Sex, Death, Feminism and Transphobia

Arguing Logically, FARTs vs TERFs, Establishing First Principles. Also swearing. How to Argue: Identify scope Define terms Express relations Follow implications Draw conclusions Decorate Ah Twitter. Home of the righteous, the enraged and the political. How we love to loathe thee. But we cannot ignore that much of the relevant engagement in social and political life is now framed in these nuggetty chunks of interaction and certainly one of the best tools of modern feminism is gifted by the accessibility of Twitter to women who would otherwise have little way of voicing their concerns and opinions with policymakers. The raging debate between radical feminists and radical trans activists is largely located online - although of course there are demographic differences between varying sites, Reddit, Tumblr, Facebook et al. My own demographic as a late millennial (ugh. Child Of The 80s) precludes my involvement in some arenas. I have recently moved my own feminist rage...

Oh shush. He is weird. I want to share this story with the world, I think it is important. Always start with a list so we don't forget where we're going eh? 1. When It Started 2. Dr. Google 3. The Later Identities of the Weird Child  4. ADHD and Autism prevalence in Dysphoria When It Started I remember the day. We were walking along the riverside with my two sons and their two friends. I suppose it started as a game, an offering of an identity - do you want to be *this* thing? Yes. He did. But it was not a game to him. After that walk it was all day, every day. Never a break. We had tears and tantrums and total despair over body parts he did not have and I will happily admit that I created a prosthesis to alleviate his suffering. There were name changes and referential instructions that we all had to abide by. There were accessories and make up and I permitted it all. Then I saw the documentary on transgender kids by the great Louis Theroux and thought to...

I'm going to just link this blog to my old blog because I can't access that one as an author any more for some reason, I also don't want to copy and paste them all because a lot of the posts were pre and during my "crazy breakdown" phase and I don't 100% stand by them anymore. Anyhow, here's the link. Fire up your righteous outrage. http://psarasblog.blogspot.co.uk/ You'll notice how in starting this fresh blog I have taken the opportunity to make myself an epic new blogging title? Yeah. I'm very lazy. Upcoming things I will be writing about: Writing Transphobia (obviously) specifically re trans kids Fatphobia (less obviously) Twitter Rage Sarcasm and Irony Sounds good eh? Righto. Bye.