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alice’s voice isn’t ‘distinctively male’. voices aren’t inherently gendered and how someone sounds doesn’t determine their identity. also, you said you’re not a terf because you don’t exclude trans men? and you said you don’t understand how transfem representation is good? that’s really not convincing me. sounds like you see trans men as misguided women and want an excuse to be bigoted towards trans women without fully committing to terf ideology because you know people would call you out for your bullshit.

alright, here we go.

first, voices are based on biology, vocal chords, the structure of the larynx, all that shebang. men have a generally lower pitch, and women have a generally higher pitch; despite that, there can be the reverse, but you can perfectly distinguish a male from a female based on the timber, the inflection, etc. there are, of course, androgynous voices where you can't quite place the speaker's sex; however, this is not the case. so, yes, voices are a way to tell the person's biological sex, which, through socialisation, ends up weaving into their social identity.

i believe that the notion of gender instead of plain biological sex is harmful and perpetuates stereotypes that affect not only, but mostly women, negatively. therefore, when a woman doesn't fit the social role that she is constantly being forced into by her environment, she may be led to believe (esp. if she has issues with self-esteem, insecurity, and body dysmorphia, which isn't a rare case) that she isn't a woman after all, since a woman should "feel" and "behave" a certain way to be real, as per the societal norm; which is overall a patriarchal notion of what a "woman" is. there comes the transgender ideology that happily supports it: a "woman" is whatever you want it to be. even if you're a biological male. so, yes, transgender men are in reality misguided women who, facing societal pressure, mistakenly believed that womanhood is something that should be felt and performed, and that the only escape was to deny their biology (which has absolutely nothing wrong in it, intrinsically) and more often than not undergo damaging operations and hormone treatment. and even then, often the issue doesn't go away, because, after all, it is rooted in the system that created this unattainable image of what a woman is. a woman is a biological female, and that's all there is to it. and i include those women in my radical feminist area of concern.

i myself went through a similar struggle. when the pandemic hit, i was fifteen years old. now, when you're isolated and enclosed from the world, you turn to social media and dive deeper into what you are on the inside. i discovered i was bisexual. i also thought that, since i didn't like to wear dresses and shave (my mother's image of femininity that she constantly perpetuated on me), liked sports, pirates and hiking, and preferred short hair, there must be something wrong with me. i thought a girl shouldn't behave like this. i dove deeper into the issue, and i stumbled upon transgenderism. i used to be very easy to impress and believed everything i saw online if it was presented as "safe" and "okay to do" in a happy, welcoming tone. i ended up convinced that i needed top and bottom surgery to feel "right" and "free". i hated the way i looked and thought i wasn't a woman if i didn't align with what a woman was defined as: caring, compassionate, fragile, with long, flowy hair, a love for dresses, high heels, shopping, and the colour pink, a soft voice and a curvy body; a woman loved the fact that she had periods and breasts and the ability to produce life. i had none of that. and that was exactly what biological males that thought of themselves as women use as an argument to justify their womanhood. i thought to myself, i must not be a woman, then, if i don't feel like one, which i should, because that's what "transwomen", who i believed wholeheartedly, said womanhood felt like.

then i found out about radical feminism, and it hit me like a truck. i saw what the transgender ideology was really about: abiding to societal roles and images created by the oppressive, patriarchal system that still sees women as an inferior species, as something to "become", as something to be performed and that can be worn like a costume. i realised i didn't need to feel like a woman because i already was one. and that's all there is to it.

the rest is society's expectations that if a woman likes sports, hiking and pirates, there must be something wrong with her. but there isn't. if we didn't have a systemic oppression towards women, we wouldn't even have created the notion of being transgender.

in short, call me out, please! i'd love to see where my bullshit is, because so far all i've said seems pretty logical to me. thanks!

Why are you denying you're a TERF? 😭 You think trans men are misguided women. When you say you're not trans exclusionary because you include trans men, according to your definition of trans men you're just including other women. I'm assuming you also believe trans women are just men, and therefore exclude them from your feminism. See: trans exclusionary feminist, "a person and especially a cisgender woman who rejects the social and legal recognition of transgender women as women and who opposes their inclusion in or access to places, activities, protections, etc. that are reserved exclusively for women" (https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/trans-exclusionary%20radical%20feminist). Doesn't that describe your opinion? I want to give you the benefit of the doubt but you seriously seem to be fucking with us. You're either a very inconsistent person & need to figure shit out or you're a troll & need a new hobby.

hi! thanks for interacting.

looks like i made a mistake. thank you for spotting that. i previously thought that trans-exclusionary radical feminist applied to excluding both transmen and transwomen from the radfem agenda. since i only exclude transgender women (who are biological males), and include transgender men (who are biological females), according to the sourced definition, it is true that i am a TERF.

thanks again for the correction!

For pride part two electric boogaloo -

(credit isn't needed but is appreciated!!)

Image ID, also in alt text - James Tiberius Kirk played by William Shatner with the bisexual flag, first as a background then overlayed on top of him, transgender flag, first as a background then overlayed on top of him, and the Gilbert Baker pride flag, first as a background then overlayed on top of him.

Why does Wilson insist on wearing completely oversized dress shirts, you are not a size xxxxxxl James.

the whole "gender identity" trend is so pathetic and annoying. a bunch of weirdos playing pretend. and yet they're treated like a terminal alzheimers patient like "just agree with everything they think is true, otherwise they'll be soooo distressed and its just not worth it to remind them of reality, it would be so cruel and pointless because their brain doesn't work" except instead of an old person who actually tragically can't understand reality anymore, they're some 22 year old with an amazon wishlist full of childrens toys and lube.

The trans need to drag as Yamato from One piece and Sing altered-lyrics geek songs about freedom and transness but also the autistic executive dysfunction to Just not

The only reason why transphobes always ask “what is a woman” instead of “what is a man” is because we all know that a man is a featherless biped.

maybe wolverine cured my artblock..

I will never understand why it's considered transphobic and bigoted to share stories of detransitioners.

They're the ones who went through the so-called "gender-affirming care" and are now suffering the irreversible side effects that have made them medical patients for life.

And one of the reasons why some of them are sharing their stories is because they don't want another kid who is struggling with their gender identity to go through what they did.

They deserve better care.

On the children's railway

At the Danube

Two of us.

I'm the blonde. The black girl is Veda, she is not trans.

A memory of a photo shoot. (Only this one picture remains.)

I used to do BDSM performances in clubs. I don't do that anymore, but it was exciting!

I pose for the camera (The photographer is not a professional :)

"Before we go to the nightclub, let's take a picture!"