#The author is a trans man

[kedreeva]

Hi friends!

I recently saw the cover of this book posted to a group on FB, with a LOT of vitriol aimed at it there. I ambled over to the Amazon page to see it (and have a look through the reviews) and it's LARGELY reviews by bigots (as I suspected it would be). I just spent half an hour going down the list reporting inauthentic and/or hateful and/or off-topic (not about the product) reviews, and ticking the "helpful" box on the 5-star kind reviews (and as a warning, not all the 5 stars ARE kind, I saw at least one that was vitriolic sarcasm).

If you have a few spare minutes and an amazon account, it would be nice, I think, if you could pop over and select "helpful" for the kinder reviews. I don't think reporting the bad ones a second time will be helpful (it may just slog the queue down), but boosting the positive reviews to appear toward the top of the list may be. If you have purchased/read/otherwise own or will own this book now, feel free to leave an authentic review of it. Be kind, do not get yourself in trouble trying to be mean to other reviews. The point is to add some support to the page that will actually stick around.

Here's the link!

[intothedysphoria]

Embarrassingly, the first time Steve had met Billy, he’d thought he was doing drugs.

It fit the mental profile. Billy was short but with massive hair, massive, heavy boots and patches on his jacket. The only other person Steve had met who looked like that was Munson. Munson was a dealer.

He was later informed that Billy was just trans and “oh my god dingus in what world does injecting testosterone look like injecting heroin?”

The second time Steve met Billy, he realised Billy was absolutely magnetic.

Not in the rom com way or anything, but there was just something about him. Everyone loved Billy. He was funny, acidly sharp and had the natural good looks of the guys who were never interested in Steve on Grindr.

He was also a self professed slut. What this seemed to mean in practice was picking up half a bar whenever they went clubbing or roaring with laughter as he rejected them.

Some guys were weird about it. They had these creepy ass fetishes about trans guys but Billy would always either tell them to fuck off or knee them in the balls.

He’d visit the diner Steve worked at most days and they’d make small talk. Billy liked his pin, the one Steve had with a small dinosaur on. It was fun. A touch of individuality.

Once Billy pinched his cheek (??) and called him cute before slowly walking away. Steve then locked himself in the staff toilets and willed his boner to leave.

The google search “what do trans guys like” was either full of cis men being douchebags or just straight up porn. Neither of these were particularly helpful to Steve.

He fell asleep watching Noahfinnace YouTube videos and trying to find a way to ask Billy out that didn’t make him feel like he was being weird.

Billy apparently did not give a shit about any of Steve’s worrying because he dropped his bag on top of the counter at the end of Steve’s shift and declared

“Harrington pack up your stuff. We’re going out.”

He drove his car at the speed Steve imagined could have Back-To-The -Futured them to the 80s and made a stop outside a tiny Polish place. “You’re Polish right?” Steve’s dad was from Warsaw and his mom was from Algiers. So yeah, you could say Steve was Polish.

It was slightly squashed in but authentic. Billy was also very clearly nervous. His face was extremely flushed and he kept putting his hand out then retracting it. Like he thought Steve would reject him.

Like Steve would ever reject him. Could ever reject him.

Billy decided to drive Steve back to his house. It felt like one of those dates from the 1950s, if you disregarded Billy grumbling about “fucking itchy nipples”. He smacked a wet kiss onto Steve’s lips, scribbled his phone number onto Steve’s arm and started walking back to the car.

“Next time Harrington, I’ll bring the strap on!”

Then his voice faded into the dark.

Next time. There would be a next time.

For any trans harringrovers, I hope you enjoy it

@shieldofiron @dragonflylady77 @oopsiedaisiesbaby @thatgirlwithasquid @robthegoodfellow

[motziedapul]

Hey there! So this indie author had his works pirated the day his book came out, so if you're able to show support and buy his book about a trans man apothecary and his dashing cursed knight, please do!

I started following Beau when his work got recommended to me, and while I haven't been able to sit down and read the book, I'm always happy to support indie fantasy creators.

If you've been wanting trans romance in fantasy, GRAB YOURSELF A COPY AND SUPPORT THIS CREATOR!

Official sources in the replies!

[outfitqueer]

Trans is not about changing the world; it’s about changing how you see yourself in it.

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@outfitqueer 🏳️‍⚧️

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[sewer-party-friends]

every MTF describes “being a woman” the same way that male authors do

[hussyknee]

If anyone has a problem with saying "rest in power" to the white man that self-immolated himself and yelled "Free Palestine" till he burned to death then I want you to block me right the fuck now. You are so morally bankrupt and brainwashed by western neoliberal identity politics that you aren't worth spitting on. There's nobody resting in more power than that kid.

[carrieemberlyns-blog]

It's new month who's down for some naughty fun?🥵💦🍑🫦🍆

[abyssal-debonair]

You’re a grown man with the trauma of a little girl. ... I don’t mean that trans men cannot speak about the misogyny they experienced; it’s just now, most people will look at me and not see the layers of patriarchal violence I experienced. The song “Sweet Cis Teen” asks: Am I a boy or am I just my trauma? But all of my experiences did not magically disappear the moment(s) I realized I am a man, nor were they left behind. It was traumatic being a Chinese woman. I was spat at, harassed, fetishized, assaulted, told that my worth depended on others, my experience and abilities invalidated. My bodymind holds these memories and shapes itself with them, and I do not want to trivialize these memories because they continue to inform who I am and my politics.

this entire essay is worth a read, but the quotations I pulled out are the ones that strike me deeply, being the most relatable to my own FtM experience.

[gentleraccoon]

would love mutual aid to help buy groceries the next couple weeks. I'm a trans man with a disabled partner & we're straight up just struggling. we live in a safe area. inflation and the general cost of living with a disabled homebound person are just high.

I know this is a shot in the dark. I'm a librarian and should be able to support my family but I can't this month. we have no savings. we're barely scraping by.

dm me for my PayPal or cashapp.

I know everyone everywhere is struggling. I just feel like I'm drowning, and there's no end in sight.

[sugarycherrie]

WHY IS EVERYTHING FEM READER IM GONNA GO INSANEE PLSLSLSLS SMTG FOR US GUYS TOO UGHHH

[friend-lover-traitor-narrator]

The Man You Are [Trans!Mav x Ice]

“I love you, Mav,” Ice whispers after yet another few minutes. “I love everything about you. I couldn't imagine a better person to be with.”

“Man,” Mav corrects Ice with a sniff. “Not person.”

Ice squeezes him. “I couldn't wish for a better boyfriend,” he repeats instantly and plants a soft kiss in Mav's hair.

–

Mav is experiencing a difficult gender shift and Ice does everything to make him feel better in his skin.

~~~

My trans/nonbinary/genderfluid Mav fic is finally here!! I hope you like it!! 🧡

There were a couple of people who explicitly stated to be interested in this one so I'm just gonna tag you here so you don't miss it (hope that's okay): @nyx2021 @aech0folk @whyamisolatetotheparty @blazingstar29 @snonkerdoodlefizzy221b @diadotcom @ghostbird-7

[lockandkeyhyena]

i know whipping girl is primarily focused on the transfeminine side of things but as a trans guy i already think it has some super interesting things to say about transmasculinity.

While trans people on the female-to-male (FTM) spectrum face discrimination for breaking gender norms (i.e., oppositional sexism), their expressions of maleness or masculinity themselves are not targeted for ridicule-to do so would require one to question masculinity itself.

like obviously trans men face transphobia in different ways than trans women but i’d never thought of it in that specific way- it’s a really good point. my masculinity specifically has never been mocked but rather the fact that i am performing it at all.

its a really interesting way to point out the differences in oppression that trans men and trans women face. while a trans woman might be mocked for being too feminine, a trans guy isn’t (at least in my experience) mocked for being too masculine, rather for attempting to attain masculinity at all. femininity for trans women is seen as unattainable where as for trans men it’s seen as inescapable. whichever way you look, the concept of womanhood is being weaponised against trans people. as is such, transphobia towards trans men and trans women both stems from misogyny.

i’d love to hear some other trans guys thoughts on this! do you agree? or have you been in a situation where your masculinity has been mocked?

i think i’ll post excerpts of my favourite bits as i read through, even just these first few pages have been great. if anyone thinks i’m completely off base with my analysis let me know haha.

[piningpercussionist]

transfem scott getting lots of support from ramona and kim in the early 2000's when shit's very taboo but they all 3 have a fire forged bond and lord if they aren't going to make sure they're all as happy as they can be because they've come this far and I dunno it just makes me happy all three of them

YES YES YES

It makes me very happy as well,,

Like I've said before. General Trans Scott enthusiast here- I love the idea of their little support network *violent coughing* I (we?) mean polycule *violent coughing* so fucking much.

Ramona I think has a bit of a more gentle hand with reassuring Scott with gender issues, but sometimes she just can't help herself from some pointed banter or teasing- how could you with someone so dense? (Said w affection)

And then Kim I think is more blunt. But like, in a good way mostly, you know? The kinda blunt that makes you snap to attention and go "Oh. Yeah that was silly of me." And if Ramona's started some sort of banter? Kim is SO piling on. Maybe sometimes she's a bit TOO blunt with it- but it's only because she's so firm in her support. She wants Scott to Get It Together- and be happier for it. So if some ribbing now and again is in order, then goddamnit she will do so! Anything to crack that shell.

And ohhh can you imagine how they would react to some transphobic bullshit?? Unholy terror would be driven into the offender before they walk off with an absurd amount of coins between them. I can feel it in my bones. Scott doesn't even have to lift a finger (if the transphobe is even noticed/processed at all, bc I honestly can see Scott just. Not realizing someone's being transphobic.) Kim giving someone a lashing with her tongue as distraction and then Ramona coming in with the hammer- BAM! Free Money! Paying literally with your life for your transphobia. A Better And Just World.

And of course (transfem Scott more specifically, here,) the way Scott would start to flourish under their support... cagey and maybe a little (perhaps a lot-) resistant to start- but Kim's blunt affirmations and no nonsense attitude for bullshit (which is what Scott insisting on "being cis" would be, c'mon now,) and Ramona's also low bullshit tolerance but less Stabby (bc I won't lie, that's probably how Kim's comments would feel,) assurances? Ough... My Heart... Be Still-

I would Kill for them, Your Honor-

(Ran out of tags so putting this in the body of the post- I am SO tired someone pls sound off if this isn't as coherent as I am hoping this is. I WAS trying to nap and get the extra sleep I desperately needed but the writing bug... it Bit Me.... only a little but enough to stop that process-)

[girlbloggercrowley]

trending tag right now is filled with “guys the author is a terf!!! and this is an election year!!! think about the implications!!!” and all i’m thinking is

1: the allegations are not about trans women. the allegations are about a cis man behaving abhorrently towards two women. the author, whatever her beliefs may be, is not speaking from a transphobic perspective in the piece. she is talking about misogyny, and how powerful men get away with things. this is not about trans people. you are using trans people as a deflection from discussion about men in power, something that affects trans people.

2: you guys are deathly allergic to even considering that a man might have committed sexual assault.

3: this is not a government psyop are you fucking stupid

[t00thfull]

a man, kid

part of me still wishes to be a girl with a boyfriend blonde hair, maybe, straightened, dark roots. i wish i did my makeup and followed trends and it shatters me to lose hold of her; her with the blonde hair. i don't loathe who i am - though i miss who i could have been. i have to hold my shoulders like a father, iron my shirts that make me look bigger, wear my sneakers and pants a size too large for my frame. and look at him, holding his shoulders; you'll be, blue, a man, blue. if nothing goes wrong.

[lucabyte]

tiny wip siffrin as payment for the homestuck spam continuting. now.