Dragongoblinhybridboy

this year while we all celebrate pride month and celebrate ourselves as well as those who came before us and paved the way for us to do so, we must also think of those in gaza, queer or not, who live every day under a brutal occupation and don’t have that same privilege. happy pride, and may we see a free palestine in this lifetime.

Are you trying to hurt my feelings? Cause it's not gonna work

You can call trans women rapists but you can even answer basic questions

What a loser

All people who think trans people are just a fetish are porn addicts🙄

When I was a kid my family pretended to get raptured so I would think I was left behind on earth while they all went to heaven.

I was like 8 years old and my sister and mom had gotten really into the Left Behind novels (bible fan fic about the rapture). In the books when the rapture happened the clothes that people were wearing when they got raptured were left behind in neatly folded piles.

One day when I was getting home from school my family decided that they would leave piles of neatly folded clothes around the house, and then hide in the basement.

The intended effect was that I would get home and see the clothes then, think that my family had been raptured and that I wasn’t good enough to get into heaven… or something?

The problem was that I had never read these books, and didn’t really think about the rapture very often. There was no reason that I would see some laundry on the floor and think “The rapture happened and I’ve been abandoned by God! I’ll never see my family again!! Oh nooo!!!!”

I just sat down and watched cartoons and eventually my family got bored and revealed that they were all hiding in the basement.

It’s a good thing I didn’t understand the joke, otherwise that shit would have been traumatic.

Being a trans man in trans spaces is so fun!

People will constantly say “trans women” when they mean “trans people” but if you say anything you’re speaking over trans women, which is transmisogyny, so honestly you should just shut up.

If you make you make original posts about how you like being a man, you’re perpetuating toxic masculinity and everyone knows men suck anyway so you should just shut up.

If you post about transphobia then you’re taking attention away from trans women, who are clearly facing more and worse transphobia, so you should just shut up.

If you post about misogyny you’re just making stuff up bc men don’t experience misogyny so you should just shut up.

If you post about anti-masculinity you’re just a MRA bc everyone knows men never face gender-based discrimination so you should just shut up.

And if you post about how it seems like everyone just wants you to shut up, you’re being hysterical and making a big deal about nothing and should just shut up.

When a cis man gets offended and says, "Not all men," it is generally in the context that he feels he is personally being attacked as an individual, and said to try and halt a conversation on sociopolitical issues that he is not generally a victim of (benefits from, even).

When transmascs get offended and say, "Not all men," it is generally in the context of them feeling erased from a sociopolitical perspective on the basis of their nuanced identity (not a cis man but not a woman-- or, in the case of some genderfluid / multigender individuals, not just a woman), and said to try and broaden a conversation on sociopolitical issues (because they are far deeper than just, "masculinity as a whole is evil, and men are trash") that they are being othered from, despite facing said sociopolitical issues as a victim of them.

Whether you acknowledge this or not, you having the same exact negative reaction to both instances is a reflection of a cisgender-centric worldview.

I have been queerbashed.

I have narrowly avoided being queerbashed more than once.

And it was specifically for being a trans man.

So no, I don’t have time. I don’t have patience. I don’t have sympathy or bandwidth or whatever other soft little thing people want me to give when they deny or downplay the very real, very visceral, very dangerous oppression that people like me, that I, live through.

You want to have a thinkpiece moment? Do it somewhere else. You want to play the “who has it worse” game, or twist your mouth around some academic garbage to try and erase or diminish transmasc people? No. Out of my space. Out of my life. Out of my line of sight.

I am not a concept. I am not a theory. I am a human being who has been hunted. I am still here. And I am not interested in justifying my right to speak or exist. Not to you, not to anyone.