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I'm seeing this really annoying trend of people who dont wanna be called queer turning round and calling people who do "kweers" as an insult?? Like that is extremely inappropriate and frankly it's worse than just calling people it as an umbrella term because you're actually using it as an insult. Changing the spelling doesnt change shit, like just cut it out.

Good call. The fact is a lot of the time in early queer communities there was nowhere near the distinction between orientation and gender. And that is probably exactly why there’s no first hand sources I can find on the topic - it simply wasn’t a relevant issue to the people involved first hand.

Sylvia Rivera called herself a drag queen and a gay man too, yet was openly trans and on HRT at the end of her life. Insisting there’s no possible way Marsha could have been trans just because she called herself a gay man at one point is erasing that Sylvia did the exact same thing. Transgender just wasn’t a term commonly used at all at that time and people don’t get that.

look i really don’t care if my dysphoria is caused by some internalized whatever ok? life is short and im a monkey on a rock with only a fraction of an understanding of the depth of the universe lemme cut off my tit if that soothes my monkey brain

For most of my life, I genuinely thought that chopping off my breasts was the only thing that could soothe my monkey brain. Few years later, it’s soothed without surgery and I don’t even bind anymore. Turns out our monkey brain is pretty flexible if we allow it to change and heal.

I already spent multiple years identifying as detransitioned and denying myself. Personally I didn't find it helpful, but its nice that you did.

Any mental health treatment that communicates “you are disordered and the world is normal, so success means integrating into those norms” has as its goal social control, not healing

BuT wE cAn AlWaYs TeLl

I hate having a body, it’s so high maintenance! Shower this, eat that, drink this, sleep that, it’s all very stupid

the mountain goats are the band to listen to if you’re looking for hyper-specific depictions of very dark times in your life told through metaphors about grocery stores and wrestling

yeah I’m a nonpracticing woman. I was raised female but I don’t really believe anymore yknow?