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seeing trans ppl in public is literally life giving. wish there was a normal way to express to other trans people in public that we’re family and that i love them
that’s why i go out of my way to wear lgbtq+ pride pins
it’s subtle, but other people in the lgbtq will notice.
i mean yeah, i do love wearing them for personal pride— but i also wear them to show that you’re safe, you’re cared about, you’re loved.
again, it’s very subtle. but it goes a long way
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Do you get it yet? 😅
(Reupload) Still a girl no matter what I’m wearing xP
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everyone hates orange until they actually see her in context. “oh it’s such an ugly color, too bright!” look at sunsets and autumn, look at campfires and deserts. she’s the most beautiful and special part of the scene. now apologize.
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Image Description: The “I bring a sort of X vibe to X that X don’t really like” edited to say “I bring a sort of all these rules are made up vibe to sexuality and gender that exclusionists don’t really like”
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Nonbinary people don’t owe you androgyny
Transgender men don’t owe you masculinity
Transgender women don’t owe you feminity
Transgender people don’t owe you gender-aligning pronouns
Genderqueer people don’t owe you gender fuckery
Genderfucks don’t owe you a ‘weirdcore gender’
Xenogenders don’t owe you perfect explanations
Genderfluid people don’t owe you just one gender
Gay men don’t owe you a 'James Charles personality’
Lesbians don’t owe you acceptance of your catcalls
Bisexuals don’t owe you the denial of their legitimacy
Pansexuals don’t owe you to identify as anything other than what they want
Pomosexuals don’t owe you a label
Spectrumsensuals don’t owe you acknowledgement
Abrosexuals don’t owe you just one sexuality
Sapphics don’t owe you their history
Androsexuals don’t owe you to 'just be gay/straight’
Gynosexuals don’t owe you to 'just be lesbian/straight’
Asexuals don’t owe you to 'grow out of it’
Aromantics don’t owe you affection
Skoliosexuals don’t owe you acceptance of your harassment
The legitimate definition for dreamsexual doesn’t owe you to be silenced by the weirdo who made the cringe definition
Aegosexuals don’t owe you their fine line
Polyamorous people don’t owe you how their relationship works
Ambiamorous people don’t owe you any excuses
Maveriques don’t owe you 'just being nonbinary’
Agender people don’t owe you a gender
Paragender people don’t owe you a binary gender
Demigender people don’t owe you anything but themselves
LGBTQ+ people in every way, don’t owe you jackshit.
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Just saying that like. If you are cis and you want transitional care. If you want vaginoplasty while still being a cis man or phalloplasty while still being a cis woman or feminizing or masculinizing hormones or top surgery or lazer hair removal or anything, anything, anything whatsoever, if there’s a part of your body that you want to change but you do not feel compelled to change your gender itself. That’s actually super cool and fine. You’re not taking anything away from trans people and in fact are contributing to normalizing the blurring of distinct gendered lines. Cis men who look like our idea of women because that’s how they want to look. Cis women who look like our idea of men because that’s how they want to look. And they’re all cis. That’s super cool and sexy and awesome and if you are that person and you feel like you need permission from trans people to be that person this is me as a trans person giving you that permission. You don’t need it because you can do whatever you want forever but if you feel like you do, this is your permission slip signed by an actual trans person.
By the way this goes for cisallohet people too you don’t have to be queer in any way at all to want this you can just be this. And if you change your mind later and decide you do want to change your gender that’s your business and nothing means you have to if that’s not what will make you happy. When it comes to your gender and gender presentation you should do what will make you happy and figure out the labels as you go, even if those labels are cisallohet.
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I know SEVERAL afab nonbinary people who, as soon as they came out as nonbinary - immediately began dressing in ridiculous hyper-femme outfits they never would have worn before. A lot of people see this and say shit like “Theyfab” or say they are only nonbinary for attention. After all, look how femme they are.
But to me, this makes perfect sense. When you are forced into the category of “woman” against your will, femininity is a chore. It’s a job that you have. As soon as you say no, I’m not a woman, suddenly femininity isn’t your job anymore. It’s not a requirement. It’s just a fun hobby you can get into. Or a little treat sometimes.
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oh-shit-i-spilled-my-genderfluid:
The fact that god did not give me the gift of shapeshifting, to be able to turn from a beautiful high-femme lady to a completely androgynous person to a handsome masculine bearded man, is truly an act of transphobia
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body neutrality is NOT, “so long as you’re happy and healthy, your body is a good body”. it’s about getting rid of the idea of a “good body” at all. it’s saying that your body is A BODY, and having a body is a neutral feature of all humans. it’s saying that specific bodies shouldn’t be focussed on more than others, because all bodies are bodies
when you say “so long as you’re happy and healthy”, you’re not actually helping. because. unless you’ve put in the hard work of deconstructing what you think “happiness” and “healthiness” look like, I can guarantee “happy and healthy” is just going to loop back to ableism and fatphobia
per @chemical-x-glitch : “I am unhappy and unhealthy and I still do not deserve to be shamed for anything about my body”
YES! that is what I’m trying to say here! I am disabled and mentally ill. sometimes I’m unhappy, and I’m probably never the picture of “health”. while the phrase “so long as you’re happy and healthy” may seem like a neutral thing to say, it’s still (at its root) shaming certain kinds of bodies… the bodies that aren’t their version of happy and/or healthy
it’s also a perception thing, right? I could probably go along pretending that I’m happy and (mostly) healthy. but there are people who very much ARE happy and healthy who might be judged otherwise, because we still have a very strict view of what happiness and health look like
anyway. there should be absolutely zero barriers someone has to overcome before they earn the right to not be shamed about their body. you do not have to be happy and healthy. your body is a body, and therefore not deserving of shame!
