#as a transmasc person

[dirtytransmasc]

ok I need to vent cause I've been crying all morning.

I am so sick of being told being emotional when I'm on/around my period is bad. I'm tired of afab people having this vulnerable, emotional, sacred time used against them constantly. I'm tired of being belittled because of it. having men justify their mistreatment of me because I'm just "having my time of the month"

cause you know what, I am emotional, I am crying, tears flow from my anger, my pain, my suffering. my body is going through so much, more than any man could EVER handle. I am emotional and it is beautiful. I am emotional and it is sacred. I cry tears of joy and pain and fear and anger and discomfort and this holiness or spiritualness or whatever word brings you comfort. these tears are so sacred because they are this culmination of everything I am.

I may not identify as a woman, but those tears, they are my femininity concentrated into the liquid dripping down my cheeks. the time I spend crying. the moments I scream and shout and curse. the smiles I wear. whatever they want to deem overemotional, I deem sacred and beautiful and worthwhile and perfect.

they are a show of my empathy for others, of the weight I carry in my shoulders, of the pain I bury for others comfort.

I am not perfect, I am human, and sometimes I have to break, I have to show something.

[isuggestforcemasc]

I might know a thing or two about this feeling

[teaboot]

Yeah no I didn’t “always know I was trans” but I WAS incredibly defensive of a girl’s ability and personal desire to do absolutely anything a boy could do, repeatedly throwing down against parents and teachers who insisted that girls and boys were just naturally predisposed to distinct binary interests and abilities, often telling them that short hair and masculine interests didn’t make me less of a girl because physical traits and hobbies don’t retroactively determine your gender or sexual identity. Yeah I’m actually still onboard with that belief by the way, not sure how some of yall lost the plot

[scramratz]

[lucielleblanc]

mizuki’s a really good ‘ally’

[sososososososomething]

with duct tape scars on my honey

[beentobeetle]

I finally got around to watching “I Saw the Tv Glow”… I will never be the same

(Lyrics from “Claw Machine” by Sloppy Jane)

[narrativelysignificantturtleduck]

you know what's a good transmasc atla headcanon that doesn't get enough love? aang. the air nomads are chill so him being able to transition pre-canon makes sense and the only time he seems insecure in his gentler masculinity is when the ember island players imply he's a girl. like in general he's not bothered by being seen as sweet and fun-loving and not hyper-masculine so it comes off like his problem is just being misgendered. he's totally confident being a soft boy but he IS a boy, you know?

(also he's very literally a boy who used to be a girl bc kyoshi yangchen etc. so just conceptually the avatar's kinda trans)

[ratbastarddotfuck]

I do love it when assholes go on about the boygirl fagdykes being A Type Of Cringey And Annoying Trans Person [and we're definitely not calling them trenders, we totally see them as real trans people and believe in their individual connections to their identities as more than a fad, we swear, their identity won't be one of the first things we attack if they disagree with us] as though Every trans person hasn't been the Cringey And Annoying Trans Person at some point.

I used to identify as boygirl. Then I matured a little, and now I identify as a Transgender Manwoman. Partly because of that broader conceptualisation of "boygirl" as a fad gender, and partly because - well, I'm not a boy, I'm a man. I'm not a girl, I'm a grown ass woman.

Still a fagdyke though <3 Multigender faggotry and dykery forever.

[the-trans-advice-blog]

Please please please think of trans people of color when you’re going to make a generalized statement. When you’re making posts about passing tips, medical treatments for transitioning, even light hearted stereotypes include people of color in your sentiments.

As a black trans person it is so fucking isolating to see stuff I’m supposed to relate to only to find that they weren’t talking about me or people like me.

[wuthering-tempest]

do you think their cycles ever

[pally-plate]

Actually, I AM trapped in the wrong body.

I AM a boy trapped in a girl’s body.

I WAS born in the wrong body.

I DO hate my body.

I DO want to change it FOR ME and NO ONE ELSE.

I AM distressed because my body ISN’T right.

And I’m definitely not the only one.

It’s ok if you, as an individual trans person, hate the “born in the wring body,” thing. But stop trying to convince people that every trans person hates that way of describing our experiences.

You are 100% allowed to use whatever descriptions you want for your experiences, but so are we. We who WERE born in the wrong body and feel most comfortable describing it that way.

This is in no way a call-out post, or trying to offend anyone. It’s simply a request to stop acting like trans people are a monolith who ALL prefer the SAME EXACT terms.

[lycandrophile]

it’s so funny to me that people used to try to warn me “if you go on t it won’t make you androgynous it’ll just make you look like a man” because 1) i do want to look like a man, that is famously a major part of being a trans man but also 2) t literally has made me androgynous?? like they were wrong on both counts. i got most of the looking-like-a-man changes that i wanted (deep voice, broader body, hair all over my body including my face) and i also give every single cis person in a five mile radius a stroke every time they try to figure out my gender. the assumption that trans men wouldn’t actually want to look like men and the assumption that cis people are good at correctly gendering us once we’re on t are both weird as hell.

[soup-mother]

it's kinda impressive that transandrophobia theorists find the time to harass transmasc folk for not being transmisogynists in between harassing trans women for existing.

[titvs-androgynous]

Dungeon Meshi does a lot of things right but honestly for me, as a transmasc person, the best thing about the show is Thistle being a male character. You're telling me I get to see a character whose physique and voice are relatable AND who's referred to by he/him pronouns* from the get go?? And he's an 'evil wizard'?

*apart from some parts of the English translation lol

[courtmartialme]

my transmasc riza art from 2022 :^)