I hope that someday society will let go of the "it's horrible what psychiatry put this person through, cause they weren't ACTUALLY insane" trope/storyline and actually recognize that psychiatric abuse is just as horrible, wrong and traumatizing when it happens to really mentally ill people.

I hope there are even more trans men in 2026

MORE!!! MORE!!! MOOOORREEEEEE!!!!!

We have lost the meaning of queerbait

Just because what you wanted didn't happen, doesn't mean it's queerbaiting. It is now being used an excuse when the ship you want didn't get together. Queerbaiting has to do with marketing.

Queerbait: A cookbook that you learned about from ads with pictures of people eating tasty looking soups and the author's social media posts about how soup lovers are going to love it, proves to have no soup recipes.

Not queerbait: A cookbook has no soup recipes. You assumed there would be some based on vibes and wishful thinking. No soups were ever advertised or promised.

Also not queerbait: A cookbook that was advertised as containing soup recipes has soup recipes but not for the types of soups you like.

trans unity

Why would you use duct tape to hold hands ?

Wait I’m a fucking idiot

Jolene? Ah, no. It's Joe Lean. Cough syrup guy. Yeah, the guy who drinks cough syrup recreationally, that's the guy. And yeah, your man's with him. Hey now, don't cry. Come on. I mean not to be rude, but with all due respect I don't know why you'd even want him back. You're getting cucked by a guy who drinks cough syrup. Honestly I can't even tell which one of you three has the lowest standards. Get your shit together, all of you.

You make soup in a big bowl. You serve it in a smaller bowl. And then you convey it, using a spoon, to your mouth. But what is the spoon? Simply a smaller bowl still

being told by trans people younger than you are that you are simply an actor and cannot exist because your opinions don’t align with theirs is a special type of enraging. I did not survive being on hrt this long so you could call me a cis actor . what the fuck is wrong with you

i truly think that this recent trend of “if you relate to a post about a different identity than your own you are ~derailing~ and taking over the conversation” is incredibly harmful.

i recently experienced some pretty severe transphobic abuse in my workplace (children’s home) that included having food thrown at me, being called slurs, being told i was a pervert because i am trans. one of the managers talked with me afterwards and shared that he had had a similar experience as an Asian man. this wasn’t him derailing my experience, or talking over me, or making things about himself. he was communicating “hey, i know how it feels and how much it sucks. you’re not alone.”

THAT is what solidarity IS. i don’t know what it’s like to be Asian, he doesnt know what it’s like to be trans, but we both had a similar experience and we were able to turn a horrible experience into an opportunity for bonding and comfort.

stop looking at people’s attempts as solidarity as an attack. and hey, you never know - you could find an opportunity to grow closer to other people.

I’ve said it before I’ll say it again sign language needs to become part of the mandatory school curriculum

OP has the tags for uk politics but honestly this should be the case for everywhere.

Oh I absolutely agree

oh shit y’all. just realized i left my world-stupidifying crystal active on my porch for like, 12 years. gonna go turn that off

hm. the on/off switch appears to have rusted

they're doing this to me tomorrow

Hey I’m the angel on your shoulder, you should make that character trans. I don’t care what kind of trans, just make them trans. Yeah, that one too. Maybe even all of them, have we considered this.

just letting everyone know this post has been cooking for 7 years and it'll finally post in 2028

its so old that when i click edit the corners of the boxes are still sharp

yeah I'm an airship mechanic. I got that big ass wrench and the boots that are too big, but also, and this is important, goggles I do not use correctly

but what of the baggy coveralls with the top half down and the sleeves tied around your waist? what of it

I don't think I'll ever find home again.