if you attack trans* people for having fun and being open about their gender and not wallowing in self hatred and shame and tell them theyre hurting ACTUAL trans people who have REAL problems number 1 you are garbage and number 2 you are garbage
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Source: gundma
I had to break up with my partner today. It turns out they’re cisgender. How could they lie to me like that? I assume every single person I meet is transgender because I happen to be transgender and I expect cisgender people to do the same and they obviously should have known that. They really should have told me up front so I could have known to not admit to myself that I’m attracted to them.
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Source: woundedmermaid
Source: corpselingthe idea that all trans* folk have to suffer, be depressed/suicidal, or be intensely dysphoric is something made up by cis media to prove that being trans* is a hellish place of torment, forcing trans* people to be ashamed and hate themselves for things out of their control
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I love how this makes more sense than doing 15 minutes of argumentative Trans 101 with an adult.
i second this request!
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Source: the--watcher
Melissa Harris-Perry describes herself as “cis” (via “MSNBC Talks To And About Trans People For An Hour, Doesn’t F*ck It Up” on autostraddle)
The fact that this is really so extraordinary is really, really sad.
^ preach
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Source: sansastone
Tumblr, we need you! A rogue Arizona State representative, John Kavanagh, wants to pass a bill that would thow trans people in jail for using public restrooms. Anyone could be asked for I.D. to “prove” their gender, and if there’s a discrepancy they could face a fine or jailtime.
When asked why the bill targeted trans people, Kavanagh explained that it’s because he thinks “they’re weird.” Outrageous.
We can stop this bill by taking action at www.allout.org/arizona and spreading the word far and wide. Will you help?
That quote sounds like something out of an onion article oh my god I can’t believe people are this awful
You should help and spread the word too
This is everything that makes my heart hurt and my stomach drop.
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Source: allout.org
This legit makes me want to cry because I have *never* seen a picture of an older trans man naked. It’s always young guys, usually much younger than me. It’s like we don’t have a future, an adulthood, a middle age, an old age. It’s like we just stop.
As a trans man who’s well past the age (and transition status) of ~sexxay tranz boiz~, pictures like this give me some kind of hope. We’re not just one image stuck in time, snapshot of a skinny white andro urban-queer young trans dude with perfect top surgery scars, poster boys for young radical queerdom. We’re not all Youth. We live in more than two dimensions, and one of them is time.
Older queers tend to fall off the map full stop. Trans people, even more so. But we don’t disappear once we stop being, basically, fashionable. Supporting our young people is important, but we need to show them we have a future, too.
I literally cannot envision my own future. There are no images of older men like me.
One image obviously can’t address all the lacks in representation, much less one image of a hot skinny (apparently?) white man. But just to have that one extra factor in there, of age, it’s - it’s important.
More, please.
seeing this makes me sad and i don’t know why. not sad for him, either. sad for me.
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Source: unicornboyz
Starting in October 2014, the Oregon Health Plan, working under Medicaid, will cover transition-related care for transgender or non-binary youth. The first policy of its kind, it will help Oregon families cover the often exorbitant costs of transition-related health care.
According to PQ, services covered by the new health care plan will include not only mental health counseling and pediatric evaluation, but also medication, procedures, and follow-up care related to the suppression of puberty, which advocates say can often help trans youth avoid traumatic pubescent experiences that arise from a body that develops in conflict to the youth’s gender identity.
“Pubertal suppression provides transgender adolescents the option of avoiding unwanted, irreversible, and deeply distressing changes that come with birth-sex pubertal development,” said TransActive executive director Jenn Burleton in a statement. “Far too often trans adolescents experience increased suicidal ideation as a result of these changes and the indifference of others about the impact these changes have on trans youth.”
Zam, this is kind of a huge deal. Major props to Oregon for being the first to reach this milestone.
::scree::
Alright, Washington. We’re up. We can’t let Oregon beat us in awesomeness.
Source: gaywrites
just a lil PSA:
- there’s nothing wrong with people IDing as trans* or queer just because of the internet
- they’re not “faking it”
- because often times, the internet helps them reconcile and put a name (sometimes) to what they feel inside
- and there’s also nothing wrong with transitioning back if that identity doesn’t feel right to you
- and also gender is very confusing and it DOES fluctuate so don’t get irrationally angry if people change their name/identity often
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Source: spacemoms