#transgender affirmations

[04thz2]

For my fellow young adult transmascs

For those of you who, like me, are in the process of applying for your first “real” jobs, or maybe going to college, or moving away from home: I know it can be really scary and dysphoric, especially since a lot of us haven’t been able to/just don’t want to medically transition, or perhaps you are still closeted. But I am here to tell you, it really doesn’t matter if you pass, or if strangers gender you correctly every time, because the way you’re percieved by other people really doesn’t change the fact that you ARE YOU, you ARE the gender you feel you are, and you are super valid! We’ll get through this mess, and we will kick the world’s ass together! I am proud of you, and I love you, and I totally believe that you can do this. You are so much more than the world’s perception of you. Now let’s turn on that playlist that makes us feel good, throw on our binders and dysphoria hoodies if we need to, and face life with pride and belief in ourselves!

#transguy #transgender #transgender positivity #transgender affirmations #transmasculine #transmasc positivity #transmasc affirmations #ftm #ftm positivity #nonbinary affirmations #nonbinary transmasc #nonbinary trans guy #nonbinary positivity #self love #positive affirmations #body postivity #body neutrality #queer body positivity #queer body neutrality #lgbt affirmations #lgbtq positivity #lgbtq affirmations

[t0mies-b0dy]

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To my transgender siblings in Tennessee, please be careful. The new evidence of the shooter seems like it's going to be an uphill battle for us. Stay vigilant, stay safe, advocate for yourself, ignore the prying eyes and whispers as best as you can. You're still amazing, you're still loved and valid. Your existence is not a warning sign, I promise.

#transgender #tw shooting #tw nashville shooting #tw school shooting #trans rights #transgender advice #transgender affirmations

[thegenderdoula]

Trans Affirmations 3/24

Trans bodies are beautiful.

Every single one.

Yes that means yours too, trans person reading this! 

Your trans body is beautiful.  

#trans #transgender #transgender affirmations #gender affirmations #gender doula

[pitterpatterletsgetater2]

I haven’t seen a lot of talk about this, and I know we’re all emotionally/mentally exhausted in the USA with rights being stripped, but I think this is important. She’s a brave fucking woman, who is no longer allowed to speak for the people she represents.

Much like the Pearson and Jones expulsion, this is a flagrant move against democracy. However unlike P&J, she wasn’t expelled, just not allowed into the House meetings and not able to speak. She can vote, at least, but…that’s not much in a republican majority.

#united states #america #montana #trans pride #trans #zooey zephyr #republicans #democrats #I wish all republicans a very miserable die #gender affirming care #transgender #politics

[fucknuggetmaguire]

I'm going for my first top surgery consultation tomorrow!!!!!!!!

#trans #transgender #ftm #trans man #trans masc #transmasc #top surgery #trans pride #trans joy #gender affirming care #im so excited omg

[intersexfairy]

Hey PLEASE be wary of Dr. Gallagher and spread the word. Rylan (testosteronejew on Twitter) got top surgery from her in August. Here's the thread he wrote about his horrific experience.

He had severe complications that were completely dismissed by Dr. Gallagher. She kept telling him everything was fine, that it was because of his weight, and made a joke about him "menstruating" as he was bleeding from a torn incision. When he was rushed to the ER weeks later, he had over half a foot of dead tissue removed. He could have died from the infection (that she blatantly denied he had).

And in Rylan's own words, "My only desire is to keep our community safe. There are so many trustworthy top surgeons in the world. One of them saved my life. Transition is a beautiful process and we deserve safe access to it. I do not regret top surgery. I regret choosing Dr. Gallagher as my surgeon."

#ifairy #dr gallagher #dr. gallagher #gallagher #trans #transmasc #ftm #transmasculine #top surgery #top surgeon #mastectomy #lgbtq #lgbt+ #gender affirming #gender affirmation #transgender #dr sidhbh gallagher #dr. sidhbh gallagher #transition #transitioning #nonbinary #transphobia #fatphobia

[reasonsforhope]

"Georgia Republicans bundled over a dozen measures that targeted the state’s transgender residents into omnibus packages in a desperate attempt to get them passed. In a stunning defeat for the GOP, every single one of them failed.

Legislators gutted bills that had passed through committee and instead stuffed them full of their anti-LGBTQ+ wishlist items.

Bills that would ban transgender students from playing on teams aligned with their gender identity, ban transgender students from bathrooms aligned with their gender identity, opt parents into notification for every book a student checks out of the library, bar sex education before sixth grade, make all sex-ed classes opt-in and expand obscenity laws to make it easier to ban books with LGBTQ+ content all failed.

“MAGA politicians in Georgia tried it all in service to their anti-LGBTQ+ agenda,” said Human Rights Campaign Georgia State Director Bentley Hudgins, “including silencing debate and gutting unrelated, popular bills that had bipartisan support to ram through policies that would have put young LGBTQ+ Georgians in harm’s way. They failed.”

“It’s undeniable that the tides are shifting, both here in Georgia and across the nation,” Georgia Equality executive director Jeff Graham added. “Anti-LGBTQ actors are losing their political power, and more and more Georgians who know and love LGBTQ people are standing up against their baseless fear-mongering.”

In Florida recently, nearly two dozen anti-LGBTQ+ bills were defeated in the wake of Gov. Ron DeSantis‘s (R) presidential campaign implosion, dozens of measures in Virginia were tabled [Note: In the US, "tabled" means "shelved" or "taken out of consideration - the opposite of its meaning in the UK and other places], and Ohio’s governor backed off his attempt to restrict gender-affirming care access for transgender adults and minors. 

Meanwhile, in D.C., Democrats successfully excised 50 anti-LGBTQ+ provisions in the two budget bills passed and signed by President Joe Biden to fund the federal government.

Even Fox News has been forced to acknowledge transgender issues are among the lowest-priority concerns among voters."

-via LGBTQ Nation, April 1, 2024

#united states #us politics #lgbtq #lgbtq issues #lgbtq positivity #transgender #trans issues #trans positivity #transphobia #homophobia #anti trans laws #book bans #gender affirming care #georgia #florida #virginia #ohio #d.c. #republicans #democrats #voting matters #good news #hope

[floral-ashes]

My favourite part of the Cass Report is where she goes: “Florence Ashley and others have shown that gatekeeping doesn’t work and should be abandoned. We disagree, not based on any evidence but because it’s incompatible with the way we’ve already decided we wanted to do things.”

#transgender #lgbtq #trans #queer #lgbtqia #lesbian #gay #lgbt #books #trans lit #cass review #cass report #gender affirming care #gender affirming healthcare #trans healthcare

[genderqueerpositivity]

(ID: six trans flags with text. Text reads "Trans kids exist and deserve to be supported and heard", "Trans kids know themselves and their identities", "Trans kids deserve to become happy trans adults", "Trans kids deserve the right to access gender affirming care", "Trans kids have the right to decide their own names and pronouns", and "Every transgender adult was once a child who should have had support").

#trans #transgender #gender affirming care #trans healthcare #op #genderqueerpositivity #q

[thecoolergrey]

People freaking out when I say I’m nonbinary is so funny. “You’re gonna destroy your body with hormones?! The harm will be irreversible!” Fools. Morons. I don’t need HRT to be affirmed. My gender affirming care is dressing like a Y2K femboy. My gender affirming care is swapping my voice between masc and femme every two minutes to cause problems at the family function. My gender affirming care is watching transphobes trip over themselves to try to misgender me but accidentally affirming me in the process. My gender affirming care is pure chaos.

#nonbinary #non binary #non binary pride #enby pride #enby #chaotic gender #gender affirming care #lgbt meme #lgbtqia #lgbtq #trans #transgender #lgbtq pride #gender #gender affirming

[04thz2]

Hey, it's your trans big brother, just here to let you know that it's okay to feel bad sometimes. It's totally normal to feel jealous with people who are maybe further along in their transition or "pass" better than you, and it's fine if that maybe makes you feel angry or frustrated with the person because of it. It's okay if it feels a little hard for you to be happy for them right now, I get it. But what is not okay is if you make it that person's problem. It is not their fault you feel that way, and it isn't your fault either. So instead of lashing out and possibly hurting someone you care about in the process, sit with the feeling for a bit. Register it, take time to analyze what it is you're going through, and then try to deal with those negative feelings through other means, like art or journaling or really any kind of self-care, stuff that makes you feel good. I know it's hard to wait to start your medical transition if that is something you want, and I know it can totally suck to not pass, I am going through the exact same thing, and I definitely have people I'm jealous of. But it's okay. So if you are dealing with these feelings right now, feel free to use this as a safe space to vent about them. I will read your words, and I will support you in your emotional journey, and it is much much better to let your feelings out here than lashing out at people who really don't deserve it. And as always, I love you guys <3 Keep fighting out there, we got this.

#Woah this is long #transmasculine #nonbinary transmasc #ftm affirmations #transgender affirmations #trans positivity #transblr #long post #important #safe space

[eagledrawsandvibes]

Daily reminder to TERFs for Pride Month!

- You are not valid!

- Nobody cares about you!

- Terf isn’t a slur!

- You are not a minority group!

- Trans men are men and trans women are women!

- People aren’t misogynistic, they just hate you because you’re insufferable!

- Men matter and are wonderful to be around!

- You’re a disgrace to actual feminists everywhere!

(Reblog to explode a terf and give a trans person a cookie!)

#eagletalks #pride month #terfs and radfems fuck off #fuck jkr #transgender #trans rights #trans women are women #trans men are men #positive affirmations #but not to terfs #to trans people!

[thegenderdoula]

Trans Affirmations 5/24

The world is a better place with trans people in it. 

The world is a better place with you in it. 

#trans #transgender #gender affirmations #transgender affirmations #gender doula

[uncanny-tranny]

You know, I'm not a cheerleader for cis people who get gender-affirming care (especially if it's "gender nonconforming," such as a cis guy who gets vaginoplasty) because I think cis people are superior or that they should be coddled, but rather, because I don't want people to respect my gender-related care simply because I'm trans. I want people to respect my bodily autonomy because... I'm a human person. It sometimes feels like people want you to prove that they should respect your bodily autonomy, and that's something I fundamentally despise.

I shouldn't need to be open about my transness in order to be respected because... that's not information you're inherently privileged to, nor are you entitled to somebody's transness/gender situation in general. I prefer that we start seeing gender care as something that isn't "for" one group of people when that's not how the world will work, y'know. There will always be people who seek specific care no matter what or who they are, because they're human people who can make decisions.

#trans #transgender #lgbt #lgbtq #ftm #mtf #nonbinary #and like sometimes i personally don't 'get' when a cis person makes gender-affirming care decisions because we're different people!!! #you don't HAVE to 'get' it to respect it #and sometimes it comes across almost as... objectifying? when people only respect my gender care because im a trans male... #...like to me it comes across as 'you have now proven your trans insanoty and it would come across as wrong for me to deny your autonomy... #...so i GUESS i respect it' and maybe that's not what people mean but it does sometimes come across like that #like... i guess WHY is it that your respect for one's gender care hinges on if they're trans or not

[barbthebuilder]

#genderfluid #trans #nonbinary #lgbtq #lgbtqia #genderqueer #transgender #lgbt #lgbtq+ #enby #affirmations #shitpost #flag #pride flag #genderfluid pride #mine #my art #shitty thingy

[reasonsforhope]

LGBTQ+ organizations and allies are celebrating Michigan for becoming the first state in three years to pass comprehensive anti-discrimination protections for sexual orientation and gender identity. The legislation, which now heads to Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) to be signed into law, finally passed after decades of court battles and hold-ups from Republican legislators.

The bill passed in a 64-45 vote in the Democrat-led House on Wednesday. It amends the state’s 1976 Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights Act (ELCRA) to include LGBTQ+ people among its protected groups. The law forbids discrimination in housing, employment, and public accommodation within businesses, government buildings, and educational facilities on the basis of religion, race, color, national origin, age, sex, height, weight, familial status, marital status — and now, LGBTQ+ identity.

Democrats had tried introducing various LGBTQ+ non-discrimination measures over the last 40 years, according to the bill’s gay sponsor Sen. Jeremy Moss (D). However, the attempts were repeatedly voted down by Republican-led legislatures. Last January, Democrats took control of the full legislature for the first time in nearly 40 years, finally giving them the chance to pass the protections.

In July 2022, Michigan’s Supreme Court issued a landmark 5–2 ruling that ELCRA already forbade discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity as forms of discrimination based on sex and gender. This followed a 2020 Michigan Court of Claims ruling that said ELCRA didn’t ban anti-gay discrimination as well as a 2018 vote by Michigan’s Civil Rights Commission interpreting ELCRA as protecting LGBTQ+ people from religious-based discrimination...

When the House voted to pass the historic bill on Wednesday, a crowd in the House gallery broke into applause, Bridge Michigan reported. Republican House members had tried adding amendments that would’ve carved out exceptions for religious people to continue discriminating against LGBTQ+ people. None of these amendments passed into the final bill.

Gov. [Whitmer] has signaled that she will soon sign the bill into law. In a Wednesday tweet, she noted the observation of International Women’s Day and wrote, “I’m celebrating trans women who have continuously led the way, despite constant threats to their lives and liberty. I’m proud that we’re finally in a position to expand the Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights Act to protect LGBTQ+ Michiganders. Let’s get it done!”

-via LGBTQ Nation, 3/9/23

Note: If it's not clear from the language, this is basically a done deal--the bill signing IS ABSOLUTELY GOING TO HAPPEN.

As scary as things are right now, there are so many of us fighting to protect ourselves, our communities, and the queer and trans people around us.

This comes only a day after Minnesota's governor signed a landmark executive order that guarantees the right to gender-affirming care and prevents the state from complying with any other states' attempts to interfere. via them.us, 3/9/23

There is hope, and there are so many people fighting for us.

#transgender #trans #trans rights #trans healthcare #top surgery #gender affirming care #trans rights are human rights #michigan #united states #us politics #gretchen whitmer #democrats #voting matters #lgbtq #lgbtq rights #transphobia cw #good news #hope