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Bugs Bunny: I’m tellin’ you, doc, they/them pussy is different

Daffy Duck: Aw, pussy is pussy. Just watch me.

*fireworks*

Daffy Duck: God damn

that’s IMPRESSIVELY well done voice acting

Trans men, transmasc folks, & anyone else to whom this applies

I’m curious how many people wear a binder &/or wear a packer. Always = daily or almost daily, often = around half the time, & never = not at all or almost never. Pick whichever option is closest to your experiences.

If you have had top &/or bottom surgery choose the option that reflects what you did before surgery. People with a more complex experience of gender (genderfluid, multigender, butch, etc.) that affects their desire to bind or pack feel free to elaborate on that in the tags.

Reblogs to boost sample size are appreciated!

hey you know it’s possible to include two spirits in the lgbt community who wish to be included while not including those who don’t want to be right?

and that no person in our community speaks for all of us? that not all of us hold the same view about being considered lgbt?

because i’m getting really tired of people continually telling everyone to not include us at all and encouraging people to remove the little amount of positivity that exists, and even telling us to stop including ourselves

include us who want to be included, dont include those that don’t want to be, and don’t say that none of us can be included because some people prefer not to be when no single person speaks for us all

basically, let us decide for ourselves

this is ok to rb

im just gonna add on bc i feel like a lot of ppl who arent native american misunderstand this bc they dont know what 2spirit like. MEANS. it was coined as a blanket term for pan-tribal usage (no this is not supporting pan-indigineity dw) since every tribe has their own gender identities & sexual orientations and etc.

for example, navajos have dilbaa and nadleehi, which are specific identities that fall under the umbrella of 2spirit (though i dont want to dismiss that recently there are people who will use a sort of non-denominational “2spirit” to refer to themselves the way someone might call themselves “queer”, for a whole variety of reasons).

so, because it’s already encompassing a ton of identities, you’ll get people who are like “oh im x y z gender but i dont consider myself lgbt because my identity already existed and was accepted pre-colonialism” or simply “i dont want to be referred to within the framework of a colonialist culture” or people who are like “yeah my identity existed pre-colonialism but now i suffer under the same sorts of discrimination so i consider myself lgbt” or “i’m mixed/raised off-rez and i feel a connection to both lgbt and 2spirit identities” and etc etc etc. every flavor under the sun! like i consider myself lgbt but NOT nonbinary since a binary never existed in my tribe in the first place, but some natives love the term nonbinary and consider themselves to be that, and that’s totally fine too.

like OP said it’s literally all up to the individual! because 2spirit isn’t an exact identity, it does no one any favors to leave us out entirely. (also disclaimer 2s is pretty complicated and there are some uses im leaving out for brevity lol)

Billy Lane, winner of the Seattle Mr. Leather contest in 1998 and first trans man to compete in the International Mr. Leather contest.

I think this might be one of the funniest replies to a post on here that I’ve ever seen

i love trans men who wear crust pants i love trans men who talk loudly i love trans men who smell i love short trans men i love trans men who work out i love trans men who dye their hair i love gay trans men i love masculine trans men. i love trans men who have high voices i love trans men who wear makeup i love trans men who wear skirts i love trans men who have soft voices i love ‘sickly’ trans men i love trans men who are straight i love trans men who go stealth i love trans men who don’t pass. i fucking love all trans men and fuck people who don’t agree.

aight im drunk im 22 im cis im 99% sure this is a trans guy meme but,,, i experiuence this too dont worry this is a male experience i love u all ur wonderful and strong

I meant to add captuons like ur calid and all thar shit vut i hit the wronfg button oops

true allyship

something i feel like queer ppl have been steadily forgetting over the last ten years or so is that “genderqueer” isn’t a specific nonbinary term, or even a synonym for nonbinary - it’s an umbrella term that encompasses nonbinariness and more. 

any flavour of trans (yes including “binary trans”)? you can call yourself genderqueer. fem, butch, androgynous, drag artist, crossdresser, or in any other way gnc? you can also use genderqueer. detrans but not in a radfem death cult kind of way? you too can be genderqueer. “i guess i’m basically cis but my other queer identity impacts my gender in a way that’s hard to put into words-” genderqueer!

it’s entirely acceptable and normal to be genderqueer but not nonbinary or genderqueer but not trans. it means literally nothing but “i’ve got a gender that’s queer” and it fucking rules we should use it so much more

This!  There was a period of time where this was well known and understood and then suddenly the genderqueer umbrella was closed up into a word synonymous with nonbinary. I’d just about given up fighting to get that umbrella back open, or at least remind people that it was once much more open.

So, apparently, there’s evidence to suggest that Louisa May Alcott may have been transgender? Idk.

just saw a post where someone put “detrans dni” and like… hey we should be supporting detransitioned people bc if we don’t terfs will

sometimes you’re wrong about your identity and that’s ok like i used to think i was bi but it turns out i was wrong and i know ppl who thought they were trans but it turns out they were wrong and it should be ok and accepted that sometimes people don’t get it right on the first try

@shadowknight1224 this is an excellent way of putting it thank you

This touches on something I have felt for a long time, which is that one of the reasons rigid queer labels and gatekeeping is so dangerous is because if you want to encourage people to explore their gender/sexuality, there has to be a safe “Actually I was wrong” option.

I went through so very much anxiety coming out, and when I really think about it it was squarely from the fear of being wrong about it all. That I was, at heart, a cishet woman, and therefore I was appropriating a label that didn’t ‘belong’ to me, and I would (somehow) be harming other people by doing so. There’s so much more unnecessary pressure if the sword hanging over your head is “But you do have to be right about this, you can’t back out once you’ve even asked the question.”

I think that is Bad. I think it makes fewer people ask the question. I think that includes those who need to ask, and would be much happier for it.

to summarize: one of the things the Q stands for is QUESTIONING

and that is as it should be

It’s also possible to just…change. Not that you were wrong about your gender and transitioned to the wrong thing, but that you were right and transitioned to the gender that felt right at the time, and then it didn’t feel quite as right anymore.

I’m AFAB, and for a long time I did feel like a woman. It’s only been in the last few years that I started to feel more nonbinary. I don’t think that I was wrong before when I felt like a woman, but now I don’t feel that way anymore.

People can change. Transitioning or detransitioning or doing literally anything to make your gender feel more comfortable at that stage in your life hurts no one and is no one else’s business.

Thank you for that last addition - I was going to say something myself if nobody else had! It's absolutely okay to be/feel/do different things at different stages of your life. It doesn't mean it was 'just a phase', it doesn't mean it was invalid, it doesn't mean you were wrong. You might decide you WERE wrong, and that's okay too! But it could also be that something that used to be true for you isn't really true anymore, or isn't as important as other things are. And that's okay. Life is growth is change is exploration is growth is change is life.

This post is for the non-binaries who don’t use they/them. Non-binaries who don’t use they/them I love u 💕💕🥰

Also for the rest of y’all stop using they/them as a synonym for non-binary please and thank you

shaking like a little dog having spent the morning thinking about Ed saying "be careful what you ask your god for, she might just answer" while clearly alluding to himself and the absolutely gut-wrenching vulnerability of him kissing Stede and making future plans with his face clean-shaven and the Robe and him literally painting his face to force himself back into the blackbeard persona and how gender is perhaps the greatest fuckery of them all

https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2022-05-04/most-transgender-children-stick-with-gender-identity-5-years-later-study

by talos this can't be happening

it's almost as if kids who play around with identifying as a different gender know what they're about, and are happier if they can do it in a supportive environment!

but faux-surprise aside - that isn't sarcasm. Studies which state the what ought to be obvious are actually incredibly valuable, because thye prove it and can be cited as such to/by people who Just Don't Believe That's A Thing. So, thank you to these people.

Vietnam’s first trans dad gives birth to a girl with his transgender wife by his side

Pink News tells the story about Minh Khang and Minh Anh, who became parents on May 16, to baby girl Thiên An. Minh Khang is a transgender man, and – according to the Vietnamese press – the first trans man to give birth to a child in that country.

His wife, Minh Anh, is also trans.

Côngly published an and article about the transgender couple’s wedding back in 2017, and i have included some of the photos  below.

In early 2017, Minh Anh participated in a contest for transgender people. In the final round, she won the Miss Stylish award. That same day, she met Minh Khang -– the representative of transgender men in the Dong Thap province – for the first time.

Vietnam Insider has more.

The couple had this photo taken to mark  Minh Khang’s pregnancy.

i love trans men who don’t wanna be called or reminded of being trans, i love dysphoric trans men, i love trans men who will never pass and don’t try to, i love trans men who don’t care about hrt or surgery. i love trans men who have 46 genders. i love trans bears who grow bushy bears and thick body hair and waltz around in makeup and dresses and lingerie. i love trans men who flex their surgeries and hrt progress. i love trans men who are obsessed with every change T has on their voices. i love trans men with xenogenders and nonbinary genders and their own versions of masculinity and manhood. i love trans men who are stereotypically masculine n get euphoria from passing as cis. i love trans men who are also a lesbian because they sit right on the cusp and are comfortable there, i love trans men who have never experienced dysphoria and never will, i love trans men who experience dysphoria even after transitioning and for the rest of their loves, i love trans men who lead separate genders in different spaces for safety reasons, i love trans men who can’t come out, i love trans men who tell everyone they’re trans. i love all trans men. all trans men are good. we’re all good. thank you. i love you.

Oh my god?