If you are using a gendered restroom, and there is someone in there that you think looks they belong in the other gendered restroom, but they are just peeing/washing their hands/fixing their makeup in the mirror/etc and not harassing you, please DO NOT:
- call the police
- ask or tell them that…
Just a fat and gorgeously awesome trans chick soakin’ up the sun!!! Yesterday was beautiful out and it felt so amazing not only to have such lovely weather, but just to be able to feel totally comfortable in a bikini!
i’m hoping to turn the drawing of Alyssa i posted here into a larger project? people seemed to respond very well to my 20 memorial portraits of trans women (which you can find here if you haven’t seen them). it’s very important to remember and honor them, and so i’m very glad the work i made…
I thought I had an ah ha moment, but I think I just lost it. When trying to understand transphobia and how not being attracted to trans* people and making a generalized statements about it is transphobic, I tried to compare it to racism to understand. Ex: saying I am not attracted to African-Americans if racist because you are making a broad generalization about attraction based on skin color. Is it the same? I get confused when applying this to sexual orientations and labeling those attractions
So I think you are in a good direction, but I always warn against comparing oppressions. Transphobia and racism are different, although they may share some elements.
Here is my very simplified view on cis people saying “i’m not attracted to trans people” (keep in mind, I am also cis):
You are lying.
I am not saying that all cis people are attracted to all trans people. obviously. But when you walk down the street, you might notice some people you find attractive. You might think “that girl is so cute” or “that boy is adorable” etc etc. THERE IS NO WAY YOU CAN SAY WITH 100% CERTAINTY THAT NONE OF THE PEOPLE YOU HAVE EVER BEEN ATTRACTED TO IN YOUR LIFE HAVE BEEN TRANS.
Now that we have that taken care of, let’s address the actual problem: cis people DECIDE, one they find out someone is trans, that they are no longer attracted to them. That being trans is ‘too big’ a deal to get over. That the shape of someone’s genitals or the amount of a specific hormone in their body is grounds for not dating someone.
THAT is the problem.
OBVIOUSLY if you’re not attracted to someone, that’s fine. No one is saying that all people should be attracted to all people. But it is transphobic to decide that someone’s trans identity is too gross/weird/odd/ugly/uncomfortable to date.
Is that I finally feel beautiful.
For almost all of jr. high, high school and the years after I hated the way I looked. I hated my body, I hated my hair, I hated the way my face looked, I hated the way I moved. I was miserable. It affected not only the way I saw myself, but also the way I…
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Hi followers, my friend and I are both homless in Oakland and we desperately need a place to stay. Even one night is fine, but we are exhausting a lot of time and energy (things we’re both dearly short on) trying to find a new place to stay every single night. We’re…
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J showed me this today. It’s a quick little video game where you play as a trans woman who is looking into hormones. I actually think it is pretty well done (mostly because it was made by a trans woman).
It will only take you about 15 mins, and it’s not very good graphics, but I am very impressed with the content and real exploration of some of the struggles and triumphs a trans* woman might go through.
Fancy Fierceness.
Pictures and ramblings of a queer femme princess.