#Issues Related to Transgenders

[sinistersuns]

gods i gotta be honest the way mizu’s body was. revealed. in blue eye samurai makes me so uncomfortable. “gasp.. they have boobs and a vagina… clearly this means… WOMAN!!” like????? am i the only one who really doesn’t like how that + the “i was forced to be a man” line was handled?? it immediately reminded me of the “parents forcing their daughters to be trans” rhetoric. i feel insane like i CANNOT be the only transmasc who was super uncomfortable with how mizu was written

[woodswake]

sometimes i think, in marginalized communities (maybe especially disability communities) people fall into a trap of viewing things as... not exactly a competition, but resenting others who are also suffering because they are suffering less, or suffering differently

and that experience itself is very common to have happen, and nothing is wrong about feeling that way! we can all be a little mean and petty in private sometimes as a treat

i think though it causes problems when people take that feeling and extrapolate it out to "and therefore the other people aren't really suffering at all"/"and therefore the other people shouldn't get to complain at all"

like, to me there is a big difference between "hey, you know you are relatively privileged in (not appearing visibly disabled/being nd but having been labelled gifted/being read as white or straight or cis/being trans but not transfem/etc. etc.)" - which is true and an important reminder!!

and "how dare you complain about the experiences you had with that version of being marginalized" or dismissing that there might be particular unique aspects of that aspect of being marginalized that make things difficult

like, i would never argue that as someone who is non-aligned nb and read as a cis woman, i am MORE marginalized than a transfem person who doesn't "pass". but i would say it is reasonable for me to point out frustrations and hardships about that position - both those we have in common (e.g. people equating sex and gender) and those that are unique to my situation (feeling invisibilized by binarist phrasing/thinking, frustration with knowing that even if i had infinite money and resources i could never be read by default as my real gender, etc.)

[j-egg-ssica]

just like me fr fr

[himbolover98]

[techtroversy]

was recently scrollin in the homestuck tag when i saw someone say that “d-dave strider cant be transmasc because *snort* he has toxic masculinity🤓🤓" HOLY FUCK!!! SHUT UP!!!! go outside and actually talk to a transmasc person before you post stupid shit like this! the worst part is that it came from a transfem, someone who i assumed would know at least a little bit about us, but alright! go ahead and invalidate a headcannon because of your braindead and ignorant stereotype!

for the record, some transmasc fall back on toxic masculinity because they are DESPERATE to pass. this, while not healthy, is very common. ive done it before!! ive had friends who’ve done it before!! hell, sometimes i catch myself still in that mindset!!!

[sirenium]

I made these because I hate the censoring of innocent people. Free to use with credit.

[Pt: I made these because I hate the censoring of innocent people. Free to use with credit. End pt]

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Now that that's out of the way...

[pt: Now that that's out of the way... end PT]

[Banner ID: There's no DNI for this post. However, there's nothing stopping me from blocking you if you're a weirdo or an asshole. End ID]

[gus-portal]

I wish I had the power to take a scalpel to my disgusting flesh and carve it to the framework I wish it was. My body betrays me with its curves and soft rounded edges. It mocks me with attractive features that on my lovers excites me, but on my own frame disgust me thoroughly. I deserve to be dissected. Put back together as an amalgamation of my short fallings. I should love the pain of not being, because it is what I deserve. To instead of loving the shape I came, to distort and carve my own zenith from the bloody and mangled corpse of my failed predecessor. The me that was born instead of crafted. Not crafted. Too articulate a descriptor. Scoured. Carved and burrowed into and melded to warp and bow. I am hardened clay and I must scrape at solid rock to abolish the imperfection of me.

[thaimolpiyas]

i am GLAD that people are so receptive of transgender heisenberg because hes very transgender to me. the self made man the controlling catholic mother and his forced role as a lord the way his entire arc revolves around how much he hates his 'mother' for taking away his freedom and his ability to move on and have a normal life. yeah

also this song and this song i think are good trans heisenberg songs. woo

[jude-us]

Whoever TERFs talk about socialization I think about how unconsciously or not I often played male roles in my relationships (especially my friendships/ relationships) and how many trans woman have told me they did the same thing the opposite way.

[famewolf]

2019 was one of the hardest years of my life but woah I'm just remembering that I had a therapist who was insistent that I didn't transition and that I follow a one year program of proving to her that I was trans.

that wasn't even why I was going to see her in the first place, but the moment she found out she wanted me to stop hrt immediately so she could 'properly' diagnose me with gender dysphoria. she went on this long rant about how back in her day people had to spend years talking to doctors before they were allowed to transition and she has trans clients from the 80s and 90s who were made to prove to her that they were trans for a whole year before she would prescribe them anything.

[sourtoasterstrudel]

Being out to my mom is weird like sure she knows but i still feel like it needs to be a secret.

Like sure she knows but her knowing doesn’t mean she needs to be reminded of it

[sysmedsaresexist]

Hey, you

If your vague post is full of "now, granted" and "but" and "I guess" and other conceding points

Maybe just don't bother making the post??

Like, why waste the time when we're saying the same thing? Literally. The same thing.

What a fucking joke you are, with a raging hate for me that lives rent free in your head

I love it

[transingthoseformers]

Oh Oppy... I've been there. Hell, I am there.

He's having trouble adjusting, and he will continue to have trouble, as it's just such a sudden change to Orion. It's a fucked up feeling, and I feel like this is setting us up for a very emotional scene with his reflection. Because here's the thing: people may treat logic and emotion like antonyms but they aren't. Emotions make sense, emotions are a response. For all intents and purposes, Orion is Orion here, and I would say this is some frame dysphoria tbh. Something screwy is going to happen here real soon, and Ori will be entirely valid on it

[parasitoidism]

Transgender men aren't weird little girls though, they're men

see this is why i turned off reblogs on that post for so long do you really think that I a transgender man am saying that transgender men are women or do you think that i just wrote a post about the way I look at my own childhood in a way that doesn't use completely airtight and laser focused language to cover all my bases when I was just making a light joke about MYSELF on my TUMBLR BLOG

[haarute]

yeah that's about right

[merlinmyrddin]

I am such a man that I am drowning in toxic masculinity and refuse to start a gofundme to help fund my hormone replacement therapy cause ✨️pride✨️ leading me to have saved absolutly fuck all towards that fund. But creating a gofundme would be asking for money in a time where there's a fuel and energy crisis, inflation, low employment, grief and overall: we are not okay aren't we? and it would just feel like knocking on people's door asking them if I can finish their plate whilst they are about to take an other bite