ilan 🌳 (@ilanonline) / X

ilan 🌳

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ilan 🌳

@ilanonline

AKA Meaning Tree • they/she/it • 24 • retweets imply endorsement • @bitterenby for mutuals • @ meaning_tree_ on IG

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ilan 🌳
@ilanonline
Mar 19
finally finished revising this essay on the politics of genital mutilation, attempting to position genital autonomy as a left issue & examining the subject thru lenses of gender, empire, religion, medicine, & family. if such things interest you:
meaningtree.substack.com
Deep Cut
On Genital Mutilation and the Symbolification of the Body
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ilan 🌳
@ilanonline
Oct 28, 2025
is it “spiritually israeli” or is it materially american?
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ilan 🌳
@ilanonline
Oct 26, 2025
sex assignment at birth should be abolished completely❤️ it is amazing to me how few ppl are on board with this. like you actually do not need to categorize and group and order children’s bodies based on appearance of their genitals like we could just not do that
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ilan 🌳
@ilanonline
Aug 3, 2025
true but queer communities r rly not immune to this by any means
the rain, the sea, and the hours
@barnfell
Aug 2, 2025
almost exclusively socializing in queer circles really makes you forget how casually gendered cis society is
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ilan 🌳
@ilanonline
Oct 26, 2025
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the X marker on identifying documents is a perfect example of a liberal reform. this is not at all to oppose people who get this, i think it’s an epic way to assert oneself within these confines, i question why sex marker belongs on these types of documents in the first place
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ilan 🌳
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Oct 26, 2025
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i also think schools should not segregate sex ed (idk if all do, mine did) like everyone should learn everything
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ilan 🌳
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Oct 26, 2025
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the only reason to do this is as a tool of social stratification, as a means of saying which forms of harm someone is vulnerable to and which they’re protected from
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ilan 🌳
@ilanonline
Oct 26, 2025
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“we need sex-specific spaces” no we don’t “doctors need to know ur sex” they need to know what parts u have which a documented sex doesn’t necessarily tell them
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ilan 🌳
@ilanonline
Oct 26, 2025
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i hate “biological sex” and i love transsexuals and there is no contradiction here ❤️
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ilan 🌳
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Oct 26, 2025
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the leftists talking about “but biological sex is Material Reality” apply that thinking to any other identity category built around physical features. it is a material reality that ppl have different forms of genitalia, different hormone levels, body and facial hair…
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ilan 🌳
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Oct 26, 2025
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voice depth, muscle mass, etc etc but these are not easily groupable into cohesive categories. some people can impregnate, some can get pregnant, yes, that does not necessarily translate to there being two oppositional types of person
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ilan 🌳
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Oct 26, 2025
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there is a wide spectrum and diverse variations of everything we consider “sex characteristics” and they are easily groupable together in cohesive identity categories
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ilan 🌳
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Oct 26, 2025
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anyway, trans women are biological women, end of thread goodbye
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ilan 🌳
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Oct 26, 2025
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beyond that fact, that some ppl can get pregnant and some can impregnate, and these two populations are not so easily and cohesively defined into male and female
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