He/They

CIS ME

this list is not in any order, and i am not familiar with most of these artists, so an inclusion on this is not an endorsement of anything! if ive made a mistake anywhere, just let me know!

schmekel - transmasc jewish folk band (they seem to have deleted the majority of their music off most platforms, unsure why? but this link is to a playlist of re-uploads)

exiliahu - very vocally pro-palestine jewish trans man

noah finnce - british trans man, pop rock

ellyotto - canadian trans man, hyperpop

jesswar - fijian-austrailian trans man, hip hop

2am ricky - Black american trans man, hip hop/soul/jazz/house

rahim redcar - french trans man, indie/alt-pop

elio mei - american trans man, indie folk

anjimile - Black american trans man, indie folk

the oozes - queer punk band w/ a trans man lead singer

sushi soucy - transmasc, folk rock

dopamine - band of scottish transmascs

boy jr - transmasc, indie/alt rock

great grandpa - queer indie rock band w/ trans man lead singer

riotnine - transmasc punk band

the muslims - transmasc poc anti-fascist punk band

TR sun - Black american trans man, hip hop

billy tipton - american trans man, 1940s jazz star

mal blum - american trans man, indie rock/folk punk

dayflower - british transmasc "dreamcore" indie pop band

ryan cassata - american trans man, folk punk

ezra butler - british trans man, indie pop

bells larson - canadian nonbinary trans man, indie pop

sasha allen - american trans man, indie pop

boy bowser - american trans man, energetic hip hop

mikah amani - Black american trans man, folk music

jake edwards - british trans man, pop music

jakey bake - trans man, super indie/underground

king aiden - Black american trans man, indie pop

addison grace - american transmasc, indie pop

dylan and the moon - british trans man, indie folk

searows - american trans man, indie folk/bedroom pop

elio kennedy yoon - Asian-american trans man, indie pop

beverly glenn copland - Black canadian trans man, art/folk pop

REVENGEOFPARIS - nonbinary transmasc rapper

V3CTORGRAPH1CS - nonbinary transmasc, hyperpop

Um Jennifer? - american indie rock duo ; one is transmasc, the other is transfem

jigsawllie - transmasc, indie "weirdcore" vocaloid music

“Do you know why I pulled you over?” is a trap. It means there’s a good chance the officer doesn’t actually have a good reason to ticket you, and is trying to get you to waive your 5th Amendment rights and incriminate yourself. If you make a guess, that’s a confession of guilt.

“Do you know why I pulled you over?” is a trap. It means there’s a good chance the officer doesn’t actually have a good reason to ticket you, and is trying to get you to waive your 5th Amendment rights and incriminate yourself. If you make a guess, that’s a confession of guilt.

sometimes we're standing under harsh, cold light. I, the scientist in my crisp white lab coat, and him banging fiercely on the glass between us. I try to remind him, with the best sympathy I can afford, that the barrier is there to keep him safe just as much as it is for me. he scoffs and gives me arguments which I cannot truly refute. we stop talking and I stare only at my clipboard for the rest of the day.

sometimes I let him in the driver's seat of the golf cart. it can't go very fast, and with me sat in the passenger's seat right next to him, I can always push him out in a hurry if I need to, an inevitably we've long learned to expect. he gets hurt from the fall, always, but we carry a first-aid in the back and I've grown adept at attending to his scrapes and bruises.

sometimes I'm out and about and he's on my back, and he's the heaviest thing on earth. he leans over my shoulder and whispers in my ear as I chat with others, distracting me. he puts a hand up to hide himself from them, and like a spell, it works. nobody ever notices him, even as my spine twists and bends, even as my eyes drift to him whilst mid-conversation with others and I utter urgent responses. I've gotten good at jumping back into conversations without betraying the one I've had with my burden.

sometimes I think of the day upon which I will unlock his room. the day I will break the glass. when I forever stay in the passenger's seat with the far more comfortable cushion. when I pry his hand away, set him down and climb upon his back. the day when I can look someone in the eyes and say: this is him. this is the guy you've all known without knowing, and I'm going away now because he was never actually my ghost; I was his. do not miss me, for I wasn't ever even the caterpillar, but the broken shell of the cocoon.

first of all - we know shit like the below isn't okay right? like it's not okay to tell people to kill themselves, it's not okay to say you're gonna kill whole groups of people. we know that? even if it's hyperbole?

yeah? okay cool - good. thanks guys and girls, inbetweeno's and neither-ino's. i appreciate you.

lets address another part of why i do what i do. look at their reblogs. look at their likes. and - on both of these - replies are completely disabled beyond - what i assume are mutual followers.

these posts are going nowhere fast. these posts, while shitty for saying people should be killed/ killing themselves - are absolutely not picking up any traction any time soon.

another thing i want to point out - since the replier that got me talking about this wants to talk about how trans women are vilified on this site it's not all trans women. it's not even close to all. i'm not being vilified by anyone but the people who constantly want to post hate and get called out on it. my transfem followers (likely) aren't (love you all babes) - and do you know why that is? we don't say shit like we're going to rape and kill someone and their families. even hyperbolic, you have got to know that shit is fucked up.

i've talked about this before - but there's a few key reasons why this shit doesn't fly for me

approximately 81% of transgender adults experience thoughts of suicide in their lifetime and approximately 42% have attempted. i have personally experienced thoughts of suicide, and have attempted several times (im good now - so there's no need to worry about me doing something, nor should anyone thing that these dung flies could drive me to anything - just stating facts). every single trans person i've ever met in real life has thought of, or attempted suicide.

trans people experience a lot of reasons for suicidal ideation - with the number one reason tending to be external minority stress. on the topic of being bullied for their gender identity, 78% of transgender students reported suicide attempts as a consequence.

this includes violence, forms of discrimination and harassment, and rejections based on gender - which golly gee fucking wowie - it's almost like i've been talking about how the transfemmes i talk about reject their trans brothers, they talk down to the nonbinary folks and discount their gender journey, and they talk shit about any trans woman who stands against their ideology.

continuing this - lets talk about drug and alcohol use. this is some shit that gets people flat out killed from their own usage of it, or something that inherently ruins lives. i personally struggled with alcoholism for a long fucking time (i'm like 4 years sober now) , and that shit fucked my life up. fucked my brain up.

according to the american addiction center (sorry for my non-americans, however- i wouldn't doubt that the statistics aren't far off on your part of the world either) - we drink more, we do more drugs - and not just weed, hard drugs, and we smoke more - with about 30,000 lgbtq+ folks dying yearly from it.

a major contributing factor to why i as a trans woman do not subscribe to "transfem first" type ideologies and thinking - transgender nonbinary people are far more likely to engage in excessive drinking (compared to trans women), and just as likely to engage in dangerous drug usage, both of which is even more than transgender men

and finally - i'm not young. i'm not ancient, but i'm not young. and i had a kid young. my kid is almost exactly half my age right now. i love my kid. my kid is a nonbinary trans person and i think about them every time i read the kind of hate that gets spewed here. i think about how i'd feel if you talked to my kid like this.