Welcome to the itsafetish circle! We document examples of fetishism (primarily autogynephilia) within the trans community and discuss implications from a feminist perspective! We typically use Blanchard's typology of transsexualism as our framework.
The Rules:
Mods may remove comments and posts at her own discretion to help ensure that this community is conducive to being women-centered and maintains a healthy amount of critical analysis & intellectual curiosity. The following rules are in addition to the site wide rules.
1. Be mindful of your words. Do not promote bigotry, encourage violence, or use dehumanizing language.
2. Keep posts on-topic and in spirit with the circle. Flair posts appropriately. Use archive links for social media posts.
3. Content involving or by minors is not allowed.
4. When linking to Google docs, put a warning in title, so that users know prior to clicking.
5. No explicit pornographic material.
6. Censor images that use real women without their consent. Take a generous approach regarding blurring / censoring people who are unrelated to the displays of fetishism.
I’m just…so done. With all of them. They’re using women’s words and mimicking us. Like a terrifying parrot, they pantomime what we do and say as the world tries to erode our rights and they yank the pieces apart.
They can take the costume off. I can’t change my body and genes. I want to smack them until they gain some perspective.
To be completely fair, not all of them can easily take the costume off. Some of the medicalized ones may have gone too far in their transition to pass as their actual sex again.
However, none of these laws or policies would actually require them to "live as" their birth sex, whatever that means to them. A woman who has been on testosterone for 10 years, passes as male, and uses "he" pronouns with friends and family can still do that. No one is stopping her. The only change is that she can't demand that all of her documents reflect her sex as male.