PhD #trans girl! She/Her, thing explainer and technical writing scholar interested in trans usability studies and design theory. Gender questioning folks are very welcome to message me! ⚢ Married. Opinions mine.
On the way to a meetup with wonderful trans women yesterday, my mom called with a #TransJoy story that I had to share.
Her good friend’s daughter B. has a 4-year-old. On the way to school last week B. noticed they were looking extremely sad, asked what was wrong, and her kid said “I just wish I had a magic wand that could make me a girl.”
Right away, B. simply answered “You don’t need a magic wand. If you want to be a girl, you can just be a girl.”
She told the teachers when they arrived, everyone was immediately supportive, and now B’s daughter is out as a girl and filled with joy that she can be herself. Quick as that, no ridicule, no gatekeeping, no hesitation.
Hey, just in case you're out there, and your heart is telling you something important but you've been holding it in for so long that it feels like your whole life passed you by when you weren't looking, like chapters skipped on a dvd:
I had an idle curiosity and went down an internet rabbit-hole. Eventually, after one thing led to an eighth thing, and the short version is that someone cared about my bad Ranma fanfiction enough to figure out my real name and attach it to my fanfics on a wiki registry of Ranma fanfics writers.
Ngl, since all but one of the pieces was written while I was an angsty teen, I thought I'd be more mortified. Oh well, I pulled down all the really bad ones a while ago.
@NicolaElle@DivineKestrel And this is very much true for non-vaginoplasty surgeries too! For instance, there's an INCREDIBLE FFS doc that basically nobody knows about except locals, and she's got almost no wait and (as I understand it) accepts medicaid/medicare.
Holy shit is an electric vehicle amazingly better than gas for me, specifically as an autistic woman. It's SO MUCH QUIETER, and omg, no engine vibration. Like, you just don't notice how much engine vibration there is until it's gone.
@EmilyGB2023@sashag@kelidanovus Yeah, I WANTED to go Toyota or Subaru this time around, but Kia/Hyundai got in on EVs so early and their tech is so so so much more mature than almost anyone out there.