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put your gay hands up if florence and the machine's music changed your being at a formative age
I know adverbs are controversial, but "said softly" means something different than "whispered" and this is the hill I will die on.
aggressively limping my wrist while singingΒ βGirls, Girls, Girlsβ so that everyone knows my relationship with the aforementioned Girls, Girls, Girls is completely platonic
these pics of joe keeryβ¦ thatβs it. thatβs the post.
WHAT??? NO WAY HE ACTUALLY THINKS THAT??!!?! JOE BABY YOURE PERFECT
THIS.
"'Socialization' arguments are bullshit" not as in "actually, there IS no difference between how people raise 'boys' and 'girls' because trans people exist, I am a very solid critical thinker uwu"
But as in "yes, there IS a double standard to how kids are treated based on AGAB, and it IS largely binary, BUT there are so many intersecting confounding factors - including but not limited to race, dis/ability, body type, gender conformity, local culture, individual family politics, sometimes even what gender one's parents WANTED, and, yes, one's own internal sense of gender and when it developed - that trying to make hard and fast rules about what people take away from it is an exercise in futility at best; it is up to any given individual to work out what they, personally, internalized from that experience; there are unfortunately no cheat codes for that"
Also as in "stop trying to pin the blame solely on one gender and/or AGAB - we ALL have shitty gendered biases to unlearn, dipshit, it came free with your birth into a patriarchal society"
im tired of trans men/mascs always having to make themselves smaller for the sake of not being berated by both the queer 'community' and cishet folk alike.
oh, your name is bug, you like big eyeliner and dyed hair, kandi, and use he/they? you're too trans, you're embarrassing the community.
you're stealth? you exclusively want to dress and present male? you don't want anyone to know your trans? what are you, ashamed of yourself? do you hate other queers? you need to out yourself to make fem people feel safe!
you're a trans boy but you like pink, frills and dresses, your hair is long and you don't bind? faker. you're making the whole community look bad. you are not actually trans.
you want to take testosterone, get jacked, shave your head and grow a beard? you are making women uncomfortable, you can't call yourself a trans man anymore bcs you pass too well, you aren't welcomed in this community.
see, see how there is never any winning? and still, i come online everyday and see trans people infighting, all of these things are said by both cis transphobes and actual people who call themselves transgender. just stop it. whoever you are, be proud, take up space, and especially make room for other trans people who are different than you. being a transmed or whatever is doing just as much help for both the trans community and yourselves as, like, the trump administration has.