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HAPPY PRIDE TO YOU 🫵 SPECIFICALLY

This week is to thank the people who make our transitions possible. In part, they are the legislators and activists who make our world better by making our transitions legal.

They're also the researchers who test the effects of HRT and innovate surgical techniques to make our lives safer. The doctors who do the procedures, and accompany us through trials, tribulations, and years-long waitlists.

There's a long road ahead, but we've come a long way.

This week, I want to highlight the people who have helped us without even meeting us. The people who post resources online, the people who organise events... But also the people who make accessing gender affirming care and clothes easier to us.

I remember when even finding a chest binder was a trial. I remember unsafe, at-home ways to bind one's chest being the most accessible thing to me for a long time. Today, I can look up "chest binder" in a search engine and find many companies from which i can buy them, some of them even organising giveaways for those who cannot afford or access gender affirming material.

This week, I want to highlight the people who have supported me in my transition. In our current socio-eco-political context, I think we ought to be proper proud of the people who keep supporting the trans community at large, especially when they aren't queer themselves.

For me, personally, these people would be my best friend's parents. They helped me get out of an abusive situation, and have always done their best to respect my gender. Recently, my friend's mum brought me to a shop which does really good compression bras, for example.

So, if you're trans, take a minute to thank the people in your life!

Yeah, I guess I really haven't presented myself.

So: Yep, I'm an adult.

I don't tend to label myself, but for the purposes of this blog, the closest I can say is that I'm a gay, gender non-conforming trans man (I use he/him exclusively), and I'm currently in a relationship with an agender (he/it) person.