love saying "question mark?" out loud when I'm talking about something i'm unsure of
Happy pride month to the trans guys that have to fight to be seen as men. The trans guys who don’t pass. The trans guys who don’t get gendered properly unless it’s in a malgendering way. Even if no one sees you as a guy, I do. From one nonpassing trans guy to another, I’m glad you’re here and I hope you have a good month💙
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This year for pride month I want trans people to be alive. Thank you.
I really despise how gendered stuff is and how it comes back to bite you in the ass as a trans person. And I don’t mean in the typical “feminine afab” “masculine amab” way that’s imposed on us based on our agab. Yes of course this sucks but I mean it in a different way. I hate that being a binary trans person means binary assumptions are placed on me. As a trans guy it’s assumed I want facial hair when I don’t. It’s assumed I want short hair when I don’t. It’s assumed I will have “male interests” (whatever the fuck that means) and I don’t. Which of course is where Those™️ types of trans people will appear and accuse me of not really being trans.
It’s annoying that I don’t get the privilege of being gnc because I’m a trans guy that doesn’t pass which is used against me. There are medical and personal and financial reasons I’m not taking hormones and some people seem to think I need to compensate by conforming to masculinity. I hate that I’m being forced into a box just like I was when I used to think I was cis. Part of this is why I didn’t realize I was a trans guy for awhile. I thought I had to be nonbinary bc I didn’t deserve to identify as a trans guy since I didn’t look like one. And people push that rhetoric and it’s so harmful. It literally delayed me realizing who I truly am.
Just let trans people exist however they want. I don’t want to have to alter everything about me to be seen as a man. I want to be seen as a man right now because I am one.

Whenever I see stuff about ‘trans men shouldn’t be able to say the f slur’ I just think about the time when I was 14 and got asked to homeschool prom by a straight guy 2 years older than me from the southern Baptist church I was raised in after he told me I was a third choice because every other girl he asked rejected him and then he proceeded to spend the entire night calling me a faggot behind my back whenever he got the chance to anyone that would listen. So yeah actually. As a trans man who’s been called a fag more than once I’ll say I’m a fag if I want too.
my utopia

I won’t speak for all liberals, but I’d like to see a future where it isn’t a big deal for a woman in full modesty garb to sit next to a drag queen in NYC. It’s become a bit of a sensation, but her and I were just existing. The freedom to simply be yourself in a sea of people who aren’t like you is a freedom we all deserve.
The central irony is that this isn’t some hypothetical future–it’s just present day reality. This is a picture of two ordinary people going about their normal lives despite how haters want to politicize it lmao. So the underlying message is not “future liberals want” it’s “people conservatives want to eradicate”
the underlying message is not “future liberals want” it’s “people conservatives want to eradicate”
i think trans men deserve more grace and compassion and kindness and understanding. i think we deserve people meeting us with open hearts and minds with intent to actually see the complexity we come from with nuance and gentleness.
like for example (and this is Just an example) the amount of trans men and mascs who are scared to go on t bc they think it'll make them ugly. instead of telling them they’re too sensitive, to get over it, man up, stop being a pussy, grow up, a real man wouldn't care, and generally belittling and dismissing all of their fears (and chucking just about every toxic masculine phrase in the book at ‘em) we should maybe acknowledge that trans men and mascs have more often than not been raised since birth to see our beauty as our only value. and maybe that's a terrifying thing to give up for our own desires and fulfillment, something we've regularly been taught to not see as important.
like. we have got to be kinder to trans men and mascs dude, the insensitivity has gotten to a point i feel we must reel back from.

