this years girl

earnestly wishing for a transmasculine jax is an example of how most of us non-transmisogynized trans people seem wholly unable to grasp that 1-the trans experience is not symmetrical because of transmisogyny 2-half the time, "transmasc [transfemine(-coded) characer]" is also just blatantly transphobic

IF the character depicted is a "guy" being horrible to people, depressed and extremely reactive due to being a closeted trans woman experiencing the horrors, that's relatable and interesting. if the guy is a trans man then, for one, you just made fictional man who's a dick #329847928423, congratulations, and also, that doesn't give the best image of transition does it? you can aim to represent trans men who are assholes in art, god knows there's plenty of them around, but a trans man that's so clearly uncomfortable with masculinity yet obsessed with performing it and is tortured by his friends because of it? um. what does that intend to say exactly.

allow me to get cynical for a second and say that sometimes a lot of people seem to want to slap a trans sticker into some blorbo instead of an actually compelling story about us

the thing about het romances is most of them are sexist so even tho i’m meant to root for them ill spend half of it thinking he shouldn’t talk to her like that

I need ten of this shirt right now

all that and i havent killed myself yet i must really love this stupid fucking life

it is interesting how far the right has pushed the “culture war”/“cancel culture” angle despite the objective reality being the complete opposite and how that is still something they lean on and plan to lean on in their campaigning and advertising. these are things that really do not affect the average American’s life in the slightest. you think wokeism and tolerance has gone too far and you must vote against it to own the libs, you truly think freedom of speech is under attack by the left but the politicians have paid millions of dollars to run heinous transphobic ads everywhere. you can’t afford gas to get to work but you’re voting for the party of inflation and no minimum wage just because you think trans people have it too good nowadays. and how the fuck are we supposed to argue with these people that hate us more than they love feeding their children?

there’s no permanent self and that’s pretty cool