I personally would appreciate it if the DIY evangelists were capable of acknowledging that there are still barriers to entry in a world where DIY exists but that's another matter

I don't care how long you've been HRT, I don't care how many surgeries you've had. You're still on the same team as the hairy trans woman in her 50s who's still on the waitlist for HRT or enby who don't want it. Their fight is your fight. They deserves as much respect and support as you do.

Actual conversation I just had with one of KTP’s suppprters.

They’re really doing the “Attempted murder? Now honestly what is that? Do they give a Nobel prize for attempted chemistry? Do they?!” Argument.

They see it as activism and that it's therefore ends-justify-means.

There are a lot of people in this world who are bullies and desperately want to believe that they can be the first to find a way to use bullying for positive change, because it's easier to keep with that habit than doing real work

This is the most fucked up thing. When I say “I am afraid to transition, especially considering the political environment right now,” the clique regularly tries to frame that as me claiming that “trans lives aren’t worth living”

It’s the most disgusting misrepresentation I’ve ever seen.

It feels like the people I know who have become victims of this sort of thing has only been growing and it makes me disgusted at the fellow trans people in my communities just eating this shit up to feel like heroes for ostracizing some trans girl they never met

You will never be welcomed into cis manhood with patriarchy and the hilarious thing is that being pressured to acknowledging your privilege, because you will be cut out of trans society if you did, is the least cis man thing that you could experience.

Stop letting your dysphoria throw the less privileged trans people under the bus. Stop talking about your privilege frankly, you are bad at it. Instead of giving cis patriarchy talking points, lift up the voices of less privileged trans people.

The logic error is not that trans women experience male privilege, the logic error is that trans men must, and nothing supports that evidence. You are making a logic error in defining what a man is, what patriarchy does, what privilege is.

It doesn't have to be that way. A trans man does not have a cis man's life. But it also betrays you as abusing your privilege (because almost every time you are white and relatively economically privileged.)

Me: “If you condemn Hot Allostatic Load, you are a danger, because you’re saying you’re willing to use Kiwifarms style tactics to mulch a trans woman over nothing, facts be damned”

Transmedicalists: “We have to mulch Nerdskull! Start spreading Kiwifarms shit and other fake allegations about them!”

Apparently KTP and her friends have escalated to calling me a predator again over this post, without any sort of proof or even an alleged victim, just to show you exactly how important and relevant the message of the Hot Allostatic Load essay is

They’re literally trying to do that to me now

It's a current ongoing topic in therapy that's tangled up in a bunch of other shit (as these things often are) but it's really been weighing on me lately

Reading HAL for the first time today was certainly an experience

I mean, dig down deep enough, and you'll always hit TME/TMA discourse, and who gets to speak about what.

Also, can't help but be really fucking suspicious of somebody who loves to mulch trans women casting aspersions on an essay that talks about the harms of mulching trans women!