SALMONBYTE

Your visceral disgust toward art depicting trans men with specific anatomical traits is pure biological essentialism, and is fundamentally transphobic. When you reduce trans men to "walking vaginas" and thus not "real [trans] men," because of their presentation or anatomy, you are utilizing the exact same rhetoric used by TERFs and other transphobes to dehumanize us and deny us medical care. You are prioritizing genitals over gender identity and enforcing a strict, bio-essentialist hierarchy. This is compounded by your ableist commentary on binding. Expecting all trans men, regardless of their medical history or physical capacity, to bind in order to fit your visual standard of masculinity is dangerous. Large chests exist. lung conditions exist. Chronic pain exists. Disability exists. Demanding that trans men perform hypermasculinity at the cost of their physical health just to be respected by you is unacceptable.

Finally, this pattern of dehumanization seems to be a baseline for you, considering your trivialization of DID/OSDD. Viewing disorders caused by severe childhood trauma as "fun" character quirks is exploitative and ignores the reality of trauma survival. Trans men do not owe you a performance of masculinity, nor do we owe you surgical conformity to be seen as men. Trans men who are non-binary, gender non-conforming, or simply existing in the bodies they have are not "nonsense."

My second ever paper pieced quilt friend! Lots of learning and seam ripping during the making of him, but I'm so proud of him! The blue fabrics are vintage bed sheets I inherited from my grandma, and his antenna and feet are a really pretty velveteen gifted by a friend.

Goddess Maat, detail of the coffin Psamtek son of Sebarekhyt

Late Period, 26th Dynasty, ca. 664-525 BC.

Upland Goose or Magellan Goose (Chloephaga picta), L- female, R - male, family Anatidae, order Anseriformes, Ushuaia, Argentina

Christmas tree    -    Jette Stoltz

Swedish , 1923-2010