#shdbsjjsnaks not even mentioning how I held the word transgender in my mouth from like second grade to college | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

letsoulswander · 2 years ago

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[ID: a TikTok screenshot of a teenager clapping with the caption “Me when I get yelled at for asking the trans kid why he named himself Kevin and not something cool like Goku or Megatron”. End ID.]

Do high school kids these days just have trans classmates now. Like I keep seeing zoomer posts casually referring to it. Fucking wild if true.

#i went to school with a kid who shared my birth name #and I kinda. immediately understood that they were a tom boy and their older sister told me that they used to swim with a shirt off when #-they were tiny #and I was like. do you know what transgender is?#and their sister shut me down so fast #I didn’t know enough to know how many people in my school would have hated me for that #like I was just. wow that sounds unpleasant. hey I know this niche word?#idk I was like in second grade #I never wound up talking to them about it because of that but I hope they’ve had a chance to consider it at least #I hope the world has changed enough to give them that option #shdbsjjsnaks not even mentioning how I held the word transgender in my mouth from like second grade to college #and knew after a little while that I had to swallow it to keep myself safe #I know cis people have their own problems. but #knowing that no one was seeing me correctly for years… it hurt #also I think that’s why I don’t like photos of myself #anyway sorry for the ramble #may you live in interesting tags #cap #don’t copy my tags they’re for my blog only

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