i've seen a lot of people express the worry that they can't claim they're nonbinary until they start hormones or get surgery. i just wanted to say this absolutely isn't true. you don't even have to change your presentation, the way you dress, the way you speak or act, or anything. you don't have to change anything to be able to claim that you're nonbinary. you are a nonbinary person from the moment you realize and accept it. it's okay to call yourself nonbinary before transition. it's okay to call yourself nonbinary if you never transition
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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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happy pride month to all the girls, the boys, those in between and those outside, the pre-op and non-op trans people, and the post-op trans people, to the gays, the lesbians, the bisexuals, the pansexuals, the asexuals, and to those anywhere in between, to those without labels, and to those with many, to the mascs and the femme alike, to the androgynous and to the combinations, to those who confuse others and to those who confuse themselves, happy pride month. you deserve the world.
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Transmascs: "Trans solidarity! Trans solidarity!"
While trans women have elaborated tme/tma theory (a sex-conscious antifeminist framework that inverts feminist class analysis, justifies anti-afab hatred, misogynystic social dynamics under non-sex explicit ''progressive'' language) that they are institutionalizing.
It was developed by baeddels on pre-2017 Tumblr to address ''intracommunity issues'' how ''afab people use their afab status to oppress trans women''. Now, you know where this theory comes from.
Transmascs/afabs. You guys are useful idiots when you endorse this theory even in restricted contexts, it's fundamentally against your interests as an afab person. It serves to destroy afab-solidarity while cultivating an amab-solidarity among gnc/trans people, to silence you and make you subservient to ''TMA'' (amab trans/gnc) people interests since you are positioned as being part of the privileged, oppressor class ("TME") because of your agab.. Good luck when it will be fully institutionalized in leftist spaces and in broader society. You'll be even more silenced (and hated) than you are now (which is bad enough).
The criticisms I've read from some transmascs about this theory don't go far enough.. They don't recognize its antifeminist inversion, misogyny, the sexist dynamics it creates/reinforces and the amab-dominace/solidarity it allows and justifies. While the critics admit that it's a sex-conscious theorical framework masquerating as a sex-blind one, they still reject sex-consciousnesss as a priciple and as a basis for social/political analysis and organizing. Which is extremely harmful for afab people.
Sex-blindness is a way of concealing afab and transmasc oppression, preventing political organization and silencing you, and thus maintaining your oppression.
This is an example of a trans woman radicalized by tme/tma theory.
and it's our future in queer/trans/leftist spaces if we don't succeed in countering this theory.
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