#and maybe being transgender isnt inherently miserable

[strangeangel22]

i love being transgender i love doing my silly little t shot every week i am so proud of who i am and what ive done to get to where i am now I LOVE BEING TRANS!!!1!!!1!😸😸😸

#sometimes i feel like im a weird percived combination of ‘experienced’ and ‘not experienced’ in being transgender #heavy on percived i know who i am LAMFO #ive been out chronologically and age wise the longest out of everyone i know im pretty sure #i started socially transitioning when i was 12 yk #was fully ‘out’ (specifically in school) by before high school at 14 #and changed my name legally last year and started t this year at 17 #but some people just see that last year as me being properly trans #not even properly trans just like. as if i was only starting my transition now #and i dont think thats very accurate #and sometimes i feel a lil inferior to guys in my life who have been on t and have been ‘undeniably’ trans for longer #(boy if ur reading this ur not included like on god but also unblock me lets be mooties i miss you) #but sometimes i have to just sit back and remember i got this and it doesnt actually matter what they think OR even if i was a ‘baby trans’ #or whatever #ive been trans for like a third of my life. #like half of my cognitive conscious life. #i got this!!! #and even if i didnt thatd be okay too cus we all get there eventually #that is a lot of yapping for me saying i feel embarassed celebrating doing my t shot every week cus im so early and jts not doing anything #but maybe i can have some fun anf joy in life #and maybe being transgender isnt inherently miserable #on a happier end note #me and my friend had our hrt appointments on the same day and started a few days apart #so we r now transition buddies and yap at eachother abt injections vs gel and what ‘changes’ were getting and its really beautiful #its nice to have community #and people who do not see u as a little transgender infant just cus u werent fortunate enough to go on t at an even younger age #than the incredibly fortunate 17 #but hey what doesnt kill you makes you stronger i suppose and i think hrt is gonna feel reslly fucking good after 5 years of waiting #and im so fortunate im in this position and am grateful every day to not only be awesome and transgender but also on hrt!! #yaaayayayayayay!!!!

[pumkinpaws-archive-moved]

i dont like how gender identity stuff is clumped with sex ed type stuff cause it gives the impression that being trans is related to sex and puberty in a way that just doesnt sit right with me. Maybe because sex ed is so... bad. And also because its something that is inappropriate before a certain age (10 ish at least), which gived transgender issues an off-limits inappropriate sort of feel that is inevitably going to be associated with whatever garbage attitudes they teach kids, like abstinence or whatever.

sex ed is so miserably uncomfortable, especially because kids dont know how to handle it so they're all nervously giggling and are going to start making inappropriate jokes with each other, which is age appropriate and not what im criticising. Introducing the idea of trans people in this environment where kids are going to be whispering names of genitals to each other for shock factor and giggles isnt... ideal? not even because of the age, but just because of the inherently sexual conversation, and also the whole underlying ~you're becoming an adult now~ theme isnt really appropriate for teaching kids about being transgender cause it neglects young trans kids who may or may not know why they feel so different or wrong, and it also gives the idea that being trans is only an Adult thing, like only older people can know they're trans.

teaching kids about trans people could be as simple as introducing the idea to them with a story book, or as part of a diversity focus that includes stuff about race and age and disability and culture. Teaching kids what transgender means should be like teaching them the difference between adjectives and adverbs or the water cycle. Factual and comprehensive, but not lumped in with anything else, just maybe a specific aspect of a broader lesson.