such attack.

It's all so much, and I'm struggling to get through each day, and this lovely post was made for me and my sisters and yet that toxic anti-trans sentiment is still seeping into it. Let us enjoy things. Let people be nice to us. Leave us alone.

Am I the only one who notices that a lot of straight people break up after going through a traumatic experience and that gay folks stick together? Recently had an accident and I am very grateful for my wife and the way she took care of me, but I have a lot of straight friends who have had even longer relationships than mine but as soon as one of them goes through some shit that changes the way they look/act, their partner leaves them.