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freckledfem

i will literally give $1000 to anyone who can tell me why trans women are real women without saying “because they said so”

tygerofaera

ALL Women ARE Women.

theinkstainsblog

Read the National Geographic special issue on Gender. There’s whole articles on this with the sources and everything included in there but I’ll sum up for you:

People (by which I mean actual scientists who are qualified to do this) did studies on how people’s brains are formed/shaped. Male and female brains show various slight differences. They are distinguishable.

Now here’s where it gets interesting. They looked at scans of transgender people’s brains. What do you think they found?

They found that their brains most closely followed the patterns of the gender that they said they were rather than the gender they were assigned.

Get that?

So if a woman was assigned male at birth because she had a penis and they scanned her brain, they found her to have the brain shape expected in a woman. It wasn’t exactly the same but it was clearly much closer to female than to male.

Once those people started hormone therapy and everything, the brain shape grew even closer to the gender they said they were (the gender that they ARE) until it was pretty much identical. You couldn’t tell the difference except yep, that’s a female brain now regardless of whether she was assigned male at birth.

It is thought to be this that causes dysphoria in the transgender people who suffer it: since their brain is a female brain (or vice versa) making them female it causes a disconnect between that and what their eyes see when they look at their body.

So there ya are. Science proves transgender people are the damn gender they say they are.

Can I have my $1000 dollars now or do you wanna pay it to the National Geographic so they can keep up this education, I don’t mind which?

the-fandom-cat

Give this person their $1000

not-corey-cullen

Pay up

redthealien

Have the fuckers who say that kind of shit ever actually READ a comic? I mean…comics have ALWAYS fucking been political.

Steve Rogers was created as the US was starting to get involved in WW2 as a Nazi-punching symbol of patriotism. V for Vendetta exists because Alan Moore hated Margaret Thatcher and everything she stood for—the subplot about LGBT+ persecution was a direct response to anti-LGBT+ legislation pushed by Thatcher. Kate Kane (different from Kathy Kane) has a backstory that was written as a direct response to Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, and Batwoman’s story is littered with references to real-world LGBT+ soldiers who stood up to DADT. The Dark Knight Returns and The Dark Knight Strikes Again had a lot to say about the presidential regimes they were written under (respectively, Reagan and Bush). Hawk and Dove were created to represent the two sides of public opinion during the Vietnam War. Max Eisenhardt/Magneto is a German Jewish Holocaust survivor and his experiences of ethno-religious persecution have always been a major factor in shaping his motivations and choices. And that’s just a few examples off the top of my head. I could get into the “conservative vs. liberal” themes/coding of Green Lantern and Green Arrow’s teamups, Green Arrow’s Marxist leanings, the long list of characters whose racial, ethnic or ethnoreligious backgrounds play an important part in their characters and motives (e.g. Luke Cage, Static, Quicksilver, Scarlet Witch, Batwoman…) or disabled superheroes (e.g. Daredevil, Echo, Oracle, Hawkeye), the Nazi/Neo-Nazi entanglements of Hydra, the philosophical/political explorations of classic Vertigo comics…but you know what, I’ll leave it at this for now:

Art is political, and comics are no exception. Comics have always been political, but they’re getting more inclusive so that there isn’t just one type of voice deciding what politics make it into publication. That’s progress, whatever these fake geek fuckers may think it isn’t.

See, that’s what the app is perfect for.