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* Anti-trans radfems [1] are hopeful that trans men can vibrate themselves into becoming dcmc womyn [2]. For example, in Hot Hypothalami, Pinko Lesbo advises:

Don't reinforce the feedback loop in your brain. Get a vibrator. Practice having orgasms with new thoughts. Are the old fantasies creeping in? Turn the vibrator off. Don't reinforce old patterns with orgasm. Can't come? It won't kill you not to--try again tomorrow. Practice with new, positive fantasies, and eventually you will be rewarded with a new sexual response. We've all been colonized, but we can drive the invader off.


* And are scared that cis men are vibrating themselves into becoming trans womyn. I know that doesn't fit my experiences and doesn't fit many trans womyn's experiences.

* And are concerned about anti-female elements in some trans people's fantasies,

* But think it's easier for someone to change their whole gender than to substitute pro-female elements for any anti-female ones?

[1] as opposed to other-branches-of-fems.

[2] don't call me cis
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If this stands up, this is as important as the BSTc and INAH3 studies, and from people who have maintained that transness is social, psychological, and/or a fetish, rather than partly biological.

I am unsure about the ethics of identifying Gallus Mag. But in the Gendertrender discussion complaining about (mis)identifying Gallus Mag, some commentators including Fabfro, Jane, Smits, and Jo comment about what they see as a characteristic "smirk," and Miep adds that "It’s my personal theory that you can even spot the ones who will wind up trans, by the smirk."

I know that personally I have a slightly asymmetrical face and somewhat asymmetrical smile.

It is certainly possible for facial features to reflect neurodevelopmental features. Subtly distinct features have been suggested for some autistic people, just as here for trans people, and substantially distinct features are known for Downs' and Williams' people. It is also possible for spurious theories to lead to discrimination, harassment, and worse, as with physiognomy. It is sad that the original discussion was quite ableist.

It would also help explain why some trans womyn face transmisogynistic harassment and even violence before transition, if the bullies/bashers have noticed the facial features, though for many of us the bullies/bashers could have or did notice breast and/or hip development anyway.
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Fest is a healing space for gender-nonconforming womyn, as long as they're not trans womyn too, and therefore Fest must exclude trans womyn...

I can’t see how the first implies the second.

I can’t see how excluding and othering one often-marginalized group of womyn would strengthen healing space for another group of womyn.

And, well, it hurts with this headache, but it also hurts when people treat trans womyn’s bodies as symbols of violence, when we are often also survivors of that violence, and it again hurts when people treat our struggles to survive or to recover as forms of violence.

And, well, it’s quite possible that more trans womyn are autistic than other womyn, and are being misread once more.

Also, I have encountered this, here:

http://redressalert.tumblr.com/post/96419964145/what-michfest-means-to-me

and via DaisyDeadhead, here:

http://lavenderjanestrikesback.tumblr.com/post/97177287294/confessions-of-a-skeptic-at-the-michigan-womyns-music

and various other places.

If I thought active inclusion for trans womyn would mean dis-inclusion for various other womyn, then I would think that some spaces including each group and excluding another would be necessary. But I don’t think so, and I think this would screw over people who are both, or who have some experiences associated with both.

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