#lgbt affirmations

[04thz2]

For my fellow young adult transmascs

For those of you who, like me, are in the process of applying for your first “real” jobs, or maybe going to college, or moving away from home: I know it can be really scary and dysphoric, especially since a lot of us haven’t been able to/just don’t want to medically transition, or perhaps you are still closeted. But I am here to tell you, it really doesn’t matter if you pass, or if strangers gender you correctly every time, because the way you’re percieved by other people really doesn’t change the fact that you ARE YOU, you ARE the gender you feel you are, and you are super valid! We’ll get through this mess, and we will kick the world’s ass together! I am proud of you, and I love you, and I totally believe that you can do this. You are so much more than the world’s perception of you. Now let’s turn on that playlist that makes us feel good, throw on our binders and dysphoria hoodies if we need to, and face life with pride and belief in ourselves!

[nattousan]

*doom music starts to play* I actually kindof like scheduling these kinds of appointments now...

but seriously Fellas, don't forget to schedule a pap smear every couple of years just in case. If you still have a cervix you can still get cervical cancer. ilu

this has been a psa

[anarcho-catboyism]

Idk what trans man needs to hear this but you're NOT evil or disgusting for being a man. You do NOT have to suffer for the sins of the patriarchy committed by cis dudes. Being a man doesn't invalidate the misogyny you experienced growing up or experience now. Being a man doesn't mean you deserve to be isolated. Being a man doesn't mean you're inherently predatory or scary. You didn't "choose" this, and finding your true self is NOT "betraying the community" because you happen to be a man and/or masculine rather than a woman and/or feminine. You ARE allowed to be upset when people "affirm" your gender by malgendering you.

You DO deserve a community that uplifts you. You DO deserve to experience trans joy. You DO deserve to have your voices heard and your struggles recognized. Wanting the bare minimum of solidarity is NOT "making everything about trans men".

[floral-ashes]

Someone anonymously messaged me to tell me that writing about detrans folks makes me a traitor to trans people, because all detrans people want to push conversion therapy on us and forcibly detransition us.

That’s precisely the kind of narrative that ends up pushing detransitioners into the arms of TERFs and the religious far-right.

There’s nothing inherently wrong with detransitioning. Sometimes people realize that transitioning no longer suits them, or never really did. And that’s fine.

When we systematically push them away regardless of their politics, we make people feel like the only places they can get support are among transphobes. That’s not a good thing. Building de/trans solidarity is an critical tool for disarming anti-trans movements.

[brooke2valley]

Ya see the difference? 🤭 💕

It's less of a "I look wrong" now and more of a "oh I need to clean myself up" lol it gets better.

Promise ❤️

[shamelesslyimpurrfect]

(X)

[corvid-on-the-rock]

hug a trans dude today. tell him he looks good. tell him you see him and value him. ask him about his gender. ask him about his day. ask him about how he's doing. ask him about his hopes for the future. connect with him. please.

[intersexfairy]

fat transmascs can you use this post to share your transition timeline or before/afters? or just some gender euphoric selfies? fat transmasc joy and glowup post please? 🥺

(rb for boost if u want)

[our-transmasculine-experience]

i wish every transmasc a funky button up for the summer

[messy-di-voce]

Just a reminder that you (yes, you) are always queer enough. While yes it can be a spectrum, if you fall anywhere on it you have the right to identify as such. There’s so such thing as being more bisexual or more asexual than someone else. You also can’t be a bad aromantic or a bad pansexual.

You just are. And that’s enough :)

[frostralia]

You don't owe anybody femininity. If you don’t feel like shaving today, that's fine. Facial hair doesn't make you any less of a woman.

💋 Fabulous Frost Nicoletti XoXo

[sunnygang]

i didn't see anything on my dash yet, so—

[animentality]

[clowningcrows]

goes to a bottom surgery consultation and asks for this guy as my new peanis

[floral-ashes]

The fact that leagues of smart and rational trans adults who are informed about the evidence base for puberty blockers wish they could’ve taken them in their youth seems to me pretty darn conclusive evidence that the balance of risk and benefit is favourable.

[little-grey-dowitcher]

People freaking out when I say I’m nonbinary is so funny. “You’re gonna destroy your body with hormones?! The harm will be irreversible!” Fools. I don’t need HRT to be affirmed. My gender affirming care is dressing like a Y2K femboy. My gender affirming care is swapping my voice between masc and femme every two minutes to cause problems at the family function. My gender affirming care is watching transphobes trip over themselves to try to misgender me but accidentally affirming me in the process. My gender affirming care is pure chaos.