#this textpost feels really aggressive because i am sick of revisionist history

[syekick-powers]

i am so fucking sick and tired of hearing people say “trans men didn’t contribute anything to queer/LGBT/trans history” shut up shut up shut up. if you are a trans person and your sexuality is anything other than 100% straight, you have a trans man to thank for your ability to access transition. for a good portion of history, being heterosexual was a requirement for transitioning medically. you literally could not access transition if you were trans and anything but straight because if you were trans and attracted to the same gender, it was held as “proof” that you were just a straight cis person. lou sullivan, a gay trans man, is one of the most prominent people responsible for getting heterosexuality as a requirement for medical transition removed. he is one of the first people to champion the idea that gender and sexuality are not necessarily always interlinked and that if you’re trans it always comes with being straight. you have a trans man to thank for your ability to access transition care at all if you are trans and queer. don’t fucking forget that.

#sye's babbles #i will never forget in my life lou sullivans quote #about how the gender clinic told him he couldn't live as a gay man #but since he'd contracted HIV/aids he said 'it looks like im going to die like one' #this textpost feels really aggressive because i am sick of revisionist history #trans men and transmasc people have a place in history just like every other trans and queer person out there #so help me god you WILL realize this