#trans stories

[newlevant]

Preview of Sam Long’s story, drawn by the amazing Cynthia Yuan Cheng! (@cynthiaycheng, cynthiaycheng.com)

Becoming Who We Are Kickstarter ends Dec 14! Preorder now to help us fund the book!

bit.ly/becomingkickstarter

[farmerlesbian]

I just heard about this website called TransRural Lives which just went live! Go check it out! You can also find them on Instagram, Facebook, and Youtube.

"A digital storytelling project exploring and celebrating the lives of transgender older adults who live in or have strong ties to rural areas and small towns in the Pacific Northwest."

The stories are audio recordings from the trans elders themselves, and I find it incredible to listen to their stories and literally hear their voices. This is definitely worth checking out and maybe even getting connected and sharing your story. You will also find a variety of resources and archives on the website. Check it out!

If you want to get involved, they're taking volunteers, donations, help to spread the word, and stories from rural trans people. Here's some info from the website on who they are looking to hear stories from:

Who is eligible to participate in the project? 

Transgender* adults 50 years of age and older who live in or have strong ties to rural areas and smaller cities/towns in Washington State (outside the Sea-Tac metro). In 2024, we will be expanding the project to include transgender older adults who live in Oregon, Idaho, western Montana, and British Columbia.  

* We include and welcome anyone and any identity that falls outside the gender binary, including nonbinary, genderqueer, gender-diverse, gender non-conforming, and Two-Spirit folks. 

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Edit to add: I am in no way associated or affiliated with this project. I simply came across it while surfin' the web and thought yall would be into it and wanted to share it with tumblr! If you have thoughts or feedback or want to get involved or just want to talk to the project, I encourage you to reach out to them. Check out the website! I have zero affiliation with it.

[cholerascum]

like anyone can hide sweet stories from me in the tags

@lost-estradiographer

if you have sweet stories about transing your genders please by all means share them I would love to hear them

[0x-hazel]

Hazel's Book Club

Welcome to the second installment of my story reviewing thread! Today's thread has the theme of "kinda stressful stories with troubled protagonists" I guess? it sounds a bit morbid but they're good stories so stick with it (if you want, absolutely no pressure there ^w^)

Up first, The Objectively Most Rational Decision, by The_Luce. The titular decision is, of course, to transition, even though you're just a [redacted]. The story follows a terrible person very spiky egg taking the only logical step to making their life easier. which it will be, obviously. CW for incel/4chan terminology and thinking, references to a whole bunch of bigoted shit (naturally), sexual content.

Secondly, Be a Girl by @zemathememequeen. this one is a modern light fantasy (objectively a bunch of people have superpowers but it's really easy to forget that?) story about a "boy" who gains the magical power to turn anyone into a girl! which obviously goes disastrously wrong when the majority of their accidental targets are cis, and it doesn't even work on themselves :< . It's a rather intense story and gets very depressing in parts, but the final part is beginning now and it's looking a lot more upbeat. But CW for transphobia, depression and dysphoria, and abuse.

Thirdly, and a surprise addition to this post when I realised it fits the theme, is Joobie's Witch Hunt, about a vampire trying to control their hunger, a band of charismatic troublemakers, and the investigation of a sinister plot perhaps? Similarly to the previous story it gets very heavy but also has since lightened up a lot, and I wholeheartedly recommend it. CW A lot of self deprecation and hate, (depression, dysphoria, the usual), bigotry, violence and death.

Finally, special mention to Nexus Alpha by @elamimax. This one is smut, it contains graphic depictions of sex and kink, so obviously do not read if you aren't comfortable with that. But if you are, damn this is good, and I mostly wanted to put it here so that I could remind my friends it's started updating again ;3c . CW violence, intense power dynamics, mindfuckery, bondage and highly graphic sexual content. Oh yeah also big fuckoff mech battles but I feel like those disclaimers should come first.

And that wraps up this installment of the book club! Hope you enjoy some of the stories I recommend~

[bookshelvesandtealeaves]

🏳️‍⚧️ TRANS AWARENESS WEEK 🏳️‍⚧️

Trans lives matter. Trans healthcare matters. There are things happening in lawmaking right now the world over that are truly scary for trans people. Hold your loved ones close. We WILL survive this.

Whether you’re out, closeted or questioning, you are LOVED and you are WORTHY OF LOVE.

I’ve put together a stack of some of my 4.5-5 star reads with trans and gender diverse MC’s, and a second slide with some I don’t own but would otherwise be included in this stack.

[instagram]

Books pictured:

Slide 1:

🏳️‍⚧️ Love & Other Disasters by Anita Kelly

🏳️‍⚧️ A Lady for a Duke by Alexis Hall

🏳️‍⚧️ Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender

🏳️‍⚧️ The Sunbearer Trials by Aiden Thomas

🏳️‍⚧️ A Prayer for the Crown-Shy by Becky Chambers

🏳️‍⚧️ I Shall Never Fall in Love by Hari Conner

🏳️‍⚧️ Mooncakes by Suzanne Walker and Wendy Xu

🏳️‍⚧️ The Many Half-Lived Lives of Sam Sylvester by Maya McGregor

🏳️‍⚧️ Honeybee by Craig Silvey

🏳️‍⚧️ Foul Lady Fortune by Chloe Gong

🏳️‍⚧️ The Shadow Cabinet by Juno Dawson

🏳️‍⚧️ The Pairing by Casey McQuiston

Slide 2:

🏳️‍⚧️ Everything Under the Moon anthology

🏳️‍⚧️ Unexploded Remnants by Elaine Gallagher

🏳️‍⚧️ The Wicked Bargain by Gabe Cole Novoa

🏳️‍⚧️ Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe

🏳️‍⚧️ The Passing Playbook by Isaac Fitzsimmons

🏳️‍⚧️ Okay, Cupid by Mason Deaver

[tincanaudio]

I decided to challenge myself this weekend and turn one of my live audio pieces into a video! It's a short piece about names, and the odd relationship I have with my own.

I want to make more of these small, one-shot stories. I found working on my piece for Short Cuts and my documentary for QueerAF this year really creatively fulfilling, and something I want to explore more in the future.

Video editing, however, is something I have to...endure.

[thedollbellaasblog]

Barbie with a cock 🍆🤩

[terrible-eel]

Hey so I am going to be in an anthology! I'm really excited for this book to come out and it would mean the world to me if you sign up to receive an email letting you know when the release date is! Or even just reblogging and sharing this on other platforms would be helpful! This is essentially a Kickstarter and we need to give this as much traction as possible because it may be able to be published in stores if it gets popular enough!

The editor on this project has been wonderful to work with and extremely supportive of my decision to have a trans main character for my contribution which is called "The Witch". The artist working on my story has also been so wonderful but I'm not sure if I can release their name yet.

Just again, please support this work. It's very powerful and pushing for a lot of good things.

[itgetsbetterproject]

🏳️‍⚧️ NEW TRANS FILM ALERT AND IT'S TOOO GOOD! 🏳️‍⚧️

"Within the space of 24 hours, Feña is swept through the extremes of human emotion when people who seemed to disappear when he transitioned are suddenly back in his life."

“ONE OF THE BEST FILMS ABOUT POST-TRANSITION ADJUSTMENT.”

“I HOPE SOMEDAY A TRANS PERSON IS HAVING A CLICHÉ TALK WITH THEIR PARENT AND THINKS, “MY GOD. I FEEL LIKE I’M IN MUTT.”

Here's where it's showing across the U.S.: muttthefilm.com/us-theaters

[newlevant]

Thank you so much to everyone who backed and shared the Kickstarter!! Tumblr users really came through. Shoutout to the person who tagged Neil Gaiman, you’re an MVP! Becoming Who We Are is officially a go 🥳

Still a few days left to preorder, and you can get the Kickstarter-exclusive hardcover edition:

[unluckyungirl]

Funny, dark, nonsequential and unscheduled.

See the new comic on Fable! (Listed as an 18+ title, Adult content must be enabled in your profile settings):

https://x.fables.pro/r/series/unlucky-girl

[blitzsicedcoffee]

So my ultimate goal has always been to actually write a book. And I have this idea that I think is really interesting.

"Big Queer Liminal Train Ride"

It would be paranormal Adult fiction, and the basic premise is that these two queer friends are on their way home during the summer from college. They decided to take the cross country train from the East Coast to their family homes in California.

One main char has a supportive family

One does NOt. Like actively abusive but hadn't really told their friend much about their trauma with it.

So after going their separate ways from other college friends on the East Coast, they board the train.

It's a seemingly normal train. They booked a sleeper car with a bunk bed type situation.

One of the friends starts feeling something 'off" about the train. Number one is like "nah you just want there to be something cause you're a theater major and you love drama bla bla".

Number two swears it just feels like the bad type of butterfly feelings.

Everything starts normal. There might be some QPR going on and friend kissing/touching between the two. Then number one gets a horrible nightmare.

The atmosphere starts to slowly decay on the train. They start to hear voices that taunt them. Prey on insecurities and anxieties. They forcefully learn things about one another.

They are threatened with falling out of the train more than once. one having to save the other. Ending up in trances and seemingly unending nightmares.

They are forced to confront parts of themselves and aspects of their future that they have been avoiding and just dealing with, even if it hurts them and sabatoges themselves in the meantime. (Like unsupportive families, feelings of success, of making others proud, not fulfilling parts of transition due to what others will think)

They stay a QPR. But are way closer after this whole trip. Their actions after they're off the train, reflect what they have gone through.

Would you read it?

[themanirealityshifter]

An argument with my mother about my gender a while ago

Me: “well, i’ve kind of always felt a little wrong for this body”

Her, frantically scrambling for a pen and paper to write ideas down on: “well, what could it have been as a child to make you feel so wrong that you resorted to THAT”

Me now, thinking back on it: “well maybe i’m neurodivergent/possibly autistic too”

(emptying out my drafts, here’s one)

[0x-hazel]

Hazel's Book Club

Hitting it off early with the first entry in this project, the halloween special! Showing off a few short stories with a halloween theme, because it is the time of year for it (and also because a lot of trans people vibe with the idea of dressing up as something or someone else, for whatever reason~)

First story is No Costume Required by MorningStarlight, a cute story about a halloween costume party, and a spell that makes costumes disappear (in a chaste way xP). Content warning for some use of the term s-ssy in a derogatory manner.

Second story of this lot is Another Halloween Story by BreadForBrunch, another halloween costume party story (you may notice a theme going on ;P) this time without any magic, unless you count the magic of friendship and love~ Anyways this one is about a "boy" crossdressing for a party enough to be unrecognisable. It's also longer, so I'm not going to scour it for content warnings but I remember it being rather safe, if a little tense at times.

Third up is The Witchual by @ravenkane, and it's, say it with me now, a story about a halloween costume party! A "boy" crossdresses but ends up at the wrong party, full of actual witches planning to make her feel comfortable :3 Content warning for puns, dysphoria, and light sexual references.

And finally, special mention to the Secret Trans Writing Lair's Autumn Anthologies. 2022 is freely available and highly recommended, and 2024 is available for only $6 to a group of amazing authors who you should definitely support (although I can't comment on this year's stories yet because I have yet to get around to reading them :<)

That concludes our first installment of Hazel's Book Club, I hope you enjoy!!

[azumarocket]

Support my short trans horror film!

Hey all! You might have noticed my lack of new chapters lately (don't worry, they're coming!) and that's for the exciting reason that I've written a short horror film called The Presence!!👻✨ Here's the blurb:

"Ignoring hatred is nothing new to Sara. She’s something of an expert.

But ghosts left alone long enough will do anything for company. Unwatched shadows grow arms and teeth. And eventually, inevitably, something unwelcome pierces the veil and follows her home…

The Presence is a psychological horror that portrays the monster of transphobia through the lens of a support group. Themes explored include the insidious nature of bigotry, the stamina required to fight our own demons, and the vital resilience of community."

I've been working with two amazing professional creatives to make this happen- we have the team, now we just need the funds!

I do appreciate times are tough so even if you can't manage a donation, shares are GREATLY appreciated, as word of mouth is a very powerful force. If you've ever enjoyed my writing or just think this is a neat idea, I'd truly be greatful for any support (I think this is an important story to tell right now!) 🤗🏳️‍⚧️❤️

Donate, share, or find out more here: https://gofund.me/ea579ac0

Much love and thanks for reading!

[acklum]

First Time At Pride

She’s already tired,

everyone cheered on the parade route

as she waved her pink, white and blue

striped flag for them.

She’s had compliments

on her shiny new shoes,

but they’re giving her blisters now,

and no-one has offered her a place to sit.

She feels safe at least, but a bit lost

in this sea of people -

it took so much planning

to get here,

she wishes she could just enjoy it,

and maybe she would

if she didn’t know

that her face powder was clumping

in the heat.

She’s still clutching the damn flag,

can’t find a place to put anything,

she starts to sweat,

and calls herself stupid

for wearing a black dress

on such a sunny day,

her eyes move quickly

looking for a way to escape.

That panicked expression

can be recognised from experience,

so a wide-hipped man in plaid

produces a handkerchief for her face

while his partner picks up her now trailing flag

and folds it into a tight square

which fits neatly into her handbag.

This is all she needs

in order to collect herself again

into the confident woman

she has always been.

-acklum