#BEING A TRANS TEENAGER IN 2024 IS JUST SO AWESOME

[trans-estinien]

oh were so fucking in for it

[queerflagswithbenton]

About/Please Read!

(updated as of 2/12/2024)

Hello! This is a blog I've been running for about 7 years now (feels weird saying that) for the purpose of compiling identities and flags into one spot! I don't reblog all possible identities, and moreso reblog/post identities I think are cool, interesting, or are something I want to reference later.

~About Me~

I'm a 23 year old nonbinary trans guy that has been out and transitioning since I was 15. I use only he/him pronouns, and consider myself gay, demisexual/romantic, and greyplatonic. Queer identities has been a special interest of mine since I realized that I wasn't exactly binary and went down a huge rabbit hole to figure out what words fit me best (and took me until I was 21 to fully realize I could be both nonbinary and a trans guy lol). During that journey, I realized the knowledge I'd retained could be used to help others that have also struggled with their gender (and orientation) journey. Compiling identities into one space has helped me a lot with that!

"Why don't you have a lot of posts about xenogenders and (insert gender system here)?"

It's not because I don't think those terms are valid. They are and I'm happy when people find words that fit them and make them feel comfortable. For me, though, with identities like xenogenders, given as there's so many endless possibilities, this blog would essentially end up being "overrun" by those with less visibility to the ones I really want to reference later. There's lots of awesome xenogender blogs I heavily reccomend you follow if you're looking for that! This is a similar story for why I don't reblog a bunch of alternate or themed flags for terms/flags that already exist. I'm always happy to reblog *updated* flags and more visually friendly alternatives, but tbh this blog is pretty "basic". (Note that there may always be exceptions/something "random" here and there)

Do I accept requests/submissions/questions?

I don't really make flags anymore or edits, so I don't do those requests anymore. I don't mind submissions! But there's no guarantee I'll post them, feel free to if you want, though! Lastly, I am always happy to try and answer questions. I can't guarantee I'll always have an answer, and I may not be able to direct you to someone who can, but I'll always do my best and worst case scenario, I post the ask in hopes someone who comes across it can help better! Also! I cannot give an accurate timeline of when your ask will be answered. I'm not consistently on Tumblr and I can go from checking every few days to not thinking about it for a week or more.

One last note before I move on to my DNI

I'd like to note that this I've been running this blog for such a long time, since I was a teenager, I did once hold some exclusionary mindsets (I was confused about xenogenders for one example and wasn't kind about that.), and in some cases being "on the fence". I've posted about this before but basically, I've gone back pretty far and deleted as much as I could find, but I can't guarantee that some things didn't slip through the cracks. If you see something really old on this blog that is exclusionary, just know I don't hold those beliefs anymore.

DNI criteria:

Please do not interact if:

*tr/nsmed, T/RF, aphobic, ableist, racist, or any other form of bigotry.

*you're a purely NS/FW blog. I don't want younger followers seeing adult content blogs reblogging my flags, so please don't reblog to any blogs that are mature in content.

*you stigmatize any mental health disorders, I don't wanna see that

*Pro-ED blogs or any other blogs that encourage genuinely harmful behaviors (I'm not sure if this form of content goes by any other name now?)

*Post a lot of gore/blood. Just a personal thing, not me hating or judging!

*people who want to start discourse. I really don't want this blog to be related to discourse in any way.