I really hate any and all rhetoric about how trans men are not meaningfully impacted by the vitriolic hatred towards men and masculinity within queer and non queer communities alike. I swore off medical transition until very recently because I was told over and over and over that it would make me unlovable and evil. I was suicidal as a young teen because I felt I was betraying everything I had gone through as a girl by being more comfortable with masculinity. I hesitated for years to truly identify and feel joy even as a tomboy, much less as a young man, because I felt that transitioning would mean losing my queerness.
Because the world does not need another straight white boy.
But what I’ve learned through blood and tears and time and genuine love, is quite the opposite: the world needs a miserable young woman even less. What the world wants or needs is irrelevant to your transition. What the world needs now more than ever is joy, including (but obviously not limited to) the joy of trans men.
I have lived and survived and unlearned the cruelties that dumbfucks on tumblr debate the existence of. And for every man like me, yelling at you to step the fuck and protect all trans people, how may more young boys didn’t hesitate quite so long to kill themselves?
