#unapologetically trans

[nico-thenecromancer]

This is genuinely so stunning and just raw and personal holy shit I'm in awe.

This honestly makes me feel so seen and a body like mine just being so projected into the world in this way like this is just so ahhhh.

happy tdov, y'all

i'm from texas and i had to move away after coming out in middle school, due to it being unsafe to be a trans man in texas. with the recent news going on i wanted to put this in bluebonnet fields. i hope everyone else doesn't forget about trans rights for rural and southern people, because it really does feel like a whole other world between city and country sometimes and we have got a lot of work to do

[id: a trans man in a field of bluebonnets. he has a cigarette and a cowboy hat, which is tipped over his face. he is pre-op, and shirtless, with blue jeans on. he is reclining and wrapped in a trans flag. /end id]

[jraqn]

a gay wet cat and a trans kid fuck shit up, become a family, and overthrow a religious institution whats not to love

[venice-1987]

Let. Trans. Men. Be. ANGRY

[r4v3nzcr0ws]

Hi, sorry to bother you, but I'm curious, why do you consider yourself a transmasc girl? And how did you find out? (Asking bc I've been thinking about considering myself one as well)

hi thank you for asking!! i did not expect my post abt it too get as much traction as it did but im glad the majority of people supportive.

apologies for the paragraphs this is basically my whole transition story

ive considered myself trans for about 7 years and ive pingponged around a lot of identites but i spent the majority of it considering myself a bianary trans guy and when i did i felt just generally yucky. like i had just moved from one set of gender roles for another. i stuck with masc terms and he/him for a lot longer than i wanted to bc i thought if i was non bianary people would just think i was detransitioning when i wasnt.

i found out more about being bigender/genderfluid this year and started considering that as my identity. ive always been ashamed of liking the feminine parts about my body and my identity because i felt like it invalidated the masculine parts and that it was "proof" that i wasnt actually trans. i started calling myself a transmasc girl because i wanted to reclaim the parts of myself that i was told werent compatible with transmasculinity. i think the times i feel the most gender euphoria are when people use contradictory gendered terms for me. like when people say "shes my boyfriend" or "hes my wife", THAT is me

TLDR: people told me i couldnt be a boy and a girl at the same time so obviously i had to become androgynous-er in response

[thelovers-thedreamers-and-me]

ok but like anyone here gay

[xan-the-emo-trans-man]

I know it’s a joke when people are like “oh men are gross” and “oh men suck” and “you like men? I’m so sorry for you” and it’s funny and all but at a certain point it just makes me sad

let’s stop shaming people for liking guys, it’s not sinful or wrong compared to liking women. Liking women doesn’t make you any better of a person, it’s just your preference

I have a lot of internalized homophobia from this notion because I thought I had to force myself to like girls in order to fit in with my friends and I felt ashamed of being gay. But I AM gay, I love men, I love loving men as a man

espically being a trans man, I feel like I’m not even allowed to like men or I’m not a real guy. we shame gay guys for liking men and not women and we also shame bisexual women if they have a preference for men and not girls

why don’t we just let people exist and like what they want? Stop shaming people for liking men!! It doesn’t make you cool. Thanks <3

TLDR: stop shaming people for liking men and making them ashamed of themselves, you’re an asshole (respectfully). Love y’all and respect each other <3

[torchickentacos]

Being as you were a Percy Jackson kid, which god/dess do you think would be your parent if you were a demi-god?

I have not taken those buzzfeed quizzes since like ninth grade lol but I remember I always either got Aphrodite or Poseidon. I'm so rusty on these books because it's been so long, but I remember feeling very seen by the whole Poseidon thing. It's hard to tell how much of that was relating to poseidon stuff specifically and how much of it was just, like, Percy ALSO being an at-the-time middle schooler with authority issues lmfao. A lot of the percy jackson books rang true for me, especially the first series- I had one teacher who called me 'defiant and oppositional' and 'my own worst enemy' at every single turn, so I really related to the whole 'troubled kid' thing. It felt 1:1 and I think a lot of the kinship I felt with the poseidon cabin placement was probably moreso just 13 year old me feeling seen by a character for the first real time, and that character (Percy) was also in the poseidon cabin.

Sort of piggybacking off of the context of this ask and what prompted it though (HP, see my last post), this is why good representation and caring portrayals is IMPORTANT. I had a positive experience with the PJO series- it showed a troubled kid with a weird home life that was able to find strengths in the things that previously just got him in trouble most of the time. I was a little too old for this next experience (already knew I was bi for years before the nico stuff) but I know that a LOT of queer kids found solidarity with Nico DiAngelo as their first real introduction to queerness. I haven't kept up much but I know Rick Riordan has written a lot of queer and bipoc characters since and really leaned into his role of 'guy who makes middle schoolers whose best friends are their librarians feel understood'. I think contrasting that with other authors who have leaned more into 'I think trans people shouldn't exist', it's... you know. A stark difference. I think my positive experience of having been a PJO kid is part of why I feel so strongly about the HP thing. I've been on the receiving end of why good rep is important, and I can't imagine how I would have felt if I'd loved these books and Rick then went on twitter eight years later like 'yeah i think [group of people] should be denied medical care and not exist btw'. Ya know?

[deadlypincers]

The Transmasc King of the Iron Fist.....

Kazuyaaaaa Mishimaaaaa!

.....

KAZUYA PLEASE PUT A SHIRT ON YOU'RE DISTRACTING EVERYONE WITH YOUR BAZONGAS

But yeah. My headcanon is that he totally entered the first tournament like this... at least he wanted until they told him he couldn't because of dress codes and stuff. Lee was also vocal about it....

Anyways, the original transmasc Tekken icon. Congrats on his transition!

(I sincerely hope Tumblr won't nuke this because of transmasc chest...)

[61below]

I don’t have a picture of it, but back during the lockdown, one of the local restaurants put FUCK WALZ on their scrolling billboard.

I don’t think I can think of a better justification for supporting the guy. Hear me out: he knew that shutting down the state would be unpopular. But he did it anyway, bc he knew it was the right thing to do.

[astranauticus]

"Yeh Yung-chih (葉永鋕) [...] attended Gaoshu Junior High School in Pingtung County, Taiwan, and was often bullied by his classmates due to his gender non-conformity. In April 2000, Yeh Yung-chih was found lying in a pool of blood with serious injuries and died after being taken to the hospital. The incident led to extensive discussions about gender equality education in Taiwan."

Translation under cut:

玫瑰少年 - 蔡依林

Womxnly - Jolin Tsai

谁把谁的灵魂 装进谁的身体

Who put which souls into which bodies

谁把谁的身体 变成囹圄囚禁自己

Who turned their bodies into prisons for the self

乱世总是最 不缺耳语

Troubled times are never short of whisperings

哪种美丽会 换来妒忌

What kind of beauty is rewarded with jealousy?

你并没有罪 有罪的是这世界

You did nothing wrong, the wrongs are with this world

生而为人无罪 你不需要抱歉

Nobody is born with sin, you have nothing to apologise for

One day I will be you, baby boy and you gon'be me

喧哗如果不停 让我陪你安静

If the noise won't stop, let me accompany you in silence

I wish I could hug you, till you're really really being free

哪朵玫瑰没有荆棘

What rose is not accompanied by thorns?

最好的 报复是 美丽

Your best revenge is beauty

最美的 盛开是 反击

Your greatest blooms are your retaliation

别让谁去 改变了你

Don't let anyone change who you are

你是你 或是妳 都行

You can be man or woman, it doesn't matter

会有人 全心的 爱你

There will be people who will truly love you

试着想像 you switched to his body

Try to imagine, you switched to his body

Sexuality 当心什么会伤你

Sexuality, be careful of what will hurt you

多少次的重伤 多少次的冷语

How many severe wounds, how many cold words

Drowning 谁会拉你

Who will pull you up when you're drowning?

Dreaming 谁会陪你

Who will be with you when you're dreaming?

Same shit happens every day

你离开后 世界可改变

Has the world changed after you are gone?

多少无知罪愆 事过不境迁

How many ignorant faults are forgotten as the world moves on?

永志不忘纪念 往事不如烟

Never forget Yung-chih, don't let the past fade away

生而为人无罪 你不需要抱歉

Nobody is born with sin, you have nothing to apologise for

One day I will be you, baby boy and you gon'be me

喧哗如果不停 让我陪你安静

If the noise won't stop, let me accompany you in silence

I wish I could hug you, till you're really really being free

哪朵玫瑰没有荆棘

What rose is not accompanied by thorns?

最好的 报复是 美丽

Your best revenge is beauty

最美的 盛开是 反击

Your greatest blooms are your retaliation

别让谁去 改变了你

Don't let anyone change who you are

你是你 或是妳 都行

You can be man or woman, it doesn't matter

会有人 全心的 爱你

There will be people who will truly love you

玫瑰少年 在我心里

The rose youth lives on in my heart

绽放著 鲜艳的 传奇

Blooming into a beautiful legends

我们都 从来没 忘记

That we have never forgotten

你的控诉 没有声音

Your accusations are silent

却倾诉 更多的 真理

Yet they convey greater truths

却唤醒 无数的 真心

Yet they have awoken countless hearts

哪朵玫瑰没有荆棘

What rose is not accompanied by thorns?

最好的 报复是 美丽

Your best revenge is beauty

最美的 盛开是 反击

Your greatest blooms are your retaliation

别让谁去 改变了你

Don't let anyone change who you are

你是你 或是妳 都行

You can be man or woman, it doesn't matter

会有人 全心的 爱你

There will be people who will truly love you

玫瑰少年 在我心里

The rose youth lives on in my heart

玫瑰少年 在我心里

The rose youth lives on in my heart

[hazel2468]

Just my personal opinion but I think that if you are a Jew and also a TERF/rad-fem/transphobe then you're a fucking disgrace and a shame unto us all.

[evildilf2]

Waking up with several paragraphs in my inbox defending a blogger I dislike….

[atlasisntdead]

I'm starting to look too conventionally feminine again and it's bothering me mainly bcz I'm treated noticeably better for it socially

[scrambleseggy]

I think there’s something also sadly ironic about the fact people say trans men hold up the patriarchy or are often toxic when very often those behaviors are literally encouraged as “checklists to be considered a man” —

People target young trans men often in their binder stages as “transtrenders” and mock them relentlessly on the internet for being “too soft” … So which is it? Do you want trans men to be toxic manly men or do you want them to simply just be trans men? Because it seems to me even the LGBTQ+ community encourages toxic masculinity to be considered a “real man” and not an “attack helicopter.”

I just want people to digest this.

Because you can make fun of “you’re valid 🩷🩵🤍” all you want, but this is often the only place someone young could identify as trans without having to be bullied for their love of those around them who may not fit in. Some of ya’ll wanna say trans men are toxic but don’t even realize that’s exactly what you expect them to be, because otherwise, they’re “fakers” right? They’re trying to “ruin the community” right? Literally using the same tactics our parents did on us and those we even know and date through our lives…

Like c’mon ya’ll. Give me a break. You cannot tell me that the mean-spirited nature of the internet has not perpetuated these harmful stereotypes against a very specific group of young trans people for often very obvious reasons no ones willing to admit.

If you want trans men to have healthier relationships with themselves and others, maybe start breaking down why all your expectations of them fall under the very things you use to act like they don’t belong in the community.

[lavenderuraniumglass]

This may seem like there's dark days ahead (and there is) but..

Please, for your mental health, get some rest. Practice self care. Love yourself. Everything will be okay. Keep on fighting for what you believe in. Keep on taking up space. Keep living your unapoligetic beautiful lives without giving any fucks.

Be you.

Keep dancing.

We will survive.

I love you.

❤️‍🔥

[ugli-ly]

not to be sappy but anytime i see a trans woman in public something inside me heals