How about the (i believe early 18) year old me who wore this to the unofficial LGBT prom because he did not feel safe at the official school prom, and had such a great time and felt elated at having somewhere he could be himself? How about an actual picture of me from 2011? was this middle-schooler who knew deep down that being a girl was deeply unsettling, uncomfortable, and wrong… a transtrender? look! he doesn’t ~look the part~ at all! Was it when i used he/him pronouns when this was taken, at 17 years old? Was it one of the first times when i used he/him pronouns when this picture was taken, at 15 years old? another fun fact is that at every single stage of my transition i have been harassed, misgendered, and hurt. do i look the part? why? why not? is looking at me enough to decide if i matter?Įveryone who knows me knows that my dysphoria has brought me nearly to suicide, my being transgender made me leave home at 17 from a lack of support, i am several years into a medical transition. why is that a priority at all, when other trans people aren’t the enemy, and the reason we aren’t taken seriously is because people don’t want to take us seriously anyway? that no matter how neatly we fit ourselves into a perfect ‘serious’ box, the people who don’t want to accept us simply won’t? i find it so strange and disturbing that other trans people think they get to decide for other people how correct their transgender experience is when they know what it feels like to have their bodies and minds poisoned by other people dictating what they’re allowed to be.Īnd there is no method to suss out fucking “transtrenders” anyway.
Second, i am not the one who gets to decide someone’s intimate relationship with gender or decide that i feel things “more deeply” than them. Im not going to put a kid on blast but a 14 year old just messaged me very upset that i support “transtrenders” saying ‘its not 2011 anymore’ and that “ are people who come into our community to tell us to die because we’re not the fun and trendy trans people because we feel more deeply because we’re embarrassing and serious“… first of all, you were 6 years old in 2011.