Closeminded? Tumblr? More Likely Than You’d Think

you can only be trans if you have gender euphoria

if you’re only choosing to transistion cause u hate urself then maybe u should consider learning 2 love urself

if you’re choosing to transistion bc you just feel so much happier presenting as another gender rather than the fact u hate ur body ur really fuckijg valid and I’m happy for u

and then on the other hand, cis transphobic people (and terfs) are saying the same goddamn thing. “it’s a choice. it’s a feeling.” why do you think they say that? because they dont take us seriously. they think its just just lifestyle.

But I also find it ironic that your tags compared your visualization of a “trans spectrum” to the “austistic spectrum”, which ya know, is a disorder. And isn’t that why you hate transmeds/truscum, because they want transgenderism to stay medicalized as a clinical disorder?

Africa is a huge fucking continent, and Egyptians do not look the same as Sub-Saharan people.

Mind you that Egyptians could be, ya know, generally racist slave owners.

This personally annoys me because I’m partly Egyptian (or at least, 1/4 of my family can be traced back to Egypt for a longgggg ass time) and people don’t believe me. Because “Egypt is in Africa and you don’t look black”... Is this Mean Girls?

I understand not personally being able to kill an animal, but what are you trying to accomplish by acting like this person is a serial killer? Try not to be egotistical for a second and realize how much better the world would be if people starting raising their own food.

As far as the playboy model goes - Ines Rau is physically indistinguishable from any other playboy model. She’s a woman, she’s undergone every physical transition to achieve her feminine body and to say that that body is any less female than any other body when you literally could not distinguish between them without prior knowledge is outrageous. If you’re a man who’s attracted to women, Ines Rau is probably quite attractive to you. Because she looks like a woman. That’s okay, embrace that, it doesn’t mean anything about you or your orientation to be attracted to what you’ve always been attracted to.

I’m just so blown away by the anti-trans sentiment I see from every corner right now… but I’m not stupid. I know why it’s happening and what’s causing it. I know where it’s coming from and why the tides are shifting against transgender individuals once again.

I remember being young and accepting of all tumblr identities and identity politics. I just wanted to be a good person, and the easier route is believing in what people around you accept as “good”. It can be fucking hard to be critical and go against the status quo, and Tumblr IS a very accepting place... Youth in general crave that acceptance and community. 

Now when I was 15 I don’t think the label “tucute” even existed, and being trans wasn’t nearly as prominent on Tumblr, but I still tended to follow any far-left opinions the majority of this website seemed to agree upon. I didn’t post about my political opinions or harass people, because I had some self-insight that told me I really didn’t know what I was talking about (and come on, you just don’t bully people you disagree with.)

For some it’s not so simple.

Is OP being fair and compassionate? No way. But acting like an abortion is a simple choice which should be easy to move on from is what turns women “pro-life” after they get an abortion themselves, and in turn realize how fucking heartbreaking it can be.

If you find it easy to move on from an abortion, fair enough. But the majority of the time that is not the case. Hell, I know many pro-choice women who refused to get an abortion even in the worst circumstances, because they knew they wouldn’t be able to handle it.

Part of being pro-choice is realizing how gutwrenchingly hard the choice in question is. You have to realize that guilt and shame and second-guessing are normal after an abortion, and you have to be extremely compassionate to those women.