What do you think about what’s happening in Texas

Heimdekledi · 2021-07-08T16:40:09+00:00

Not being surrounded by far-right subs is what I miss.

Heimdekledi · 2021-05-13T04:17:06+00:00

Aw thanks

Heimdekledi · 2021-07-08T19:18:41+00:00

No cases before the 1970’s? What? Yes there are, Lili Elbe for one.

Also depression is a purely genetic phenomenon? What?

Heimdekledi · 2021-05-12T16:08:08+00:00

As a matter of philosophy, I like everyone and admire no one. To quote Aizen, “Admiration is the furthest thing from understanding”

Heimdekledi · 2021-07-20T16:28:30+00:00

Autogynephilia is impossible in women, same as autoandrophilia is impossible in men.

Psssh the cis straights talk about “feeling like a woman” or “feeling like a man” in regards to sex all the time. Sounds like gender euphoria in a sexual context to me!

Heimdekledi · 2021-07-09T03:40:04+00:00

No they don’t. If a sexual partner brings up trying an act that someone doesn’t want to try them they can just say no to trying it.

Heimdekledi · 2021-07-09T00:19:31+00:00

Heimdekledi · 2021-07-08T22:03:56+00:00

There are plenty of trans people to talk about without talking about other sub members. And making assumptions about why people think things is just illogical. None of us know enough about each other to know why we think things.

Heimdekledi · 2021-07-08T21:00:33+00:00

Why not make the rules QT friendly then? Forbid references to other posters as part of arguments, especially as the reason someone thinks something. Maybe appoint an actual QT mod as having a trans GC mod isn’t the same. The sub is called GCdebatesQT not GCdebatesTrans.

Heimdekledi · 2021-07-08T17:14:56+00:00

I mean if they were true they wouldn’t be called stereotypes

Heimdekledi · 2021-06-30T01:37:46+00:00

Correct. I mistook the situation

Heimdekledi · 2021-06-30T01:37:29+00:00

I mistook the situation

Heimdekledi · 2021-06-29T18:23:11+00:00

You have to use the correct pronouns? When did this change?

Heimdekledi · 2021-06-17T18:15:02+00:00

Sex is a spectrum, there are no female bodies. Also they can’t give consent for something that already belongs to trans women

Heimdekledi · 2021-06-17T08:41:03+00:00

Its not creepy because those are our spaces. It is however creepy that people focus so much on us just trying to use our spaces.

Heimdekledi · 2021-06-17T08:37:09+00:00

Fantastic. Its a win for fairness and equality

Heimdekledi · 2021-06-16T22:32:45+00:00

“Homosexual” is from the late 19th century.

Heimdekledi · 2021-06-16T15:44:29+00:00

Gay and Trans are both western concepts that shouldn’t be applied to ancient indigenous cultures

Heimdekledi · 2021-06-07T11:16:43+00:00

I mean, it doesn’t make climate change better

Heimdekledi · 2021-06-07T10:56:30+00:00

Sounds wasteful of both time and food. Be a planeteer.

Heimdekledi · 2021-06-07T10:51:38+00:00

Why would you toast something that you’re just going to throw away?

Heimdekledi · 2021-06-07T10:41:08+00:00

A social construct

By their sex spectrum status

XYZ definition

I mean, they’re not inherently anything.

Heimdekledi · 2021-05-14T21:59:48+00:00

How is it the epitome of gender to use pronouns and identify labels? Is that the case for cis people who use pronouns and labels as well or just trans people? How is it sexist, misogynistic, male supremacist, colonialist and indicative of male arrogance at it’s height?

Heimdekledi · 2021-05-12T16:47:56+00:00

We aren’t pushing conformity hard. Your side is though by working with right-wingers to further your goals. We are the ones who’ve gotten the supreme court to say that you can’t be fired for being GNC in your appearance.

Can you prove that Mermaid said any such thing?

Heimdekledi · 2021-05-12T16:20:12+00:00

The sex binary is a part of gender. Sex trait combinations actually occur along a spectrum. With no artificial sex binary and the oppressive societies that they breed, people who are born with or desire different sex trait combinations won’t be stigmatized.

Heimdekledi · 2021-05-12T15:41:56+00:00

You do know that there are QT people like myself who would prefer the abolition of gender, yes? QT != pro-gender anymore than being married == pro-marriage.

Heimdekledi · 2021-04-16T19:41:57+00:00

1) Why are you GC or QT?:

Because it’s deconstructionist approach makes the most sense to me. All categories are artificially constructed and QT seems more willing to admit that. I am however critical of gender as a concept as I don’t feel like its a helpful category to have around, ditto with nationality as a concept.

2) Were you ever on the opposite side? (Ex. Went from GC to QT or QT to GC?)

No, not really.

3) How do you define "man" and "woman"?

Socially created categories whose historical purpose has been to divide the sex spectrum into two boxes, and people whom have internalized those labels due to self grouping instincts in humans.

4) Transwoman are...Transmen are...

People whom have instinctually absorbed a specific societal label into their self concept and differentiate themselves from others with the same self-concept whom the societal label is thought to more appropriately apply. The Trans appellation is therefore on some level a political term challenging the cis-normative assumptions of cis supremacist society. In a non cis supremacist society the term “trans” will become unnecessary.

5) What are your thoughts on the term "cis", "natal" and "biological"?

Cis is a term that I view the same way as trans, a political term describing those whom agree the with the label given to them by a cis supremacist society. Its comparable to people whom identifies with the nationality ascribed to them by the state rather than challenging the objective existence of such categories. Terms like natal and biological uphold a cis normative view of biology, which I am against as I find the Sex Spectrum model more accurate go reality.

6) Do you believe transmen can play in sports with biological men and vice-versa---can transwomen play in sports with biological women?

Sure, but the thing is that all sports are inherently unfair from a competition standpoint. Is people want to play together though I see no reason to prohibit them on the basis of societally constructed labels.

7) What is considered misgendering?

Referring to a person with the incorrect gender associated terms, which includes things like pronouns, terms like female/male/women/men, etc.

8) Gender is...and sex is...

Gender can mean multiple things but Gender Identity is the instinctual urge to self categorize based on perceived social groupings that usually relate to observed sex traits in said perceived social groupings. Sex relates to the particular configuration of sex traits that an individual possess.

9) Do you know people in real life that are QT if you're GC or that are GC if you're QT? Are they friends or family?

I know some other people whom might be QT but it isn't a common term outside of academic circles I feel like. I don’t know anyone whom is GC that I know of.

10) How do people normally treat you based in your views?

Alot of GC people are unnecessarily mean. IRL i don’t tend to share my views, as I don’t tend to talk about these subjects.

11) Are transmedicalist GC, QT, or neither?

QT/TIRF/Nominalist

12) What is one thing you wish the other side knew about your position?

You are killing us with your support of anti-trans legislation.

Extra (optional--Put N/A if you choose not to answer, it's okay)

1) What is your sexual orientation?

Some stripe of pansexual I would suppose

2) Are you a trans man/trans woman or a cis man/woman?

I identify as a woman and as trans

3) What region are you from?(North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Australia, Africa)

USA

4) Feel free to share your background story here of how you became GC or QT.

I don’t have a specific story of becoming QT. It just made more sense to me

Heimdekledi · 2021-04-03T20:07:41+00:00

Given that cis people can be mistaken for trans and vice versa, the whole concept of what constitutes a “cis” or a “trans” appearance is subjective

Heimdekledi · 2021-04-02T06:32:19+00:00

I think that is how the rule about no transphobia/misogyny is generally viewed, but the part of me that is an absolutist can’t help but see prejudice almost everywhere in all conversation and feel like it should all be treated the same regardless of how small or large the acts are. I realize though that constantly policing everyone for subjective purity isn’t conducive to the running of a healthy sub, but I have a problem figuring out where that line is, and whether or not I’m upholding systems of oppression by not calling out everything I think is problematic. But I guess other people feel the same way, maybe? idk.

Yes that’s what I mean, and it does make sense what you’re saying and if someone is using their identity rather than arguments to make declarative statements about issues then I feel like critique is fair. I just feel like sometimes there might be assumptions about why people believe things. Like someone can hold a problematic opinion because of the context they were raised in, but pinning it on simply being a member of a demographic is a simplification of a more complex chain of events that led them to those beliefs. And to be honest you don’t need to know why someone is wrong or problematic to identify that they are wrong or problematic or to explain to them the same. It just seems unnecessary to some extent and can cause defensiveness if the other party feels that you are mistaken. Maybe I’m wrong though.

That was not my intent, and certainly not all GC posters behaved that way on the old sub. I was probably just extra sensitive to it happening as obviously I didn’t want myself to be the topic of conversation, so from my perspective I specifically tried to keep things general and not refer to myself or my experiences as being why I believed things, but it didn’t seem to help much. I was probably just noticing though the minority of the time when my own status was brought up rather than the majority of the time when it wasn’t.

Here’s hoping 🤞

Heimdekledi · 2021-04-02T04:43:28+00:00

I can deal with whatever, I just want the rules to be followed fairly. No insults being a cardinal one.

Heimdekledi · 2022-03-18T12:17:44+00:00

And what makes these parents abusers when they’re following the advice of every credible major medical association in the U.S.?

Heimdekledi · 2022-01-16T00:49:53+00:00

Do you not believe that there are appearances that are inherently cis or trans?

Heimdekledi · 2022-01-16T00:46:57+00:00

I am

Heimdekledi · 2021-11-16T20:18:35+00:00

Identity forms in roughly the same way as sexual orientation does but for identity instead of attraction. Certain physical features cause an infant to in some way mentally bond and begin to form a individualized group identity with the organisms who posses the same features. I’d imagine part of the evolutionary reason for this is part of the same reason that chimps and bonobos form sex-trait linked groups.

This is of course an averaged model. Just as there are people who have little to no sexual attraction there are presumably people with little to no physical trait group identification.

Heimdekledi · 2021-08-10T07:55:00+00:00

”a post-competition study of 693 elite athletes by Healy et al., published in 2014, found significant differences along many variables. The authors found that:

16.5% of men had low testosterone levels, whereas 13.7% of women had high levels with complete overlap between the sexes.[35]

Source:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_verification_in_sports

“Using the log-transformed data to predict a ‘normal range’ for elite female athletes, it would extend from 0.4 to 7.7 nmol/l. There were still eleven female athletes with testosterone levels above 8 nmol/l, three of which had values between 25 and 35 nmol/l, at the upper limit of the normal male range. All but one of these eleven women had normal LH & FSH which would be against but not exclude the likelihood of exogenous testosterone use, and it seems quite possible that one or more of them had the androgen insensitivity syndrome (AIS). The other women with intermediately raised testosterone levels may well have had the polycystic ovary syndrome or a more rare form of hyperandrogenism.”

Source:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/260522903_Endocrine_Profiles_in_693_Elite_Athletes_in_the_Post-Competition_Setting

Heimdekledi · 2021-07-21T19:21:14+00:00

What are you “huh?”-ing about?

Heimdekledi · 2021-07-21T19:16:58+00:00

Is artificial insemination “real” insemination? Obviously it is. Ergo artificial primarily means “made by humans” even if it has a secondary association of being “not real” in some instances.

Heimdekledi · 2021-07-21T19:10:56+00:00

One is imprinting like ducklings the other is a non-innate desire

Heimdekledi · 2021-07-21T19:07:31+00:00

You don’t know that it doesn’t serve an evolutionary purpose. A sex trait group identity instinct could certainly be said to have a purpose in groups of bonobos or chimps what with those species forming sex trait groups to control the interactions of the larger groups that they’re a part of (matriarchal and patriarchal structures respectively).

I mean children are considered to rapidly absorb the information in their surrounding environment so that part isn’t controversial, as to why they haven’t proposed such an instinct before, perhaps they never thought about it.

People can’t instinctually tell, as this would be an instinct that begins to take affect (I think) as soon as infants and toddlers can tell their parents apart, which occurs before the ability of people to begin to analyze themselves by such standards.

Initially no, but even afterwards the group identity instinct may cause them to feel sameness with their identified group even after transphobic explanations to the contrary.

They do.

Heimdekledi · 2021-07-21T18:53:19+00:00

Its an opinion so correct and incorrect don’t enter into it

Heimdekledi · 2021-07-20T16:15:57+00:00

Instinctual identification with perceived sex trait groups and unconscious replication of norma and behaviors

Heimdekledi · 2021-07-20T16:12:28+00:00

You shouldn’t base your perceptions of GC as a group entirely off of Houseplant

Heimdekledi · 2021-07-20T16:08:26+00:00

Because Gender Identity is just something that causes you to absorb the behaviors and norms of a specific perceived sex trait group in an unconscious manner, usually starting from a very early age. It does not include preprogrammed behaviors (aside from absorbing what is happening around you).

Heimdekledi · 2021-07-16T21:34:34+00:00

So a person with the capacity to father children but with XX chromosomes and no SRY gene arent male? (Real medical situation that has occurred)

Heimdekledi · 2021-07-09T17:14:34+00:00

It’s not a derogatory term though, and it never has been. It’s only ever been used by trans men to refer to their own bodies. The fact that you banned a term that isn’t even meant for you and is widey used by the trans masc community proves that there is no real intention towards making this place at all acceptable for QT posters. You reign over an echo chamber your highness

Heimdekledi · 2021-07-09T05:48:49+00:00

I mean in such a scenario they would’ve failed as the situations described didn’t involve any wrongdoing, but I’m just saying what the article is saying, I wasn’t there or anything so I can’t confirm what actually happened obviously

Heimdekledi · 2021-07-09T05:27:30+00:00

All trans people have a gender appropriate cutie mark on their ass .

Heimdekledi · 2021-07-09T05:18:02+00:00

I mean the evidence is the lack of evidence so it feels like a weird situation?

Heimdekledi · 2021-07-09T03:18:36+00:00

If you state those boundaries in transphobic terms, then yes its transphobic

Heimdekledi · 2021-07-09T03:17:24+00:00

I mean they did mention that a source at the spa said there weren’t any trans people in the spa that day

Heimdekledi · 2021-07-09T01:03:03+00:00

Your sweet

Heimdekledi · 2021-07-09T00:30:53+00:00

Twas the authoritative tone that tipped me off

Heimdekledi · 2021-07-09T00:12:23+00:00

Nah your term is representative of your ideology which is inaccurate whereas my term is just what some people prefer to call their own anatomy. Also front hole is a million times better than a word that means “sheath”

Heimdekledi · 2021-07-08T23:46:00+00:00

But...it’s your name? PhilsopherTentacles

Heimdekledi · 2021-07-08T23:43:22+00:00

Its a preference for one term over another when both refer to the same things. Semantics

Heimdekledi · 2021-07-08T22:36:52+00:00

Yes your majesty

Heimdekledi · 2021-07-08T22:26:34+00:00

Not everyone agrees with the view that trans people are an imitation of their identified sex. If you feel that they are, then the onus is on you to make that opinion and preference known

Heimdekledi · 2021-07-08T22:13:44+00:00

Trans men do have penises though. You mean to say that you expect a man that you’re interested in to have a penis of a certain type. Also you don’t have to announce it but remember that if you assume and you’re wrong you shouldn’t get mad at the other person, you should just tell them that it isn’t going to work out and leave.

Reasonable is subjective

Heimdekledi · 2021-07-08T22:08:11+00:00

Im saying that bigots operate on appearances as well, and that if you like people with an appearance that people traditionally think is inappropriate for you to date then you will feel the effects of their bigotry regardless of whether it technically comports with the bigots worldview of what’s appropriate on some level.

Heimdekledi · 2021-07-08T21:13:27+00:00

If you recall right before the old sub was banned it became the official position of the sub that trans women not disclosing their trans status was rape by deception and alot of QT members left over that.

Heimdekledi · 2021-07-08T21:07:28+00:00

Why is kissing okay by this logic? That would be sexual assault, no?

Heimdekledi · 2021-07-08T20:54:51+00:00

Both, but in my view sexuality isn’t based on binary sex status, but rather on observable physical traits. No one is attracted to people based on chromosomes for instance, because chromosomes aren’t directly perceivable in everyday life.

Edit: Maybe a biologist with a very niche kink?

Heimdekledi · 2021-06-30T01:31:43+00:00

The question was what do you think, and I answered.

Heimdekledi · 2021-06-30T01:29:37+00:00

I wasn’t aware there was a resolution to that discussion. In any case not using male gendered pronouns isn’t QT language, it’s neutral language. Funny how you can’t tell the difference, but I suppose that’s privilege for you

Heimdekledi · 2021-06-30T00:50:08+00:00

Obvious statement is obvious?

Heimdekledi · 2021-06-29T18:31:03+00:00

Hopefully saidit dies soon

Heimdekledi · 2021-06-29T18:27:10+00:00

Ive contributed to longer form discussions but Im short on energy these days.

Heimdekledi · 2021-06-18T01:46:55+00:00

No I’d apply it to all of the above

Heimdekledi · 2021-06-17T18:22:03+00:00

I guess the bigots don’t get to compete then

Heimdekledi · 2021-06-17T18:16:37+00:00

Because we’re women

Heimdekledi · 2021-06-17T18:16:21+00:00

You should not apply modern labels to ancient people

Heimdekledi · 2021-06-17T18:15:17+00:00

Just the bigots

Heimdekledi · 2021-06-17T08:38:48+00:00

Not true. Due to the numbers involves cis women usually beat trans women.

Heimdekledi · 2021-06-16T00:12:36+00:00

Reddit appears to have a zero tolerance policy. If you comment or post in a reddit sub, you'll get banned immediately.

Not true. I reported someone the other day and they received a warning from the admins

Heimdekledi · 2021-06-09T04:27:16+00:00

Insults. Reported

Heimdekledi · 2021-06-07T23:39:48+00:00

No it isn’t. Individualized care should be the standard, not assumptions based off of outmoded binary sex models.

Heimdekledi · 2021-06-07T23:38:27+00:00

I like to think that it helps me avoid drawing generalizations about circumstances and to try to remain humble about the limitations of my human viewpoint. It also influences my religious views as I mostly Identify as a buddhist and agree with the teaching that all things are empty of intrinsic existence and nature.

Heimdekledi · 2021-06-07T14:53:03+00:00

Nor is there a reason to distinguish between cis women and trans women. Which is why a sex spectrum model works best for describing sex, just as a species spectrum model is better at describing evolutionary states over time than imagining species as objectively distinct entities

Heimdekledi · 2021-06-07T11:39:45+00:00

Thanks

Heimdekledi · 2021-06-07T11:30:08+00:00

Dude can be gender neutral, but plenty of people don’t use it in such a way. I’ll keep in mind that you do.

I didn’t give one word answers, I gave a multi sentence answer. It’s not worthless, I just think that there is a 99% chance that it won’t help based on my prior attempts to do so. And Im depressed and barely get on the sub anymore so it just feels like a pointless exercise. Besides you don’t need me to find out about this stuff if you really cared to.

Heimdekledi · 2021-06-07T11:15:44+00:00

Not really. Post structuralist philosophies advance many of the ideas of nominalism, and nominalism itself is still an extant position in philosophy.

I’m sorry, I just can’t bring myself to commit to the effort of educating you all on nominalism when it will achieve nothing. It just seems like wasted effort

Heimdekledi · 2021-06-07T10:59:15+00:00

They don’t appear to be QT either. Unaffiliated?

Thanks for that.

Heimdekledi · 2021-06-07T10:55:26+00:00

Nominalist remember? All categories are social constructs, so yeah it tends to feature heavily in my thought processes

I didn’t say anything was inherently different.

The logical implications of nominalism

Heimdekledi · 2021-06-07T10:53:02+00:00

Not even that Im afraid.

Heimdekledi · 2021-06-07T10:35:19+00:00

Yep. Buddhism yo, the self is an illusion

Heimdekledi · 2021-06-07T10:35:08+00:00

Im never never trolling

Heimdekledi · 2021-06-07T10:34:49+00:00

No they aren’t, the species concept doesn’t hold up a clearly shown by the sorites paradox

Heimdekledi · 2021-05-15T08:14:48+00:00

The fact that ova are only produced once in an individuals lifetime still inherently means that they are produced. So again how am I wrong?

Also the commonly held belief that humans are incapable of forming new egg cells after birth is actually an open question:

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/oct/07/evidence-suggests-womens-ovaries-can-grow-new-eggs

Heimdekledi · 2021-05-14T21:51:37+00:00

I believe that by and large both situations would be seen as unacceptable. There is far more negativity coming from the anti-trans side especially with the right wing surging and the alliances between them and some prominent gender crits.

Heimdekledi · 2021-05-14T21:44:12+00:00

It’s not about conforming to societal stereotypes its about group identification

Heimdekledi · 2021-05-14T21:34:19+00:00

This has nothing to do with stereotypes and I never claimed to be an expert.

Also calling me “male” is both bad form, and stereotyping of people who actually identify as males.

Heimdekledi · 2021-05-13T05:38:40+00:00

You do not speak for all disabled people, and I personally find them offensive so don’t apply them to me or my thoughts, thank you.

Heimdekledi · 2021-05-13T05:33:56+00:00

Disabled people can still be ableist.

An example has already been given for how ideas can hurt people.

Heimdekledi · 2021-05-13T05:25:09+00:00

My appearance is not a statement to me being a woman its just a way that I feel comfortable looking. I don’t want anyone assuming my gender based off of my appearance because then that means that someone else is probably having that same standard used against them to their detriment. I am a gender abolitionist and the only reason that I put an “F” on my drivers license was so that I could better maneuver in this cis supremacist society of yours. I have zero interest in reifying gender norms so don’t accuse me of such.

Heimdekledi