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Happy pride month with finally become your true self 🫂🏳️‍⚧️💕

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Being a man is so fun I love it!!! 10/10 would recommend!!

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Trans Guy Archive welcome post

Welcome to the Trans Guy Archive! This is a collaborative history archive for one of the most forgotten groups in the LGBTQ+ community.

In the fight for trans* justice and liberation, trans men/mascs have been largely ignored, both in society at large and within the LGBTQ+ community. Trans history largely skews in favor of trans women/femmes -- for better or for worse -- leaving many along the masculine spectrum feeling lost and alienated, even in their own community. This archive aims to serve as an informational and social space for all to learn about the beauty, vitality, and strength of trans men/masculine figures throughout the centuries. This is for all transsexual and transgender men, demiboys, butches, those who are "kinda guys", lesboys, transmascs, multigender, and anyone who falls along the masculine spectrum.

Trans guys have always been here, and we're not going anywhere.

As historians, it's important to try and not retroactively apply modern-day labels to historical figures. Terms like "transgender" or even "transsexual" are remarkably new phrases in the vast scheme of history, and people have used a wide variety of phrases to try and define their existence. For people who lived before the coining of these terms, this archive uses "trans" as a verb, rather than a noun/adjective. Regardless of how an individual may have identified, they are still trans-ing (transitioning) their gender to a more masculine state. The identities explored on this archive will largely not fit neatly into modern-day expectations of identity and gender. Everyone is invited to keep an open mind.

Furthermore, it is the goal of the Trans Guy Archive to present topics and theory that is oftentimes dense and hard to understand in an engaging and easier to understand context -- but without erasing the nuance present in topics by oversimplifying them. Too often, professional academics purposefully write in over-complicated ways that make higher education inaccessible to the average person who does not have an engaged background in historical subjects. 

By using a blend of formal and informal language throughout the archive, the TGA hopes to ease the fear of studying complex topics and provide the average person a casual look into the workings of historians.

TLDR -- You have no excuse to say "I ain't reading all that" ;-)

On top of the archive, this space also aims to act as a sort of "one stop shop" for trans guys around the country and world to find educational and academic content about themselves, written by people just like them. In the Event Calendar, you may find a party in your city to make friends; in the Trans Guy Glossary, you can learn the definition of that word you've been seeing everywhere, and so on.

The primary focus of the TGA will continue to be a record of trans guy history, but given how difficult it is for trans guys to find community and information - even within the wider queer community - we thought it'd be a good idea to have a single, organized space for everything you wanted to know.

You can access the website by clicking here! (may be a bit janky on mobile)

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Have a couple asks I will get to soon! Assessments and appointments have been kicking my ass the last couple days but rest assured I will answer in due time x

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Trans men are handsome

That’s it. That’s the post. I’m not going to name specific types of trans men because every single one is handsome and I’m very happy they exist

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im transmascfem & intersex so hopefully i can share a positivity post

got my testosterone prescription today! after years of intersexist micro-aggression i finally found a doctor who wasnt shamming me for wanting to be on both T and E. im really grateful for this.

You are absolutely welcome here!!!

But that's so wonderful and awesome! I'm really glad you found someone willing to listen to your wants and needs, it's super amazing! Awful that you had to endure micro-aggressions and people not listening to you, but I'm so happy you're getting what you want now!!!

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Art for the 19th anniversary of Origin: Spirits of the Past (Giniro no Kami no Agito) which was on January 7th

It is also about starting testosterone 🏳️‍⚧️

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Agito top scars 💖 Happy pride 🏳️‍⚧️

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I’ve been passing really well lately and all around feeling pretty handsome!

Yayyy that's so awesome! You should feel handsome! That's really great I'm super glad to hear :3

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I'm abt seven months on T and I actually feel like my body is mine!

For years I existed outside of it, like a passenger. My body was simply my tool for navigating the world, it wasn't me. And I'm sure the depression had some effect on that, but now? It finally feels like me. Fat, hairy, masculine and like me. I've never felt that way before. Is this what all yall were living like?

For the younger trans people out there, it was just my 20th birthday, 2 decades of beautiful transgenderism

(I heard you were looking for asks, and I think this blog is what Tumblr needs rn, good work /gen)

That's so amazing I'm so happy for you!!! I absolutely empathise with feeling like you're existing outside of your body. Until I started T it definitely felt like I was just piloting a meat suit but it wasn't really my body until the changes from T made it feel like home. And I'm now ~7 years on HRT and the changes keep coming, and I'm still loving every bit of it.

I'm so glad that you finally feel like yourself and can celebrate that, it's truly wonderful.

(And thank you so much! I appreciate the kind words <3)

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you can be seen as yourself. masculinity doesn't reject kindness and tenderness inherently. masculinity spans so many experiences and so many ways of expressing it, you'll never be wrong. find the ways that feel like you, maybe more like you than you've ever felt.

Masculinity truly can be beautiful and amazing, if you let it.

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my name change hearing is june 4th :D

HELL YEAH!!! That's so exciting :3 Hope all goes well! It's gonna be so good to see your real name on documents.

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I know things have been quite slow on this blog, so apologies for that! I mainly rely on asks and submissions but haven't been getting any as of late.

I understand the climate at the moment as trans people (and especially transmasculine people with the recent uptick of vitriol against us) is not that great, so I think we more want to vent about things rather than be cheery and joyful. It makes sense.

However! That is why in times like these we need some positivity! When I started this blog I gained so many followers in such a short amount of time, and despite my lack of activity, am still gaining more. This just goes to show we really do want some positivity in our community.

So, even if things seem dire, I encourage you all to search your souls for even the slightest bit of positivity, even if it's just something for yourself alone.

You are loved, and welcomed here, and there will always be members of your community who also cherish you just as much. We will get through this together ❤️ You are important and you matter and the world would not be the same without you in it. To all my transmascs, trans men, and other queer mascs: We got this.

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I'm happy as a man, happier than I've ever been in my life, and you know what? I've never had to justify that to the people I love and respect most in my life. It was just never a question or uncertainty. I met my boyfriend, I was anxious he would find my top surgery scars weird or gross, I was worried he wouldn't like my bottom growth. He'd never been with a trans person before, but it was never a question, I was a man to him, and he loves my trans body as my trans body. It doesn't need to look like what people typically view a cis person's body to look like for him, it's my body and he loves it.

My best friends always call me handsome when I post selfies, I'm not a particularly passing man, I show my full body to my friends that I'm self conscious about and they compliment my shoulders that got muscle growth from the T or my beard. I can post makeup looks and never have my gender questioned because guys can wear makeup (the fact that this needs to be said is ludicrous but here we are, so many people think trans guys can't wear makeup and still be guys). They say I gave "chill surfer dude vibes" even before I went on T. No matter how much I pass, I'm respected as a man by the people who matter most, and that's really all that matters.

If you know you're a trans man or transmasc and the people in your life try to pressure you into a level of femininity or womanhood that you're not comfortable/you don't identify with, or don't respect your identity, you do not have to put up with that. The people who will really be in your corner will get it right off the bat, no matter what your identity is. It's not your job to be a punching bag for other people's personal growth out being bigoted.

It sounds corny but you will find your people, don't waste your time and energy on these bozos.

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If there is another transmasc having an existential crisis out there that needs to hear this. You didn't 'take the easy way out' by transitioning, because living as a trans man or a transmasc is not easier than living as a cis woman. There is only one thing you are really and truly escaping when you transition, and it’s the misery of going through the song and dance of pretending you're cis.

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okay rant sorry!!!!! in a few years i can start t (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!), i already have a binder (it's awesome i love it) and i've been getting called sir/pretty boy so much and it's like!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i'm not even out but i still pass and it just feels amazing.

HELL YEAH! That's so exciting and I wish you luck on your T journey and I hope you love all the fun changes!! Super glad you get gendered correctly that's so wonderful ❤️

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i love being transmasc like. it's just??? so relaxing. like thank you, even though i cant be out irl, for the fact that i can feel like myself online. idk man i just love it

That's so great and wonderful to hear!!! It's good to have a place we can be our authentic selves, even if it's online.