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Impossible_PhD, 2 days ago to random

Ummm

Jesus christ I'm gay.

Gambit's energy, but as a girl?! 😳

DivineKestrel, 7 days ago to random

Something I think about sometimes is the difference between us late bloomers and the Trans kids now.

I look around at all the Trans women my age and it's like we're this weird cookie cutter form where the similarities are fucking eerie.

And I think of all the young kids now, and how there might be so much variation in the Trans community with those kids. How I hope none of them will be cookie cut-outs.

The sad truth is when I stop to think about it, I know why all the late blooming Trans girls are the same.

NicolaElle, 8 days ago to random

Three things, all beautiful, I don't recommend mixing at the same time:

Dilation
Verdi operas
@Impossible_PhD 's Stained Glass Woman

Excuse me while I cry now...

laurahelmuth, 12 days ago to random

Does anybody have a good term to describe people you used to respect who turned out to be horrible? Like Steven Pinker, J.K. Rowling, Richard Dawkins. It's like a milkshake duck but more consequential and even more disappointing

RickiTarr, 17 days ago to random

Alien bar:

Alien: And then I told them build giant stone pyramids to keep your dead in, and you'll get to live in a glorious after life.

Bartender: And they believed you?!

Alien: Dude, they enslaved a whole group of people to do it!

Impossible_PhD, 21 days ago to random

Good god, the end of the term wears me out. -_-

rooster, 22 days ago to random

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JoscelynTransient, 23 days ago to random

I don't think i can put into words how freaking sparkly these boots are! 🤩

Wearing them to my work at the North County Queer Prom

🏳️‍🌈 :QueerCatHeart_Trans: :ablobcatrave:

Photo of my legs and feet, bedecked in wonderously sparkly bedazzled booties, black tights with hearts on them, and the end of my lavender dress

Impossible_PhD, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to random

You haven't heard from me on the Cass Report because I'm busy at work, and halfway through the last of the Oh Shit articles. I haven't had a chance to read it in any detail.

But from the skimming I've done, and even early scholarly rebuttals, it sure as hell looks like a textbook example of how to produce sham science, even independent of its impact on trans kids' lives.

JoscelynTransient, 1 month ago to trans

One of the lingering questions the conference has left me chewing on: how many of us hid our queerness and postponed transitioning because we wanted to maintain access to middle-class privilege?

How has this experience, in turn, informed how we think and talk about trans life and community? How often do we describe the "Trans Experience" (TM) from the position of white, middle class trans people trying to maintain access to class status and privilege? What does it mean that many of our claims to "Trans Rights" in the last few decades have been effectively a claim to an individual right to self-expression without consequence to our individual property rights and/or individual access to work, spaces, etc.?

What does a real 21st century trans liberation movement look like?

#Trans #Transgender #Queer

JoscelynTransient, 1 month ago to trans

Me meeting Jules Gill-Peterson mere hours before she induced an existential crisis in me at the Trans Disruptions conference tonight 😅

#TransDisruptions #Trans

JoscelynTransient, 1 month ago to trans

TRANS FRIENDS:
Would you be willing to let me share pictures of your transition timeline on my blog?

There are so many of us that feel like it will be impossible to ever be ourselves. I want to show what social transition, HRT, and/or gender-affirming surgeries are capable of doing for us because I know that would have made a difference for me once upon a time.

If you can reply or send me a direct message with your timeline or before/after images, and let me know whether you want your name/masto handle on it or if you would prefer to have no name/handle on it, I would really appreciate it! The piece in question will discuss a little bit of complicated history of the before/after transition images but then focus on the power of seeing how dynamic our bodies are and how much is possible through different kinds of transition. If you change your mind after sharing, I can always remove your images.

#Trans #Transgender #Transition #GenderEuphoria #Queer

NicolaElle, 1 month ago to trans

One last message for the #transgenderdayofvisibility .

Just something I needed to get off - or maybe on - my chest… 😁​

#tdov #trans #transgender

JoscelynTransient, 1 month ago to trans

TRANS FEM FRIENDS: What do you wish you could say to the person you were before transition who thought it was impossible to ever actually be a girl or be fem?

I sometimes think back and find myself at a loss at what would have supported that girl best. She was so sad, hopeless, and often dissociated or in fight/flight/freeze/fawn over her distress with how she felt like she couldn't fit in the world. And like, I know "it gets better" or "it really is possible" wouldn't have gotten through.

I talk to a lot of young trans folks who go through this still every day, and so would appreciate others thoughts on this!

#Trans #TransFem #TransWoman #TDOV #Transgender

NicolaElle, 1 month ago to trans

Happy #tdov Trans Day of Visibility, everyone! Spent yesterday cruising through NYC with @JoscelynTransient ; we eventually found this nice little bar and had ourselves a drink.

Be well, everyone, be visible if it’s safe, and have a good day!

And, in a quiet moment, say the names for those who can’t be visible anymore.

#trans

Joscelyn and myself, standing in front of the brick ediface of Stonewall Inn; the neon sign in the window glows in the background.
Graffiti found in Brooklyn in rainbow colors: “Ditch the hate train, catch the love plane, Destination: Respect and Inclusion.” — Mama Leather.
Graffiti. The names of victims of violence against marginalized groups, written in rainbow colors. Brandon Teena. Cherry Bush. Nikki Kunhausen. Marsha P. Johnson. Allan Calaca Junior. The Pulse Nightclub. Emmitt Till. Vincent Chin. SAY. THEIR. NAMES.

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Impossible_PhD, 1 month ago to trans

While some of us knew from a very, very young age that we were trans, a whole lot of us... well, we didn't. We thought that the way things were for us was normal.

And then, one day, maybe all of a sudden, maybe after a long time exploring ourselves, we said the magic words: "Oh, s#!t, I think I'm not cis."

This week on #StainedGlassWoman, we've got a guide for what to do after the bottom drops out of your world, and you got your gender wrong.

#Trans #MtF #FtM #Enby

https://stainedglasswoman.substack.com/p/oh-st-i-think-im-not-cis

rooster, 2 months ago to random

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GottaLaff, 3 months ago to legal

E Jean's lawyers are simply awesome.

👀 Via Klasfeld:

News

#EJeanCarroll's lead attorney threatened SANCTIONS against Trump lawyer Alina #Habba over her "utterly baseless" claim that a federal judge had an undisclosed conflict of interest. #legal #Trump

Habba's conflict claim is based entirely on a single-anon source story in NY Post.

Carroll's lawyer ques how the tabloid came to publish it & if the supposed partner at Paul Weiss — the firm where she and the judge both worked— "even exists."

NicolaElle, 3 months ago to random

Seen in a parking lot this afternoon:

Close-up of the Model T, with a metal “bumper sticker” that reads “Al Smith for President”.

Terra, 3 months ago to random

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JoscelynTransient, 3 months ago to random

Woke up at 4 am to take the wifey to go get her face peeled off and skull made nice and pretty. Anxious as heck, but happy for her that she's getting FFS after all these years, and looking forward to the joy she will feel.

...I desperately need coffee tho 😫