#a faggot tranny against the world

[bilateralorchiectomy]

to the trans woman riding her bike through loring park

I love you

to the twink in short shorts and a mesh top at the grocery store

I love you

to the trans guy who rides the same bus as I do

I love you

to the butch lesbians I work with

I love you

[a-faggot-with-opinions]

I'll probably add to these thoughts later but I feel like the way that transandrophobia or transmisandry or whatever you choose to call it mainly operates is by making itself confusing in order to make it extremely hard to actually pin down and call out. We're treated as women when it's convenient to leverage misogyny against us and treated as privileged men if we call it out, but we're also treated as hysterical women when it becomes convenient to ignore our concerns. We're treated as evil disgusting faggots and trannies to be exterminated, as predatory men who want to make the "good" men have sex with us, but we don't even get the benefit of being seen as fully male. This is the intersection at which we lie, and the intersection that we've decided to call transandrophobia.

When it's convenient, we're treated as hyper-emotional whiny women with no agency, but when it's also convenient, we're predatory males who just have something wrong with them. And when the transandrophobe finds that the time is right, they treat us like some strange creature that is neither male nor female, either to be fucked or to be exterminated; often both. We're just objects to be fucked until we show any interest in a man; then, we're predators, almost like we're from another planet, preying on the poor helpless males. And when we show interest in a woman? Well, I can't speak on this myself since I am gay, but from what I have seen from listening to other transmascs? We've become predatory men trying to prey on poor cis women, but we still know nothing about the world and should shut up and let the real men speak for us.

And when we ask for one thing, to simply be able to speak, we are both aggressive privileged males preying on helpless women and hysterical women crying about nothing at the same time. Every word we say can and will be held against us because the truth of what the world thinks of us is that whether they admit it or not they think that we are less than human. And they will use whatever tactic they have, every tool of oppression, to remind us that we are not. Every day that we exist in this world as transmasculine people we are told that we are something nonhuman, something that needs to be killed. But we are also told every day that we exist in this world that none of this is real. That we're crazy, that we're lying, that we're just hysterical privileged women who need to shut up and let others do the talking for us.

That is what I mean when I say transandrophobia.

[dogesterone]

laying and bed kicking my feet dreamily cause i love my boyfriend and im gonna infodump about how much i love him

weve been dating nonstop for 8.5 years. he was my first partner ever. he asked me out via tumblr fan mail back when that was still a thing. i genuinely sometimes question if id have ever realized i was trans if i didnt have him in my life. he likes idol rhythm games and kidcore aesthetics and one piece and queer theory and midwest emo music and theatre and poetry and mixed media art and plushies and his moustache that he worked so hard to grow out and his weird haircuts that im always hesitant about but they always grow on me cause i love him and they make him happy. ive recently done a lot of introspection since we started doing a lot of ENM/polyamory stuff and i think ive realized that im honestly just a lesbian with how intensely im attracted to other trans girls but that doesnt matter in regards to my boyfriend because he was, is, and always will be such an important part of my life and makes me so happy that i can't imagine my life without him in it. his body feels so comfortable and familiar pressed up against mine in bed and even if his snoring is really loud i never go sleep in the living room. i am attracted to him in a way that transcends romance and sexuality. he calls me a dyke and a faggot and a tranny in exactly the right way to genuinely make me laugh. we have a cat together. he gave himself a christian name specifically to piss off his reddit atheist dad. i let him complain to me about his shitty coworker and his family and whatever internet discourse is bouncing around his head. his fursona's a cat. his middle name is named after a grateful dead song. he has so many keychains and charms on his car keys that you could beat someone to death with them. he likes littlebigplanet and pokemon mystery dungeon and i think he's just about the only person in the entire world who could explain the onceler fandom in a way that actually makes it sound cool. he is my prince and i am his knightess. his stepdad is japanese so he likes japanese food a lot. his favorite color is yellow.

i love him so so so so so much.

[balthazarslostlibrary]

If you aren't a cis gay man you shouldn't use the word 'faggot'. You can't reclaim a slur that isn't/wasn't targeted at your demographic. All you're doing is spreading the attitude that it's okay to call gay men slurs. Homophobia is awful and violent and you should take it seriously.

Oh sorry, I guess those (many) times I've been called a faggot, including a particularly awful hate crime I endured last year, wasn't 'targeted at my demographic'. Excuse me for wanting to take back a word that has been used to hurt me and turn it into a symbol of my own resilience and empowerment.

You must not live in the real world if you think faggot is used only for cis gay men, when it's directed at basically any queer person, especially anyone who presents even slightly masc. It's pretty weird that you think that I don't take homophobia seriously when you know basically nothing about me or my life. Funnily enough, I do take homophobia and transphobia seriously, which is why I am wanting to reclaim these slurs that have been used against me and my queer whānau.

I will call myself a tranny or a faggot or a dyke if I want to, because I have just as much right to reclaim these words as anyone else who have had them used as terms of abuse at them. I won't call you them if you don't feel comfortable with that, because that would be wrong, but don't tell me that I'm not allowed to use them for myself how and when I please.

[eleemosynecdoche]

This is of course the shrill mosquito whine of a queer person whose boots come crashing down on the face of another faggot, dyke, or tranny with every step they take. But:

Why is it bad that Western countries are homophobic and transphobic but neutral or perhaps even good that non-Western countries are homophobic and transphobic? The only answer that is plausible as a product of reasoning would be that homophobia and transphobia are the privilege of the subaltern and are degraded by the imperial core participating in them. This is of course unlikely to be what anyone actually thinks, as typically homophobes admire other homophobes, but the result is that the positions stated cannot be ones that have been thought through at all. The person screenshot is simply reacting in a purely defensive way, throwing whatever accusations they think will strike back against their attackers.

Which is itself entirely and firmly against any kind of development of solidarity- the impetus here is towards atomization on nationalistic grounds, not solidarity amongst "queers of the third world" or however you put it. Utterly despicable in effect, nothing but an attempt to poison Westerners and dosing oneself with the poison instead.

[thegreenmeridian]

Massive US style “the faggots and trannies are grooming the kids” type backlash against queer people in Iceland at the moment, right about when we’re also having a backlash against immigrants and refugees as well. Both types of hatred fuelled heavily by the former prime minister as well (and I’m fairly certain it was him that did a little anti trans meeting on Pride but fuck knows tbh because this country pretty much refuses to do English language news that’s not aimed at tourists).

And I’m sat here like aight I’m stuck in this country indefinitely cause I can’t go back to the UK ever because I’m trans and not stupid enough to do that to myself, but also not really able to go anywhere other than Iceland because Brexit. Also stuck in a town full people who are of the “wouldn’t have actively joined the nazis but wouldn’t have minded too much when they took power” variety. Shitton of people I know who were nice to me back in my last town posting “I’m not a homophobe but the gays are teaching bdsm to kids” type Facebook statuses and/or commenting “this is just attention seeking, there’s no backlash” on any vaguely supportive Facebook status.

And honestly like. Where would I even move to if I did still have freedom of movement? Whole world is going hardcore transphobic these days and pretty much nowhere is a good place to be an immigrant either.

Anyway now I have to shlep through a fucking management conference that’s entirely in Icelandic, sitting there wondering who of my coworkers is a bigot, and being quite certain based on other behaviour that if my boss knew I was trans he’d be even worse to me than he already is.

Fucking hell I’m tired.

[finalset]

for years and years and years i felt the same way about the word "queer", it was simply impossible to avoid + everyone called me it anyway by implication. "queer culture" "us queers" etc. had to grit my teeth and learn to get over it bc its obviously a case where my feelings are considered outdated. I'm in my early 20s, not even an "elder queer"...

i say "felt" as though i have stopped grinding my teeth over it lol. i FEEL this way! but it's impossible to avoid being called a queer these days!!! so i had to force myself to understand why people are reclaiming it, and learn to consistently act like I'm on board, because otherwise, per MY honest feelings on the matter, the world is kind of slurring me all the time! so at this point have i reclaimed it too, simply by consensus, by committee, decided for me? idk. had to get over my feelings in the end

ironically i prefer the F slur for jokey self-identification because I'd never see a "fag healthcare" poster at my GPs or "fag politics" on the news, no one would call me that and I'd do my part in not calling anyone else that. self-ID as a faggot lol. can't self-ID as "not a queer, please" anymore really

Tbh I think it’s totally fair for you to still ask to not be called queer if you don’t like it, it can be simple as that and really shouldn’t be questioned, esp since historically it’s been used against lgbt people in a derogatory way. Ik there’s like whole debates on how lgbt people used it first and then it was turned against us but honestly if you don’t want to be called that I think it’s understandable, especially w personal history w the word too. I’m comfortable with using queer for myself esp bc sometimes it’s just shorter to say that than to be like ‘as a gay/trans person’ but i do question sometimes where cis/het people come from when they mention lgbt people as such tho lol. and for fag I really also tried to use it in a humorous way for myself and I have a friend who uses it a lot and it’s funny but, personally it’s really not for me. I heard it a lot growing up and have been called it by immediate family (others people in general as well) and it really bites and I’ve grown to resent it instead of idk maybe even just being neutral towards it, which is ironic bc I don’t care about jokingly calling myself a tranny or smth but that’s not even my humor either tbh. fag/got just bites in an ugly way for me and im over trying to be okay with it just bc its used very liberally among other gay people (which I don’t have a problem w) I’d just rather not be grouped in with the word similarly to how you feel about other ppl using queer in a community/group context.

[fat-fuck-hairy-belly]

By the way, can we talk about the whole "this is a wrong hill to die on" narrative? I often see misguided leftists (or more likely grifters pretending to be leftists) online saying something along the lines of "this is such a, relatively, small issue that also doesn't resonate with and alianates the normies, fighting for it only hurts the left" regarding either specific trans issues like trans sports participation and trans healthcare forinors, or just about the transgender rights in their entirety. Even if you assume that those people make these arguments in good faith and they are not just transphobic bigots, it's such a stupid argument. The current attack on trans rights is not some specific separate issue, it's just another part in the broader culture war between humans and conservative reactionaries that has been going on in the world since like the french revolution.

If anyone remembers, Matt Walsh not to long ago ranted about how "we gave you women's rights, we gave you black rights, we gave you gay rights but you just keep asking more and more" or something like that. This is what current wave of trans hate is. Every time they lose a fight they move onto the next topic and minority to attack. "Well, obviously women should have rights, but those n-words? Are you crazy? Well, obviously it's wrong to discriminate against black people, but those faggots? Are you crazy? Well, obviously there's nothing wrong with gay people, but those trannies? Are you crazy?" And when we win on this issue as well, they will move on to some other minority or issue to attack.

Hell, the current war on "transgenderism" is actually one of the best examples of this, just a couple years ago the big scary Boogeyman were the immigrants and abortions. Do you think it's just a coincidence that all the mainstream conservatives media and politicians almost completely stopped talking about abortions and became obsessed with trans people basically overnight right after they overturned Roe v Wade? I'm sure that has nothing to do with the fact that it turned most of the country, including republican voters, against them and basically lost them the war on abortion on federal level.

There are no small or unimportant issues that it's ok to give up to conservatives. Literally everything they attack at the moment is the most important issue that must be defended to the last dying breath. If they ban trans people from playing sports they'll use that to normalise trans discrimination and further they attack on trans people. If they ban being trans, they'll just use that to further their attack on preggressivism. Fascists divide and conquer, the whole "first they came for socialists" thing is real, they attack the weakest targets they can to weaken the left and the entire society. Fight them on everything, always.

[andromedaexists]

Find The Word Tag

Thanks for tagging me @betweenthetimeandsound!!! I wasn't given words, so Imma use the ones you did: BELIEVER, FRIENDSHIP, HYACINTH, THORNS, & PUKE.

BELIEVER (I don't have that specifically, so BELIEVE)

He would say that it was a coincidence that dreaming of the reason he was on the run led to him talking to a stranger about why they were on the run. But there’s one universal constant that he still believes in: There is no such thing as a coincidence. No, the universe isn’t kind enough to allow for coincidences. If something seems too good to be true, it is. People don’t just show up, and they aren’t just kind right off the bat. No, that only happens when they were trying to get information from you.

FRIENDSHIP

Icarus can handle a lot, he has been through immense physical pain before. Hell, he’s been on death’s door more than once. He has been separated from a life of love and friendship only to be reunited with the people he left behind thinking he was dead. While settling into his new life, Icarus had been called every name under the sun: whore, tranny, faggot. He can handle shit being thrown at him. This, however, is something else entirely. This isn’t an attack on Icarus’ character, it’s a direct accusation against Achilles.

HYACINTH

wild but i actually don't have a hyacinthus in my story (i should add him hmmmm) so here's a fun fact!

I think one of the best things for a story is to have realistic diversity, so in order to achieve that for CMI I not only did research into people in my area and how they act, but I specifically sat down with some of my old coworkers at Starbucks to really get everything down. This is why Thanatos acts the way he does, he is a gender nonconforming black man molded after a gender nonconforming black man that I know and used to work with! (hi Diedric, if you're reading this!)

THORNS

I also don't have this one!

The world of CMI is one where climate change is just worse than in our world. I have said in the past that this means that all plants and animals have died off, but that was just me thinking in terms of the direct story. We are in an urban setting with CMI, but there food has to come from somewhere. I like to think that the only plants and animals that survive are those of the farms, specifically curated fields far away from any city.

PUKE

I'm surprised I also don't have this one!

I just started introducing more technology into CMI! Icarus has a phone now!!!

imma tag @lockejhaven and @ceph-the-ghost-writer for the words: WILL, ANCIENT, MINE, WAKING, & CANOPY.

[theseventhoffrostfall]

No love for the guy, but the trad/tankie/anarcho-libertarian alliance that formed against ukraine because they had the first world jewish nazi president, that was both a tranny faggot that hates the white race and a dangerous white supremavist fascist that kills and opress minories was hilarious.

Specially because they have no trouble defending palestina or yemen or whatever other legal pedophilia third world country that got invaded (which I agree!! Invading other countries is bad!!) but ukraine globohomo jewish nazi country was too much for them.

Its like 'invading countries is bad, even if they are absolute shitholes. EXCEPT if you are enemy of amerikkka. Then, invading other countries its not just fine but its actual the correct and holy side of history"

Elaborating would just be treading ground I've already worn ruts into, but yeah, I'm on the same page

[matchbet-allofthetime]

REMINDER GO EVERYONE LGBT OR WHO SUPPORTS US!! (I've gone through every letter in lgbt at least once on my neverending journey, I'm allowed to say this)-

words like:

Butch

Dyke

Bulldyke

Faggot/fag

Muffmuncher

Cocksucker

Fruity

Gay

Queer

Homosexual

Transvestite/Transsexual/transgender (all ways to refer to those with different genders at birth to what they are and they are NOT outdated because they are STILL used, primarily by older queer folks and they deserve to be mentioned! Sick of the fucking discourse.)

Stone butch

Bulldagger

Faghag

Munch

Down-low

Tranny

Betty/a Betty Boop (very similar to femme and other related terms. Also seems to be colloquial to my general area?? Not sure if it or similar is used elsewhere, colloquial and local differences change a lot that you don't realize until you come across what it meansssss elsewhere. Used to refer to lesbians that are very traditionally femme and have big eyes and short hair. Also refers to specifically red lipstick wearers.

Bisexual (those who like men and women/the definition of bisexual most know widely and ALSO someone who is BOTH A MAN AND A WOMAN/ANOTHER COMBINATION. it has been and STILL IS used both ways. Respect that. The older generations coined many of your terms. Things change, but you don't get to tell someone how they identify.)

Bent

Bussy

En femme/en homme

Molly/Tommy

Tomboy/tomgirl

Flower/floral

Friend of Dorothy

Twink

Twunk

Batty/batty boy

Bender

Fairy

Fruit loop

Pansy

Sod

Bambi

Boi (UK origin, akin to dyke, butch, and tomboy)

Rug muncher

Kitty/pussy puncher/muncher

Muff diver

Stud

Pack o' cigs/Pack o' fags (self explanatory, this seems to be a colloquial term in my hometown and surrounding counties. Pack o' cigs is a pack of, traditionally, butches/dykes. Pack o' fags is the gay male equivalent. I grew up hearing this one directed toward me a LOT lmao)

AC/DC (pan/bi, swings whatever way. US term.)

Lady boy/boy girl/girl boy (can be used in many ways, but typically refers to a boy who is also a girl, a femme boy, femboy, or similar concepts)

Femboy

Traggot (a combining of tranny and faggot)

T girl/t guy/t boy

Trap (widely used even now as a slur or derogatory word, but I have met many who this is their identity to some degree. Respect that. They're queer too.)

Cuntboy/pussyboy/dick girl/girl dick

Fag stag

Bear

Pup

Cub

Bull

Silver fox

...And about a million other words through thousands of other anguages across the entire world-

Are NOT dirty, filthy, disgusting, nasty, used incorrectly, or "aren't to be used by anything other than XYZ individual in the LGBT community and nobody else."

They aren't dirty words. They aren't disgraceful or filthy unless the user of the term says "yeah, I'm fucking filthy! I'm disgraceful! Fuck yeah!"

If someone says they're a dyke? They're a fucking dyke. If someone says they're anything on this list or use any queer term? Fucking let them.

Here's why:

Use LGBT people have used any words thrown at us, handed to us, words we've been beaten with, words we've held onto with our lives and anger and love, words that have been used for us, against us, AND MOST IMPORTANTLY, BY US for decades and in some cases even so long as a a century or more.

A masc straight woman is still called a dyke. A faggot. Thus, if she chooses, she's still a fucking dyke.

What we're always called or what we find fits us will always become our identity in some way or another somehow sometime.

That happens.

I've had every fucking word you've got and I guarantee ones you've never heard of thrown at me since I was a toddler, running around in mud-stained blue and red converse and a Barbie dress with a mohawk in my hair. I've heard them since I was in an AC/DC band tee, sparkly shorts, galaxy leggings, and glittery roller skates.

I and MILLIONS OF OTHERS LIKE ME, lgbt or otherwise, those who "I just dealt with what they called me. I was gonna be called that anyways so I don't care anymore. I have no gender/sexuality/preference/label/etc but I answer to it all/it's a part of me now but I'm not lgbt in my own mind" are FUCKING VALID FOR THIS.

Stop fighting your own fucking community. Stop. Stop, stop, stop, stop. I have been called everything on this list except for a few (because I am obviously not a bear when you look at me not a silver fox or whatever) my entire fucking life.

I am agender. I am aro/ace. I am also a faggot. A dyke. A butch. Nonbinary. Transsexual. Tranny. Pup. Boyslut. Fagdyke.

And so many others are like me like this. So many others consider these words a part of themselves.

These are OUR slurs to reclaim. These are words we made a d for the ones we didn't? We took them and wore them like fucking crowns. We wore them like they were our favourite collars, our favourite leather, our favourite words. We fucking own these words like we own ourselves and it is nobody's choice but your FUCKING OWN whether or not they're used.

Yes, there's nuance with some. I understand that. "Stud" for example is for lesbian OR "LESBIAN-APPEARING" BLACK AFABS! But I've been called stud and I am the whitest, pastiest bitch you'll meet. I continue to have black drag queens and kings and royalties and other black folk who are queer come up to me and tell me "oh baby you're such a handsome stud!" While at pride events.

I am and also am not a woman. Not a man but also I am. But I gleefully use the word dyke and fag and femboy and roseboy and pup and cub (my moddy's nickname for years was cub/cubby. Friends of theirs HAVE CALLED THEM THAT IN FRONT OF ME SINCE I WAS A BABY. thus I am called cub or cub's cub or similar.) And I use these words with nothing but pride and spite and joy and hate and love and fucking glee. Because they're mine. They're ours.

People of all kinds, all genders, all sexualities, all paths and walks of life, have been subjected at least a hundred times to at least one of these words if they're even slightly "not right" or different or weird or wrong in the eyes of whatever stupid ass societal expectations there are.

And they all deserve to use these words if they make them comfortable. These people KNOW they're lgbt terms. Fucking trust me. They learn from experience or get taught it by someone and either drop the terms or don't. That's their choice. And that choice is okay.

Stop attacking your own community. Stop attacking the "outsiders" because oftentimes the "outsiders" are part of us but don't feel like they can claim to be lgbt. Especially older generations. Older generations (which includes millennials and even a lot of older gen z and literally everyone alive) don't think they can consider or call themselves a part of us for numerous reasons.

These reasons can be it isn't safe for any variety of reasons, these people grew up being called these things and always claimed cis and/or get because the terminology at the time wasn't like it is now in the same way, certain genders were more accepted than others (IE bisexuals and lesbians and gays and straights was most of what you had, alongside men, women, and transgender man/woman, which were and still are seen as often groups, for better or worse.) And there wasn't fuck all else. Fucking nada. Zilch. Not in most cultures, certainly not in fucking America. These people are often part of us even if they don't consider themselves as being part of us.

Definitions have changed. Contexts have changed. You'll find that we (and this is ESPECIALLY going out to any gen z out here)- we have called ourselves whatever the fuck we have wanted to forever. And we always will. And we always should. We will reclaim terms/slurs and make new terms and shit, I love being called a slur, by my own people or people who intend it to hurt me. It's fucking funny.

It has all changed and will continue to. That's the way it is. Don't discount other people's experiences or histories or whatever else just because you don't know the full story or "I just don't like it". News flash- isn't your fucking life babes.

Anyways, long-ass rant over. Needs to be said. I'm sayin it.

Any beautiful, handsome, fantastic motherfuckers out there who wanna comment your identity, favourite terms for yourself, etc? Wanna call me a slur, regardless of which way, good or bad, you intend it?

Light me the fuck up, yo. Hand me the lighter and pass the weed, I've always liked playing with fire.

[blurrymango]

op is ur bio ironic or are you genuinely queerphobic u mentioned at the bottom “ if you made it this far without dying” or smth along those lines so it seem ironic, and I genuinely cannot believe someone can be THAT shitty.

Ok. Let me set the record straight. When I say I'm "queerphobic" I mean it in that I hate people who think queer isn't a slur.

I'm bisexual and trans, and I do not hate LGBT people. I call myself queerphobic for ironic purposes indeed. I am literally a queer myself, but I do not like people who ignore the history and facts of the word queer. I do like the people who call the LGBT community queer. I do not like people who ignore all the places in the world where queer is still very much a slur.

I do not like people who ignore reality. And the reality is- queer is a slur. It's like faggot and tranny and d*ke and the n word. (I will not say the d slur or the n word, as I am not a lesbian or black and cannot reclaim them. As well as- the n word just makes me extremely uncomfortable.) Calling the LGBT community "queer" is like on the same level as calling high-functioning autism "aspergers" or calling other people degenerates. I call myself a degenerate, but I would never call someone else a degenerate, because the history of that word is deeply. Deeply terrible. It's like when people still use Esk*mo kisses as a phrase, it's just wrong. Esk*mo is a slur. Calling Mexicans the B slur is wrong. Calling Jews the K slur is wrong. Calling Roma people G*psies is wrong. You wouldn't use retard as a general descriptor for autistic people, so you shouldn't use queer as a general descriptor for LGBT folks.

Now, I know I use retard as an insult a lot. And that's not a good thing. However, I recognize the wrongness of it, and I do not plan on stopping. Because when I call someone retarded, I'm calling them stupid. I'm not implying mental disability, as I would never call someone with a mental disability retarded. If someone is acting like a dumb cunt, then they're retarded.

So. Basically. I'm not LGBTphobic, I'm against idiots.

If you disagree that queer is a slur, then you're wrong. If you know queer is a slur, and you still use it like I do, then that's ok. Just don't call the community queer. Don't call autists all retards.

That's what I mean when I say I'm queerphobic.

Hope this clarifies that for you and I hope that you don't just disregard what I've said here because I wrote a lot of words, as so. So many people on here tend to do.

The "I do not use pronouns" bit of my bio is also a joke. I am a (trans)male, I use male pronouns.

[crwndsprkzy]

How Could You.

Why would you shun a child for wanting to explore who they are? We actively teach children about their ancestry and tell the stories of the world, why can’t we teach them it’s OK to be an individual?

Gender is part of how someone sees themselves, just like their personality or music taste; it makes them happy and comfortable in who they are. How can we be one country when we have people so strongly believing that children who want to be something more than a vessel for their parents’ ideas are mentally deranged? What gives you the right to tell people to conform to your beliefs when they are their own person?

As a transgender teenager, I have experienced years of harassment and abuse from my peers, teachers, and those who I’ve met. Just because someone is different, is that really grounds to bully someone into hating themselves?

I was bullied off my school bus, the only way I could reliably get to school from my home in the middle of nowhere. Nobody in my family could drive me all the way into town, and suddenly they had to because people would hit me, harass me, even make explicit “jokes” about me. I would hurt my ears trying to drown out the barrage of insults thrown at me every day with music. My friends were turned against me, and I was even bullied through social media. Do you really think it’s OK after abusing someone so harshly with words to casually ask “what bathroom do you use by the way?”

I had a confrontation in front of almost the entire school lashing out at kids who had the nerve to call me by the name that is no longer on my birth certificate. I didn’t go back for a week and almost nothing was done about it. How can you leave a child to fend for themselves when faced with such sudden harassment with little reason behind it? This goes along with the countless times I’ve been catcalled, or even inappropriately touched on school grounds by people I’ve never met and never intend to.

I have been called a “faggot” a “tranny” a “fag-hag” and countless others I wont repeat. On school grounds. Often in class. In front of teachers and other students. How can you stay silent when someone is being hurt by people, if you are not enjoying it? How can you claim to preach love and nurturing if you allow abuse to happen within your walls and sight?

It truly shocks me how people can be so unkind to a living being, especially another human. Because in the end, that’s what we all are, humans. It is not in your nature to hate, nor is it to abuse, human nature involves helping and socialising. Free speech does not mean “I can say anything I want,” it means “I can say anything I want as long as it doesn’t seek to harm people.”

Why are the youth screaming in the streets for change if nothing is wrong? We are not “one person” that you need to please, we are a community of people who exist and are being mistreated. We are not trying to steal rights, we are trying to be treated as human beings, both in law and social situations.

How would you feel if your rights were being put up in the air every next week? How would you feel if you couldn’t hold hands with your lover for the fear of being bashed or killed? Why do we let youth, let alone anyone, live in the fear that their rights and lives could be taken away for being themselves?

I run my own LGBTIQA+ club at my school, in fact I founded it the year I got there. The children I see coming in have been harmed, bullied, and rejected by those around them, including their parents. How could any parent reject their children just because they are different than the normal? It hurts me to see countless kids choose me as their father figure over their parents and guardians. I am forever thankful my parents have accepted me, but always sad over the fact so many people like me aren’t as lucky. Even the fact that having loving parents is considered “lucky” within our community should be enough to prove how much words can do.

Look at all the people abused, harmed, and killed for being different and try to tell me that I should change. Try and tell me I am mentally ill. Try and tell me I’m wrong about who I am.

You are not any better than those who kill us. You are not any better than those who propose laws stripping our rights. You are not the hero you think you are for “silencing the wrongs.”

Look me in the eyes and tell me that I am the problem today. That I am the reason people like me get killed. That I am the reason your LGBTIQA+ child hates you. That I am the reason everything has changed.

I am not the reason this change has happened, it’s those like me who came before me.

Why am I, a child, responsible for your feelings of hatred towards anything that is not straight and cisgender?

[sapphicconservative]

Funny how conservatives get to threaten to throw me in a gas chamber and call me faggot or tranny but the moment I say fuck off, all of a sudden I'm anti free speech or a libtard or an sjw. I know I'm pissing you off but I will not sit back and allow some assholes to threaten me for being jewish and LGBTQ. Sorry to go against conservative values but I do not appreciate being treated as lesser for being Jewish and LGBTQ. I don't fucking care if I'm "triggered" or a snowflake, I should be able to exist without Jack offs treating me as sub human.

Here's the thing. All of that is wrong. On both sides. Neither of you are okay or good for the actions you've done. You've both done horrible things and will continue to find horrible things until you learn to actually treat people like people.

You're not pissing me off, though. Quite frankly I was more confused by your wording than pissed off over your message. I had to read it a few times to make sense of what you were ranting to me about, I'm afraid.

Your feelings are valid, I will not deny that, but the actions you take are never automatically accepted because of feelings. Otherwise hate crimes against trans people would be acceptable, yes? Do not lash out because of anger. Learn to grow and let go of that anger. Show compassion and you will find a kinder world.

That is the issue with so many of you all taking offense with my message. You don't know when or how to let go of your anger to the point it has consumed you. And none of you realize this. Be angry all you want, but understand by choosing to give in to your anger and not move past it, you will only find more anger.

[trickster-tabby]

He/Him

Roman gets harassed at work for being trans, causing her to attempt to detransition despite not wanting to. This leads to a lot of hurt feelings, a creative block, and even a damaged relationship.

Chapter 1

Pairings: Prinxiety

Warnings: transphobia, homophobia, harassment, f slur, t slur, mentioned n slur (I am white so I'm not putting it directly but Roman's coworker is called this)

❤️Roman is transfem nonbinary(no hrt) and uses she/they/it, Janus uses all pronouns (mainly she/her), Virgil uses all pronouns (mainly he/him), Patton uses he/it/blood, Logan is a no-op transgender man❤️

Another note, my Roman is the host of the Royal System!

Roman pulled her lanyard over her head and headed out to the register.

She was wearing a piratecore dress and corset like usual, and had her pride pins on her lanyard.

A Flyleaf song came on in the store, and Roman smiled.

Another day working at Hot Topic.

---

Roman was chatting with her coworker as she rang up a customer's items.

"Will that be all, sir?"

"That's all. Thanks."

"Thank you for shopping with us!"

Roman smiled as the customer left.

"So as I was saying, Ro, Lucy did a surprisingly good job at work yesterday. She was able to mask and pass as you almost perfectly."

"Did she call anyone a cunt?"

"Once."

Roman chuckled as she leaned against the counter. "Only once? Damn, must've been hard to do that. I mean, it's Lucy Lacemaker."

As Roman continued talking with the coworker, a group of people walked into the store.

Roman turned to greet them...

And stopped short when she saw what they were wearing.

These people were wearing homophobic, anti-black, and confederate shirts.

Roman froze as they continued into the store.

One sneered at the pride flag display, and another smirked when he noticed that Roman's coworker was Black.

Roman couldn't move. She could barely breathe, and the edges of her vision blurred and darkened. She was very obviously trans, and had pride and pronoun pins all over her lanyard.

And these people won't like that.

She was jerked forward by someone grabbing her lanyard.

"So, a tranny... Oh, and a faggot, I see!" he said with a cruel, almost singsong voice.

Roman tried to tell him to let go, but couldn't find her voice. Her head became flooded with the cries of her headmates screaming at her to fight back, get away, call for help, etc.

In the innerworld, Roman had dropped the controller to the body. It had clattered to the ground, and Roman was sitting there completely motionless. The front room wasn't big enough for everyone, but it was nearly full of her headmates, yelling for Roman to fight back.

Back in the outside world, Roman had fallen and was cowering behind the counter as she watched these men pull every pride related item off the shelves, destroying them.

They had pulled Roman's coworker over the counter, threatening to beat him if he cried.

Roman covered her ears as they started calling him the n word.

Roman squeezed her eyes shut as he sobbed out, "Stop!", causing one of them to raise his fist.

"Roman, please, you have to do something!"

"You can't just let them hurt him, Ro."

"Everyone move."

Everyone stepped aside as Chrissy headed for the couch. She grabbed the controller and took control over the body. Roman simply stared in silence.

Chrissy jumped up and grabbed the phone from the counter.

"911, what's your emergency?"

---

"Are you okay, Darling? Does it hurt bad? Do you even remember that he hit you?" Virgil was ranting in anger.

Roman finally came back to the front. She was sitting in the parking lot with Virgil hugging her.

Roman slowly found her voice. "I... I'm okay."

She looked up to see her coworker being wheeled into an ambulance, and most of the people that had hurt them being arrested.

"Kitty, take me home."

---

Staring at herself in the mirror, Roman thought about what had happened earlier.

She was still terrified, she wanted to retreat into the innerworld and hide...

But she was also scared of being away for too long after this.

If she wasn't trans, then it wouldn't have gotten physical like it did. Maybe...

Roman opened the drawer and grabbed scissors.

She raised them to her hair...

And cut.

She kept cutting until her hair was entirely short: she now had an undercut, just like she had before she had come out.

She...

He looked like a man again.

---

"Virge?"

Virgil looked up after a few seconds.

"Hey Rom-"

He stopped short when he saw Roman's hair.

"Roman, what are you... What did you do?"

Roman took a deep breath. "Angel, I want you to go back to using he/him for me."

Virgil was silent. Roman didn't look happy when what she... He had just said.

"Roman..."

"I'm not taking these risks anymore. I'm... I'm a man."

Roman looked like he was about to cry.

"I need to go talk to Logan. I'll be back for bed, Vee."

---

"Lo?"

Logan turned away from his drawing tablet, eyes going wide when he saw Roman's hair.

"Y... Yeah?"

"Do you know if it's safe to bind implants?"

Logan gave a sad look as he realized what was happening. "I think so."

"Cool. Can I have one of your binders?"

Logan sighed. "...Yeah. Middle drawer."

---

After Roman had informed everyone that he was going back to he/him pronouns, he crawled into bed with Virgil.

"Ro, honey-"

"I know what you're going to say. I... I'll be fine. If I'm a man again, these people won't hurt us anymore."

Virgil looked at Roman sadly, before laying down and opening his arms for Roman to snuggle into.

As Roman settled into his wife's arms, all he could hear was his headmates crying and asking Roman, "What have you done?"

[tobylovesyou]

A Christian once told me that they are oppressed because they can be arrested in a non-Christian country for being Christian. Yes a couple of countries do this and that’s bad but:

Christianity is the biggest religion in the world

Despite the law of separating church from state many countries like America still base their laws around religion

The hate against Christians isn’t as widespread as the hate against the lgbtq+ community, Muslims, poc, disabled people and more minorities

Most people that are Christian (this is just an observation I’m not saying that everybody is this person) are: white, upper middle class, cisgender, heterosexual (or not lgbt in anyway) and able bodied

The PRIVILEGE that most Christians get is outstanding- stop saying you are oppressed

Here are some examples of actual oppression, I’ll be using being lgbtq+ and being disabled as an example because that’s the oppression I fight daily. If you have different types of oppression than me- feel free to express your experiences!

I can get killed in over 72 countries for being lgbtq+

People make fun of my disablity for no reason

The slur “retard” is one of the most normalised slurs and not many people talk about the fact that most people use it especially in a school setting with out consequences

My existence it constantly debated

I can’t have a day on the internet without being called “fag” “faggot” “tranny” or “retard”

I have to hide who I am from my family out of fear that I will be kicked out of my own home

I have to get screamed at everyday because of how uneducated my family are on my disablity

People think it’s okay to ask me about my personal life for shit like “finding out about my communtiy” like that can be okay but the questions are uncomfortable and the people asking them never listen when you say you are uncomfortable

I get bullied at school for being lgbtq+ and the school does nothing

I am meant to get extra help because of my disability in school- my school made amazing promises and never did shit. I’m at the end of my secondary school days and my school still hasn’t helped me one bit

Making fun of disabled people is way to normalised

I’m scared to be my self in certain places because I fear I will get hate crimed

I have no faith in myself because of my disablity, the jokes made about it and all the sympathy I get

These are just a few of the ways I am oppressed. But I admit I am privileged as I am middle classes, I have amazing friends, I am white, I have no sort of religion and I can hide the fact that I’m lgbtq+

Also please tell me your experiences because it’s a great thing to talk about it and an even greater thing to prove an idiot wrong