#before i transitioned i was VERY upset when the city's department of education allegedly tried to stop a trans student's HRT

[trans-ralsei]

so a former schoolmate of mine is at the domestic newspaper; he'd been a distinguished graduate of the J-school and one of the few people who graduated to become a foreign correspondent

and me and my senpai were talking about how his job wasn't that great. he's running the commentary pages at a paper that behaves fairly center-left, as much as the government would allow it to be. that plus opinion writing kinda sucks for many reasons (one of my last posts on my main blog outlines why)

this got me reminiscing about my time in J-school, and how every one of my classmates saw me as an angsty dude who was very worked up over politics (in a center-left fashion; i never had a fascist phase. skill issue)

and it turns out that all that angst and anxiety was actually dysphoria wrapped up and weaponised and directed at society as a whole

lmao