ftM's and unresearched T injections

Fair use capped from a major ftM community.

The medical establishment may be sir-ing and he-ing ftM women to their faces as they write them their T script, but are they reating them different than they treat any woman? That would be a resounding NO! Healthcare for women remains in many areas substandard to that of men and the trans population isnt fairing any better!

Besides the apathetic barbaric "treatment" the ME doles out to ftM women, they're totally ignorant as to the actual effects OF that "treatment"! Add to that, they just dont care. Its not as if the ME just yesterday began "treating" ftM women with faux hormones and havent had the time to research them. (granted all other drug treatments go through years and years and years of research before they ever reach the public....hmmmm wonder why that is)

The scary thing in this case, the case of ftM women and their faux T, they're not even guinea pigs! At least if they were guinea pigs research would be done in order to benifit future ftM women. But NO they're just a bunch of mentally diseased women who in the scheme of things arent any different than all women suffering under patriarchal systems. They dont count when there are men to be counted.

Any new trans "study" or trans "research" that is being done or has been done is primarily for the benifit of men, Mtf men. So even in this outlandish realm, men continue to reap from their male privilege while women continue to suffer from sexism and misogyny. Even women claiming to BE "men"!

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The plight of the oppressed male????? HUH??

Fair use capped from one of our favourite trans sites!

Many might read a post such as this and think WTF? But actually this is fairly typical of both male and female trans persons. There is an ignorant assumption (likely due to the trans rose coloured glasses aka BDD) that all will be perfect (magical?) once the "transition" is "complete"(currently no such completion is possible medically).

There arent any classes or courses in "how to act like a REAL man or how to act like a REAL woman" for the post trans person. Something that eases them into a life as a different "sex" as it were. There is the ignorant or perhaps apathetic assumption made by the ME that once the trans person "transitions" the trans person is "cured". Because after all logically if one REALLY is a man or REALLY is a woman and the ME merely has to "correct" the "wrong" outside, both Mtfs and ftMs would quickly adjuct to what they have lived all along, only with a "body" that "matches". Except thats NEVER the case, is it.

No. Instead we see post after post after post of disordered men and women whom after the high of "transitioning" has worn thin or off completely and the reality they thought was real fades into the distance only to be replaced by actually reality, we see unhappiness at best, depression (even suicidal) at worst. As we see so clearly illustrated here with this woman.

She thought through the blur of her disorder life as a man was going to be idyllic. She has suffered (like many an ftM) sexual abuse as a child, her self hatred as a result of the child abuse later turned her to prostitution (a high statistic of sexually abused females). Through controlling men with her body (prostitution) she likely reclaimed a certain amount of power she had lost as a child victim. Her "transitioning" is likely a further extention of searching for a greater power the power of ownership of the male body itself.

As a "man" she would have power, be powerful, she would be heard and listened to, but sadly instead she finds being a man isnt all that its cracked up to be. It comes with its own set of problems, problems that she as a woman could not understand and remains ignorant and afraid to confront.


Like all trans persons, she has simply traded the prison of one role in exchange for the prison of another and is too afraid to live as she wants in either.

Umm remind me again what any of this has to do with lesbianism??????

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the new radical lesbian feminist front

SP's Three Women-Staged

When I first saw it, the small red seep, I did not believe it.

see poem here

I'm really not sure how I feel about this, the staging I mean. The piece itself I consider not only some of the most bang-up poetry of the 20th century, but containing some of the most fundamentally, clear and honest poetic feminist discourse in the form of the written word!

The second voice is who I am specifically speaking. Her voice at times is fierce, at other times physically painful in its mourning, and at other times still, nearly violent in its anger but it is ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS female! It is ultimately through her female body she forges a true feminist understanding of woman among a world of men and male supremacy!

From the very outset of her first utterance to us, every woman who has ever breathed, intimately understands the depth that that "small red seep" conveys. We may not want children ourselves, we may not even be able to carry a child, but through women's sheer multi-dimensional ever expanding interior universe that is absolutely essential for female survival amid patricentrism, all women all of us, KNOW down to our marrow we know that which the second voice suffers, which in itself IS dimensional.

Plath use of the second voice to juxtapose what truely is the flesh and blood core differences between men and women is pure discerning genius! It is through the lived experience of the female body which holds the potential capacity for multiple dimensions, that dimensions are created and lived! The single lived male dimension which can only create outside itself replicating its "flatness" is precisely why whenever we witness males straining to authenticate the muti dimensional they always come off as, trying. Think of an amoeba trying to authenticate a human, and there you have the MALE to feMALE organism.

The entire piece is genius, electric and utterly beautiful in its three dimensional motherhood experiences, but the second voice is surely the most lamentable.

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NRLFF