#and um on testosterone the world is a crazier place i must admit

[aestheticsxemotions]

*time traveling so im watching seventeen-year-old me tuck the sacred knowledge that you don’t have to have any medical procedures done to be a transgender person neatly into their quietly nonbinary back pocket and then stepping out to grab them with my actively transmasculine hands*

“yes, transmedicalism is as fucked as bioessentialism. and. the way society responds to your humanity when you begin to pursue materially tangible goals through your transition is a trying phenomenon that will inform your relationship to your expression. i know it sounds like older queers are trying to minimize your experience and tout their misery as law but they’re telling you from lived experience. im telling you from lived experience. it is very different to not have to fight the entire network of systems and to then suddenly have to do that forever or regress to a version of yourself you tried to shed on purpose. listen to me. your identity is valid and your experience cannot be the centerfold of the transgender articulation because it is not the most accurate representation of oppression faced. and i know you don’t get that right now but you will. and i love you so much even though you’re wrong sometimes.”

*kisses them on their lil forehead* 🥰