Gender:
⚪ Male
⚪ Female
⚪ Prefer not to say
🔘 Actually I'd love to say my gender, but you didn't give me any nonbinary options, so I guess I'll just click "prefer not to say" and pretend that's representation instead of erasure.
a hot tip is that if a cis person asks you how you “identify,” you can literally say “sure, do u mind sharing how you identify first?” and then vibe as they spend like 3 minutes coming up with something nonsensical like “I identify as a straight-ish she/her”
A list of accepted life choices and their regret rates (per peer-reviewed articles):
Total knee replacement: 17%
Gastric band surgery: 20%
Having children: 8%
Student loans: 63%
All surgeries, on average: 14%
Meanwhile, gender-affirming surgeries? 0.1-1%, depending on study.
if I was a trans person who famously had a lot of money and was trying to figure out what to do with it, I would simply give the money to other trans people who famously do not have any money.
lol I just saw that Buck Angel was in our Instagram mentions yesterday arguing AGAINST the use of puberty blockers for trans kids and I just cannot imagine being more of a bootlicker for the cis
being transmasc is so embarrassing; I'm trying to figure out how to, like, carry 2-3 medium-sized items from one place to another... but not in a GIRL way? so I'm googling like "small bag for men" like a fool.
I do not think cis people understand how weird it is to be trans and try to figure out what life can look like past your mid-30s when there are like four total visible options.
a cis DEI professional just asked if my pronouns were “he series or they series.” Babe my pronouns all got cancelled after the pilot, no series involved.
Lovely news: genderfluid comedian Eddie Izzard is using she/her pronouns exclusively now. She broke the news on national television, riling up the terves and bringing joy to the transes. 💖
Someone who has publicly been gender fluid for decades and now wants to be in ‘girl-mode’ full time should really surprise no one.
She has my wholehearted support and I wish her all the very best. She’s always been one of the smartest and most interesting comedians & actors.
there should be one day per year where cis people have to stay home and let trans people have full rein of all the shops, gyms, bars, pools, spas, etc. Like when they let the penguins out to run around the zoo.
I am begging people to stop pitching cis guests to this podcast. There are literally two million podcasts and virtually all of them accept cis people. Why are you taking the time to reach out to the one that doesn’t. What are you trying to prove here.
so anyway if we're not allowed to write about trans people without naming the possibility of regret, maybe we shouldn't ever interview a parent without also talking to someone who regretted parenthood? oh, no, wait, that would be obviously unhinged... hmmmMMM...
My only contribution is that “women and AFAB-presenting people” is literally how everyone sounds saying “women and nonbinary people” because we know y’all just mean “women and people I think are women”! Ok bye!
why shop for men's clothing when you could shop for clothing for MASCS who were ASSIGNED FEMALE AT BIRTH but want MASCULINE PANTS for their FEMALE BODIES.
trans year 1: am I trans enough to go to the trans march?
trans year 3: all my friends and I are going to the trans march!
trans year 5+: I simply don’t have the energy to see all of my exes and all of their exes, so I will not be going to the trans march
Hey, it’s allegedly Trans Awareness Week. But trans people don’t need awareness like they need food, shelter, and healthcare.
If we raise another $7000, we can send $100 to every BlPOC trans person who applied for mutual aid in Oct.
Help:
v: Tuck-Woodstock
c: TuckWoodstock
just a pro tip for my fellow professional transgenderists: I quote at least 30-50% higher rates for anything that’s specifically pegged to TDoV or Pride, and I cannot recommend it enough.
🎉🌈💸 Our grant program is back! We’re awarding $500 grants to trans people of color doing rad art or activism that supports & celebrates our communities.
App closes 10/31 🎃 please share widely!
Apply:
Adult Arthur looks like he used to front a regionally successful pop punk band in the late 00s that was just a few years too late to REALLY catch the big commercial wave so then he got into tech startups
truly cannot believe that some cis people have the A U D A C I T Y to call themselves "bio-hackers" for, like, taking naps and not eating enough, when trans folks have been out here growing new genitals and upgrading their hormones and swapping out their facial features.
Happy National Coming Out Day! It's never too late to change your name, to try new pronouns, to get an irreversible surgery, to take some hormones as a treat.
Also never too late to leave your marriage and be gay! The world is your oyster. Godspeed.
ymmv obviously but if you're on the fence about starting HRT because you think you might not like some of the effects, consider this:
it's possible that you actually will, in fact, end up liking all of the effects! it is very easy to get used to things that feel new/scary now!
A new friend asked me this incredibly smart and thoughtful question. I’ll be asking it to all my trans/nonbinary friends from now on, and you should, too!! 💕
The thing making me more emotional than Elliot coming out is the fact that my feed is now 99% just every trans person saying “hooray, welcome to the family!”
Trans community is such a gift and I love y’all 😭🏳️⚧️
Just a hot tip that if you have been trans for A Number of Years and you find yourself arguing with baby transes or actual children about [insert any kind of queer or trans discourse] you can simply log off and talk to your friends instead
our fall grant program is open!!! as always, we're awarding $500 no-strings-attached grants to trans people of color doing rad art or organizing work with their communities. learn more and apply thru Oct 31 👻 at , where you can also see our past winners.
Little process note! Some of these surveys separated out tiers of regret (think “somewhat” versus “very”) and I only used the highest tier number so nobody could get mad at me for juicing the data 😅 so if you’re surprised at how low the child number is, that’s part of it.
for everyone who asked, the four visible 40+ trans futures are:
- trans writer/academic
- trans performer/artist/celebrity
- trans activist/organizer/lawyer
- trans winner of 40 consecutive Jeopardy games
I will not be taking further questions at this time.
I do not think cis people understand how weird it is to be trans and try to figure out what life can look like past your mid-30s when there are like four total visible options.
I hate this website so much but over on Instagram there’s a transmasc influencer apologizing for doing anti-Black Lil Nas X pregnancy discourse via a series of shirtless pictures taken against a professional-looking backdrop so I guess I hate it over there more
Hi,
#IAmNonbinary
and I make a podcast about nonbinary & trans & two-spirit folks that I think y’all would like! Being trans is a gift and I’m so honored to be in community with y’all.
having a straight cis therapist has been surprisingly chill, but today i was like "oh yeah i spend a lot of time in the pandemic thinking about how the government handled AIDS" and she was like "wait why" and i ...
i really think we can all just agree that anonymous 16-year-old twitter users don’t make or enforce the rules about what’s allowed at public queer events, and move on with our lives.
“cross-sex hormones” to mean trans-specific HRT is annoying to me… mostly because as someone who is on testosterone AND progestin i would like to claim it for myself.
Seeing cis people say “his or her” is annoying in a shallow and predictable way but seeing trans women and men saying “his or her” actually makes me feel hurt and sad!
the only solution to the discourse dividing our community is for Harry Styles to candidly discuss his gender and sexuality on the hit podcast Gender Reveal
I am begging someone to do a new nationwide survey of trans people so that we can stop citing the NCTE's 2015 numbers as if they're even remotely accurate in 2021.
We all know about the queer EGOT (sweeping every letter in LGBTQ) but do you know about the trans triple crown (getting legal ID in 3 different gender markers)
i have been not naming this brand to be polite, but! last time i cyberbullied a brand on here it was Barb and they actually hired
@ConsultSylveon
and fixed all their branding and afaik it is good now and I have some of their hair product in my hair right now so. bullying works.
got an email this morning about a “CNN article about pronouns” and another one about “menswear-inspired apparel designed [for] women and non-binary folks.” did i wake up in 2017 or are we really just still doing this.
muting this but a few quick things!
1) It’s really weird that people think it’s mean to repeat someone’s question back to them
2) trans people don’t owe you a personal educational seminar every time you make them uncomfortable
I just learned (from a cis) that November is Transgender Awareness Month??? As if we didn't have enough issues being visible on March 31 every year?? Who asked for this??