Vegan Sexual: Looking through fyeahbiphobia and their posts today, I feel pretty...

vegansexy:

Looking through fyeahbiphobia and their posts today, I feel pretty confident that it’s run by a radfem (noticing transmisogyny, cissexism abound). Not only is that blog not safe for bisexual people, it is not safe for trans folks. Quelle surprise! Also with the focus on bisexual women and “all their failings”, it’s likely you’ll run into a fair bit of misogyny as well.

So take that into consideration if you want to peek through that blog. I myself am adopting a personal policy of writing commentary on the posts there when I think it’s relevant, but I will not reblog or interact in any way. 

Oh bumblr.

Hah, I knew it!

I actually wrote about this briefly in my book, I feel the need to share (since it might shed light on the current situation):

[TW: general discussion of biphobia and transphobia + direct quotes containing biphobia and transphobia]

Despite the severe oppression that each group suffers, it has also been a custom—especially in queer communities—to accuse trans and bi people of seeking straight privilege. Bisexuals have been accused of wanting to lead heteronormative lives while enjoying the side benefits of queer sex or communities. Trans people have been accused of actually being gay men and lesbians who change their genders in order to become straight and avoid homophobic oppression. In addition, transgender men in particular have been accused of seeking male privilege, changing their gender as a cowardly act of internalized misogyny. Trans women have been accused of seeking the “side benefits” of femininity while maintaining their “male privilege.” Note that all of these points of view necessitate actively cisgendering and monosexualizing trans and bi people: assuming that all people in both groups are actually monosexual (gay or lesbian), and that the genders we’ve been assigned at birth determine who and what we are.

For example, in “Bisexual politics: A superior form of feminism?”, Australian writer Sheila Jeffreys presents a biphobic manifesto meant to incriminate the entire bisexual movement as antifeminist and male-identified. Among her many other accusations, she describes bisexuality as “a way not to identify as lesbian or gay.” This is because the “loss of privilege involved in identifying as lesbian [is] significant and likely to encourage women to […] avoid such a definition.” Likewise and unsurprisingly, she didn’t spare trans people either. Her article “Transgender Activism: A Lesbian Feminist Perspective” is a transphobic manifesto meant to incriminate the entire transgender movement as (you guessed it) antifeminist and male-identified. In the article, she describes trans men as women who are hopelessly oppressed by internalized misogyny and lesbophobia. She describes trans women (whom she calls “male-to-constructed-female”) as invaders seeking to exploit feminist movements for their own selfish needs, as a result of internalized male supremacy. Note that in both cases Jeffreys cisgenders and monosexualizes trans and bi people, presuming that we’re all “really” gay or lesbian.

I am not a woman trapped in a man’s body. This body is no man’s; it is mine, it is me, and there is no man in that equation. And I am not trapped in it. There are a million and one ways out of this body, and I have clung to it, tooth and claw, despite an endless line of people and institutions who would rather I vacate the premises, and have sometimes been willing to make me bleed to convince me they’re right.

This body is mine, and I claim it and its bruises, and it is not a man’s, and I am not trapped here. I have looked leaving my body in the eye and I have said, in the end, hell no. There is too much to do, too much to love, too many who need one more of us to say hell no and help them say the same.

little light, the seam of skin and scales (Taking Steps)

(via fuckyeahradicalquotes)

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