A break with tradition where I do a serious post, proving I am not a 24/7 asshole. This is rather a sad transgender story, a half-hour documentary on the transition from Les to Sherri, at age 69, and now in his early 70s. Ignore the over-saccharined sound-track, which is completely over the top.

When growing up, Les (as he was then) started cross-dressing as a young boy. His mother was supportive of it, but his father was not, and he describes his father as having “a violent temper” (it is unknown whether other family members were the recipients of this temper). He had two siblings, a sister and a brother, favoured by his mother and father respectively.

At school, Les was picked on by other boys. It is notable that Sherri (as he is now) is quite small of stature, and this would be at least one factor in being bullied by the other boys, and perhaps too he was ‘soft’ in nature, which is another common reason for boys to bully other boys. Two of the girls at school were nice to him, Maureen and Sherri, and he later adopted Sherri as his post-transitional name.

As an adult he moved to a cabin in the woods, living by himself and cross-dressing, as well as working as a welder at the time. A work colleague discovered his cross-dressing, and Les was fired from the welding job.

Sometime during late middle age, Les looked into ‘Gender Reassignment Surgery’ (GRS) and got full GRS in Thailand about three years ago. Sherri was rather pragmatic about the surgery, saying he “knew what he needed” and was neither happy nor sad about the surgery. He disagrees with the transgender me-me of “in the wrong body”. He says he is “in the body he has always had”.

Sherri then goes onto say (around the transition time) that he was “a straight girl, not gay” and he changed from a “straight guy to a straight girl”. And therein lies the clue to Sherri’s transition.

As a child, beaten by his father – possibly to ‘beat the gay out of him’ or the cross-dressing at least, which was then always associated with homosexuality. He grew up in the 1940s, and this was the immediately post-war period, and cross-dressing was always considered homosexual. As a side note, the extremely late transition, it is wondered if the homophobic father was dead by then, prompting the decision for Sherri to go ahead with the surgery. Another clue about the internalised homophobia and resultant repressed homosexuality is Sherri’s description of the full surgery: “breasts and lower parts” – he cannot say ‘vagina’.

This transition, the surgery, was not because he was in the wrong body, not because he truly imagined himself to be a woman, it was because of extreme internalised homophobia, he could not act on that desire ‘as a man’, even though it seems he was attending gay square dance groups before the transition, as a sort of half-way refuge.

Just before his transition he met Sonny, and although Sherri kept his distance (because of “male parts”) he did not pursue an intimate relationship with Sonny until after the transition, which seemed to be a highlight of his dating. Sonny was a “farmboy” from Oklahoma, and ex-navy, and somewhat homophobic.

Although Sherri did not tell Sonny he was male, I think it would have been rather obvious (in the de-wigging and de-frocking scene just after this story) which showed the typical male large upper body, no hips, V-shape (and major male-pattern balding). Given that Sherri lived in a small town (major currency: gossip), it seemed to be the rumours that got to Sonny, and Sonny broke off the relationship. Supposedly because he found out Sherri was male, but I think it was just the public knowledge of their relationship and his internalised homophobia.

Sherri really does not seem to get any real thrill from the make-up application, he seems to wince as he applies the make-up, a somewhat subconscious gesture of ‘doing what he has to do’, in order to live his life attracted to males. And it is particularly sad that he has lived most of his life in that homosexual denial, only acting upon it in old age.

Sherri’s story is not of ‘transgender’ but about rampant homophobia from the community, internalised homophobia with the subsequent repressed homosexuality. No one should have to go through major surgeries to act upon their homosexual urges.

I hope that Sherri can now find happiness, as he does look somewhat broken and defeated. I do really feel rather sad for him.

An endnote, to have a go at the documentary makers – who the fucking hell wears satin at a cabin in the woods?

We here at the Institute for Twanzphobic Studies (ITS) have put our best scientificy people onto the task of cracking the asterisk. Using the latest Extra Scientificy Speshul Equipment (ESSE­™), we can at last reveal the results of our findings.

Asterisk when viewed through regular equipment

Asterisk when viewed through the highly sensitive ESSE™ equipment

Of course! It all makes sense now! It’s not really an asterisk, it’s a snowflake, to indicate the speshulness of speshul snowflake jenduh! Because jenduh is soooo speshul, it over-rides all reality and common sense, for example, ignoring the fact that the dirty great honking tranny looks like a dude.

Waaay to blend in dude! The puckering at the front is the sign of a real laydee

Our linguistic team at the Institute for Twanzphobic Studies have also been hard at work, and have determined the proper shortform for the trans snowflake: trans*flake.

But wait! There’s moar!

Our team at the Institute for Twanzphobic Studies also discovered something lacking in the twanzjenduh flag.

Much better! The pink speshul snowflake motif dominates the design, because all proper laydees like pink!

This twanz thing seems such a profitable gig, I may declare myself twanz just so as I can sue someone (kerching!) dammit I wants me some of that easy-dosh! I digress. Please have your industrial-sized sympathy tissues out for this video:

Sob, sob, I can barely type through the big sympathy tears welling up in my eyes.
*wipe* ahh, that’s better.

OK, so we have a little discrepancy between what the video claims, and what the Daily Fail claims. Almost two different stories in fact. The video claims that drag queen Carla Brenner (aka Lamonda Fuller) wants $1 million for 3 years behind bars in a women’s prison, but the Daily Fail claims it is $20 million for 3 months (good gawd Daily Fail, you are just pulling numbers out of your ass now). Somehow the truth probably lies somewhere in between, my guess is $1 million for three months. But cool eh? Easy money whatever the actual figures are! I want me some!

But lets cover some of the key facts (as we know them):

• Has male anatomy (one assumes retains wang, probably has false laydee-boobs)
• Wants to be referred to with female pronouns
• Refers to himself as a Drag Queen
• He defines that as a man who enjoys dressing as a woman, but is not a woman
• Had no intention of ‘becoming a woman’
• Convicted of felony theft for stealing a purse (what the hell is a python purse?)
• When sentenced, was apparently told not to say anything, and be sentenced to a women’s prison
• Was examined by TWO doctors, who declared him ‘woman’ even though his laydeewang was clearly distinguishable from a vagina (what the hell are they teaching doctors in medical school these days, I want their names, so I can avoid them)
• Nice token ‘caring’ by the reporter and the lawyer on worrying that perhaps the female prisoners could have been sexually assaulted (raped is the word you dudes are looking for)
• He was FONDLED by ONE female prisoners
• When the other (female) prisoners found out he was a dude with a dick, they were ‘mad’
• He says “it was hell” and that he contemplated suicide (what self-respecting twanz doesn’t insist he contemplated suicide?)
• The CCA spokesman (contractor for Nashville) states “Our goal is always to house inmates in the safest environment as possible. This includes a professional, individual assessment of both the risk factors of their own unique circumstances and the safety needs of those around them” (hardy-hah-hah to that last one, given that CCA don’t give a shit housing a person with a penis in a women’s prison)

So lets focus on that last bit by CCA for a mo. The ‘safety needs of those around them’ – it’s a conflict pure and simple. Sure, it may be safer for the trannies and drag queens in a female prison (for the trannies/drag queens) but not necessarily those of the women (unless the tranny/drag queen is gay, in the case of drag queens, usually gay). But the female prisoners are (rightly) pissed off anyway, having to be housed with a male-bodied (or surgically altered male) with them – because they know any tranny or drag queen is going to be housed with them in the future, and some won’t be gay and will be a danger to the female prison population.

There are obvious fakers (tranny fakers) within the prison population, particularly sexual predators, that think this twanz thing is a right old lark for getting into women’s prisons so they can have access to ‘easy prey’. Like wife-murdering Robert Kosilek, now apparently ‘Michelle Kosilek’.

Clearly, if this twanz thing is as common as the media portrays, then speshul-snowflake tranny prisons, segregated by genitalia, should be established. Not foist a whole bunch of weirdos and perverts onto the female prison population just because the correction facility provider does not want to be sued for the rapes of male transgenders.

If Carla Brenner/Lamonda Fuller thinks he got a hard time in the women’s prison(s), then his time would have been way harder in a men’s prison for sure, with a high chance of being a male-on-male rape victim (multiple times). Does Brenner/Fuller think in men’s prisons he would have a lot of consensual gay sex? Doubtful, he would have been rogered to within an inch of his life – not the one incidence of ‘genital fondling’ he experienced within the women’s prison. It was lucky for the female prisoners in this instance that Brenner/Fuller was gay, and had no sexual interest in them. But the majority of twanz (‘real’ and fake) are late-transitioning heterosexual males, many are sexual predators. And ALL of the sexual predators that suddenly come over all-womany in prison are just sexual predators looking for easy captive prey.

This case does of course undermine all the other TG cases wanting ‘in’ to women’s prisons. It shows that there is absolutely no consensus under the TG umbrella (tranny parasol) – so they don’t have a case for automatically (or otherwise) getting into women’s prisons.

Does Brenner/Fuller have a case? Nope. The female prisoners he was housed with do, for being subjected to a male-bodied person (ie with penis) within their prison population. Considering many female inmates get actually raped by male prison staff, Brenner’s fondling incident, whilst not sanctioned, is not comparable to a rape by which he could have gotten impregnated or an STD.

Give him $5 compensation, and he can go out and buy some new lippy.

Here in TwanzphobiaLand we are becoming accustomed to miracles – either the miracle of the beesting or just plain old spontaneous twanzformation from unheardof faux intersex condition.

Now the chrome-domes have additional worries!

Oh yes! This Poor Innocent Manz™ was innocently trying to cure his hereditary male pattern baldness with some dodgy drugs scored on the internutz from India, and he just became all womany all of a sudden! Teh Miracle! Look look, genuinely womanly figure now!

Here is his twagic story:

A 38-year old former software engineer says that taking medication for baldness transformed him from a man into a woman.

Uh-oh, a software engineer, now who else do we know in IT?

Self proclaimed Rocket Scientist and IT dude, suffering from spontaneous outbreak of womaniness from ‘mysterious’ intersex condition (“Zoe” Alan Brain)

Data Network Engineer (hey close enough)
Ted “Chloe” Beesting Prince

Oh dear, a bit of a co-inky-dink there then.

Mandi McKee, formerly known as William McKee, began taking a generic version of Propecia (finesteride) in October 2008 to combat male-pattern baldness, the New York Post reports. At that time, McKee was a married man, and was “energetic, focused, sharp and athletic,” according to her blog.

McKee took the medication for nine months, during which time she says she developed an array of side effects. She says her mental alertness severely decreased, and she lost work as a result.

Even more alarming, however, were the physical changes. On her website, McKee writes that her “rock-hard chest” softened and began to turn into breasts, her shoulders were “literally ‘falling into a more feminine position,” and her “hips were loosening and becoming wider, as on a woman’s body.”

What’s more, the pill barely did anything to treat McKee’s baldness, according to the Daily Mail.

The combination of McKee’s “brain fog” and physical transformation led to severe depression, McKee told the Post.

“It felt like the ‘me’ that I’ve always known was not there anymore,” she said.

Mmm, “brain fog” is that meant to be code for “ditzy female” or something? Then we declare that “teh proof!” of genuine womaniness! It doesn’t mention a love of shoes though, so I am still not fully convinced. But anyway, you can see from that photo above how womany his figure now is, mmm, curvy!

Unable to concentrate on work, McKee, a Tampa, Fla. resident, began losing clients and found herself propelled into debt. Though transgenderism is not related to sexual identity, she also found herself becoming attracted to men instead of women. She ultimately separated from her wife of 10 years in May 2010.

In December 2011, McKee began seeing a counselor for transgender therapy, and writes that she is now “early on my path of transitioning to live full-time as a woman.”

McKee does not see her transformation as a choice, however, but as something forced upon her by the medication. “The old me was killed,” she writes, “by the drug company Merck.”

McKee is not alone in her experiences with the drug. A study published earlier this month in the Journal of Sexual Medicine found that some men taking Propecia experience sexual side effects that can last years after the individual has stopped taking the drug.

See, wanting to drive stick, the dress-ups and cheap wig are not his choice! It was the drugs!  Hey dude, any intelligent person taking non-essential drugs with side effects, yanno, stops taking them – but you persisted for nine months, like a maroon.

Men in 27 states have filed lawsuits against Merck on the grounds that Propecia affected their sexuality. However, the courts do not permit lawsuits from those who took the generic version, and so McKee is unable to take legal action, according to MSN.

Nonetheless, McKee has stated that she is planning to sue Merck for $1 billion.

Good luck with the law suit dude, yanno, dodgy drugs over the internutz from India. I’ll give you a clue, it’s hard enough suing BigPharma when you buy the branded stuff through legimate suppliers, but continue your widdle fantasy of US$1 billion – I guess you will buy a big pink Barbara Cartland house, with your own DJ room, and have really camp discos? Is that the plan??

Looky, “Mandi” even has a name for his spontaneous changeroo “post-finasteride syndrome“. But my favourite page on his website has to be the timeline, coz gawd knows, we have to know all the details and when everything happened.

July 2009 – Present – Feminization of Body – After stopping finasteride, over the following months I began to notice that my rock hard chest from the gym began to soften and this continued for the next 18 months or so, reaching the point where I had noticeable “breasts” even under my clothing. But that wasn’t all. Starting in late 2009 and continuing to today, I have had to deal with terrible pain/cracking/popping in my shoulders and hips. I eventually realized that what was happening was my shoulders were literally “falling” into a more feminine position over time and my hips were loosening and becoming wider, as on a woman’s body.

LOL, good story mate. And all these changes happened AFTER you stopped taking the drug (not looking good for your lawsuit dude). I must check my shoulders and make sure they haven’t “fallen into a more feminine position”. Wider hips eh? You must have been looking in one of those funhouse mirrors, because they look fairly dudely narrow to me.

Skipping over all the twagic career-in-toilet stuff, this has to be my most favouritest part:

June 2010 – Confused about what was wrong with me, I began questioning my sexual identity. Hopeful to find answers, I moved into an old (reportedly haunted) live/work warehouse loft located smack in the middle of one of Florida’s largest gay communities in the Ybor City district of Tampa, FL. It wasn’t planned that way. I replied to an ad on Craigslist for a loft for my business office space, and when I went to see it, there was a big rainbow flag on the building. I decided to do it, not knowing a single person there and clueless about anything gay-related.

Way to commit girlfriend! You just accidentally landed yourself a place right bang smack in the middle of GayTown! Just like you accidentally turned all womany, through no fault of your own, go out and buy a tacky wig through no fault of your own, and your newfound desire to drive stick! (through no fault of your own™)

Here’s a clue. You don’t have to invent the elaborate “spontaneous womanish change™” just to fuck dudes ok? It is absolutely fine if you want to go that way if it is your preference. The wig is just plain tacky, but looking at all the other drag queens you are hanging around with, does make you a sort of queen of the drag queens in CampTown. Internalised homophobia, it’s a thing, look it up, or better still ask Alan Brain, he suddenly likes stick now too after spontaneously becoming all womany through no fault of his own.

At a guess, your career probably hit the toilet because all the blagging you had been doing as a (formerly straight) white dude means you can be fairly incompetent and still get ahead, but sometimes they just find you out. You must have been really incompetent!

Oh and dude, for one so supposedly reluctant, you certainly have embraced the tranny lifestyle, you even call yourself ‘transgender’, which is a bit “he doth protest too much” kind of thing.

I’m also transgender. I wasn’t always this way. I am early on my path of transitioning to live full-time as a woman, although for 9 months I did take 1 of the 2 most popular drugs that doctors prescribe to men who wish to become a woman. It’s called finasteride. Many of my transgender friends still take this drug today. In some men, the effects are irreversible. The thing is… I didn’t take finasteride to become a woman. I took it to prevent male-pattern hair loss (baldness) after seeing Merck’s ad campaign for years saying that Propecia (finasteride) can stop hair loss in men.

I’ll give you a tip. The twanzjenduh spiel is one of an ‘internal mysterious jenduh that no one else can see on the outside’ and that you are ‘rilly rilly a woman on the inside’. Also the standard BS is that you ‘have known since the age of four that you are rilly a girl’, and stuff like that. My gawd, there are a million tranny websites out there, go with the standard stuff, don’t try to be creative!

Your story, your claims, your phantom lawsuit, NONE OF IT MAKES SENSE. Best go with the mysterious faux-intersex condition like Brain I reckon.

Partay-on dude!

We filed this under “whoopsies, tranz accidentally revealed their mission”, LOL.

It came to my attention because Joshua Twitt used the graphic in his rapetastic follow-up post, to defend why he is entitled to have sex with lesbians. Before getting onto the Space Invaders portion of this post, I need to highlight a bit from Twitt’s post:

I do think it’s revealing, though, that the arguments I’m hearing from folks who aren’t intentionally transphobic are some of the same arguments coming from radfems.

Perhaps because the twanz arguments are built on a delusion house of cards there Joshua? Anyway, priceless. Even when facing reality, Joshua still clings to the denial.

Back to Space Invaders. It was an arcade game from the late 1970s, which became even more popular when released on what became then, one of the most popular gaming platforms, Atari. Of course, this was the world “BPS” (Before PlayStation)! And early video games were, *gasp*, in Black & White – anyone remember the snake thing? Or Pong? Of course, PacMan came a little after all that, at the beginnings of the 1980s.

Here is a screenshot to show you how primitive Space Invaders really was.

The green bits are you, the player, and your defences (the humpy upsidedown U-shapes). The fancy little white critters are the space invaders, that move from side to side, and gradually down towards you, firing occasionally. The player’s strategy is to fire back, taking out the invaders before they reach your defences, or blast too many holes in your defences. If you want to know more, you can play the game online – it will take you all of thirty seconds to figure it out. Use the arrow keys to move sideways, and the spacebar to fire.

Play Space Invaders online.

Joshua Twitt gives credit to the following image off some other twanz blog (a post wanting ‘in’ to MichFest):

See what they did there? They identified with the Invaders! They didn’t use the boring little player graphic (the defensive position) but they used the attacking force picture. Apparently ‘transphobia’ is the defensive position that they are going to invade and eliminate.

It’s rather an apt Freudian Slip don’t you think? After all, they try to invade MichFest, they try to invade women’s toilets and changing rooms, they try to invade all female-only gatherings. No female or feminist ever demands entry into tranz spaces.

Anyway, for our invasive Space Cadets, here is a comfy chair in which they can plot their invasions:

http://www.wearedorothy.com/products/space-invader-chair/

I can just feel my cotton panties riding further and further up my bum-crack, with this latest offering from M2T Jos Truitt Twitt, writer at Feministing. It is the typical twanzplainin’ bullshit, but at its core is “dear gawd, what about sleeping with the twanzwomenz!”.

Reading this in whole will anaesthetise your brain, so we will take it in bite-sized chunks. Gawd knows, I was only able to stomach it in bits.

I think the post is written towards young lesbians who actually are already onboard with trans, and when they say “I sleep with women and transmen” it could well include transwomen, because they are “pro-trans” and believe the line that transwomen are women too. Which is kind of ironic that Twitt is all “dear gawd, what about the transwomenz”. It could also mean that the young lesbians know that most of these “transmen” have female bodies (some without breasts), and that’s still a goer as far as the sexual attraction towards female bodies – yanno, the core element of being a lesbian, the attraction to female bodies and not male bodies. Regardless, Jos Twitt feels compelled to give these young lesbians some good ol’ twanzplaining and lecturing on the matter. Of course, this isn’t Jos’ first time twanzplaining.

In this post, he can’t call them ‘twanzphobic’ (because they have stated they will sleep with ‘transmen’) so he settles for ‘cis sexist’ instead. He must have been up all night trying to get around that one.

“I date women and trans men” is the definition of cissexism. It’s basing your frame for sexuality on the gender coercively assigned to a person by their doctor at birth, not on that person’s actual identity. In this case, we’re talking about folks who were assigned female. Of course, “women” means cis women – trans women totally drop off the map.

Transplaination: You bad bad lesbians, you are basing your attractions on bodies (sexual characteristics) and not our sparkly unicorn jenduh! And dear gawd, what about fucking twanzwomenz??? You didn’t mention the twanzwomenz – that’s twanzphobic, oh wait, I can’t say that coz you included twanzmenz. <comes back after six hours> oh yeah, it’s cis sexist! Basing it body types! Not our sparkly unicorn jendah!

My critique of this frame isn’t about everyone on the trans masculine spectrum, where there’s a ton of complex gender and sexuality diversity (though there is an important conversation to have about the privileging of masculinity here as well). I’m talking about how this approach to sexuality addresses people who were assigned female at birth but are men.

Transplaination: Blah blah blah, some current jargon to explain away why most of us still look like dudes in dresses, that most desperate het women wouldn’t fuck in a million years, so tah-dah, I am a twanzwomanz lesbian now – pleeeease fuck me.

It’s incredibly undermining to frame sexuality in a way that lumps these men in with all female assigned folks instead of with cis men. It’s a failure, in the realm of sexuality, to recognize that trans men’s male identities are just as legitimate as cis men’s. If you’re going to base sexuality on gender, better base it on people’s actual genders.

Transplaination: You stoopid cis-lesbians, how the fuck dare you to recognise female body types??? [Jos Twitt now pretends to give a damn about twanzmenz, but he doesn't because they are rilly female-born]. Dammit you cis-sexist lesbians, if you are going to sleep with twanzmenz, then you had better sleep with cismenz too. Oh, and because you now have to sleep with cismenz, I have a cock too, so how about sleeping with twanzwomenz while you are at it?!

I get why a lot of female assigned folks exist in this frame for reasons that aren’t overtly about undermining trans identities. There’s a ton of gender based trauma out there, and I understand that folks associate this with cis men, and not with trans men. But that’s not a reality-based approach to gender. A lot of that trauma gets easily linked to genitals, but this isn’t about bodies, it’s about patriarchy. I think this sexuality frame is a big part of why so many trans men get away with (and are sometimes even encouraged to practice) unchecked misogyny and male privilege (remember, power is complicated. You can experience both male privilege and cissexist oppression). Real talk: being trans doesn’t prevent you from perpetrating hurt and violence in the realm of sexuality.

Transplaination: No I actually don’t believe any of this faux-feminism bullshit, but I know that appealing to females’ sense of guilt and helpfulness is a winner, so: “Trauma blah blah blah, genitals blah blah blah” [as an aside, I nearly spat out my coffee upon "But that’s not a reality-based approach to gender." Jos had to throw the 'trauma of genitals' in there to groom you to feel sorry for his penis, laydeewang, whatever.] Dammit you stoopid lesbians, I will get you to like cock one way or another!

My trans brothers deserve better than sex in a frame that undermines their identities. This doesn’t mean queer cis women and gender non-conforming female assigned folks can’t fuck trans men, but then they owe it to these guys to reframe their sexuality in a way that’s not undermining – to recognize that they sleep with men, and to question why they’re OK with sleeping with trans men and not cis men.

Transplaination: [LOL at Jos Twitt pretending to give a damn about twanzmenz again]. You stoopid lesbians, you should NOT be sleeping with twanzmenz because of their sparkly unicorn jenduh identitahs – this is about jenduh identitahs, not bodies/genitals, get with the programme, dump the twanzmenz, sleep with meeee!

I just don’t think it’s OK to process your sexual trauma in a delegitimizing way through the bodies of folks who’ve often faced tons of trauma at the intersection of gender and sexuality.

Transplaination: Look you stoopid lesbians, I just know you are lesbians only because you have been raped, but that’s no reason to hate peen, I have a lovely lesbian peen, here, let me show it to you! Oh and trauma, I haz faux-trauma about my lesbian peen, so please refer to it as a “trans clit”. Feel sorry for me, sleep with MEEEE!!!

The problem isn’t one sided: trans guys owe it to themselves to not accept a misgendering sexuality frame just because it makes it easier to get laid, but that shit’s complicated in a cissexist world. It’s unfair to place all the responsibility for fixing this problem at the feet of the people who’s identities are being undermined. I want to encourage trans guys to stand up for what they deserve, but a lot of the responsibility for fixing this shit belongs to the people doing the undermining.

Transplaination: I’m going to blame twanzmenz for sleeping with you stoopid lesbians, no wait, I’m not, I have to pretend it’s all your responsibility because you are cis-lesbians, ah good, I am back on track now. I almost fucked up by blaming twanzmenz because they are female born, but I am obliged to call those bitchez my ‘twanz brothers’ now. [Ten points right there for the over-use of 'undermining' Jos]

I do put a little more responsibility on trans men for letting this frame push their trans sisters out. This approach to sexuality totally erases trans women by excluding us from the group of sexually existing queer women.

Transplaination: Yes I do blame those dumb bitchez my twanzbrothers for this, those bitchez are getting more lezzo action than me. I am more man than you dumb bitchez, I have a cock.

Yes, it’s also incredibly undermining of trans women’s identities by moving us out of the category “women” when it comes to sexuality. Ultimately, this frame goes back to the gender coercively assigned at birth for trans women as well. It’s a way for transmisogyny to advance unchecked, because trans women totally drop out of the conversation.

Transplaination: I got a good run out of ‘undermining’, mmm, needs moar. You twanzbrotherz are just bitchez, don’t you know we suffer moar?? Twanzmisogyny!! See how we suffer moar? And you cisscum females have to keep mentioning twanzwomenz specifically, because even though we claim to want to be regarded exactly the same as cis-women, we also wantz to be mentioned all the time individually as twanzwomenz – see, you can’t win, either you regard us as the same as cis-women and therefore include us under ‘women’ and we call you out for being cis-sexist, or you mention us as twanzwomenz and we get really pissy because you haven’t included us in the group of cis-womenz!

It’s part of the broader problem of privileging masculinity over femininity, and specifically of privileging masculinity in female assigned folks and hating on and marginalizing femininity in male assigned folks. The problem goes beyond gender theory about masculinity and femininity – this is about really specific, really real transmisogyny. Even when some femininity is accepted, it’s in female assigned folks. Trans women (even the butch ones) get left out in the cold. (I think it’s time for everybody to re-read Julia Serano’s groundbreaking book Whipping Girl with their sex brains on.)

Transplaination: You dumb bitchez twanzbros, you are PRIVILEGED you hear me?? You haz man privilege, I never had it, still don’t have it, but you haz it now. We poor widdle twanzwomenz haz to SUFFER twanzmisogyny, you get beer and cigars, and ALL the lesbians, no fair no fair! I don’t pass very well, so I have to claim I am a “butch lesbian”. My tranz clit is getting hard just thinking about all the hawt pretendbian sex I should be getting. I wants, I wants.

There’s a lot of resistance to thinking about the politics of sexuality in this way, which I totally get. Our sexualities are our own, they’re personal, and in such a puritanical world any critique of sexuality can seem messed up. But our desires are absolutely influenced by our cultural context.

Transplaination: I hope no one notices that although somewhere in my warped bwain I recognise sexuality as a personal preference thing, that won’t stop me telling the stupid lesbians that they should be fucking me for the genderqueer and twanzgender cause, just like all the lefty revolutionary dudes before me, I *demand* that women fuck menz for The Cause™. Get the fuck over your stoopid personal attractions already!

When you really look at the way patterns of desire map onto what bodies are privileged and what bodies are marginalized, it becomes obvious that our desires are political. I am absolutely not about critiquing the way one person falls for another. The problem is with a community trend. When we leave sexuality trends unexamined, sex becomes a space where privilege and oppression run amuck.

Transplaination: Kewl, nice spin. See what I did there? Managed to gloss over stoopid personal preferences and hammer home the point that stupid women should be fucking cock for The Cause™, it’s political! Yay! Gawd I am clever and sexay, why won’t lesbians fuck meeeee?

It’s well past time to say enough. If queer community wants to be about a gender and sexuality revolution it’s got to take these questions seriously. Its got to address the ways cissexism overdetermines community approaches to sexuality. This is an ongoing process involving lots of thought, critique, and, well, processing. We’ve got to be able to move from the broad and systemic to seeing how cissexism plays out in our personal lives, including in relation to who and how we fuck.

Transplaination: Yep, not only stoopid lesbians, but all you genderqueer bitchez as well, you had better be fucking cock for The Revolution™, and don’t forget about our tranz clits too! You stoopid bitchez just aren’t politically savvy enough if you aren’t fucking some kind of cock for The Cause™. Twanzphobic and cis-sexist bitchez. Fuck me! I didn’t go to all* the trouble of my laydee guise for nothin’, I wantz me some hawt pretendbian sex! Gimme, now! Or I call you cis-sexist bitchez who don’t care about The Cause™.

*Note the shitload of effort:

Jos Twitt in 2009, complete with laydee pronouns

Twitt twanzsplaining in 2012, wtf is up with the scary eye action?

Twanzphobic response:
Yeah yeah yeah Jos, your *new and improved* version of trying to get women to sleep with you for The Revolution™ kinda looks a lot like the very old and tired version that lefty dudes and revolutionary dudes have been using for centuries. It actually does work very well in grooming young women without much life experience into thinking what they are doing is “revolutionary” and “for The Cause™”. Except it is always about the male-born sexually accessing the female-born, usually by guilt-tripping them. And if they don’t sleep with you, you will call them names (the new and improved version of “frigid” is “cis-sexist” or twanzphobic). Same shit, different day. They don’t bother guilt-tripping dudes in this way.

Jos Twitt, you are a male sexual predator, enabling your male predator brethren. Which is why you and all your Cotton Ceiling buddies creep me the fuck out.

Young lesbians, and young female (bisexual) ‘genderqueers’ – wake the hell up and smell the sexual predation and male entitlement in this bullshit. These dudes in dresses are trying to guilt-trip you into sleeping with them, and name-calling you if you don’t. There is nothing wrong with not liking penises or male bodies, and preferring female bodies. To say otherwise is lesbianphobic. Twitt is actually lesbianphobic, with his crack about ‘sexual trauma’ as being the (only) reason for lesbianism – he also doesn’t give a fuck if you do have trauma after sexual assault or rape, he just told you so above. He doesn’t give a fuck what bodies you are attracted to either, he is using the cover of political activism/awareness to make you sleep with him and his kind. Don’t fall for it.

I seriously hope another five radfems are born after Twitt’s bullshit.

Postscript:
Dollars to doughnuts, that is a Lazy Tranny Name, probably “Joshua”? huh? huh? amirite? amirite?

Edited to add:
Thanks to whomever, sums it up very well. Also very quick!

That’s right twanzjacktivists, mobilise the Glitterboming Army down to Hamley’s toy store – they have now desegregated the girl/boy toys and it’s Jendah Anarchy down there!

I mean to say, how the hell are future twanzwomen going to know if they “rilly are girls inside” if they cannot be automatically drawn to the pinkified girly department full of pwetty dollies? It’s just downright twanzphobic is what it is!

So twanzjacktivists, flounce on down to Hamley’s, and *demand* that they restore jendah apartheid to their store!

The jendah anarchy is thanks to the campaign by Dr Laura Nelson, who is now doing a lecture series in schools about gender stereotypes. Well done.

Thanks to anonoradfem for alerting me to article here.

The short answer is “yes”, so you can stop reading the post now.

Dr Joelle Ruby Ryan PhD is no ordinary transjacktivist, nope, this dude actually is a lecturer of Women’s Studies at the University of New Hampshire. As such, he should be held more accountable regarding Herstory, respecting all political branches of feminism, and be a non-misogynist. Not really too much IMHO, but apparently it is.

The biog from the university:

Dr. Joelle Ruby Ryan graduated from UNH in 2005. She has nearly 20 years of experience as an activist for various progressive causes, including feminism, racial and economic justice, pacifism, size acceptance/weight diversity and transgender, bisexual, lesbian and gay liberation. She is a the author of Gender Quake: Poems and the co-producer (with Peter Welch) of three autobiographical films, including Transilience, which is currently in production. In her teaching, research, organizing and activism, Joelle tries to promote inclusion, intersectional analyses and community-building for positive social change. She is currently a Lecturer in Women’s Studies and the Director of TransGender New Hampshire.

So what happens when a lecturer of Women’s Studies says crap like this:

Well, apparently nothing. But really, should someone who thinks the word “female” is “offensive & passé” be teaching Women’s Studies to a majority of actual born-females? It is pomo-bullshit, all this ‘nothing means nothing’, fed as a steady diet to young women who deserve to be taught the TRUTH about feminism and their reality in the world. But nooooo:

This is actually the tranz/pomo agenda, re-define ‘female’, ‘woman’, ‘sex class’ or erase them out of existence. Because if there is no such identifiable thing as ‘female’ or ‘woman’, you cannot unite together and challenge/overthrow the discrimination against females, can you? Pomo and ‘transfeminism’ (twanzphleminism) are actually anti-female, and anti-feminist, disguised as feminism. It is exactly what patriarchy/twanz want, so you cannot object to being treated as 2nd class citizens (it becomes an ‘individual failing’, and erases the systematic nature of female oppression). This is (in part) what ‘sex class’ means. But anti-feminists like Ryan don’t want you to notice that, and will tell you that you are wrong. Apparently this happens:

If any lecturer does do this sort of crap, he should be fired – it is completely unethical. It is also a form of public humiliation (aimed at the female-born obviously).

A few thoughts on that claptrap:

Thanks for the twanzsplaining on female biological reality dude. As we say in reproductive rights: “no uterus, no comment”. Females are the ones that deal with the consequences of reproductive reality, contraception, abortion and child-rearing.

Should some dude who does not even understand the basics of cultural conditioning of girls (into heterosexuality, looks obsession, ‘feminine’ traits as desirable) really be teaching Women’s Studies? He is also pushing the myth that just because females come from all classes, colours, backgrounds, that their is no shared experiences of female oppression – yet it is fine and dandy for ‘twanzwomen’ to claim a shared oppression of twanzwomanness, even though they come from all different backgrounds. Yay for contradiction!

Twanzjacktivists both appropriate and re-define girlhood experiences out of existence. It is rather ridiculous for middle-aged men to go around calling themselves “girls” – where would they get that? Porn, porn which defines all adult females as girls, as a way of removing their autonomy.

Ryan also teaches “intersectionality”. Whilst we understand that ‘multiple oppressions’ do contribute to a worsening of experiences suffered by the individuals themselves, it basically translates into an online game of Oppression Olympics. Twanzjacktivists have been saying for years how they are the mostest oppressedest of all ‘women’ (and the rest of you bitchez had better stfu about your petty oppressions because twanzwomen have it much much worse than you, and you should put your energies into resolving twanzwomen’s oppression before you address your own).

So a token hat tip to FAB-WOC there, but guess what, TWOC trump that in the Oppression Olympics, because anything that menz suffer must be taken seriously (like rape or racism) and if a female suffers and complains about it, she is deemed a whiny-beyatch and should be focusing her energies onto “moar serious issues” (that affect menz of course!). Radfems get called “bigots” because they prioritise the female-born over the male-born. It’s just a way in which males try to make us stfu about the problems females face. We ain’t gunna.

That all flies in the face of reality doesn’t it? The smallest most discriminated-against ‘class of woman’ (pomo says that doesn’t exist anyway), yet they have a massive five day conference in Philadelphia on Tranz health, financially backed by corporations and government healthcare. Have we ever seen a Women’s Health conference of that size ever? Nor do I recall ever seeing any general feminism indoor conference of that size. Yet Tranz do. Here he is bragging about about the size of the Philly conference (menz just can’t help bragging about size can they?)

See the contradiction there? Still claiming to be the ‘most oppressed’, but massive conference with massive financial backing. Women’s services do not get that degree of support from these sectors. It is the classic ‘bait and switch’, in order to get support and sympathy from libfems claiming the ‘mostest oppressedest’ status, but the reality is they actually do have a shitload of funding and support from everywhere – libfems get blinded to the reality, and take their eye off the under-funded women’s services sector.

A paraphrase/compilation from twanzjacktivists, but radfems are often accused of ‘oppressing’ twanz because of our criticism of transgenderism. One can only ‘oppress’ another if they are in power – last time I checked, the world was being run by menz, not radfems.

Next comes the erasure and re-writing of Herstory, the denial that death threats by twanzjacktivists towards radfems were just something we made up. In a word, bullshit.

Nice use of scare quotes there dude.

Ryan denies that these regular death threats take place (Ryan is closer to being a holocaust denier). Anyway, shit like “die in a fire” and “die cis scum” if fairly findable on google. What a fucking moron to deny something so easily provable, but twanzjacktivists do think libfems are fairly stupid and will fall for any bullshit, hence these outrageous lies. Sadly, libfems do seem to be falling for them.

Ryan has been “an activist” for 20 years, I assume twanz for quite some time too – but his bullshit and anti-radfeminism is indistingishable from the average MRA – and with all his bullshit, he still gets to teach Women’s Studies to a bunch of born-females. Talk about a trojan horse – get a misogynist to teach females that their oppression doesn’t exist, that the male-born are more oppressed, and concern for your biological/reproductive vulnerability and main reason for female oppression is just a made up fantasy by you, that Second Wave is passé, probably First wave is passé to him as well. This guy should not even be teaching classes on how to boil an egg, let alone Women’s Studies. The unfortunate women taking his course are getting their heads filled with useless male propaganda, and accumulating student debt for the privilege of being brainwashed by this shit. Further, a male-born twanzwomen is occupying a teaching position that could have been taken up by a FAB – see how twanzwomen are actually used as ersatz-females in equality monitoring?

Males of any stripe should not be teaching Women’s Studies – it is akin to having white people teaching black people about their own oppression – of course the oppressor class is going to take full advantage to impart as much bullshit propaganda as they can cram in.

Mind you, the above bullshit and contradictions by Ryan is just over the last few weeks in Twitter – I am sure if I could be assed, there would be far more to find.

Anyway, a few more random memes on Ryan, made by various anonymous persons. Poking some fun at someone who really is overdue for it. Remember: Poking fun ain’t the same as death threats. We couldn’t care less if you poked fun at us, but the constant stream of death threats really isn’t funny (as well as being a terribly male thing to do when something meets with your disapproval).

Joelle Ruby Ryan is a joke that should not be teaching Women’s Studies, in the same way of getting the KKK to teach a class on black civil rights just isn’t a good idea.

We have renamed him for the fake that he is – Joelle Zirconia Ryan.

Five years ago, Steve Crecelius apparently went into hospital with kidney stones, and came out with a diagnosis of “woman”.

Denver-based photographer Stevie Crecelius says she always felt more like a woman inside, but a trip to the emergency room five years ago uncovered the reason why: She actually was.

“I had a kidney stone and we’re in the emergency room,” she told FOX 31. “The nurse is reading the ultrasound and says, ‘Huh, this says you’re a female’.”

Actually, Crecelius was born intersex, meaning she has an unclassifiable combination of male and female sex traits.

The news brought with it some understandable trepidation, but that soon gave way to the buoyancy of emancipation. “It validated everything I had always felt inside,” she said.

Of course, only a nurse who got their qualifications off the back of a cornflake packet would utter “Huh, this says you’re female”. Probably because a qualified one would diagnose ‘intersex’.

As for “an unclassifiable combination of male and female sex traits”, ummm, again no. If there are mixed or indeterminate genitalia or sex organs, it pretty well is classified as ‘intersex’. No ‘unclassifiable’ about it. The journalist probably got their training off the back of a cornflake packet as well. Here’s a tip: name the actual intersex condition.

It is fairly curious what treatment Steve/Stevie received after getting a diagnois of “woman”, given that kidney stone symptoms would indicate, well yanno, kidney stones? Personally I would be more than a little miffed at the hospital staff, when presented with a patient with kidney stone symptoms, just to fobb me off with diagnosis of “woman”. Severe pain is actually the sign that something is wrong and should be investigated. Cornflake packet degrees again perhaps?

The other thing, we born-females are curious to know Steve/Stevie, what – apart from bad period pains and pregnancy – does ‘feeling like a woman inside’ actually feel like? Pink maybe? Please do tell.

The Huffpo ran with it too. At the end of the video:

Stevie is now working in public as a woman and as a photographer. She is no longer afraid of letting anyone know and hopes her confidence will help other transgender people.

Working in public as a woman eh? Let’s just check that.

At Linkedin, whoopsies, still says “Steve”:

OK, but we are told that “Stevie” is now out to his family and working as ‘a woman’, lets check out facebutt:

Umm, yeah ok. Very womany looking profile pic there Steve. Pardon me if I don’t seem convinced that you are living and working as ‘a woman’. Part-time tranny more like it, with a generous side-serving of internalised homophobia:

“When I was 17, I was working my first part-time job at a TV station as a floor cameraman and the person in charge said to me, ‘You know, you walk like a queer,” Crecelius told Fox 31 in Denver. “I thought I was hiding who I was, and I wasn’t.”

Very strange actually, he was told he walked like ‘a queer’ (meaning back then, ‘flaming homosexual’ male). Mincing about really doesn’t mean that you are a female Steve.

Now, back to the Huffpo video, want to pull up one important detail:

and hopes her confidence will help other transgender people

Either you are intersex or you are tranz Steve old boy. You can’t be both. And if you are intersex like you claim, why aren’t you helping intersex people? Why help the tranz?

As for the mysterious and unnamed intersex condition Steve old boy, fathering six kids, way-to-go, no reduced fertility on your part, you are a goer! And we really must get the medical community onto this because it is pretty rare, even with the true hermaphroditism/gonadism, it is amazing you have a full set of both male and female gonads (rather than a mixture). You must have had four gonads to do this!

True Gonadal Intersex. Here the person must have both ovarian and testicular tissue. This might be in the same gonad (an ovotestis), or the person might have one ovary and one testis. The person may have XX chromosomes, XY chromosomes, or both. The external genitals may be ambiguous or may appear to be female or male. This condition used to be called true hermaphroditism. In most people with true gonadal intersex, the underlying cause is unknown, although in some animal studies it has been linked to exposure to common agricultural pesticides.

Frankly, I am going against the Denver quacks on this one, and diagnosing you with a case of Faux-Intersex-Trannyism and Internalised Homophobia. Don’t be ashamed Steve, there are others too with the same condition – get together and form a support group.

Or get a bloody room.

ETA:
I forgot to add Steve/Stevie to the Lazy Tranny Namechanges hall of fame. Very creative of you there Steve, whoops, I mean Stevie…