hello, everybody on Transtastic, I never say that do I even say its wednesdays with chaseypoo
anymore?
I probably do.
I'm sorry I'm just like yeah.
So I'm like wearing a big sweater today and its like you know those like old videos of
me wearing like this big grey sweatshirt and im just like didnt care about anything, I
kindof feel like that today, I didnt really like leave the house or anything, I just,
I just wanna be comfortable.
We need to talk about something.
So we all know that I like never skip a week and I have made a video consistently for the
last three years uhmmmm to be honest though, this is a video I didnt really want to make
100% honest with you guys.
Uhmm I didnt want to make it because like I'm kindof tired of dealing with drama like
this.
I dealt with a lot of drama uhm on my own personal channel like 2 years ago.
a year and a half ago and that was like really draining.
Uhh but I guess we're going to have to talk about safe spaces and we're going to have
to talk about safe environments and you're just going to have to excuse the noises that
you hear water around here.
Zuzia is taking a bath.
Uhm so I dont want to talk for like the whole drama that happened with emery and auguste.
Thats not my place to talk about it.
It's their video, they apologized for using the 'V' word and talking about our viewer.Which
obviously was inappropriate because its an FTM channel and its geared towards FTM men
and if you say like use that.. whatever we know this, 'we're not talking about this right
now, what I want to talk about is safe spaces within the trans* community.
And I guess ill just talk about Tumblr.
Tumblr is a horrible space to go to if you're looking for a safe space.
If you're not, if you dont have a typical trans FTM narrative, stay away from tumblr.
I mean if you want to go on tumblr to like reblog Dr. Who and Harry Potter, uhm, thats
fine.But the second you start putting your own experiences and views on things if you
dont have a "normal" FTM transsexual (rolling my eyes) experience, narrative, whatever you
want to call it.
You're going to get shit on and I've experienced this and I know a whole bunch of people who
have experienced it.Not to like talk about my lableing or anything like that or why i
belong on FTMTranstastic, obviously im FTM im on hormones, im on surgery, im male, i
use male pronouns, everyone knows me as like chaseypoo the dude, the tran.
Whatever, uhm I'm going ot go off and do the whole scale.
Like Auguste did If I can find a piece of paper.
So I found a post-it, so if we're going to talk about my identity, this is like the spectrum
male to female, I'm like *boop* chaseypoo, can't even spell my own name.
But thats me.
I'm thre, like fuck off, I dont have to be 100% male to be FTM, I'm like thats just how
I identify.
Obviously I have a lot feminine traits because of mu socialization into this world as female.
I will never let those things go.
And a lot of things about me are feminine and I dont even give a shit if i was wearing
a dress, although that is 100% stereotypical and its just your outside gender expression,
my gender identity also matches.
Like if this is my gender identity, my gender expression is like more male and then like
my stereotypical, i guess thats also gender expression, WTV fuck its more like ah im so
sixk of labels, flip the table on the hate.
just flip the table on identity.
I cant do it anymore.
So we're going to talk about safe spaces.I'm more really talking about avoiding spaces,
I just dont want you guys to like, if you dont have a "normal" trans.."normal" in the
biggest quotation marks of lif, cuz I say normal as I dont think think its normal, I'm
just using the words that, we're jsut going to say it.
Those truscum people on tumblr have said.
And honestly I'm going to be 100% honest with you guys, I'm actually friends with a couple
of these "truscum" people they're nice.
Like they're.
Like some of them are really cool people to talk to.
Their views dont match up with mine, who cares?
we can still talk as normal human beings.
But I just dont like that they attack people.
BUT I understand why they would attack somebody for thinking that at like..
Lets say I was a truscum person and as like a transsexual male, I believe that I have
a medical condition that needs to be treated with blah blah blah hormones, therapy, wtv,
blah blah, and then i get somebody coming into my "community" you know, appearing female,
saying that they dont want to go on hormones, saying that they are trans and i want to use
male pronouns and X-Y pronouns, obviously as a stereotypical transsexual medical conditional
truscum tumblr person, im ganna really feel like you're violating this community and that
you dont belong.
OBVIOUSLY this is not how I think before you go all crazy on me.
Thats their views and we all have different views I think that if you say that you're
trans, then you're trans.
I'm talking about trans* with the asterisk (*) so thats the umbrella term.
Iff we're going ot talk about ftm, I do believe only a specific amount of people like category
of people, Female to male uhm, you're transitioning socially, personally, whatever, in life.
and you're doing steps towards you know, becoming who you actually are.
So its more like female bodied to male, because you've always been male you just transition
to male.
I dont really know if im making sense right now.
But obviously, if you identify yourself as FTM and you believe that you belong in that
category, then who the fuck am I to say "no, get out, this is FTM, you're trying to get
in it, get out" no. that was the horribliest.. that was a bad metaphor...what am I doing?
honestly you say you're FTM, you're FTM- I am not the gender police, I'm not the transgender
transsexual police.It doesnt matter how i identify I dont really care how you identity.
I see,I understand, the viewpoint of the truscum tumblr users, absolutely I understand.
That they just you know, they think thats its threatening to their identity, I completely
understand how that could workout in society.
It doesnt mean I agree with it, it doesnt mean I dont agree with it.
I dont care, like thats your view.
I have my view someone else and extremely more radical view.
I am totally going off topic now.
I'm so sorry.This is probably more of a video for like my personal channel.
This is why like these topics, I get so like.
I'm like sweating.
I want to take my shirt off but this is an appropriate video.
Honestly, youtube is a good space to like talk about it and i think that a lot of people
who are non binary and im not saying that non-binary people dont belong in the trans*
or FTM label.
Thats not for me to say, like im not dipping my toes in that.
But I feel like a lot of people who are non binary should make more videos and should
speak out about their experiences and maybe it would finally add subdivision to the trans
umbrella thats people could actually talk about.
instead of everybody being categorized.
Lets say, im just giving a hypothetical example, instead of everybody getting categorized as
ftm, there could be a different terms that people would be able to use.
I guess there is, "gender non-conforming" right?
thats a term that uhm that the medical industry akwknowledges.
Like gender non-conforming folk.
Because that I know that a lot of people, that I know in real life, likfe to use the
FTM label, in order to have access to hormones and surgery because thats what they believe
etheri body is suppose to be.
you want that for your body, absolutely, this is what i needed for my body to be comfortable.
And thats what they want.
But they dont necessarily identify as FTM, they just use the label FTM, which i have
no problem with because otherwise, if youre not going ot be able to use the label FTM,
then youre not going to be able to get what you need, and honestly, if you need to get
a letter for surgery, because you 100%, you cant, you cant, it has nothing to do with
how people see your body its just you.
and your body.
Like me, I couldnt.
Even if I was just non-binary, and I just really needed to get top surgery, it oesnt
matter the way that you get it, its just matters that you do get it.
If its what you need.
Its not like you're FTM, you have to go to therapy, you havr ot have fucking hormones,
you have to have surgeyr, you have ot have a hysto, you have to have bottom surgery,
you have to change your name, you have to change your gender marker, no.
Theres not a specific thing for you to do.
Theres not a list, theres not a checkmark for you to do in order for you to be trans
and ive talk about this like a thousand times.
All im saying, is if you believe that you need like one or two things out of that list,
and you need to tie on the fucking FTM label, tog et those things, as long as youre not
going to through it in the medical or soceities face, like "haha i used that term so i could
get surgeryyy and hormones" like obvisouly you're jsut being an asshole and you need
to get the fuck out.
But if you're just going to keep yourself into that little category of non-binary, which
could obviously grow if more people spoke about there experiences, and there you go.
Honestly, im going to ell you somthing.
Sometimes, I have a problem expressing myself and i meani have a problem with like learning
things, I have to like read and watch things a coupe of times for me to completely understand
and grasp the concept and that also happens when I try to like say something and like
say something about something that im truly passionate about, So please please please
please, if you see a problem with anything that I've sai, I will 100% talk about it with
you.
Like dont go behind my back and like post on tumblr, I'll find it.
just talk to me about it, honestly.
Cuz I do feel like what I just said about like putting non-binary in a different category,
the way that im talking about it, like i dont really know how to explain what I mean but
I guess at that right now is the easiest way for me to explain it.
So if you see a problem it that please talk to me about it, Im 100% open to having conversations
about this topic . Its something really important to me.
Obviously this has no grounding on anything but I did do a very large paper on the conflicts
within the trans community.
It was very interesting paper, I interviews 8 trans people.
4 who identified themselves as under the trans umbrella or who were non-binary and then 4
others who believed themsevels to be like 100% transsexaul medical condition, And it
was very interesting what I found in that.
I dont know why Im talking about that.
Its just completely irrelevant, its just you know, this topic really interests me and if
I came off as rude or if something that i said was inappropriate, just please let me
know.
And we can honestly, we can have a discusion about it.
She just...bless you, bless you.
Alright I hope you guys have a great week, and we are going to have some google hangouts
or tinychats in the next couple of days slash weeks, and you guys can totally come on with
us and talk to us and honestly, please talk to me about this if i said something inappropriate,
alright.
Alight, have a great week.