The late transitioner experience of having a close friend or partner paint your nails and feeling surprisingly complex and almost dizzying mix of emotions about it that you weren't totally expecting to feel vs the early transitioner experience of having the girls at school paint your nails and feeling extremely smug and confident and self righteous about it because you get to be like the girls even if they don't fully take it seriously
The trans girl experience of wearing a dress for the first time and you're trying to make yourself as small as possible to fit in it and it feels weird but you look in the mirror and you're like that's a girl that's me I'm the girl and you start smiling and swishing it around, maybe even give it a twirl, take some pictures, and all of a sudden you feel like you could cry because that's you you're the girl and you're wearing the dress and even though you still feel awkward in it you want to get used to the feeling because it's pretty and it makes you feel things you didn't know you could feel
Welding is honestly some of the most hacked-together shit ever lmao it's like "Okay it works but you have to do it in this specific way, if you don't it'll be shit and it won't hold, also we need to pump a bunch of gas through else the atmosphere will fuck up the weld" like this isn't an elegant precise science this is people just fucking trying shit until something sorta works
help a black trans person avoid homelessness!
"PLEASE encourage those you know to donate to this fund, even if it's just a few bucks. If you know people who have big social media platforms too, please insist that they use their influence to help promote Black trans survival funds like Ash's."
https://www.gofundme.com/f/8sssu-help-ash-keep-a-roof-over-their-head
Transmedicalists (and a lot of binary trans people who don't realize they're transmedicalists) so desperately want to believe that there's something inherent in their biology that makes them trans. Like we can repeat until we're blue in the face that gender is a social construct, that nonbinary trans people are just as real as binary trans people, and they might even agree to those things on the face, but in practice they will never truly act or talk like those things are true. Because to them, the perceived immutability of binary gender validates them and their gender
This is why we must rail against any and all transmedicalism; we do not need the validation of the medical system, and if we were to ever seek it out, we would be condemning many of our own to death
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