#protect nonbinary people

[torimidori2-blog]

Happy International Enby Day 💟💛💜🖤

We don't owe you androgyny. Just like any other gender expressions, we have to define what androgyny is ourselves. We exist. We're valid. We matter. Those who don't like it can sit in the corner and cope. 🏳️‍🌈

[thesocialgremlin]

Queers supporting queers because we are stronger together and we are not alone

Transfem to Transmasc solitary must exist as much as any trans solidarity must exist.

Protect my boys.

[our-trans-youth-experience]

Rest in Power, Nex Benedict

A 16 year old kid who loved nature and looking after their cat Zeus. Who enjoyed reading, watching the Walking Dead, and playing Ark and Minecraft. They loved to cook and would often make up their own recipes. They did well in school, being a straight-A student. Rest in power a teen who was human and had interests and ambitions and challenges and friendships. A trans youth who was brutally murdered just for being trans, when that was only a fragment of who they were as a person.

Nex Benedict, Jacob Williamson, Brianna Ghey, and other trans youth like them were real people with real lives. They deserved better, longer, happier lives. They deserved to grow up and not fear for their lives. They deserve to be remembered as who they were, not just as another trans kid who was killed, as people with families and normal human lives.

[bookwyrmsbuttons]

[sleeby-bunny]

the F on my ID stands for fucker. I am a little shit. That is my gender

[uncanny-tranny]

I love you, trans people with intellectual disabilities. You deserve to have the same opportunities as everybody else, and that's because you are a person. You deserve to be happy. Intellectually disabled trans people deserve the exact same respect, recognition, and love that (should be) afforded to everybody else.

Intellectually disabled trans people, you deserve to make your own decisions about your transness. You are allowed to want for transition or to change your name, clothes, hair, pronouns, or anything else. You deserve support and understanding. I hope you are able to receive that. You belong in this world as your true self. Your transness and your disability/disabilities are not bad things - they are good, and they are important.

[linkspersonalhell]

Trans people have existed for centuries and we won’t stop existing

[lgbtq-refugees]

WE’RE STILL FIGHTING – YOUR HELP IS ESSENTIAL NOW MORE THAN EVER

Dear friends, supporters, and kind-hearted souls,

UPDATE ON PINNED POST - 6th MARCH



The reality we face remains as dire as when we first shared our story, and we find ourselves once again reaching out for your compassion. Despite our efforts and the help we’ve received so far, the struggle to survive and continue our journey to Uganda continues.

The situation has not improved. Since the last update, the €420 we received was used as best as we could to help the sick with much-needed medication and to provide a minimal amount of food for the most vulnerable. But with only limited resources, we have barely managed to keep going, and we are still stranded.

We continue to be in desperate need. The goal to reach Uganda, where safety and the possibility of rebuilding our lives await, is still very much out of reach. Every day that passes without enough support puts our survival in jeopardy.

For the 110 of us—and our animals—we are still in urgent need of $55,000 to continue our journey. This will cover transportation, food, and basic survival necessities for the next phase of our journey. If we don’t raise the full amount, we will have to make impossible decisions about who gets to leave, with the most vulnerable prioritized. https://gofund.me/12c12ab7

We ask you to consider supporting us once again. Even the smallest contribution will help us move forward. If you cannot donate, please share this with others who may be able to help. Together, we can make this journey possible.

Please don’t let our hope fade. We are still here, and we are still fighting for the future of our children and our community. Your kindness means everything to us.

Thank you for your unwavering support. We will not give up.

With heartfelt gratitude,

The Crying Community

From Sudan → South Sudan → Destination

[torimidori2-blog]

Transmasc people experience misogyny

Surprise! You thought that just because sometimes we identify as men, wear masculine clothes, use he/him/his pronouns, take testosterone, or pass as male socially means that we're immune to that bullshit? Listen to yourselves talk for just a second and pay attention to what you're saying because believing this is not really helping anyone's case. We were literally born into this world assigned female at birth and we had to experience misogyny ever since that point. It's instilled in us that we are girls because of what genitals we're born with, and because of that, people feel like they're entitled to treat us a certain way, whether we were taught that by our mothers who want to protect us from misogynists or the misogynists themselves. Just because we identify as trans, doesn't mean that any of that shit is ever gonna go away, because misogynists will always believe no matter who we identify as, no matter what we say, and no matter how we express ourselves, that we are crazy women who need to be kept in their place. I'm not trying to say that transmascs suffer more than transfemmes. Far from that actually, since misogyny is also targeted towards them too. Transfemmes experience the same misogyny slathered in a blue coat of paint. Misogynistic cishet men see femininity as a weakness, and they also see having a penis as a sign of masculinity, strength and power, so when they see an amab person express femininity in any way, shape or form, their brains explode because they can't picture anything else but "bIg StRoNg MaN wItH pEe PeE gEt LaId PrEtTy GuRl AnD gEt MoNeY", which they use as a means to justify harassing, maiming, and killing transfemmes everywhere. It's the same fucking thing in a different fucking format, but it ends in the suffering of all trans people. Stop making trans suffering a pissing contest. We don't need that now. We need to stick together and try to get rid of the problem at hand, instead of fighting about how transfemmes suffer more than transmascs because blah blah blah blah... It's just like if me and someone I knew got kidnapped and tortured by the same guy and instead of focusing on calling for help or finding a way to escape, we argue about who got tortured the worst. It doesn't solve anything, it undermines the suffering of the person I'm arguing with, it's a waste of time, and in certain circumstances it can make things worse. Can we please focus on our needs as the trans community without being exclusionary? I'm sick and tired of our suffering being invalidated by the same fucking community that we're supposed to be a part of. Also, to all the non-binary people who are androgynous, gender neutral, genderfluid, agender, ect: You are affected by misgyny too. We're all in this shitstorm together.

[tobyunreal]

transgender kids are valid and real

transgender teens are valid and real

socially transitioned transgender men are valid

socially transitioned transgender women are valid

nonbinary people and anyone under the nonbinary umbrella are valid

you dont need surgery to be trans

protect trans kids.

[mothmans-cumrag]

Am I the only trans*/nonbinary German who is already constructing a plan where to move to and what to take with you in case we lose the country to fascism again?

[our-trans-youth-experience]

A message from @EzButler on youtube (british trans guy he/him, makes great content). It's bleak. Be angry, be upset, and stay here - for you, for the trans community, or just out of spite.

[bli-o]

i really think people need to understand someone’s gender can be entirely unique to themselves.

Not in a “genderless” way and not in a “unlabeled” way and not in a “neogender” way but in a way where your gender is entirely defined by you.

Am i a boy? A girl? Nonbinary? Agender? Polygender? Genderfluid? I am blio. What is blio? Blio is Blio.

i call myself nonbinary because I am in fact outside of the gender binary. But my gender? Entirely defined by me.

[eekahchu]

I have some thoughts about the whole trans athletes ban bs.

When I played soccer in school we often scrimmaged against and with actual boys twice my size (I was under 5' and about 105lbs at the time) and we even had a co-ed varsity team. Never ONCE did I or any of the girls complain or think it was unfair. The girls on the co-ed varsity team were incredible and completely equal in ability to the best of the boys. (If not better imo) They won many games. I remember watching those girls play with great admiration. I am now trans-nonbinary and it amazes me how quickly transphobes will accept and parrot the lie that women and girls are inferior in every way to men if it means trans people will suffer. The girls on our team were fucking TOUGH and would have thrown a FIT had you insinuated that to them! "ANYTHING YOU CAN DO, I CAN DO BETTER!" Until trans people are involved, apparently. Then suddenly they're poor, pitiful victims who just can’t be expected to compete with “men”. GET A GRIP, LADIES!

**I have been corrected by a friend who was also on the team at the time (and the coach's daughter)** Our soccer team was completely co-ed until our sophomore year of high school when the girls team was established. I started in 7th grade and don't remember ever hearing any complaints.

I was not personally very good at soccer but neither were some of the boys. Your assigned sex at birth plays NO part in your athletic ability! Just let people play sports! I find it especially telling that they even separate sports like CHESS on the basis of gender and want to ban trans people from that, as well. It's not just athletic ability transphobes believe sex assigned at birth gives you an unfair advantage or disadvantage to, but intelligence too! The internalized misogyny is so sad and pathetic.

I grew up with commercials like this. So many people who also grew up with this message and were taught to embrace that "fuck you energy" in sports and life are now crying about how "unfair" it is that they may have to play against a trans person??? BOO fucking HOO, princess!

[uncanny-tranny]

Important tip for trans men/transmascs/whoever needs the reminder: Even if you pass as a man to cis people, you still need to have either some form of self-protection on you (e.g., mace, knives (if you can use them effectively), ect.) or know some form of self-defense. Please take it from me, you don't know what will happen out there at any given time.

You might assume that if you pass as a cis man to cis people, you will be safe from any harm. While I wish that were true, it simply isn't the world most of us live in. Please do whatever you can to protect yourself out there.

[tuttle-did-it]

Trans, intersex, non-binary people in the UK who are, like me, feeling very afraid-- and livid-- about everything going on right now.

People like Nicola Coughlin, and other people are donating to organisations in support of us.

Jameela Jamil has recently posted a criticism of the sadistic new law, and support for us.

I am trying to remind myself that people are fighting this. People are speaking out. People are supporting us. I'm trying to remind myself that we are not alone.