Jamie Hunsaker 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈

It was only as certain gay and lesbian members came to know trans individuals that they realized this was not the case – not least because some trans women in the GLF were attracted not to men but to other women and identified themselves as lesbians. Rachel Pol- lack, a trans lesbian married to Edith, a cisgender woman, founded the first specific group within the British GLF for trans people in 1971: the Transvestite, Transsexual and Drag Queen Group. This was a space where those GLF members who were on the transgender spectrum could meet to examine their situation and political priorities together. They soon published their own political manifesto, Declare Your Sex, which clearly identified trans liberation as a part of wider gay liberation:

Many gay people are confused by the separation between 'gay transvestites' and 'straight transvestites'. But this is an artificial split, imposed on us by those people who seek to isolate us and deny our identities. A transsexual or transvestite is gay because she or he is transsexual or transvestite. Some of us are into men and some of us are into women. Some of us are homosexual, some of us are heterosexual, some of us are lesbians. But we are all transsexual or transvestites and it's these identities that must be recognized and encouraged. To be gay means to break the rules of your official sex, to cross over the guidelines set up by the family, the schools, and the church. Some of us cross over by sleeping with the wrong person. Some of us dress the wrong way. Some of us do both. We are all gay."

saw people talking about trans lesbians vs straight trans women discourse earlier, and i just always think about this in the transgender issue by shon faye, referring to something rachel pollack and others wrote in the 70s:

ngl i keep forgetting to log into bluesky

I think we need to like have a seance and call up Stephen Sondheim and see if he wants to add Luigi Mangione to Assassins

I don't completely hate this picture of me from a kickball tournament last weekend so I need to post it online somewhere

i said it on twitter but everyone dunking on nancy mace and calling her a hypocrite for making pride posts a few years ago is missing the point of what she is doing. and her actions of being publicly transphobic but ok with gays is just standard quo for many if not most cis "allies"

I’m a romantic at heart but I don’t. I think there are people in our lives that we vibe with on a different level to others, but it’s not necessarily limited to just one person in our lives.

ya i know what book you're talking about. its a bummer bc before everything was revealed i was really looking forward to the book

i play in an lgbt+ specific rec sports league with over 400 people. there are like 7 trans women total, of which i'm one. a whole team of us would be a stretch let alone a league of our own

I should probably post more anonymously

If that resolution for a bathroom bill for the us capitol passes it’s only a matter of time before they do that shit in arizonas capitol. Which will be targeting literally just me. and like two lobbyists

A current state senator already stands outside the bathroom every time she sees me walk in

its the time of year at work when new republican staffers are hired and are polite to me before someone tells them i'm the office tranny and i never get spoken to again

Ya like I for the most part am not the biggest SFF fan, and need to be in a specific mood for it. I’m a romance reader at heart- and I crave trans romances

Got my preorder! The halcyon series was great but I’m looking forward to a romance again!

two months ago i read a single hockey romance book because there was a trans woman main character, and even tho its been a whole two months since i read and reviewed the book amazon is still regularly sending me other hockey romances to read and big no thanks

oh ok that makes sense. ive been like "where were all these posts at the beginning of the week"

i dont wanna sound stupid but why did everyone post transgender awareness week posts yesterday. which last i checked was a wednesday.

why didnt we get the first two days of the week too

thank u, everything is awful but also some things aren't too

also my kickball team won our division championship and i got selected to be in the leagues all star team of over 400 players

maybe i can write pesonal posts on bluesky now i had stopped writing them on twitter

i havent smoked a cigarette (drunk cigs dont count) since i started hrt 7 over years ago but this week has been so stressful with the election and my job BUT i still have stayed solid go me

I was literally in bluesky beta and have had this for a year but never bothered to use it now i need to find so many people

I have an assistant for setting up Christmas decorations

Ya Like I love interacting with authors on here and Twitter but like GR is not the forum for that

Plus most authors I talk to on here and Twitter Ive read a few things already and know I’ll probably enjoy their books

It always feels a little weird when authors like my reviews on goodreads bc what if I don’t like a future book of theirs I know they’re gonna read what i say now and I don’t wanna hurt feelings

I can't be mad at people putting together lists of new queer book releases but it's always a little disheartening to see a list of over 100 books coming out in a new month and literally none be about or featuring trans women

Forced Out: Anti-Trans Laws in Florida Forced a Woman to Quit Her Dream Job with NASA An electrical engineer who contracted with NASA fled Florida after the state passed a flurry of anti-trans laws.

A thoughtful profile of Robin Witt, a trans woman who left her job at a NASA contractor working towards the first moon landing in fifty years to escape Florida's anti-trans laws.

Thanks Leah! I’ll have to look all those up. It’s crazy with all these AI titles now, hard to find real and good books in them

with this said recs are welcome, especially for newer authors i might not have heard of

For the last year or so I haven't read much on KU outside of some established authors I already loved, so recently I've been trying to get back into it. but it feels like so much is just shitty AI now

KU has always been largely hit or miss but it feels like such a wasteland now

I was an arc reader for faking it and have the top review on goodreads and I’ve read your book too and liked it

I helped!