#because im trans

[mybrainsrottingwithmcd]

Me with other villians: they’re nuanced, the toxic side of untreated mentall illness, unredeemable, tragic, lowkey some of them kinda have a point

Me with Gene: bitches be crazy idk what to tell you

[finagled]

i think the reason my dad was so fucking depressed and also why we were so close is i think he was questioning his gender identity and never found a way to be himself

I cant tell anyone because I don't think they'd see things the way I do but like.... after a picture I saw of him cross dressing "as a workplace prank" (and fucking killing it) combined with what we found at the end of his life, like. idk.

to me it seems pretty clear now

[toomanystoryideas]

had a college interview at a nice little coffee shop and they put cinnamon dust on top of my iced chai latte 🥰 the alum interviewing me got a matcha instead of a coffee and therefore earned my instant respect. ive literally a barista for like a year and a half but im just more of a tea guy than a coffee guy ngl

[mackerelllll]

from @/vero_muerte on tiktok, PLEASE look up the original video!!!

found this video at <2000 likes and i NEED more people to see this because. yeah.

[spitblaze]

I guess Chilchuck has brought us right back to 'adults who are short are child-coded and if you like them you're a pedophile' discourse huh

[2econd2ight2yd]

starting to feel like her again

[just-your-average-tangerine]

The line between binary and nonbinary trans people is nowhere near as clean as some of yall think it is

[idolomantises]

i never liked the idea that good trans rep has to be so subtle its easy to miss. nothing wrong with a character saying "im trans" or dealing with their experiences as a trans person.

just let them have a personality too, don't tokenize them. And make them a weird freak. we need more trans characters that are weird freaks.

[transonlyspace]

theres this certain bond between the aromantic community and the trans community and i cant describe it but i feel like its there

[mikasasrippedtoenail]

Calling Lesbians' attraction to vaginas a mere genital "preference" erases the sheer violence behind corrective rape of millions of sapphic women. I do not just "dislike" dick, I am physically incapable of being attracted to it. My allure to the female genitilia is not a choice, it's my biological reality. Dismissal of same-sex attraction as a choice reinforces the homophobic ideology that attractions can be altered and also paves the way for discrimination. One cannot opt out of their sexuality, they are always born with it.

[fleapit]

can we pleasee please please stop fucking fearmongering and blaming trans men for the predstrogen situation. please god. posts about "trans men teaming up with terfs to get trans women banned!" with zero sources all over my dash. blaming "transandrophobia truthers" for all the transmisogyny. have you all lost your fucking minds?? what the fuck happened to t4t??? what the fuck happened to trans solidarity??? why is "transfem separatism" even a subject worth entertaining????

anyone who says other trans people are the enemy is a fucking fed. jesus christ

[wildeyed-freecloud]

[inkskinned]

you have to go to work so you can pay for your doctor, who is not taking your insurance right now, and if you say i can't afford the doctor's you are told - get a better job. it is very sad that you are unwell, yes, but maybe you should have thought about that before not having a better job.

(where is the better job? who is giving out these better jobs? you are sick, you are hurting - how the hell are you supposed to be well enough for this better job?)

but you go to the doctor because you had the nerve to be hurt or sick or whatever else. and they tell you that it is because you have anxiety. you try your best. you are a self-advocate. you've done the reading (which sometimes pisses them off worse, honestly). you say it is actually adding to my anxiety, it is effecting my quality of life. so they say that you are fat. they say that all young people have this happen to them, isn't it a medical marvel! they say that you should eat more vegetables. they say that you probably just need to lose a little more weight, and that you are faking it for attention.

(what attention could this doctor possibly give? what validation? that's their fucking job, isn't it?)

there is always a hypochondriac, right. someone always tells you about a hypochondriac. or someone who is unnecessarily aggressive during the worst days of their life. or someone looking "for a quick fix". or some idiot who wasn't educated about how to properly care for themselves who just abandons their treatment. and again, the hypochondriac, the overly-cautious hysteric. these people don't deserve to be treated like humans (right), and since you might be one of these people, you also don't get treated like a human. because those people can really fuck with the system, you now have to pay for it. and besides. you're actually probably faking it.

(more often than not, you find a 2:1 ratio of these stories. for every "hypochondriac", there are 2 people who knew something was wrong, and yet nobody could fucking find it. the story often ends with pointless suffering. the story often ends with and now it's too late, and it's going to kill me.)

you are actually just making excuses. someone else got that procedure or that diagnosis and he's fine, you should be fine too. someone else said they watched a documentary about other inspirational people with your exact same condition, maybe you should be inspirational, too. you're just too morbid. your pain and your experience is probably just not statistically concerning. it is all self-reported anyway, and you're just being a baby.

(once, while sitting down in the middle of making coffee, you had the sudden, horrible thought - i could kill myself to make the pain stop. you had to call your best friend after that. had to pet your dog. had to cry about it in the shower. you won't, but that moment - god, fuck. the pain just goes on and on.)

you know someone who went in for routine surgery and said i still feel everything. they told her to just relax. it took her kicking and screaming before they figured out she wasn't lying - the anesthetic drip hadn't been working. you know someone who went in for severe migraines who was told drink water and lose weight. you know someone who was actively bleeding out and throwing up in the ER and was told you're just having a bad period.

in the ER there are always these little posters saying things like "don't wait! get checked today!" and you think about how often you do wait. how often the days spool out. you once waited a full week before seeing the doctor for what you thought was a sprained wrist. it had actually been broken - they had to rebreak it to set it.

but you go into the doctor. the problem you're having is immediate. the person behind the counter frowns and says we're not taking your insurance. you will be paying for this out-of-pocket.

they send you home with tylenol and a little health packet about weight loss or anxiety or attention deficit. on the front it has your birthday and diagnosis. you think about crying, and the words swim. it might as well say go fuck yourself. it might as well say you're a fucking idiot. it might as well say light your money on fire and lie down in it. and the entire fucking time - the problem persists.

it's okay. it's okay, it's just another thing, you think. it's just another thing i have to learn to live with.

[im-jesus]

ALL TRANS MEN ARE VALID.

BLACK TRANS MEN ARE VALID.

LATINO TRANS MEN ARE VALID.

INDIGENOUS TRANS MEN ARE VALID.

EAST ASIAN TRANS MEN ARE VALID.

SOUTH ASIAN TRANS MEN ARE VALID.

WHITE TRANS MEN ARE VALID.

FAT TRANS MEN ARE VALID.

SKINNY TRANS MEN ARE VALID.

FEMME TRANS MEN ARE VALID.

MASC TRANS MEN ARE VALID.

PRE T TRANS MEN ARE VALID.

TRANS MEN WHO WENT OFF TESTOSTERONE ARE VALID.

TRANS MEN WHO DON'T WANT TESTOSTERONE ARE VALID.

TRANS MEN WHO DON'T BIND, WHETHER FOR HEALTH REASONS OR SIMPLY NOT WANTING TO OR LITERALLY ANY OTHER REASON, ARE VALID.

TRANS BOYS ARE VALID.

TRANSMASC LESBIANS AND ENBIES ARE VALID.

ARO/ACE/AROACE TRANS MEN ARE VALID.

TRANS MEN WHO HAVE NO SURGERIES YET ARE VALID.

TRANS MEN WHO DON'T WANT SURGERIES ARE VALID.

TRANS MEN WITH TOP SURGERY BUT NOT BOTTOM SURGERY ARE VALID.

TRANS MEN WITH BOTTOM SURGERY BUT NOT TOP SURGERY ARE VALID.

BROKE TRANS MEN ARE VALID.

RICH TRANS MEN ARE VALID.

TRANS MEN WHO FIGURED OUT AT A YOUNG AGE THAT THEY WERE TRANS AND WENT ON PUBERTY BLOCKERS ARE VALID.

TRANS MEN WHO DIDN'T REALIZE OR ADMIT THAT THEY WERE TRANS UNTIL THEY WERE TEENAGERS OR ADULTS ARE VALID.

DISABLED TRANS MEN ARE VALID.

THERIAN/FURRY TRANS MEN ARE VALID.

KINKY TRANS MEN ARE VALID.

GAY TRANS MEN ARE VALID.

BI/PAN/OMNI/ANYWHERE-ON-THE-MULTISEXUAL-SPECTRUM TRANS MEN ARE VALID.

STRAIGHT TRANS MEN ARE VALID.

TRANS DADS ARE VALID.

CLOSETED TRANS MEN ARE VALID.

ALL TRANS MEN ARE VALID.

No, there is no universal trans experience. Yes, there will always be trans dudes who have it easier than you, or were lucky enough to get their gender affirming care younger or cheaper or easier than you. They're still trans. The second we stop fighting with each other about which of us are valid is the second we can start fighting the real enemy; those motherfuckers teaching crabs how to read.

[iliothermia]

[canidaezy]

how do transmascs not want to kill themselves all the time honestly