Discourse in the US:
Should we really allow trans people to exist?
What the discourse should be:
All trans healthcare should be free and of a high standard for everyone in the country (yes surgery too)
"Trans women are just so aggressive ya know?"
*Sets horrifying transphobic effigy ablaze*
"They just take everything so personally. They're so mad and mean."
@socalledcharlie
Ok yeah seriously. Like I was still deeply closeted but this was one of the first moments I didn't feel totally miserable about myself
✨ Trans first dates are magic ✨
* Heyyyy omg ur so pretty!!
* Sharing history (happy and sad)
* Touch? Mmmm touch
* Mourning for the community
* Hope (for self, for us)
* That warm buzz of being near someone who gets it, no explanations needed
@JennyENicholson
The opening crawl had better be:
We're so sorry. We know that last one
was an embarrassing mess. Sometimes
the only way to clean up a bad ret-con
is with a good ret-con.
The emperor didn't come back because
otherwise what the hell is the
emotional climax of move 6?
Me thinks she's too hung for a small praise, too top for a sub praise, too kunt for a mid praise.
Only this can I afford her, were she other than she is, she were not based.
And being no other but she is, I simp her.
I've been trying to come up with a funny way to talk about this, but I'm just too sad.
I'm leaving my job in great part due to the way I've been treated since I came out. 🧵
Before transition my brain had the FILTER
Every action, emotion, gesture. All the ways I related to people and to myself had to go thru. If it wasn't masculine enough it was suppressed
I learned early on that being feminine in any way was dangerous
Pretty sure the thinking is this:
Trans women are inherently sexual. Sexuality shouldn't be in a professional workplace. This trans woman is being unprofessional and shouldn't be here.
So cool that Diversity and Inclusion conversations always organically come up when I'm around. Then the whole team gets to turn and look at me expectantly
Being trans means doing lots of extra work
It means pushing harder to achieve the same stuff. It means getting thru life's ups and downs with less resources when the sh*t hits the fan
And yeah, you better believe there's an intersectional multiplier at play
🧵
@_Iyalei
Small thing but thanks for not dropping the photo. Seems like Elliot doesn't mind but still feels weird to me to normalize sharing pre-transition photos around
Me being trans seems to turn people's manners off.
I have a lot of first time conversations that boil down to "How's your dick?"
And I'm like, this can't be normal conversation for a dental cleaning...
No joke learned about trans women for the first time by seeing Ace Ventura at a friend's house. Didn't get it and was ridiculed.
Representation matters. Info about queer people matters.
They really don't want trans kids to know about themselves. And let me tell ya, that's hell.
I'll be fine. I land on my feet. I'm lucky to be very skilled and have another great thing lined up.
But I feel so let down. I feel foolish for believing better of this place.
I'm sad about the ways I'm ignored and isolated by people I thought were my friends.
I'm sad about the way diversity and inclusion was used as a punchline.
I'm sad about the ways I'm sneered at in the halls.
This employer has said a lot of positive and encouraging things about trans acceptance and support.
But when Ive shared my daily struggles they've been disbelieved or dismissed.
@No7Sammy
It's honestly so common for me to be treated like I'm not human
I've had cis women grab shit on me from behind and start taking off my jacket and pulling at my shit cause "they just had to know what that brand was"
Not a manikin at Macy's, girl 🙄
Being visibly trans is a debuff to most activities
Moving... and transphobia?
New job... and transphobia?
Oil change... and transphobia?
You never know when stuff is gonna get significantly worse for no reason
I've got cis friends who have switched to only communicating in trans memes
Like yeah it's a funny pronouns joke, but like I'm a whole ass person. We used to talk about things ya know?
I've been thinking about how femininity in my life has been policed by men.
How the expectations of my expression and the judgement of my gender have had an explicit or implicit male perspective🧵
(CW: assault)
@itsmegangraves
I've spent the last 10 minutes thinking of sex prepared by chef jokes
"Tonight's first course is intimate oral and soothing downbeat synth-wave. The wine pairing is a Zin from Paso Robles to complement the playfulness of the dish"
I don't know how else to make sense of guys getting super weird about my touch of mascara, concealer and nude lip.
I've got my professional presentation down to a science. Reserved, minimalist, presentable.
And yet.
First time I got harassed by a scary dude in public I told my cis girlfriends about it. I wanted to know if it was an exclusively trans thing
All of the women I talked to shared a similar story and one of them bought me a taser
*Med-school lecture voice*
During your practice as doctors you may run into the _transgenders_. It can be intimidating at first, but don't worry.
All questions from them can be addressed with this one magic phrase.
"It's just so new, I don't know."
Lotta cis dudes think I'm a man who turned into a woman. And that makes them feel some kinda way because what if *they* did that.
You couldn't do that bb. You ain't that special.
When I was first trying to figure out trans stuff, I contacted my GP looking for help. They referred me to a crisis clinic and a suicide hotline
So yeah, about on par with reddit