eyes wide open

pansexualpride:

“Pan” means all; “pansexual” means attraction to all genders. It’s not “I don’t see gender”. For a lot of people, it isn’t even “gender has no impact on how attracted I am to someone”. It’s fine if that’s what it means to someone, but it isn’t an accurate blanket statement. 

Gender matters, and gender is important to a lot of people. We cannot ever, ever pretend that gender does not exist or that it is insignificant. It may be insignificant in your choice of partner, but that does not mean that you are blind to gender. Gender-blindness is only one step away from denying the existence of gender. Part of not being blind to gender is accepting that gender is very real, and that everything that comes along with gender -trans* struggles, privilege, dealing with sexism, preferred pronouns, etc.- are actually really important.”

thanks for this.  i adore your brain!

Submitted by: Mx Punk

 - No problem and thank you :)

From here: http://iamgreaterthanhate.tumblr.com/post/5755421535/i-dont-appreciate-this-pansexual-means-gender-blind

(via lenn-alive)

artoftransliness:

From the Article:

One of the chief confusions about transsexuality and the decision we make to transition is how, from an outside perspective, with limited or superficial understanding, it can seem that the reason we transition is because we’ve determined ourselves to be female or male on the basis of our personalities fitting better into a female or male identity than into the gender that we’d been assigned, and that therefore we “ought” to be the sex that matches our personality.

That is not how it works, how we came to realize our gender identity, or why we transition.

From this basic misunderstanding a whole host of common confusions and misconceptions arise. This is what motivates people to say that we ought to simply learn to accept ourselves instead, or that if we lived in some kind of post-gender utopia without rigid binaries there would cease to be any need for transition, or that trans people are buying into or enforcing gender binaries and stereotypes, or that trans women are “appropriating” female stereotypes and trans men are simply experiencing “internalized misogyny”, or that we ought to learn to simply be happy with being feminine men or masculine women.

faganchelsea:

But the quote I reblogged this morning, the one that 33,000 other people apparently found totally awesome, is pretty disturbing. For reference:

“We were discussing homosexuality because of an allusion to it in the book we were reading, and several boys made comments such…