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@RayAlexWilliams @ninapaley Surely in both cases they’re just responsing to the pressure of socially enforced gender norms?

@ninapaley If you had two men and one spent all the time fantasizing about becoming an alpha man and the other spent all his time fantasizing about being really pretty, and you were forced to rank-assign who is the more masculine man, what would you say? You must choose one or the other.

AGP is such a paradox. We often have very masculine energy. And yet we want to be feminine. And wanting to be feminine is a feminine trait. Most masculine men spend time thinking about how to be more masculine, whereas AGPs spend a lot of time fantasizing about what it'd be like if they were more feminine. And funny enough AGPs can also use masculine competitive energy against other crossdressers and trans women to fuel a desire to invest the time and energy in learning to be more feminine. So some AGPs can arrive at a constructed, learned form of femininity after a great deal of effort, while still neverthless being quite masculine in their thinking style, interests, proclivities, etc. And in the bedroom, the desire is often to completely let go from the masculine energy as a form of psychological release. So AGPs are often masculine men who love being feminine, and to varying degrees or another are capable of approximating feminine energy through imitation, which though initially learned and not innate can in time become habitual as a mannerism and thus become fairly entrenched in one's personality, even leading to drastic personality shifts late in life. In my own case, when I first transitioned, I intentionally studied the differences between male and female mannerisms and consciously modified my own behavior to be more flamboyant than what comes naturally to me, even studying the exaggerated mimicry of drag queens to reshape a lifetime of male-coded behavior. And it eventually these changes became habitual. But when I detransitioned, interestingly, I almost instantly reverted back to my more natural masculine mannerisms as an almost gestalt shift. It suggests that feminine and masculine energy can come from multiple places: either bottom up from innate personality dispositions likely caused by genetic or prenatal factors or top down from an autiobiographical narrative shift that motivates behavior change at the level of identity and conscious goal-setting.

@jasonrope @Martina Isn’t she saying that over 50% of the trans women who are in prison, are in prison for sexual offences? I think you’ve misunderstood her comment. You can see that, surely?

@Martina My claim doesn’t address her statistics, it addresses her claim that half of the transgender population are in prison. But I give you 3/10 for effort

What’s more plausible? 1. Half of all trans women in the U.K. are in prison or; 2. Half of Sharron’s skull is stuffed full of cat shit?

@personna44 @mzikuo I’ve never felt a single trace of attraction to anyone male. I’m not capable of even understanding what that would feel like.

@noisy_name @mzikuo That's a contradiction my dear sister, what you mean to say is that you use your free will to deny your attraction to men that you don't feel towards women whatsoever unless the woman of attraction is man like aka masculine presenting, that your body feels towards men

why do people want lesbians to like men so bad

@cyberpinkblink @JacJac515 Those are not lesbians

@JacJac515 Yes, but the ones ive seen expressed strong intimate feelings towards said idol

@personna44 @mzikuo We no lesbians feel attracted to men. It’s just not how we’re wired.

@mzikuo Lesbians already like and find men attractive, some of them are very outwardly about it while others are in the closest about it and that's because no one is above the biological laws no matter what. You can deny, gaslight and whatever but you can't redefine it

@_baklon @marcooth The BBC has just reported that the complainant was under 16.

@marcooth lol I just knew it was going to be a 17 year old boy

@DPJHodges Is it possible that you should wait for more information before taking up this cause? The claimant it’s now reported was under 16 at the time of the allegation.

There may be other facts to come out. But if, as currently being reported, Scott Mills really has been sacked because of an offence that was allegedly committed 30 years ago, and that failed to even meet the basic evidential threshold for a prosecution, then that's insane.

@beckyk21k @sappholives83 She wants to police her boundaries. Because she’s a lesbian.

@sappholives83 PSA: This angry lesbian wants to police your speech because she's angry and hates men. She's a clown who should be laughed at.

PSA: If you are voluntarily having sex with someone who has a penis, or if you have a penis yourself, you are not a lesbian. Find another word. “Lesbian” is taken. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

@suddeninfluenza @belovediiris @Sidewalk_Steve Lesbians specifically cannot enjoy that, no. It’s just not the way we’re wired.

@belovediiris @Sidewalk_Steve some people fr can't enjoy a woman with a penis

"Well, I use my vagina, and Mary uses her penis." From an American Academy of Pediatrics training video on treating lesbians written by Dr. Jason Rafferty.

@maryjanesdesk @_celia_bedelia_ It’s a women’s health condition. It’s been overlooked and its sufferers ignored because it’s a women’s health issue. The solution to that is not to dilute the truth about who it impacts. It’s to speak out clearly and explicitly about medical misogyny and its consequences.

@noisy_name @_celia_bedelia_ Again it isn't just a gynae condition. Limiting it to that is a problem. It is a full body inflammatory condition. My issue is people being nasty about what's really a non issue, finding time to be hateful and ableist but staying silent to actually help those with endo.

I wish TERFs cared about endometriosis research and care like 20% as much as they care about a trans woman working at a random English endometriosis charity.

@maryjanesdesk @_celia_bedelia_ @HRH_SHP But surely that’s exactly why we need to continue to advocate for recognition of women’s health conditions. The fact that a gynaecological condition is overlooked because it affects women and not men is very clear evidence of medical misogyny.

@_celia_bedelia_ @HRH_SHP The irony is that limiting endometriosis as a purely gynae condition is one of the reasons why the research on it is so damn far behind. They can't even define endometriosis properly, push misinformation about the condition and then pretend they're fighting on our behalf.

@_celia_bedelia_ @maryjanesdesk Again, I think the concern here is about the impact of removing the word ‘woman’ and ‘women’ from discussions about a women’s health condition given the medical and social history of overlooking women’s health conditions. All women are people but not all people are women.

@maryjanesdesk They don’t give a single fuck - ask me how many times they yelled at me for calling women people when I talked about my endometriosis experience

@_celia_bedelia_ @David310734 @TamsinLisa Isn’t the concern that the trans woman’s role is as a parliamentary lobbyist for the charity? She has also pushed to ‘rebrand’ endometriosis as a non sex specific condition. It seems reasonable to have misgivings about these issues.

@David310734 @TamsinLisa It’s a charity for an illness that women have but why do all the employees need to women?

@Nicklezard He’s also married to the editor-in-chief. That can’t hurt.

This man gets paid

@jdwitherspoon @airyxmusic I think if you were willing to read a credible article about Tourette’s, all of your questions would be answered promptly.

@noisy_name @airyxmusic So is he a racist person with Tourette’s or the word nigger is just one of his goto Tourette’s trigger phrases u think?

So you’re telling me people with Tourette’s Sydrome don’t have other words to pull from? Or they just say what they’re thinking in the moment? Regardless, this is exhausting…😒

@marsmyst There really isn’t any nuance. He has Tourette’s. He isn’t racist. Just go and read one article about Tourette’s. Please.

making this a "yank" thing when nearly every black person found that shit offensive. brits continue shutting down any and all discussion about intersectionality and nuance.

@zankalove A lot of people refusing to from what I can see unfortunately.

lot of people learning about tourette’s today

@ForeignAgitator It’s making me feel real despair.

I underestimated how important of a movie "I Swear" was. I naively believed everyone knew about Tourette's but the response on here is baffling.

@airyxmusic @jdwitherspoon The comment was made by a man with Tourette’s who was at the ceremony because a film about his life was nominated for an award. He has no control over what he blurts out. At all.

@jdwitherspoon I didn’t know this was “confirmed Tourette’s” 😭😭😭😭

@jdwitherspoon Go the love of god, just go and read about Tourette’s for twenty minutes. That’s all it takes to understand enough to know that you are wrong.