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First day back at the gym since the hospital, squeezing in a quick run on my lunch break 🏃🏻🏃🏻🏃🏻💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾 #ftmfitness #barbellsandftms #dontstopgetitgetit #naturalhighs #endorphins #transisbeautiful (at Crunch Fitness - 66th St.)

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<3 <3 <3

The Ocean Wants You To Rise (comic)

(aka my first comic ever ahhhhhhhhhh)

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Guys, can we as a group stop disparaging the results of current phallo procedures? 

Even you personally don’t feel great about the results, remember that the men who do go on to get these procedures done have gone through a great deal of physical and psychological suffering and stress to reach that point in their lives.

You’re free to think whatever you want, but if you’re going to make a statement for anyone to see, you might want to think twice about casually insulting and discouraging the men who have had this procedure done.

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IMPORTANT.

*just a little disclaimer

I get quite a few private messages on here, and I’m very very happy to help with providing as many recourses as possible if you need them - however, if you ask me for help whilst in the same sentence talk about other results you find being unattractive, bad, ugly, too this, too that, then I’m a lot less likely to want to help.

The results you’re talking about could be mine, they could be a friends, they could be one of your friends, not that that matters, but I just think it’s very unnecessary to make unkind comments about someone else’s body that they have put online for the sake of education. I’m not saying you have to love every single surgery result you find at all, I’m just saying you don’t need to vocalise your opinion on someone else’s body (especially on a part they have no control overl!!), if it is a negative or one. 

If you really feel like you need to talk about their body then please do so as if they were in the room. 

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Eggplant luxury realness. While walking down to the water to take it on it’s maiden voyage, I overheard someone say, “an eggplant floatie? you know you’re at the gay beach when..” 😂😂💪🏾🍆🍆🍆🍆🍆🏳️‍🌈 #gaybeach #riisbeach #emojisinthewild #overcompensating (at Jacob Riis Beach - A Community Beach For Queer, Trans and People of Color)

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Omg these are incredible

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I’ve found myself wondering “Where are the trans people of color?” a million times.

In my life, I’m often the only person of color in a room of trans people. I’ve noticed it is harder to find pictures and reviews of products (like packers) in the non-white skin tones. I see fewer pictures of POC post-surgery, and fewer people of color documenting their changes on HRT. Selfies of trans people, binary or non-binary, tend to skew towards the white and AFAB side. Hopefully, this blog can provide a sense of community and inclusion for all trans people of color.

This blog is a place where we can answer that question. Where are the trans people of color? We’re right here! We’re talking about how our day went, about our families, about coming out, about our pets, about our transitions, about our ups and downs. We are here. We exist.

This is a new blog for TPOC (trans people of color) to submit selfies of themselves! Anyone and everyone is allowed to follow us, all support is welcome, but only TPOC can send selfies.

Please reblog and spread the word!

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Empire BCBS (NY) covers my testopel and my phallo (stage 1 in september holy shit)

Insurances that cover hormones/gender reassignment surgery

Just a quick guide for all you guys and girls having trouble finding the right insurance. It’s incredibly difficult to find insurance that covers sex reassignment surgery, and even when then do, there’s a chance you’ll be denied. 

Make sure you guys are informed so you can make the right healthcare decisions!

Aetna: [x] [x] Amerigroup: [x] AHCCCS: Covers T/Estrogen only Blue Cross Anthem: [x] Blue Cross of Massachusetts: [x] Blue Cross Michigan: [x] Blue Cross North Carolina: [x]  Blue Cross North Dakota: [x] Blue Cross Rhode Island: [x] Blue Cross Tennessee: [x] Blue Cross Vermont: [x] Blue Shield CA: [x] Care First: [x] Cigna: [x] Emblem Health: [x] Excellus Blue Cross (NY): [x] Group Health Cooperative: [x] Harvard Pilgrim Health Care: [x] Health Net:[x] Health Partners: [x] HighMark: [x] Independence Blue Cross: [x] Medicare: [x] Obamacare: [x] United Healthcare: [x] Wellmark BCBS: [x] Wellpoint/Unicare: [x]

If you have any more, please add them to the list!

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This post is so dang cute and made me feel nice about my tum

Callout post for trans boys:

handsome??? so handsome?? 

if you got a little tum, it is good tum and so lovely and i love it

rocking it?? like wow!!!! you’re doing so good!! 

best bois!!! lovely bois!!!

curvy boys??? i love them!! so good!!

thick boys??? GAH so good!! 

boys with large chests??? THE BEST BOYS!!!

You’re all awesome and rocking it and I love you all. 

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This post is so dang cute and made me feel nice about my tum

Callout post for trans boys:

handsome??? so handsome?? 

if you got a little tum, it is good tum and so lovely and i love it

rocking it?? like wow!!!! you’re doing so good!! 

best bois!!! lovely bois!!!

curvy boys??? i love them!! so good!!

thick boys??? GAH so good!! 

boys with large chests??? THE BEST BOYS!!!

You’re all awesome and rocking it and I love you all. 

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QUEEN

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@transmasculineselfielove @transbutts can I get a reblog? It's super important!

A Love Letter to my Trans Men of Color

We gotta have a talk, men. I want you to know that I see you. I see the amazing things that you take upon yourself to accomplish, just because you know that there is someone out there who needs it. Brilliant, powerful trans men like Cris CeeKay (Community Kinship Life - Ck Life), Sean Coleman (Destination Tomorrow), and Jevon Martin (Princess Janae Place), pour their resources and lives every day into making sure that trans people are able to get what they need to survive and thrive.

One thing that kept coming up during the interview portion of the study was this feeling of responsibility towards “the next guy.” After each time someone described standing up for himself to a transphobic provider, it was always followed by something like, “It’s no big deal to me, I can handle it. I just don’t want them to do that to the next guy.” So many of us are doing this thing where advocacy for a brother in community comes so naturally, but often to the detriment or neglect of our own self advocacy.

I understand a number of reasons why folks might look out for others before themselves, but my point is this: we can’t keep this up forever, guys. You are important. Your life and your experiences and your wisdom and your *needs* are important. And if it helps you to think about it this way - if we don’t take care of ourselves, then we won’t have anything left for the next guy, much less the next next guy or the guy after him.

The thing about studies like the one we are running is that far more white people are inclined to participate than POC. There are a lot of reasons why, but at the end of the day when only white folks show up to get counted, then any services or programs that get funded through citing these studies will only center the needs of those white people. And you and I both know that there are often other communities that are in the most need of support.

So take the damn survey, would you? When you show up and let us know what you need, you get to do both - advocate for yourself *AND* for the next guy. What Gus and I are trying to do is build a body of data that says that trans men - specifically Black and brown trans men - know what we need to make the healthcare system better for us. But we’ll only get there if we show up.

We’re closing out on data collection at the end of this week. Please, please take the time and do it. It should only take you around 20-30 minutes. The next guy, and all the guys after him are counting on it.

http://tinyurl.com/TMHealthSurvey

In Community, Charlie

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Congrats. (via elsa_means)

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A Love Letter to my Trans Men of Color

We gotta have a talk, men. I want you to know that I see you. I see the amazing things that you take upon yourself to accomplish, just because you know that there is someone out there who needs it. Brilliant, powerful trans men like Cris CeeKay (Community Kinship Life - Ck Life), Sean Coleman (Destination Tomorrow), and Jevon Martin (Princess Janae Place), pour their resources and lives every day into making sure that trans people are able to get what they need to survive and thrive.

One thing that kept coming up during the interview portion of the study was this feeling of responsibility towards "the next guy." After each time someone described standing up for himself to a transphobic provider, it was always followed by something like, "It's no big deal to me, I can handle it. I just don't want them to do that to the next guy." So many of us are doing this thing where advocacy for a brother in community comes so naturally, but often to the detriment or neglect of our own self advocacy.

I understand a number of reasons why folks might look out for others before themselves, but my point is this: we can't keep this up forever, guys. You are important. Your life and your experiences and your wisdom and your *needs* are important. And if it helps you to think about it this way - if we don't take care of ourselves, then we won't have anything left for the next guy, much less the next next guy or the guy after him.

The thing about studies like the one we are running is that far more white people are inclined to participate than POC. There are a lot of reasons why, but at the end of the day when only white folks show up to get counted, then any services or programs that get funded through citing these studies will only center the needs of those white people. And you and I both know that there are often other communities that are in the most need of support.

So take the damn survey, would you? When you show up and let us know what you need, you get to do both - advocate for yourself *AND* for the next guy. What Gus and I are trying to do is build a body of data that says that trans men - specifically Black and brown trans men - know what we need to make the healthcare system better for us. But we'll only get there if we show up.

We're closing out on data collection at the end of this week. Please, please take the time and do it. It should only take you around 20-30 minutes. The next guy, and all the guys after him are counting on it.

http://tinyurl.com/TMHealthSurvey

In Community, Charlie

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hello yes it is I, an old

Reblog if you’re 30 or older

This is an experiment to see if there really are as few of us as people think.You can also use this to freak out your followers who think you’re 25 or something. Yay!

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This is the best thing I’ve seen in a while!

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