Aaron Terrell

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Aaron Terrell
@elegationvain
I have frank discussions about gender & sexuality. Co-host of
@TheNavelGays
PNW USAJoined October 2017
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Aaron Terrell
@elegationvain
I lay bare the most personal & private details of my life & psychology to anyone who reads it, not because I want to but because a dangerous insanity has taken root & it’s relying on obfuscation of “trans identity” into something sacred & unknowable. It’s not.
Aaron Terrell
@elegationvain
I’m seeing trans referred to as “the biggest medical scandal of our lifetime”. I think it’s the biggest medical scandal in human history (& I’m not one for dramatics). Think about it, we are trying to change the sex of children in the name of a brand new religion. We know better.
Aaron Terrell
@elegationvain
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@TorontoStar
His child and partner came out as transgender. Now @RowanJetteKnox writes on confronting trauma and the freedom of coming out as trans himself. His new memoir is out this September. Until then, read his exclusive essay: trib.al/BRERsMB
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@elegationvain
FtM Reddit is currently discussing if it is misgendering for a Muslim woman to remove her hijab in the presence of a female who uses he/him pronouns. I wish I was joking.
Aaron Terrell
@elegationvain
A year ago today JKR wrote a measured & compassionate essay that the western world including prominent media outlets responded to with obviously unwarranted vitriol. That’s when thousands of us woke up & realized it wasn’t about compassion for a minority but silencing reality.
Aaron Terrell
@elegationvain
I love how TRAs started labeling everything tethered to reality “transphobic” & then stared writing think-pieces on why transphobia is on the rise. Imagine if we changed the name of every 4-legged animal to “donkey” & then wondered why the rate of donkey reproduction skyrocketed.
Aaron Terrell
@elegationvain
Detransitioners are rare but people who faked being trans for 3-10 years of their teenage & early adulthood, had irreversible surgeries & HRT, just so they could grift for likes from TERFs are oddly common.
Aaron Terrell
@elegationvain
I’m 90% sure medical science will reveal gender dysphoria to be a “software” problem, not a “hardware” problem. Carving up hardware (sex transition) to solve a software (psychological) problem will eventually be deemed unsustainable and unethical. Probably within my lifetime.
Aaron Terrell
@elegationvain
I never gave any thought to the ethics of surrogacy until very recently. Wealthy people renting the bodies of less fortunate women, in this case two women, in a way that’s far more intimate & long lasting than prostitution. It’s not on is it?
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Dave Rubin
@RubinReport
It’s true. All of it.
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Aaron Terrell
@elegationvain
I’ve been saying for years that adolescents aren’t transitioning due to internalized homophobia, they’re transitioning due to internalized heterophobia. Cishet = bad/boring Queer = good/cool A lot of vocal GCs seem completely out of touch with what is actually going on.
Aaron Terrell
@elegationvain
I’ve been asked why I don’t detransition since I no longer believe the ideology & have unpacked a lot of what led to transition. The answer is transition relieved my dysphoria. I can’t articulate the relief. Even though I know I’m not a man, I’m so comfortable to “live” as one.
Aaron Terrell
@elegationvain
Eddie Redmayne has done his best but I worry there will still be countless people portraying Santa Clause next month (in malls, at office parties, in their own homes ffs) despite not actually being an obese Time Lord from Finland
Aaron Terrell
@elegationvain
Jesse Singal came to my house and drank my last sparkling water. He did this because he hates me and all trans people. When I feel the time is right I will post a picture of an empty can.
Aaron Terrell
@elegationvain
At the trans health conference this past weekend, Dan Karasic, lead author of the mental health chapter of
@wpath
SOC8 said severely autistic, non-verbal patients can communicate their need to transition by “drawing their gender”, & this should be accepted as a form of consent.
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Aaron Terrell
@elegationvain
What they say: trans rights are human rights What they mean: we must rewrite everything we know about human sexual dimorphism so I don’t have to acknowledge the reality of my autogynephilia.
Aaron Terrell
@elegationvain
Replying to
@chasestrangio
I’m trans. It’s not magic or a gift. it’s exogenous hormones & elective surgery. It relieved my dysphoria, I don’t regret it. But let’s not pretend it’s a beautiful gift to feel so uncomfortable in your own skin you feel compelled to hormonally & surgically alter a healthy body.
Aaron Terrell
@elegationvain
I do struggle to understand transmen who -have receptive vaginal intercourse -sustain a pregnancy for 9 mo -give birth But find words dysphoria triggering
Aaron Terrell
@elegationvain
The average person has no idea what AGP is but when they see those photos of the Ontario HS teacher they sure as hell know they’re looking at something sexually motivated and not a woman trapped in a man’s body. So thank you clown tit man.
Aaron Terrell
@elegationvain
Replying to @womensmarch
Transman here. 1. Don’t erase women on my behalf. 2. Feminism is meaningless if femaleness is simply an idea any male can identify into. 3. This fad religion is already on its way out & your stance here will age very badly very quickly.
Aaron Terrell
@elegationvain
The term “Orwellian” is so often evoked in these instances it feels overdone, but there’s no better way to describe this. In this case, you can’t speak the problem, therefore the problem doesn’t exist. In a library ffs.
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Jonathan Zachreson
@JZachreson
“You were misgendering… You were saying male in female sports.” A librarian at a Davis, CA public library revoked a group’s reservation a few minutes into the program after the first speaker referred to transgender athletes playing in women’s sports as male. IG:
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Aaron Terrell
@elegationvain
I use the men’s room for the same reason I think transwomen should- our presence in the women’s would make women & girls feel uncomfortable & unsafe.
Aaron Terrell
@elegationvain
I can’t take seriously atheists of today who are “anti-religion” but subscribe to genderology. So you see through ancient dogmatism but embrace modern dogmatism? How intellectual! How brave!
Aaron Terrell
@elegationvain
I can’t take seriously any adult (let alone medical professional) who uses the expression “sex assigned at birth” in reference to anything other than intersex issues.
Aaron Terrell
@elegationvain
I have, here on my Twitter & on a few episodes of Transparency, predicted we will societally wake up from this trend of medicalizing gender nonconformity within 5 years. I would like to amend that to 1-2 years.
Aaron Terrell
@elegationvain
The fact that most trans people are heterosexual relative to their sex butdemand to be viewed as “gay” members of the opposite sex is an affront to actual homosexuality. Not only is it appropriation, it’s in direct conflict w/ the reality of same sex attraction. #LGBdroptheT
Aaron Terrell
@elegationvain
Please understand most left leaning women think of Dylan types when they think of transwomen. They don’t think they’re “inviting foxes into the henhouse”, they think they’re inviting their effeminate gbf who might get beat up by homo/transphobe apes in the men’s room.
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Robby Starbuck
@robbystarbuck
Notice that no men in the crowd clap for Dylan. Only the woke women do. They’re the hens inviting foxes into the hen house. 🦊
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Aaron Terrell
@elegationvain
I went to the Trans Health Summit in San Francisco where the task force assigned to updating the APA’s guidelines on treating trans patients were presenting their working guidelines & requesting feedback. Here’s what I asked and what was answered. 🧵
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Aaron Terrell
@elegationvain
Quite remarkable we are at a time in history where we are hormonally & surgically altering healthy children & vulnerable young people to resemble the opposite sex, & the bit we’re arguing about is what recreational sports team said individuals should play on.
Aaron Terrell
@elegationvain
I think AGP is more common than anyone realizes, most likely more common than male homosexuality, but I still don’t believe it accounts for all instances of adolescent male ROGD. I genuinely think there is something cultural/external motivating some of the boys as well.
Aaron Terrell
@elegationvain
What does Gender Critical (GC) mean to me? I don't believe one can 'feel' like the opposite sex or that an internal sense of self is paramount to physical reality. Hence GC. I believe gender dysphoria is real. I have it. Having it does not make me [a female] male. Hence GC.
Aaron Terrell
@elegationvain
Replying to
@elegationvain
1. It’s not a psychs job to assess who’s trans but to believe them when they say what their gender is & to assist them in “achieving their embodiment goals.” 2. My question is transphobic cause if assumes being cis is better than being trans, evidenced by using the word “harm”.
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