#mid-transition trans

[scyththing]

୨ㅤ₊ vanilla milkshake/pre-transition trans

[PT] vanilla milkshake / pre-transition trans [END PT]

A flag for transgenders/transsexuals who have not yet reached their desired transition but at some point plan to.

୨ㅤ₊ strawberry milkshake/mid-transition trans

[PT] strawberry milkshake / mid-transition trans [END PT]

A flag for transgenders/transsexuals who have started their transition but aren't yet finished.

୨ㅤ₊ chocolate milkshake/post-transition trans

[PT] chocolate milkshake / post-transition trans [END PT]

A flag for transgenders/transsexuals who have already reached their desired transition.

⧼ ❗ ⧽ does NOT have to be the standard transition (surgery, HRT) or being "cis-passing" this is YOUR desired transition.

[kvreski]

wyd when the tv starts to glow

[beaft]

contacted the GIC yesterday to see where i'm at on the waiting list and was informed it would be approximately another four (4) years before my first appointment with a specialist. i initially got referred way back in 2020, so that's an eight year wait in total - and it'll be another year, possibly two, before i can get any kind of gender-affirming treatment or surgery on the NHS, so let's make it a round decade to be on the safe side. now tell me why every other month some trash newspaper publishes the same fucking scare-mongering article about how gender clinics are dangerous because they're "rushing" people into transitioning "before they're ready"

[a-thread-of-green]

Another entry for the Log of Strange Mid-Transition Experiences: I've started getting really bad dysphoria around my deadname and masculine titles like "mister," but I'm still not out at work, so I've started signing emails and notes with just my last name, no title or first name or anything. From the inside, it's the only way to navigate the situation, but from the outside I probably seem like some kind of insufferable egotist who wants to be seen as an intellectual giant known by last-name alone like Shakespeare or Newton.

[coral-skeleton]

Being trans is wild, cause what do you mean I'm getting grey hairs while still having puberty acne

[aesfocus]

Glaze is deceptive before it's fired. The colors on the left will be bright orange, yellow, and red. The one on the right will be pink on the handle and rim and blue on the bulk of the mug.

I also have been designing patterns in photoshop too to cut with the cameo and put on the mugs. The white I will fill in... but what color @_@ (prob bi-pride flag colors lets be real, but I don't have a purple underglaze wish me luck of mixing)

I've also been sculpting shit too, made a bunch of little clay olives, some flowers etc. to test various clay's I currently have. (so far none are really great for what I'm doing, except the walnut which we are nearly out of unless you look at reclaim.) ;w;

[mona-tan]

Enter stage left, my FAT PS3 who I named "Big Bertha"who is dead (for now) YLOD problems

[foxdies]

"they're not canonically trans" to you

[captaincrungus]

warm up doodle 4 today

i feel like i draw brick 2 much its making me look straight o3o but i just think shes fun to draw LOL

[wild-at-mind]

Random trivia re your recent post: "Born in the wrong body" was def a narrative popular in a prior generation (at least in the US). It was popular w trans ppl both bc it accurately described some of their feelings, and bc cis ppl were very receptive to it: "Aw shucks I'm just a normal person who was unlucky enough to be born in the wrong body, and now I'm correcting this mistake with surgery so I can Become Normal" was a framing many cis ppl found plausible and comfortable, and it went hand-in-hand w the medicalization of transness, so it's ironic that nowadays the British press + TERFs are claiming it sounds ridiculous. (Also it's long since fallen out of fashion in the trans community, altho some folks still use it and relate to it, as always happens w older language/concepts)

This makes sense! I'd never tell someone not to use it for themselves. I don't know if UK TERFs are using it, possibly they are but it mainly comes from the right wing tabloid press here (who align with TERFs where its convenient but aren't quite the same thing). Maybe saying it sounds ridiculous was wrong- I think because the press is often talking about children it is meant to scare parents about surgeries and hormones given to children, or something. I've also noticed in reactionary centrists both here and in the US (the people who do 'I support trans people in theory but in practice I am mainly concerned that trans activism has gone too far') there's often a get-out clause where they acknowledge that trans people who have very severe physical dysphoria should be allowed to transition, but if anyone wants to for other or perceived lesser reasons they become very reactionary. It becomes kind of a 'some people are in anguish about their bodies every waking second and if that isn't you then there is no reason to transition, and in fact if you do then it will have Severe Implications for Society.' (ETA- they also of course only approve of a 'full' transition to a binary gender.) To be honest I often struggle with the fact that medicalisation of trans-ness is in some ways reactionary, and shouldn't be compulsory, but it's also the part that is most heavily under attack in UK media, and is an arduous process to obtain through the NHS. So we spend a lot of time talking about it and not so much about social perception of gender.

[redstonedust]

i saw a post recently telling people they shouldnt lie to their trans friends about whether they 'pass' because it could endanger them, and while i get the concept i think the problem is that passing is... so highly subjective? different people are gonna intepret your gender presentation differently.

like i've personally had strangers adjust their gendered language with me mid conversation and had no clue what changed their mind. i had a lunch break where one coworker had clearly assumed i was a man while the other had clearly assumed i was a woman and both kept side eyeing eachother in confusion. which is fine by me, that's the kind of reaction i've intentionally cultivated, but it does suck if you're aiming for a stealth lifestyle because there really isnt a line where you wake up one day 100% passing.

maybe just... try not to resent people if they say you pass when it turns out others may not agree with them. there's a good chance they weren't intentionally trying to give you false hope, it's just that gender is in the eye of the beholder, and if you're mid transition different people are gonna behold you differently.

[homunculus-argument]

The definition of a woman is an adult human female, right? Is that transphobic?

No offense to you, I just want to see if the trans movement can actually define the term woman since I haven't been able to and I think your blog could help. I'm new to this and I'm pretty curious. Again, absolutely no offense meant and I'm sorry if you take any.

When I was a kid, I thought that nobody actually wanted to be a girl. That it's just one of those unfortunate fates you get handed, like being born with no eyes or no legs or something. That it's something miserable, that's supposed to be miserable, and everyone else is just better at sucking up and enduring it than I am. That it's supposed to hurt and you're supposed to act like it doesn't, and that's just what everyone does.

Being born in mid-90s, I was vaguely aware that trans women exist, but I was like 13 when I discovered that it goes the other way around too. Like you can transition female-to-male. And my first thought was "how hasn't everyone done this?" I thought it had to be some very well-guarded secret, because otherwise how else would they stop every woman from flocking to these things. My first initial thought was that if women knew there was an option to just stop being women, the world would run out of women.

I don't understand why anyone would want to be a woman, but it gradually came to my understanding that some women do. They actually enjoy that. So, as far as I'm concerned, the definition of "woman" is anyone who wants to be one. I don't understand why anyone does, but it's not off my plate if someone does.

The definition of a woman is a person who wants to be a woman. That is none of my business for as long as they let me stray out of it.

[terraswallows]

Every trans girl deserves a coven—a circle of at least five weird, wonderful, chaotically enchanting trans women by her side at all times.

They’re the kind of girls who’ll gas you up for simply existing, send you memes when you're spiraling, help you pick out earrings that scream “divine feminine menace,” and kiss your forehead when words aren’t enough. They’ll tease you playfully when you're being dramatic, then help you fix your eyeliner mid-rant.

Because let’s be real—transitioning isn’t just about survival. It’s about building your own queer mythology. And no myth is complete without your sapphic squad of ride-or-die trans babes backing you up, casting protection spells, manifesting joy, and maybe—just maybe—falling a little in love along the way.

[red-lights-of-doooooom]

I love and support trans women even though every single one I've met doesn't ever wanna have sex with me.

you should love and support trans women even when they don’t wanna have sex with you.

[luckylazylurker]

I Went Clothing Shopping Today!!!

This is not only the first time I've bought clothes in a few years (I'm poor and stingy lol), but the first time EVER I have bought exclusively clothing I want as a trans man!!

I got cargo shorts and men's graphic tees and tank tops and I'm just. Really happy about it even though most of what I got was very basic.

One day I might even get to develop a sense of fashion that isn't limited to outfits in Animal Crossing lmao

[elierlick]

Tennessean trans man David Scott Ryan III transitioned in 1949, around age 26. He became a pastor in 1955 while passing as cis and preached throughout Arkansas and Oklahoma for years. Narratives like David's narratives don't often end well, but David successfully fought to live as a man! Here's his story:

Born in rural Oklahoma on 9/22/1923, David privately transitioned in 1949 before marrying his first known wife, chaplain Margie. He then married another woman named Gwyn after leaving Margie in 1953. He later married a third wife, Glenda, in 1960.

David was outed after his 1961 bigamy arrest. It's unclear if his bigamy was accidental or even real. Gwyn filed for divorce in March 1960 before he married Glenda in June, but documents do not show if the divorce was completed. Glenda filed the bigamy complaint herself for unknown reasons. Was it jealousy? Was David outed? Was she feeling neglected? Glenda did not speak with reporters.

David was far from the first trans man arrested for marrying a woman. Yet, the courts did not know what to do with him. The judge dismissed his case after 4 months of jail and he stayed out of the news for a decade.

There are countless cases like David Ryan in the mid-20th century- trans people who make the news for a few weeks before fading into history. However, thanks to new archive technology, we can trace David's story further. He re-married a woman named May Louise and they divorced in 1971. He then married for a 5th and final time to high school teacher Imogene Cox in 1975. He took up jobs at a construction equipment site and Walmart in Evansville, Indiana over the following decades.

David passed in 2002 from heart disease at age 78. The mortician must have insisted on using an "F" for David despite "M" appearing on his other documents (why?). Local news reported that David loved to play instruments and paint. 50 years after transitioning, he still worked with the church.