#trans masculinity

[actualalivecreature]

not femininity or masculinity but a secret third thing (faggotry)

[fagpunkqueer]

i love you bears i love you butches i love you trans men i love you transmascs i love you drag kings i love you masc queers of all persuasions the world is so much better and brighter for the existence of queer masculinity

[sydsixxftm]

Really hope I'm serving "gender ambiguous"

[modify-and-sever]

are trans men really just "angrier because of the testosterone" or are you just saying and doing things to upset and anger trans men

[thechainlink]

Today Nate Stevenson, creator of the She-Ra Netflix series, came out as trans masculine with he/him pronouns.

[transjoybyrin]

Finding brotherhood as a trans guy

To my surprise, when I came out as trans to a few cis guys in my life I was met with nothing but acceptance. I’ve only had one bad experience with a cis guy so far, and it wasn’t due to any malice but rather confusion because I’m pre-HRT.

The effect of my social transition was instant: guys were more friendly to me; I became a part of their private conversations; dapped me up and, upon seeing my confusion, were happy to teach me how to do it.

I was worried other men wouldn’t except me. For a long time I was scared they wouldn’t see me as worthy of being a boy. Yet the older I get the more I realise that manhood isn’t a thing to earn or a criteria to tick off. In a way the same could be said for brotherhood. Back then and even now I seldom pass as a cis guy. I’m not on T, I haven’t had surgery. I haven’t even changed my legal name. I’m emotional, scrawny, short. I don’t play sports or have many traditional male hobbies. Yet that didn’t stop other men from embracing me as one of them.

It’s so easy to get bogged down by what the media says about us. It’s even harder to put ourselves out there and find the brotherhood we’re craving. But it’s worth it. It is so fucking worth it.

[craycraybluejay]

Why is every popular transfem on Tumblr a neobaeddel.

Like yes! Transphobia sucks. Yes! Healthcare is a human right. Yes! Capitalism bad. No! Transmasculine people aren't "not oppressed" or "exempt from transmisogyny" nor should they be referred to by their "birth sex" or extremely othered by queer communities. Wtf.

Yes yes yes no.

Like. Can you people please be normal about trans men and transmascs for like. One second.

[frasermints]

anyway. tdick is so hot. boycunt is incredible. phallo and meta penises are absolutely divine. trans men’s genitals are superior in every conceivable way and i need you all to understand that. 

you are desirable. you are attractive. you are flawless. your genitals are not disgusting. they are stunning and i love you. 

[astarionsilverbough]

I am not a woman, but I have always been one.

I am an invisible impossibility. A thing so unthinkable even my own people mock and revile what I’ve become. I am expected to degrade myself in kind, to make a joke of my own existence.

A man? How very… disappointing.

Transness is not a choice until you’re the beast that becomes a man. It is a celebration in our community until it’s cause for condolences for such an unimaginable decision - you’re a man now? I’m sorry. That’s unfortunate.

But I am not a man like them. I will never be like a man who was born to it.

Because I was born with an imagined god’s brutal laws grafted to my body. To the rest of society, the uterus I inherited from my sex already belonged to some ephemeral man out in the world, a man whose name would devour mine as his child would devour my body.

I was born to appease the eyes of cisgender, heterosexual men - and when I failed to do so, I became their villain.

I have always been a villain of some sort. Perhaps that is why it seems so comforting to me.

It is a hollow comfort.

There is no privilege in this transition. There is little joy. It is a terribly lonely thing, becoming a monster in the eyes of even your own community.

But I wasn’t, and I’m not. The terrible tragedy of it all is I wanted to be a man like the ones in stories and legends, a man like the heroes from the books I devoured as a child; but then I grew up and realized that the reality of those stories is far grimmer and men in my reality were far fouler and it seems so inconceivable to me that I should ever want to become what has almost destroyed me.

And that’s the catch, isn’t it? I never could be. There is an assumption within the trans community that trans men gain the ever-sought male privilege upon transitioning - and perhaps if you live stealth and pass, you can experience some aspects of it.

But as soon as we reveal ourselves - or, god forbid, live out loud as trans men who don’t pass - that privilege goes away. Male privilege cannot truly belong to those who have suffered so viscerally beneath it; those who have been born with its expectations and claiming brand on the surface of an unwanted womb.

I have experienced very little triumph in this transition.

We are not the victorious trans people that get written into shows and movies. We are the oddities who do not yet fill out the suits we so desperately want to wear. We are the fascinations on magazine covers, ever reduced to the fact of the uterus living still inside us.

I am so tired of being invisible, of being ignored until I’m being forgiven for my “choice” to become what has tried to kill me. I am tired of the degradation, of the appeasement through silence. I am tired of being made into a joke.

My masculinity - my manhood - is not a tragedy.

I refuse to behave like it is.

I refuse to be made silent by my own people.

I am not something for you to grieve. I am not the gentle thing the cisgender world wanted me to be, nor am I the quiet disappointment of my own kin.

I am a rebellion against all that was put upon me before I was named by my mother.

I am not a woman, but I have always been one.

I am Judas.

[emmenai-kalliston]

Please help a trans man get his diagnosis

Hello! I am a trans man in a very precarious financial situation who maybe has found a way to finally get a dysphoria diagnosis that isn't prohibitively expensive for someone unemployed and whose parents don't support. Point is, I still need about €150 for it. If you have even a spare euro it would help me so much. My PayPal is @/gfcallisto , anything helps really. Thanks

€0/150

[the-darkness-does-not-bargain]

Kind of uncomfortable when I tell people I'm trans and they ask if I've told my family yet. Not because the question itself is bad, but because of their reactions when I say no. Each time, they've reacted with shock (wide eyes, gaping mouths, even exaggerated gasps), staring at me like I've grown extra limbs. All because I said "no, I haven't told them yet". These people don't mean ill to me. While I've gotten a few thoughtless remarks and the standard early transition misgendering, everyone has at least been outwardly accepting.

But that particular reaction really bugs me. Like they can't fathom why I wouldn't immediately inform my family about this sensitive, life-changing news. Next time, I might turn it back on them, replace being trans with some other example, and see how they respond.

[actualalivecreature]

some bear belly to make your day better ❤️ it/xe/that

[absurdlyalive]

transitioning from a woman who people thought was kinda shit at being a woman, who was considered ugly and who was ridiculed for it, to being a man who people think should not be a man but who unfortunately is, therefore is undeserving of care at all and who was largely more violently humiliated for it feels like it should sufficiently contradict the transphobic idea that people transition to gain power but I suppose that argument is only relevant for propagandistic use, not in the context of how it actually holds up when contrasted with real life

[sydsixxftm]

[idle-skull]

Phases of the Moon

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His name is Leander and he has lycanthropy. Anyway, sorry for not posting art in awhile.

[transjoybyrin]

To all the trans guys who don’t have overtly masculine names, you are so cool. Your name is a guys name because it belongs to you!