Ren

Seeking out transphobia online is a form of self harm.

Through out our lives, we will encounter enough transphobia without our consent, directly and indirectly, that will most likely result in PTSD. My therapist says my PTSD is so bad she compared it to someone returning from war (lmao). It can be debilitating at times and I am learning to manage, but im just happy to have survived long enough to see a good life is possible for someone like me.

I am 30. A lot of the people who were posting when I was 17, 18, 19, 20 are dead now. They arent here to beg you to protect your mental health and tell you the most important thing we can do, for ourselves and our community, is survive and thrive. So I am.

Please protect your peace at all costs.

Proving that transandrophobia exists by exposing yourself to hate for people who are not even engaging in good faith is not worth your life, or the lives of people in our community.

You do not have to take a screenshot of the most hateful thing you've ever seen and share it to thousands of other people who will be distressed and triggered by it too. Tumblr loves to take those posts and mass recommend them.

Do you wonder why? Do you think its to help us or hurt us to blast us with screenshots of new slurs? I think its to hurt us.

This sick bleach shirt I made. Something to showcase my undying love for prehistoric cave art.