Paper Cranes and Pride

similarly to how you can say "penis" or "vagina" instead of "male/female genitals" you can also say "testosterone/estrogen dominant endocrine system" instead of "male/female endocrine system" wow. amazing, we don't have to misgender trans ppl who aren't going to or haven't yet medically transitioned when we refer to hormones its just that easy

Something every bi aro knows is that being aro and being bi are extremely similar experiences, especially if you're alloaro

Perisex people trying to be “affirming” to intersex people: Society may see you as some freak third thing but you are simply an AMAB/AFAB with a birth defect ❤️ get back in the binary we need to define you ❤️ see doesnt that feel better to be forced into a binary so you dont get seen as some freak ❤️ what are your genitals like btw

Shoutout to my femboy transmasc and butch transfem homies. Everyone can dress and cut their hair however they want & you don’t owe gender conformity to others 👏

pls support trans girls and trans women who like traditionally masculine things

I bring a sort of "all the stereotypes surrounding trans men are based on kids who never made it to their twenties" vibe to the function that people who call us childish find rather off-putting.

the thing that other gender members don't understand is that members of my gender are constantly being judged and scrutinised by society and the world around us, so we often end up having to become very self-conscious as a survival mechanism; unlike other gender members who i presume probably float gently through life on a cloud of passive acceptance or something

The thing that trans people of the other gender don't understand is that trans people of my gender are pressured and bullied into conforming to our assigned gender which is mentally and often physically dangerous. We receive tacit approval for conforming to our assigned gender and are punished for conforming to our proper gender. Since I never experienced pressure in the opposite direction, clearly trans people of the other gender didn't either. Everyone in the world must have experienced this pressure in the same direction as me, so trans people of the opposite gender were receiving tacit approval and support for transitioning, and are not oppressed like trans people of my gender.

couldn’t this be used against literally any gender presentation at all? like being a woman is torture for some people being male is torture for some people being androgynous is torture for some people this just makes Existing Evil. unless someone’s specifically like, idk, going up to a trans woman and going “wow I love looking like a man why don’t you” or something I don’t see the issue. which is very different to experiencing gender euphoria in general!

if you tell a Black trans man that seeing him as inherently dangerous, angry, or violent is “gender affirming” you deserve to be hit over the head with an oversized mallet looney toons style

“Can I be butch if I’m [insert gender identity here]?” Yeah. “But what if—” Doesn’t matter. You can be butch. “But someone on TikTok said—” TikTok is a psyop designed to destroy the humanity of anyone who uses it for too long, you better not be taking anything to heart if it comes from TikTok. “But I don’t want top surgery or short hair.” Then you’re gonna be in great company because neither of those things are requirements to be butch. “But I’m not strong or tough.” The bedrock of butchness is built on fat, disabled, gentle butches. You belong here. You can be butch if you feel you are.

Frankly I think a lot of Tumblr users think there is no overlap between trans women and gay men like there is between trans men and lesbians 1. because RuPaul did a great job intentionally convincing at least two generations of baby queers that gay men and trans women don't share culture because he's a transmisogynist piece of shit who intentionally kept trans women off Drag Race for years - shattering the perception of our community overlap in the eyes of the mainstream, 1.5. and that culture he cultivated in the mainstream made you afraid of drag as an art so you're uncurious about it, and 2. you're afraid of learning about balls because they're not sanitized white queer culture.

“Where are the trans men in history?” See. When you're born a gender that was forcefully married off, who had to live most of their life indoors, when you had to raise children, and had a lobotomy if your family thought you were a tad too odd, it's kinda hard to come out as a trans man now ain't it.

[Image ID: Tumblr tags reading: I have an ancestor who 'pretended to be a man' for years, according to my relatives he did so in order to go to school to become a doctor, and he was eventually found out and wed off to a man and had a family, and forever would be revered for being able to get a degree 'posing as a man', but apparently even after marriage he still dressed in men's clothes and preferred to be seen as a man, forever my lineage would use his wrong pronouns but not me, I see him and I hope he smiles upon me knowing I am living a life he would have dreamed just getting to be a trans man, without being forcefully wed off and forced to have children for the sin of being born with a vagina, such is history with trans mascs, I once saw someone online say:, 'if history has a gaping hole where a minority should be, it's not because they did not exist/did not contribute, it's because they were erased', and I think about that a lot when I see stories like my ancestors knowing that our history has constantly been defiled, just like this /End ID]