Buck Angel: When Trans Folks Weaponize Transphobia

<3 Thank you

Jessie Earl

The whole thing was "It's ok when WE transition, but those trans women - watch out! ps - "we're the GOOD ones because we hate ourselves." It's so sad in so many ways. But it angers me because this sort of thing affects so many people just coming out, and puts them on a path of competition rather than relief.

I still don't fully understand how they advocate for something they believe is a disorder. Plus, when I think of mental illness I think of things like depression, anxiety, etc. which are disorders only because they, in themselves, interfere negatively with one's life. The only negatives to being trans stem from the reactions of others to transness, not from transness itself (which can be a very positive thing). Transness, of course, is *not* a mental disorder, just a human characteristic, but using their logic that it is, it still wouldn't really make sense to push for procedures/medicine that perpetuate that state of transness that they genuinely believe is a disorder. I at least know that I wouldn't push for treatments that perpetuate someone's depressive or anxiety disorder, but maybe that's just me. On a positive note though, fantastic work as always! I always come out from your videos feeling more informed than I do from 10 weeks of uni lectures. Love your style, empathy, and wit, and you never disappoint! Can't wait for the next one :)

Me neither but I loved her read./

Jessie Earl

Tristan is wonderful

Jessie Earl

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Jessie Earl

Thank you!

Jessie Earl

THE GREATEST ADVENTURE IS WATCHING THAT MOVIE!

Jessie Earl

Could be a lot of things. A sense of control in a world that feels out of control is often a major one. Getting treated well by bigots for throwing more vulnerable people under the bus is also another

Jessie Earl

Thank you Besty

Jessie Earl

<3 <3 <3 <3 Sending you love. I feel that too from time to time but remember, our community is stronger

Jessie Earl

The video is every bit as heavy as I feared it would be. But it's important. And I agree: in a way transmeds do invoke pity in me. But also frustration, and anger. Lots of anger. Most of all I am tired though. So tired. Exhausted on an existential level, and more often than not on the verge of despair.

Hannah F.

Maybe I'm off base, but it feels to me a lot like the arguments against 'free' college: "*I* had to pay my own way through college, so it's not fair that others won't have to." In this case, it seems like all that internalized stigma about dysphoria as an illness needing to be cured is something they can't let go of and be relieved that we've learned a lot since then, and people don't have to suffer the way they did. It must be terrible: fighting through all that to become yourself, only to be told "well actually, all of that crap we dumped on you was wrong." So I share Jessie's sympathy--like her, up to the point where they start using their anger to hurt others. And the constant use of such loaded, misgendering terms in the letter show that's *precisely* what they're trying to do. That stuff doesn't happen by accident.

I still don't quite get what Buck Angel and his friends are getting out of this though. Just feeling better about themselves? Getting attention? (Honest question.)

Thank you so much, Jessie. <3

Betsy Young Buck

I totally got your Hobbit reference in the Skill Share ad! When I first saw that movie when it aired on Network TV, I cried all night because Gollum lost his Birthday Present, and I felt sorry for him. I wanted to go find him and give him a new Birthday Present.

SuperDezzy

Having transitioned in 1990, I heard a lot of that crap back in the day, and it did affect me, and make me feel bad, but I'm stubborn. I still sometimes get flashbacks. No one should be subjected to that. As Vince says above - this is all about shaming and hurting trans women specifically and it does affect others as well. I am involved in a lot of trans groups on line and so many guys latch onto Buck as some kind of anti hero, who is famous for liking dick and having a big mouth. And it's guys at all ages and stages of transition too, it's not just the young. Guys in their 50s and 60s cashing out their life savings for surgeries they think they HAVE to have in order to be "really trans" and it breaks my heart. That's why I'm going into the counseling field specifically to help trans people of all ages work out what their needs are and what their transition looks like, because we don't all have the same cookie cutter experience.

Enlightening as always!

Troithulu

Aaaaah Tristan! I knew I recognized that voice too. Very good and important video, Jessie. Thank you as always.

Vince Whitacre

More importantly of course - "the narrative" is focusing on trans women because TRANSPHOBES are focusing on trans women. All this pRoTeCt WoMeN's SpOrTs and restroom bullshit will affect trans men (and probably in ways we don't know yet, enbies), but it's *targeted* at at trans women.

Vince Whitacre

Mia voicing Julia Serano is something I didn't know I needed in my life.

Vince Whitacre

Why was i singing along to a song i haven't heard or likely thought of in 30 years?

Vince Whitacre