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Joscelyn Transpiring
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I can’t help but giggle every time I pass this mechanic. They made a choice and committed…and I just keep wondering if they get random trans people wandering in confused. 🤭

#Trans

Photo of the front of a mechanic called “My Tran-E Shop, LLC”

Joscelyn Transpiring
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USpol, misuse of antidiscrimination laws

I find myself noodling on the fact that queer Abolitionists warned about hate crime and anti-discrimination legislation being misused someday back when the Neoliberal wing seized the Democratic Party and LGBTQ+ organizations.

Up until now, it seemed a bit like a false alarm, and useful to have these laws. After all, if we’re going to have a coercive government, it might as well be one that encodes against discrimination and provides at least some guardrails and tools against the worst abuses. But now we’re here, with the Trump admin purposefully misusing gender anti-discrimination legislation to try to enact segregation against trans people or other forms of discrimination and state violence against us. Pam Bondi and friends are also inverting laws about anti-discrimination based upon race to say they should be used to protect white people from “reverse racism” or advising organizations that are meant to serve women that it would be discrimination against men if they are not included.

Basically, the worst case scenario is playing out. It’s ridiculous we are here and it makes me wonder whether, if we didn’t have these laws, would that have reduced the tools they had to do harm to us or made it easier anyway? Definitely reminds me that the world we build towards should be one that does not put this kind of power in any individual’s hands.

Joscelyn Transpiring
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What's the most trans fantasy TV series? And why is it The Witcher?

I mean, Yennefer is obvious:
-Grows up being treated as less than, suffers abuse and subjugating own needs to the demands of others because of how others see her.
-Not treated as "one of the girls" because of her appearance
-Sacrifices her reproductive organs to make her body her own and release her beauty
-Looks much younger than her age as a result of her transformation
-Yearns to be able to become a mother, despite being infertile
-Often desired by men, but never treated as wife material

Geralt is pretty obvious too:
-Is seen by normies as more of a monster than a man
-Transforms his body by taking something that would be poisonous to others
-Infertile, but becomes a nurturing father
-Has some really cool scars
-Has better style than most men
-Is basically in a pansexual polycule with Yennefer and Jaskier
-Forced to face down the monsters society refuses to confront

And their relationship? So obviously t4t - two people who exist in violation of the gender norms of their world despite being hot as fuck who relate to and understand each other at a deeper level than anyone else might. And then they adopt a daughter and raise her together? Just....so fucking trans.

And Jaskier is the adorable cis gay metamour singing about trans rights and how people need to donate to Geralt's gofundme 🤭

Joscelyn Transpiring
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Important lesson from Poison Ivy: stop punishing whoever is convenient, and let’s go after those responsible.

Panel of a comic with Poison Ivy looking up while crying and saying, “I keep making the same mistakes, Jason. Because it’s impossible to watch what’s happening to the planet and not be furious. And then punish whoever is convenient instead of whoever is responsible.”

Poison Ivy, looking sick and injured, says, “I’m going to make the difficult choices. Sitting here with you, I realize I can get the real bad guys and I will. One by one, I will eat them alive.”

Joscelyn Transpiring
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If your revolution doesn't include snuggly naps, it's not my revolution

Joscelyn Transpiring
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#TranspiringConsiderations

Title: Complex Trauma Disorder? I hardly know her!

CW: Gender Dysphoria, cPTSD

Web version: https://www.joscelyntranspiring.com/post/complex-trauma-disorder-i-hardly-know-her

Cross-Posted on Stained Glass Woman: https://open.substack.com/pub/stainedglasswoman/p/complex-trauma-disorder-i-hardly?r=2ydkiy&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

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#Trans #Transgender #FtM #MtF #Enby #NonBinary #Queer #cPTSD

Joscelyn Transpiring
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