Hey guys I just want to give a heads up. The book Adam by Ariel Schrag has been turned into a movie which has been named as one of the most exciting LGBTQ films of this year. I don’t want to spoil anybody’s fun but you should know before watching that the book is about a cis boy who pretends to be a trans man in order to persuade lesbians to sleep with him.
This post has a plot summary that explains more about this concept and why it’s so harmful.
It is deeply deeply transphobic. It is lesbophobic as it features a corrective rape narrative (a lesbian does have sex with him and then decides she does love men after all).
Here is a review of the book by a trans man. I have yet to find one by a lesbian but will edit this if I do.
This book gives out incredibly harmful notions about trans men and lesbians that are used to hurt them in real life. It’s so entrenched in the narrative that I don’t see how the film can be any better. You can find more info in this twitter thread
I’d like to tell people to boycott it but I can’t tell you what to do. So instead I’m going to ask that you share this because it being named as an exciting new LGBTQ film is going to make LGBTQ teens want to see it. And they should know before hand how hurtful it could be. They should be able to arm themselves with that knowledge.
Please reblog.
Hey guys I just want to give a heads up. The book Adam by Ariel Schrag has been turned into a movie which has been named as one of the most exciting LGBTQ films of this year. I don’t want to spoil anybody’s fun but you should know before watching that the book is about a cis boy who pretends to be a trans man in order to persuade lesbians to sleep with him.
This post has a plot summary that explains more about this concept and why it’s so harmful.
It is deeply deeply transphobic. It is lesbophobic as it features a corrective rape narrative (a lesbian does have sex with him and then decides she does love men after all).
Here is a review of the book by a trans man. I have yet to find one by a lesbian but will edit this if I do.
This book gives out incredibly harmful notions about trans men and lesbians that are used to hurt them in real life. It’s so entrenched in the narrative that I don’t see how the film can be any better. You can find more info in this twitter thread
I’d like to tell people to boycott it but I can’t tell you what to do. So instead I’m going to ask that you share this because it being named as an exciting new LGBTQ film is going to make LGBTQ teens want to see it. And they should know before hand how hurtful it could be. They should be able to arm themselves with that knowledge.
Please reblog.
Someone correct me if I’m wrong but did Kiss Me First just kill a trans woman in a terrible way? Using one of the worst fears they have?
It’s a British mini-series based around a virtual reality game where people can go into this shared fantasy game world where their avatars look like cool versions of them. There’s a group of friends the main character meets, and two of them, a guy and girl, they’re pretty close, like you know something’s slowly developing there, their names in the game are Force and Jocasta. They’re not major characters and a lot of drama is unfolding with the others in the meantime, with the guy who’s the head of the group manipulating the others and one kid jumps off a ledge in the game, dies in real life, another kid blows himself up in real life. Meanwhile, in the fourth ep we finally meet the real life versions of Force and Jocasta. Force is a big American dude and he wants to meet Jocasta in real life, but the head guy’s withholding her address and she won’t meet with Force until the head guy gives his permission.
So while Force is fulfilling some mission so the head guy gives the address, we see Jocasta in real life, and she’s a trans woman, disowned by her parents, deep voice, looks somewhat feminine but not much. Force does what he had to do and finally gets to go to Jocasta’s apartment. She lets him in thinking it’s a friend and he sees her and first asks where’s Jocasta, who’s just like frozen there, and then says in this incredibly nervous trembling voice how she tried to tell Force so many times, how she thought maybe he did already know, prayed that he knew, and Force just shakes his head no, and Jocasta is slowly walking toward him, pleadingly telling him how they were happy in the game, it can be okay, please let it be okay, taking Force’s hand and barely able to stammer out “because love is–because love is love” and the scene ends.
Then we see Force again later and we think maybe things were okay, maybe they subverted whatever awful trope they certainly looked like they were leading up to, until Jocasta’s friend goes to her apartment and we see a huge bloodstain on the floor.
Someone correct me if I’m wrong but did Kiss Me First just kill a trans woman in a terrible way? Using one of the worst fears they have?
It’s a British mini-series based around a virtual reality game where people can go into this shared fantasy game world where their avatars look like cool versions of them. There’s a group of friends the main character meets, and two of them, a guy and girl, they’re pretty close, like you know something’s slowly developing there, their names in the game are Force and Jocasta. They’re not major characters and a lot of drama is unfolding with the others in the meantime, with the guy who’s the head of the group manipulating the others and one kid jumps off a ledge in the game, dies in real life, another kid blows himself up in real life. Meanwhile, in the fourth ep we finally meet the real life versions of Force and Jocasta. Force is a big American dude and he wants to meet Jocasta in real life, but the head guy’s withholding her address and she won’t meet with Force until the head guy gives his permission.
So while Force is fulfilling some mission so the head guy gives the address, we see Jocasta in real life, and she’s a trans woman, disowned by her parents, deep voice, looks somewhat feminine but not much. Force does what he had to do and finally gets to go to Jocasta’s apartment. She lets him in thinking it’s a friend and he sees her and first asks where’s Jocasta, who’s just like frozen there, and then says in this incredibly nervous trembling voice how she tried to tell Force so many times, how she thought maybe he did already know, prayed that he knew, and Force just shakes his head no, and Jocasta is slowly walking toward him, pleadingly telling him how they were happy in the game, it can be okay, please let it be okay, taking Force’s hand and barely able to stammer out “because love is–because love is love” and the scene ends.
Then we see Force again later and we think maybe things were okay, maybe they subverted whatever awful trope they certainly looked like they were leading up to, until Jocasta’s friend goes to her apartment and we see a huge bloodstain on the floor.
Court takes couple’s children because father is transgender
Court takes couple’s children because father is transgender
Fuck.
this is literally my worst nightmare. This is why I’m terrified to become a parent. This is why, despite others telling my not to work so a damn hard, I tried and tried and tried for the whole past year to repair my relationship with my partner’s mother and stepfather. They finally disowned us only about ten days ago, and I’m SCARED. I was attributing it to my anxiety disorder, but now that I read this article, I know that my fear is valid. This is happening right now – and it could happen to any of my beautiful trans siblings.
See, this is why marriage equality isn’t the most important issue. This is why we’ve been shouting and stomping our feet and never. shutting. up. It’s because children are being stripped of their parents for no other reason than THEIR PARENTS ARE HATEFUL BIGOTS.
Daniel and Cindy are young parents whose world has been turned upside down because Daniel is transgender. He transitioned over a decade ago when he was 19, and few people know that he is transgender. When Daniel and Cindy decided to have children, they told Cindy’s parents that Daniel is transgender because they were conceiving in vitro with donated sperm.
And, I suppose, they must also have trusted that her parents would continue to accept their son-in-law.
This was a mistake.
Cindy gave birth to healthy twins 2 ½ years ago, and Daniel and Cindy and the twins have been very happy – except for one problem.
Cindy’s parents make rude comments about Daniel being transgender, and they do it in front of the twins.
Requests for them to stop are met with mirth.
Daniel and Cindy put up with this behavior for a long while, but as the twins are getting older, they worry that the negative comments are harmful, and they don’t want to be forced to try and explain concepts to their young children that are beyond their ability or need to understand – in vitro, transgender.
Daniel and Cindy made the difficult decision that the grandparents are no longer welcome in their lives.
The grandparents got angry and sued for custody of the children.
The twins have two loving parents.
Child Protective Services have never been called; there have been no police reports of abuse; neither parent has a criminal record.
Last week, a court removed the twins from their home and gave custody to the grandparents.
The reason?
Their father is transgender.
Daniel and Cindy are working with a lawyer to try and get their children back.
Will they get them back? Who knows? What we do know that the children have pulled out of their home and are living with two people who demean and ridicule their father.
Names have been changed, as the story hasn’t hit the news yet – offering the family privacy until they choose to take it public. more at the link above.Hey, all you folks, you 29,330+ who have reblogged our transawareness post – this is important.
This is why organizations like GLAAD and FCKH8 and HRC are so damaging. Because when they mock, misgender, ignore, insult, and silence us, this is the result. A loving, happy family that’s been ripped apart.
You want to do more than just reblog awareness posts? Stop supporting those businesses (YES, FCKH8 IS A BUSINESS) and organizations that try to shut us out and shut us down.
Court takes couple’s children because father is transgender
Court takes couple’s children because father is transgender
Fuck.
this is literally my worst nightmare. This is why I’m terrified to become a parent. This is why, despite others telling my not to work so a damn hard, I tried and tried and tried for the whole past year to repair my relationship with my partner’s mother and stepfather. They finally disowned us only about ten days ago, and I’m SCARED. I was attributing it to my anxiety disorder, but now that I read this article, I know that my fear is valid. This is happening right now – and it could happen to any of my beautiful trans siblings.
See, this is why marriage equality isn’t the most important issue. This is why we’ve been shouting and stomping our feet and never. shutting. up. It’s because children are being stripped of their parents for no other reason than THEIR PARENTS ARE HATEFUL BIGOTS.
Daniel and Cindy are young parents whose world has been turned upside down because Daniel is transgender. He transitioned over a decade ago when he was 19, and few people know that he is transgender. When Daniel and Cindy decided to have children, they told Cindy’s parents that Daniel is transgender because they were conceiving in vitro with donated sperm.
And, I suppose, they must also have trusted that her parents would continue to accept their son-in-law.
This was a mistake.
Cindy gave birth to healthy twins 2 ½ years ago, and Daniel and Cindy and the twins have been very happy – except for one problem.
Cindy’s parents make rude comments about Daniel being transgender, and they do it in front of the twins.
Requests for them to stop are met with mirth.
Daniel and Cindy put up with this behavior for a long while, but as the twins are getting older, they worry that the negative comments are harmful, and they don’t want to be forced to try and explain concepts to their young children that are beyond their ability or need to understand – in vitro, transgender.
Daniel and Cindy made the difficult decision that the grandparents are no longer welcome in their lives.
The grandparents got angry and sued for custody of the children.
The twins have two loving parents.
Child Protective Services have never been called; there have been no police reports of abuse; neither parent has a criminal record.
Last week, a court removed the twins from their home and gave custody to the grandparents.
The reason?
Their father is transgender.
Daniel and Cindy are working with a lawyer to try and get their children back.
Will they get them back? Who knows? What we do know that the children have pulled out of their home and are living with two people who demean and ridicule their father.
Names have been changed, as the story hasn’t hit the news yet – offering the family privacy until they choose to take it public. more at the link above.Hey, all you folks, you 29,330+ who have reblogged our transawareness post – this is important.
This is why organizations like GLAAD and FCKH8 and HRC are so damaging. Because when they mock, misgender, ignore, insult, and silence us, this is the result. A loving, happy family that’s been ripped apart.
You want to do more than just reblog awareness posts? Stop supporting those businesses (YES, FCKH8 IS A BUSINESS) and organizations that try to shut us out and shut us down.