#trendercore

[sirenium]

one of the most pathetic things you can do is make a cringe compilation. you're really seeing happy individuals existing and celebrating themselves, and your first instinct is that it's 'cringe'? that's truly one of the saddest things I've ever heard. I hope those hollow laughs are worth it.

[eeks-cursed-art]

A couple patches that’ll be going on some patch pants, I bought the global warming patch at a pride event and made the rest

[doginjortscomic]

ch.1 - am i trans?

[tboyemo]

Hate that there are seen as only 2 camps of trans ppl, those who hate being trans and those who love being trans. Like sure there are people who have nothing but hate for their trans experience and people who only love it but making something so polarised that is fairly nuanced is stupid. So many ppl both love and hate being trans simultaneously, some people feel neutrally about it. I love and hate different elements of being trans. No more toxic positivity ("everyone must love every element of being trans") or negativity ("you are a trender unless you hate being trans")

[cishetlessfashion]

Please look at my top surgery party invite (address censored), I stole the Irreversible Damage kid off the cover for it!

[cat-in-a-mech-suit]

It’s truly sad how gender nonconforming trans men/mascs are still not accepted into the mainstream, are still seen as an embarrassment to the trans community, and are called fakers for exhibiting the same femininity that would be celebrated in a cis queer man. Transmedicalist ideology is often associated with trans men because of the Kalvin Garrah days of the 2010s, but all this does is erases the gnc trans men who fought to exist and still are fighting today. Yes, there were and are plenty of transmed trans men, but it was also mostly trans men and nonbinary transmasculine people who popularized “trendercore” aesthetics to push back to that (aesthetics that are still denounced). People who disavow homophobia against cis gay men freely mock “yaoi brained Aidens.” Let’s remember it wasn’t until Lou Sullivan that gay trans men were allowed to have hormones. The real history and suffering of gay trans men isn’t taken seriously or learned about. Queer people who claim to hate toxic masculinity take a lot of joy in forcing it onto trans men in a way they don’t onto anyone else, but trans men are seen as acceptable targets for being “cringe.” On the other side, trans men who do succumb under the weight of this pressure and adapt toxic masculinity for themselves are ruthlessly derided for it by the same people who forced that onto them in the first place. And often trans men can be called toxically masculine just for being uncomfortable with feminine things for themselves, which devalues the real issue of the transmedicalists who actually are uncomfortable with gnc trans men.

There’s a really prevalent idea in society and the queer community that being a man has to be about stoic suffering, which is similar to the ways people say that being a woman has to be about suffering so trans women can’t be women without a uterus, or whatever suffering requirement they have for womanhood. Gender is not about freedom of expression, it is about responsibility and sacrifice - sound familiar? So, a trans man who is confident in being a man without fitting toxic masculine expectations freaks people out even if they think they don’t have toxic masculinity to unpack, and they subconsciously or consciously push that onto trans men rather than examining themselves for even a second.

The idea of the trender is also a reason transmasculine people get gatekept from trans spaces. People see trans men’s manhood, transness, and experiences of misogyny as fake! This gives transmasculinity no space to exist at all. While people perpetuate this idea that trans men could never be really men, or really trans, or really understand so-called “women’s issues,” they also specifically say that trans men don’t understand what it is like to be read as a gnc man, while simultaneously mocking gnc trans men for just existing. These are all very similar arguments to the ones used against trans women being women — gnc trans men are lying that they’re trans to get into trans spaces when they’re just delusional cishet girls, gnc trans men could never understand how hard it is to be “socialized” as a gnc man, gay trans men are trying to force their boyfriends to be gay or force themselves onto cis gay men, gay trans men are pornbrained fetishists who want to look like little boys, trans men who talk about their experiences with reproductive rights are trying to play the victim to hurt women — but you will hear these arguments from people who claim to support all trans people.

All of these phenomena I think are why there is so much pushback to language for transmasculine oppression. Because in order to follow the transmedicalist framework and assimilate, you have to be exactly like a cis person of your gender. Cis men aren’t oppressed for being men, so trans men can’t be oppressed for being men. It’s a completely cis-centric take that ignores reality. Trans men’s experiences do not have to conform to anyone’s idea of what it is to be a man to be valid.

[3v3ry0n3z-fav3-al13n-x3]

[pwurrz]

growing up is realizing that those people depicted in the 'trender' drawings that truscum made are super fucking cool.

like holy shit, you're stargender? you like your chest and wear dresses as a man? you like dyeing your hair with super colorful patterns? you use bun/vampself???? you love and celebrate being transgender? you're nondysphoric? so fucking rad

[jessesjournal]

msi blinkys i made!

obligatory i am separating the art from the artist, believe victims yall

[faeryvoid]

Hiya, I'm Fawn Iris Thunders or Faeryvoid. This is my latest zine, Exploring Witchgender. Admittedly, I've been struggling to keep this blog updated. I finished this zine, like two weeks.

[lefayfolkwitch]

Yesterday I did a post where I briefly talked about being pangender and my frustration with how people often correct me when I occasionally refer to myself with gendered language. I'll be told, "you're not XYZ you're nonbinary" one as if I've forgotten that I'm nonbinary and two as if nonbinary is a monolith. I wanna talk more about that within my experience. Being nonbinary as a whole is often conflated as being agender/genderless/the third gender and it's very frustrating. Of course that isn't to say people who experience being nonbinary in that way are invalid absolutely not, that's just not the only nonbinary experience. As a pangender nonbinary person I identify with a vast and diverse multiplicity of genders which can extend to an infinity within my own culture and life experience. At my baseline I essentially identify as all genders and no gender simultaneously. Here's another one to some extent I both identify as a queer man and women. I'm also genderfluid, xenogender, etc and for me there are no rules. I'm free to play around with gendered language and expressions ;however, the fuck I choose because there are no rules. I'm not, not a men/women because I'm nonbinary even though I'm not explicitly a men/women. I'm also stargender :3

"My gender can be a bicycle If I fucking want it to be If you think that sounds ridiculous You can drink my fucking pee" ~ Pronouns by Dog Park Dissidents

[sirenium]

growing up is realizing that those people depicted in the 'trender' drawings that transmeds made are super fucking cool.

like holy shit, you're stargender? you like your chest and wear dresses as a man? you like dyeing your hair with super colorful patterns? you use bun/vampself???? you love and celebrate being transgender? you're nondysphoric? so fucking rad

[eeks-cursed-art]

I was not expecting y’all to like those patches as much as y’all did but most of em are sewn on now so here’s the pants, also featuring my cartoon boots that I just painted yesterday

[nightcoreonthedarkweb]

got a new shirt today ^^ (he/him)

[birdshazamenthusiast]

I have a bit of an odd question:

How do trendersonas work?

I like the ones I see on here a lot, they look fun and some of them are pretty gender but like what is the purpose of them? If i make one do i just draw me? Do I draw what i want to look like? What do I draw? Are there rules or guidelines?

Because usually with the other things with a -sona suffix I'm familiar with it's a bit clearer what the deal is.

If you've made a trendersona before, how did you do it?

I'm asking because I think some recent developments in my understanding of what the fuck is going on with my gender aided by a gender-spreadsheet (because I am like that) warrant celebrating by drawing some genderfuckery unlimited by trying to be palatable to people who can't handle the existence of microlabels who think being a boy and girl at the same time is contradictory

[cishetlessfashion]

Happy trans day of visibility! I finally got my tits chopped off almost a month ago and I can't wait to get this stupid compression vest off! Fr though the results are stunning, shout out to Dr. George Rudkin, I'm absolutely thrilled even if I don't know how to smile for photos correctly lol