#(ftm)

[genderqueerdykes]

it sends me when rad fems tell me not to call myself a dyke because im a trans man. yeah tell that to my mom, sister, ex best friend's mom AND brother, countless strangers and nearly every classmate i've ever had. see if they would've listened and stopped calling me a dyke. my mom was the first person to ever call me a dyke- she used the term bulldyke, no less. i wasn't even a teenager yet when she started calling me a bulldyke and butch dyke. i think maybe, just maybe, i'm allowed to reclaim that slur. but who am i to know, i'm only the person who lived my experience and got called that slur for the first 21 years of my life. somehow i'm the problem, here, and not the decades of transphobes and lesbophobes attacking my person.

dyke then, dyke now; i'm a big fat fucking transmasc bulldyke and it's Mr. Dyke to you.

[gothbuggs]

The barbwire one is fucking sick

top surgery tats

[masc-wolverine]

i hate how trans boys think they were born imperfect. you were born unfinished. go on, continue it. continue and finish in the act of creation.

anon you understand so beautifully i’m going to kiss you on the mouth

[mutslutt]

baby's first forcemasc. hello

[k9effect]

Idk how people are going to react to this post but I think a big thing for me as a trans man is how upsetting it is to have lost access to female only safe spaces. I, as a trans man, still do not feel entirely safe around men because of how I was raised and the life experiences I have had with men. My male privilege and safety within a male group/group containing men gets taken away pretty much the moment they learn I'm trans. I become an anomaly and am no longer safe. I have always felt safer with women. But now I cannot access those spaces anymore. I pass too well as a male to be in them, I wouldn't want to invade that sactity regardless, and I wouldn't want to compromise my masculinity and gender expression to fit in there if allowed. I simply have lost a thing that was a huge part of me and my life while growing up. My female friends don't feel as close knit as we were when I was female. And my male friends never get to the same level of closeness as women do. I feel so lonely in life and I think that's because I've experienced true closeness with people, with women in particular, and have since lost that almost entirely. I'm a man and will always be a man, that's my gender and how I wish to express myself, but sometimes I miss just being one of the girls :/

[aadamantine]

the boys are gonna love this one

[sow-ay]

[mag150cul-de-sac]

as someone with little understanding of the whole 'transandrophobia' thing who is not in the discourse trenches, i don't think that trans men who talk about transandrophobia are saying they are oppressed just for being men, i think they are saying they're treated differently and discriminated against because of the intersection of their being trans and their being a man.

people in the same minority group can be treated differently based on things like gender, and while it's obviously not the same, a good comparison could be how black men are treated by racists in a way that is different than black women. both kinds of racism are bad, but there is a difference that comes specifically from black men being men.

i don't mean to say that trans people and black people face the same struggles or to say that transphobia and racism are the same, but looking into the racism that black men face could be an interesting way to think about and contextualize this.

also it just feels like it's mostly white queers arguing about this without considering how other minorities may have experienced this.

this is just my thoughts, and i'm not an expert on anything, but as a trans man who has experienced and witnessed transphobia and seen how it can impact trans men specifically, i think it's important to give this kind of thing more thought.

and of course, in this hard time remember to stand with your trans siblings, your black siblings, and all the people who will be victimized and scared for these coming years. stand together, intersectionality and all that jazz.

[grubbyposting]

As a trans man, sexual confidence will take you far. Assert yourself, and don’t dull your masculinity for anybody.

Fight for what you want.

[rubyjones]

Gorgeous.

be proud

[blakesb0nes]

for all the faggots out there

[the-sweet-abyss]

if your relationship didn't start out with an insatiable, violent desire to fuck each other's brains to a pulp, what are you even doing?

[kvirnedamtimir]

Slovenski prevod // Slovenian translation:

Mala punčka, ki ste bili, razume moškega, v katerega ste zrasli.

[genderqueerdykes]

if you are starting hormones soon and feel unsure about how to use them, whether it's injectable, topical, or pills, please ask your pharmacist how to use your medication! your prescriber might not know. it seems like a lot of doctors who prescribe hormones don't know how to apply them or don't know much about them, and it is more the pharmacist's job to know this information. it's not a bad thing to take them up on this, you can always ask how to use it, especially if youre using topical hormones or using injections.

it's really important to ask how to apply topical hormones correctly, i have seen quite a few people who have admitted they were applying theirs incorrectly and it is NOT those individual's faults- in many cases no one explains how to use the medication ever to that person and they have to rely on information from other trans people. i highly recommend asking your pharmacist where to apply the gel and how to apply it. (you NEED to rub testosterone/estrogen gel into your skin, don't just let it sit on the surface of the skin!) you can also ask about how to do injections safely and some may even give you your first few injections to demonstrate

also check the pamphlets that come inside the boxes, papers that come with bags, or the labels on your pill bottles- they will tell you more information on how to take your medications!

it never hurts to ask especially if you feel overwhelmed. getting started with HRT is confusing and scary at first, you're making a huge change and it's important to be armed with as much information as possible when going into it