Stories, Quotes, Rants, and Raves
One connected to my main blog…. just because it is a pain in the ass to keep on switching back and forth between my main account and this one.
Which is one reason why I haven’t posted on here in forever.
So yeah: This version of the blog is on permanent hiatus (I will keep it up for viewing), but I am making a new one under the address http://transinspirations2.tumblr.com.
It’ll probably be up in like… 10 minutes.
Thanks for all the support and awesomeness!
You just need to concentrate on what is really important. Your happiness. If being happy requires binding, baggy clothes and a boyish attitude one day and a frilly dress, pink nail polish, and a voice like an angel the next, all that matters is that you are able to look in that mirror and say “i like what I see today”
Sometimes this is really hard to do (and that can be an understatement!), but good advice all the same.
Though this also reminds me that I shouldn’t let my close family’s negative attitudes toward my gender identity stop me from being who I am, which is always something I need to be reminded of.
(via mrjaygallifrey)
Thanks for the rec’s; I haven’t had a chance to pull ‘em up yet but I think he’s finally starting to get it a little anyway. Thankfully…. it really was sort of hard for me to do. :/
But it’s really hard for me. They’re not understanding me very well, and the whole thing is just making me feel kind of weird and dysphoric. I suck at explaining, so that doesn’t help.
Does anybody have any suggestions of some videos or websites I can show this person to make my position more plausible for this person? They do seem to want to learn, but they’re having a tough time getting it and I’m having a hard time continuing to try to explain it without it hurting me emotionally.
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Spongebob Squarepants [and Patrick] says: fuck you, binary system of gender and social expression!](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lehxhnrFgY1qaj5jro1_500.gif)
Spongebob Squarepants [and Patrick] says: fuck you, binary system of gender and social expression!
(via thambos)
Thank you very much! I was also very happily surprised. :) I usually don’t think of myself as very boyish compared to a lot of other trans guys— even ones that are pre-t— but that kind of put things in perspective for me and made me feel a lot better about myself. :)
The Replacements- Androgynous
I’ve been listening to their discography lately and this song made me grin a mile wide. :)
Sex is no more an immutable binary than is gender. There are intersex people who are born with non-binary genitalia, as I have already mentioned. There are people with hormonal anomalies. In fact, hormone levels vary wildly within the categories of cis male and cis female. Chromosomes, too, vary. If you thought “XX” and “XY” were the only two possible combinations, you have some serious googling to do. In addition to variations like XXY, XXYY, or X, sometimes cis people find out that they are genetically the “opposite” of what they though they were– that is, a ‘typical’ cis man can be XX, a ‘normal’ cis woman can be XY.
The fact is that the concept of binary sex is based on the fallacious idea that multiple sex characteristics are immutable and must always go together, when in fact many of them can be changed, many erased, and many appear independently in different combinations. “Female” in sex binary terms means having breasts, having a vagina, having a womb, not having a lot of body hair, having a high-pitched voice, having lots of estrogen, having a period, having XX chromosomes. “Male” means having a penis, not having breasts, producing sperm, having body hair, having a deep voice, having lots of testosterone, having XY chromosomes. Yet it is possible to isolate, alter, and remove many of these traits. Many of these traits do not always appear together, and before puberty and after menopause, many of them do not apply.
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