If you want to be a good ally, you need to start taking cissexism and transphobia seriously right now. That means getting our goddamn pronouns right and not expecting a cookie for it. That means learning our names. That means not asking invasive questions or telling us how well we “pass.” (Passing generally means “looking cis.” Not all of us want to look like you, thank you very much.) That means deleting the words “tranny” and “shemale” from your vocabulary. That means understanding the immense privilege you have in your legally recognized, socially approved, medically assigned gender.

Asher Bauer, Not Your Mom’s Trans 101

Read the whole thing, it is awesome and important.

(via bidyke)

[TW: rape] As much as useful points were raised in not your mom’s trans* 101, I’m not comfortable with this being promoted. Someone came forward earlier this year to say that they were raped by Asher Bauer, and we need to be holding Asher accountable, which includes not spreading resources where Asher’s victim can see them and triggering that victim (via gender-interrupted)

Oh shit. I had no idea. Bah, now I need to take him off my book. (Also: additional source link since the one above didn’t work for me).

**********EDIT September 2nd 2012: I recant what I wrote here. Asher Bauer was not a perpetrator of abuse, but a survivor of this relationship. For more details, click here.

(via gender-interrupted-deactivated2)

Source: tranarchism.com

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