if you are a person of color and are struggling to understand or express your own gender because you do not and/or cannot conform to white beauty & gender standards you're not alone and you do not have to warp yourself to suit someone else's narrative- every culture on this planet has their own relationship with biological sex & gender and you do not have to mold yourself to suit gender roles that literally just don't exist in your cultures, or don't make sense to you
you do not have to try to change your face, hair or body to match standards that don't apply to you. you are allowed to approach gender in your own way, in whatever ways make sense to you. it's your life, your gender, your culture, your expression. you don't have to screw yourself over like that. good luck in finding the real you, you'll find them
I'm sorry to be the one to inform you this, but as of tomorrow I will be your departments new manager, effective immediately. I expect you all to follow a strict regimen, deviancy will be punished.
Oh and also I don't believe in lunch breaks. Now get to work.
Being in such a unabashedly queer relationship as I’m in with my polyamory, I’ve started to get this new confidence in my transness that I never had before.
Like, yeah, I’m a girl, I have tits, and yeah I’m tall and semi-muscular and yeah I can make my voice deep if I want. Yeah I dress pretty and cutesy, but I’m not weak, and I’m certainly capable.
Reasons why I'm obsessed with I Want to Be a Cute Anime Girl by @azulcrescent:
The story is warm, wholesome, and lovely.
The central conceit of starting transition with a desire to be a cute anime girl perfectly matches my own experience.
It's the first piece of media I've seen to clearly capture a strange and powerful epiphany I had early in transition: that all men aren't secretly caught in a painful, constant desire to become women.
straight trans people arent "a waste" actually. straight trans women arent "cursed" with attraction to men. straight trans men arent "predators" who transition to male privilege. yall have GOT to be normal about straight trans people
we really need to stop associating facial and body hair with men. it's just hair. someone having a beard or body hair does not instantly make them a man. women, intersex, perisex, trans and cis all can naturally beards and body hair. men, intersex, perisex, trans and cis can all never grow facial or body hair, ever.
if a woman has a beard for whatever reason, it doesn't invalidate their womanhood or make them partially or wholly a man. if a man can't grow facial hair or refuses to, this doesn't make him any less of a man. trans and intersex women are not obligated to shave their faces constantly in order to be seen as women. trans and intersex men are not obligated to try to grow or make it look like they grow facial hair in order to be seen as men people deserve bodily autonomy when it comes to hair, especially if it just literally grows there against your will.
All us trans girls should unionise and by that I mean get together and instead of making out or having an awesome orgy we should just have group therapy where we actually talk about all our bottled up emotions and loneliness and dear god the loneliness