TW: CISSEXISM AND ABLEISM.

uterus-balloons:

aspiealligator:

It really only applies to ftm and similar trans*folk, but it’s interesting regardless. =)

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Interesting.

Reblogging this to read later.

So I thought this was going to be interesting, but instead it’s filled with cringe-worthy (i.e. othering and misgendering) wording (“typical females” vs. “transwomen”? “biological girls who identify as boys?” “if such girls do believe they have a boy’s mind in a girl’s body”? Really?) and I’m-rolling-my-eyes-at-you-this-is-so-ridiculous conclusions. Bullet-point lists work for me, so here’s what I find problematic:

• Believing that having a male identity is strongly linked with perceiving oneself as masculine. This is particularly awful because it’s a statement that’s supposed to more accurately describe those in the autistic spectrum, implying that those with autism/Asperger’s are just “not seeing things the way they should” and “jumping to conclusions.”
• Cissexism is written all over the idea that FAAB trans people are just “unhappy as girls.” Remnants of sexism are also present somewhere in there, but I can’t quite articulate why. Perhaps it’s because many women are being erased (those in the autistic spectrum who identify as masculine being a prime example).
• “If such girls do believe they have a boy’s mind in a girl’s body, their higher than average number of autistic traits may also mean they hold their beliefs very strongly, and pursue them to the logical conclusion: opting for sex reassignment surgery in adulthood.” Basically, this is ignoring bodily dissonance/dysphoria and attributing physical transition to it being a “logical step” that must always come after social dysphoria. It being described as a logical conclusion is appalling even to those for whom social dysphoria came first. It is also ableist vomit in that “oh those poor autistic people can’t possibly know if they’re truly trans!”

Just, get out. I was expecting some kind of relation between social dysphoria and social awkwardness, not this. The only thing their research backs up is that the average AQ of FAAB trans people is higher than that of cis women, how do they go on to conclude such fuckery from that?

(via ll0che)