crawl through the shadows, call out the wonder

goodbye $200 helloooo 3 groceries

ive had trans men ask me before how to overcome the insecurity/fear that they are transitioning just to escape misogynist treatment and wondering about the validity of their identity. the simple solution is that u must continue to engage and fight misogyny even when you are not a woman. prove your fear wrong

u really cannot out-validate an insecurity that u do not do the work to fight against the structure that supports it u know. i am the gender i am simply because it looked fucking yummy. the reason i dont experience doubts w it in this way is because any time i do i turn around to face the thing im 'running from' and punch it

the opposite is also never asked of cis women - if misogyny affects you so much, why not just transition to a man? this is because cis people's genders are treated as legitimate-by-default. there is a broader recognition that gender (for cis people) is not this rationalistic gambit where you choose what gender to be based on which debuffs and power-ups you want in life. this "debate" about trans people's fraudulent relationship to misogyny is about as good faith as that PragerU video arguing that the gender pay gap can't be real, because otherwise companies would simply hire exclusively women to lower labour costs. checkmate liberals

I don't care how bad life gets i'm not watching Love Island