I love GNC trans people. it's just so awesome to exist in that way, to present as what people expect your AGAB to present like and declare that you are another gender entirely.

I love people who do things that are considered GNC, but they don't consider it GNC themselves. as a transmasculine entity who paints its nails and wears makeup, crop tops, jewelry, and the occasional dress, I don't really see it as all that GNC. genderfucky, sure, but all of these things still feel masculine for me.

additionally, I love intersex and trans women who have facial hair and see it as part of their femininity. I love trans women who feel feminine while wearing what other people consider 'masculine'. I love trans and intersex and fat men who feel manly with boobs. I love trans men and transmascs who don't feel feminine while having a style that's considered 'feminine'. I love trans people who are simply alternative and can be labeled GNC because of that, but don't see themselves as such personally. I love the intersex people who are told they are 'basically men/women' because of how they look and/or present, but identify firmly with something else and see these so-called manly/womanly traits as part of their masculinity/femininity.

I love multigender people who consider themselves gender nonconforming, as well as the multigender people who don't. same goes for nonbinary people.

I love GNC cis (perisex) people, too. gender nonconformity is just cool as fuck in general. being yourself and rejecting the label of gender nonconforming, despite what other people may think based on your presentation and body, is also cool as fuck. may you feel less pressure to change yourself for anybody.

anyways, I am not letting discourse get in the way of enjoying queerness and being a part of the community. I love being transmasc, I love being genderqueer, I love being a stud, I love being a bear, I love being a gaybian and aroacespec and m-spec. I love being vaguely transfem and having my intersexuality, autism, and blackness shape my identity as a whole. I love having xenogenders and using it/its pronouns and neos as an adult. I love existing despite the pushback from others, I love being a source of education and inspiration.

I love being myself.

'being a transfem butch is based,' I say. the crowd boos, and I bow my head, turning away from the mic

'It's right,' a voice calls. I turn around. it's Light Yagami

I think more cis butches who want top surgery should get it, not just because it pisses off TERFs and that's funny, but because it helps normalize a post double mastectomy body on women. ya know, the thing women with breast cancer dread to have? because as a society we treat breasts as a womanly body part, and when a woman gets a literal lifesaving procedure it's treated as a tragedy cuz they're 'mutilated' now? yeah, I don't know, I think normalizing top surgery in women is a Good Thing. treating post op results from a double mastectomy as "mutilation" is super fucked up all around and is yet another example of how TERF rhetoric hurts cis women too. TERFs are so fucking stupid that they consistently harm the "real" women they claim to care so much about. shocker.

I'm not going to pick between being comfortable in my body and being a lesbian because someone doesn't understand my identity. Trans lesbians don't owe you a look or a certain gender identity. Butches don't owe you womanhood either. Get over it.

shoutout to masculine presenting nonbinary people, and I don't just mean hairless AFAB twinks (though they are included). The fact that people even need to make posts about this sort of thing is so sad, and just shows how anti masculinity queer people can be. Those 'she+' or whatever spaces I've seen mentioned by other people are just so sickening, because you know they draw the line at those of us who are a little too masc. "We need to protect women and AFABs!" okay, so you're demonizing masculinity, one, you're infantilizing women, two, and you appear to be lumping every AFAB person with women, three. How is that NOT harmful?