I'm not broken! I don't have burn-in!

bc EVERYBODY BLACK!

i was made fun of enough times by adults, by peers, for liking something and wanting to share it that i just. didn’t. anymore. 

dont fucking tease kids for liking things. even if you think its cringe. ESPECIALLY. if you think its cringe. because the way you speak and act towards them when they are sharing themselves with you STICKS and they will think of it years down the line.

“What’s that you’re drawing?”

*panicking* “It’s nothing, I’m sorry, I’ll put it away.”

“No it’s okay, I was just curious about it.”

“It’s nothing. I don’t want to get in trouble.”

“You’re not in trouble, I just thought it looked like a character from a video game I like.”

Her face *lit up* the second I gave her the smallest bit of approval. She started asking me if I’d heard of various AUs for Undertale, and I tried to follow along as she explained her favorites. I obviously had to keep an eye on the rest of the class, answering questions and helping with algebra, but each time I passed her desk she had more things to tell me.

if you use it in the context of describing something that was done to you (i.e. "I was coercively detransitioned by doctors/the state/my parents" // "I was coercively assigned female at birth by doctors/the state/my parents") then I'm sincerely sorry that happened to you, and I am in solidarity with your struggle for bodily autonomy.

if you use it as a noun or identifier (i.e. "I'm detrans" // "I'm an afab"), I don't trust you.

if you push that further and use it as a source of epistemic authority (i.e. "being detrans, we know what it is to be trans and detrans, but trans people only know what it is to be trans" // "afabs know more about what it is to be female than amabs") then I consider you to be actively transphobic and transmisogynistic.