thinking abt how david tenant's nonbinary kid will grow up with a doctor who that is unashamedly inclusive of trans people. they'll see their dad on TV with a trans girl who saves the world.
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Nikki Hart: Just...WOW! I absolutely LOVE redhead (almost orange)-hair, transgender women! Look at those amazing blue eyes and oh, so kissable lips! Her red-orange tiger strip top sets the picture off! She's amazing! I love her!
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I’m tired of my “friends” making homophobic comments, I’m tired of my “friends” telling me being queer is just a trend, I’m tired of my “friends” saying homosexuality is a sin but they still like me, I’m tired of my “friends” telling me it’s a phase, I’m tired of my “friends” telling me to grow up and date a boy, I’m tired of my “friends” disrespecting me constantly.
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A frustrating development with the growing lack of reading comprehension I've personally noticed is an emerging fervor of insisting things aren't canon unless they are explicitly stated beyond all reasonable doubt.
I can not emphasize enough how harmful a mindset this is to have. Yes, it's wonderful to have characters outright say "I'm trans," but to deny a character's identity for not saying that is dangerous.
Plenty of real people prefer not to use specific labels. Historically, people didn't have our modern terms or modes of expression. Many modern cultures don't use these terms, either, and plenty of people within those that do can't safely openly identify.
If the only representation you accept as canon is within modern (and let's be honest, wealthy white able-bodied American) standards, then you are denying yourself and others a huge amount of representation and seriously limiting the media around you.
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the whole thing with f1nn5ter coming out is such a perfect example of why we should never allow accusations of being a "fake queer" or anything like that to be taken seriously, especially when it comes to people with non-conforming gender expressin, or people who are experimenting
I heard so many people (granted it's not a super mainstream take) saying that f1nn5ter was just dressing as a girl for clout, and that he's harmful to LGBT people, and "appropriating transness" or something, but it turns out he's now identifying as gender fluid, and i'm so happy for him that he had the space to figure this stuff out. if he took that discourse seriously though, he would have either been forced to out himself at a time when he wasn't ready, or just forced back into the closet and not allowed to experiment with gender at all
also as a side note, he spent ages being the most gender non-conforming person on the planet. if that's not queer as fuck then i don't know what is, and i can't believe some people tried to make that sound like a bad thing. identities are messy, and sometimes you need to just have space to experiment with yourself, and allowing that, and allowing people to play around with and change their identity, whether that's gender, sexuality, or something else, is necessary for having a welcoming and accepting queer community
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The conversation of when is too late to medically transition is coming round again, which it does periodically, but I have never really resonated with the phrase "it's only too late when you're dead" before. But now I realise it is so incredibly true. It fucking sucks to wait, seeing everyone around you start medically transitioning sooner and faster than you is so disheartening. I came out at 11 and tried to start hormones, I've been on the NHS waiting list for years and I desperately tried to convince my transphobic parents, I tried to get a job to pay for it etc. So it wasn't for lack of trying that things happened as they happened and I didn't start hormones until I was 18.
For 7 years I watched everyone around me transition and it felt like I was running out of time. Whenever the conversation came around about when was too late to transition I always thought to myself "its too late for me". Still these days I feel like I'm running out of time for top surgery. I have been binding ever day for 7/8 years and I'm kinda coming to the end of my rope with it, every day it's just a little harder to bind, which is devastating. I don't know what I'll do when I can't bind anymore but for me at the moment surgery is prohibitively expensive and I'm not in a safe environment to get it. I'm looking into alternatives like trans tape (but I do have a larger chest).
ANYWAY I do understand when ur in the moment of waiting that it feels like you are running out of time, my life didn't even feel like it started until I was on testosterone. A few months in after seeing some changes and finally being convinced it was real and not just hand sanitiser I finally took my first breath tbh and I have not looked back since. But before starting it was just a waiting game and I thought I'd be too old for there to be any differences which is silly really because people start in their 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s and beyond.
Its only too late to transition when you're dead also applies to coming out. Not everyone "always knew" not everyone had the language or ability to express themselves at 3 years old, not everyone understood or thought about gender aged 3. People come out as kids and teens and young adults but people also come out at every stage of life.
I don't admire Caitlyn Jenner by any means but she was 65 when she came out
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/jul/16/we-really-are-trailblazers-coming-out-as-trans-in-later-life
Article about people transitioning later in life ^
It really is only too late when you're dead
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I know it’s like a kinda duh thing in hindsight but when you come out (as any kind of queer) to people and the reaction is anything but acceptance and interest in your identity it sucks ass. Like I keep thinking about with family oh it isn’t so bad at least they didn’t call me a bunch of slurs. But it’s like if I have to coddle you through it all just to get to the point of acceptance that actually just sucks. And my family never even got to the acceptance point. If you’re going thru it with ppl and coming out just know that anything but acceptance is actually below the bar of what love is. You can choose what to do with that but know you deserve better.
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