I foolishly decided to put Jake's latest googleshng into paragraph format in an attempt to make any sense out of it. I figured that part of why it was so unreadable was because of how twitter broke up each statement so I thought this would help. Instead, I feel like I just watched the ending to 2001: A Space Odyssey. The entirety of this rant swing erratically between awkwardly stated but obvious facts and utter stupidity. Which to say, it is quintessential Secret Gamer Girl. Enjoy!
Random reminder that trans women are biological women and anyone who tries to get you to use "biological" instead of cis is either woefully ignorant or a bigot trying to get you to repeat support for their deliberate disinformation.
Jumping back to this to elaborate, here's what's actually up with the people who try to get you to talk like "biological sex" has any meaning when trying to talk about trans people: It is 2019. MOST PEOPLE still completely conflate the notion of a trans woman and a drag queen. A trans woman is a woman who, usually due to some rare condition/prenatal circumstances/whatever leading to an imbalance of hormones and/or atypical response to such, "looked male" at birth, in the estimation of whoever delivered her, and may or may not still have aspects of her body that reinforce that initial impression.
A drag queen is a man who, as a profession or hobby, dresses up in a really garish over the top woman costume, gets up on a stage, and dances around while lipsyncing to songs with female vocalists, usually disco or upbeat pop classics. There is... really no sensible reason for the two to ever have been conflated (other than the fact that a lot of trans women stumbling into the drag scene because it has close historical ties with LGBT communities and because accurate information is so bad that if you're a woman who people generally agree looks like a man, rather than point you at info on how to fix that, people will deny such means even exist and push you towards "playing dressup" as sort of a next-best-thing option).
And honestly, the fact that a lot of people ARE willing to support the trans community on basic principle of the thing DESPITE thinking we're all a bunch of men who enjoy putting on costumes to look like women is honestly really sweet, if woefully misinformed and dehumanizing. But no. Men who dress up like women are not actually a persecuted minority whose right to dress up and lip sync is under threat, and they don't have a "mental illness" that compels them to do so. That's just, again, a hobby or a job they enjoy and you know cool good for them, but they really shouldn't be part of the conversation here and if you could stop getting distracted by them and focus we'd really appreciate it.
The people facing the big civil rights crisis are those actual women I mentioned earlier, who aren't men in costumes, we're just, you know, actual women, who either have or used to have at some point in the distant past, one or more features that cause us to be mistaken for men, and very frequently if not always, pretty damn serious medical problems stemming from the same underlying causes as those cosmetic sources of misidentification. Again, there's almost always a MASSIVE hormone imbalance at play, and while yes, "teeheehee, those spiked testosterone levels make that lady all hairy, she even has a beard," she also has potentially life-threatening crap going on with her blood pressure/heart rate/off-mixture brain chemistry making every day of her life a living hell, and whatever weird genital situation she was born with that confused a doctor might also be a symptom of more serious issues. Plus honestly even the stuff that is purely cosmetic ("teeheehee bearded ladies!") carries pretty serious social stignitization and I'm not even getting into dysphoria in this thread and all the horrors that forces us to deal with.
And since I'm being so 101 with all this not all trans people are women. There's also men who get misidentified as women and a whole whole bunch of other people with a whole bunch of other variations on the same sort of problem who also deal with horrible discrimination and persecution as a result, mostly from people who have no clue they even exist to be discriminated against. Just, lots of splash damage from all the hate trans women get being phrased broadly enough to hit them too. Partly because when people are getting their arbitrary hatred on they tend to really focus more on women than anyone else, partly because, again, most people completely conflate being trans with being a drag queen, and while drag kings are actually a thing (and possibly other varieties of drag monarch I'm unaware of), they have relatively zero visibility, so, the lens distorts accordingly.
And I also don't want to suggest the problems other trans people face are just a subset of the crap thrown at trans women, because there totally are specialized lines of attack bigots bust out for trans men and all the "RAR! PHOOEY! I HATE PRONOUNS!" crap is theoretically aimed specifically at people who are simultaneously: A- trans, B- not women, C- not men, and that is a truly impressively small target for such a large cannon of hatred to be aimed at. But again I'm kinda focusing this thread on the trans woman/drag queen conflation so excuse me for the tangent.
The point is trans women aren't wearing costumes. We aren't dressed up as women, we just, are women. If you meet a trans woman and it looks like she has big ol' womanly breasts and hips and one of those nice inward curves around the sides of her stomach that we've all somehow agreed to call a "narrow waist" despite it not being anywhere near anyone's actual waist... that's not a disguise. That's just her actual body.
I keep saying "at birth" and "(or used to have)" because the hormone imbalances and so on that cause us to initially be misread as men are really easy to just go correct. I personally spent a lot of years looking like a man because some weird internal quirk kept my body from producing enough estrogens (too much testosterone commonly goes with that but oddly I was always fine there personally), so I just, you know, started supplementing that, and tada, my body picked up all the slack with the breasts and the waist/hip ratio and the skin and the properly balanced brain chemistry and I'm a plain ol' everyday ordinary woman because that actually is how biology works. And I mean there's some quirky things I'm stuck with since I took so long to fix it- If you're running a high testosterone to estrogen ratio for instance, your hair grows faster, dies sooner, and gets more creative about where to shoot new follicles up, so leaving that ratio screwy for ~40 years I have some growing where I shouldn't I need to kill, and some that died where I'd like it to still be growing, but I mean honestly plenty of cis women have the same sub-optimal hair distribution there's just a weird social taboo against ever discussing it and we all pretend not to notice hair removal products/procedures and wigs are such a big part of the economy.
And I know you're probably thinking "but genitals!" but uh... no all that is actually a hell of a lot more self-correcting than people think too. I don't want to get into all the details today, but statistically, if you've extensively interacted with X number of women's vaginas whether in a sexy way, or performing an exam, one of those women was trans, and you wouldn't be able to guess who it was from that interaction. And not because she had anything cut off.
The myth people like to push is that "DNA is like the computer code to your body, and different chromosomes describe totally different structures" but the reality is, no, everyone has all the code. It's all the same. It's also rather literally a big sloppy pile of kludgy spaghetti with crazy workarounds and garbage that never gets called by anything, Transitioning is just tweaking a couple variables that got set wrong and then all the functions trying to call them start working right.
All THAT being said, bigots are really really keen on maintaining that confusion so many people have where they conflate trans women with drag queens, because, like I said way up top, guys who like to play dress up don't need their civil rights to be protected, but people with serious medical problems and discrimination directed at basic features of their body they can't control very much do. Convincing people the latter are actually the former is pretty convenient for people who want to destroy those rights and generally oppress an harass a very at-risk group.
So... bigots love to refer to "sex assigned at birth" as "biological sex." The actual accepted term is straight-forward, accurate, and makes it clear that ultimately we're dealing with a bookkeeping error "Biological sex" though in addition to being totally inaccurate (everything about my body is just like everyone else's, nothing artificial has been done to it or added to it, except on those occasions where someone slips me an artificial sweetener or something), is intentionally misleading. It's reinforcing that confusion about drag queens. Because yeah, a drag queen is actually a man. Their stage persona is a costume, constructed, artificially, out of heavy makeup, wigs, tape, costuming and so on. That can be removed. It's But, again. A trans woman is not wearing a costume. You're looking at our very real bodies, we're asking you to call us by our very real names, We still look the way it looks like we do if we take off our clothes. We die if we lose access to the medical aid people are trying to convince you is something we take for cosmetic reasons or fun or some weird sexual paraphilia or whatever this week's angle on trying to attack us might be.
So please, take "biological sex" out of your vocabulary, and correct anyone you see trying to throw it around.
He just publicly threw the drag fags under the bus, that's in line with a lot of other heterosexual troon men who stumble into the LGBT and don't have any regard for actual homosexuals.