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braveandblind:

blackandyellowdoodles:

i’m getting round to old projects i started. if any of you remember i had this idea ages ago but never ran with it until tonight.

so here are the posters i made :) enjoy!

Love it. I hate how we’re a special class in some people’s eyes that leads some to think that it’s okay to just bring up genitals in casual conversation. I mean, given the proper environment, I don’t mind discussing sex-related trans issues, but there’s a time and place for these things. Furthermore, it’s my private life—I don’t even need to reveal to anyone that I’m transgender unless the fact that I am directly involves someone. Some people think I practically need to walk around with a giant top hat with the words “Hi! I’m Transgender! Sup!” in public.

Actually, wait.

Now I kind of want that hat for some reason.

hahaah this happens to me all the time. Like in hospitals when the clerk was just supposed to help me set my next appointment and somehow the issue of whether or not I had a girlfriend or boyfriend was totally relevant to that, along with her various theories of how people ‘became’ trans, and asking why I wanted to transition to male, because “you look like a girl!”. no shit sherlock. that’s kind of why I went on T.

meanwhile a lot of otherwise really awesome people like to ask me if I’ve had surgery, which is kind of unsettling specifically because I’d have thought they’d know better, and I usually try to forget about it or put it down to ignorance so I can continue thinking that they’re awesome.

fine, if i can’t be a real boy then i’ll be a totally unreal one

and i’ll get a pet stegosaurus named Keanu Reeves’ Left Kidney and we’ll fly off in our x-wing fighter and have epic adventures in space.

“that doesn’t make sense,” you might say. “a stegosaurus can’t fit into an x-wing.”

yeah, well, it’s bigger on the inside.

i built it that way.

for Science.

all that penis-growth spam in my e-mail.

they mock me.

3361) My family claims they’re fine with my gender, but they never get the pronouns right and they said that they never intend to because it’s too difficult. I’m afraid to bring up changing my name. I don’t know what to do anymore, I don’t know what I can say.

go ahead and change your name. new names are much easier to adjust to than pronouns. my family uses my name about 99% of the time now, whereas they’re still only about 50% with pronouns.

(Source: ftmconfessions, via ftmconfessions)

3362) Anonymous asked: Today was the last straw. I don’t think I’m going to come out to my family at this point, seeing as how they made the most bigoted comments when RuPaul’s Drag Race was on; saying shit like, “Gross” and “Why are they calling them women? They have male parts!” and other stuff. I’ve just lost hope in my family accepting me.

nah, don’t give up. my family was the same, but then they completely changed after I came out to them. as my mother said, it’s different when it’s your own kid.

(Source: ftmconfessions, via ftmconfessions)

3347) Even though I’m almost 24 years old, I feel like a little kid, especially when I see how guys who have been on T look. Apparently, I don’t even look like I’m over 18. It sucks now, but I hope that when I do start T, it’ll work in my favor.

I’m 23 and have been on T for two years and I still get charged child fare on things sometimes lololol.
Though recently someone thought I was about 18, which is an improvement from 13.

(Source: ftmconfessions, via ftmconfessions)

3333) I fear that with knowledge fetishizing Transmen will come. I really don’t want to just be a fetish. And this is exactly why I don’t want a female partner. I fear the most open and bi girls will see just the TS in me. The thought is just so killing.

i don’t understand this at all, because I have the opposite worry. :/ because, well, most people are straight, so chances are that any girl attracted to you is straight and thus seeing you as male rather than as a fetish, which would be less probable with a guy who is statistically likely to be straight and if so the only reason he would be attracted to you would be as a fetish, and OP EXPLAIN YOURSELF I AM CONFUSED

(Source: ftmconfessions, via ftmconfessions)

almostnormalboy:

I drew the FtM evolution stuff again, in my own way. I think it suits most of us, especially those transitioning as teenagers / young adults. I won’t claim any copyright, anyone can use it (: (just don’t pretend you drew it …) 

(via trans-collisions)

3298) I am scared about the harmful side effects of taking t like severe liver damage, increased cancer risks etc

1. Two things about the ‘increased cancer risks’; either:
a) they result from overdosing, whereby the excess T is converted to estrogen and thus increase risk of breast cancer and other estrogen-related cancers, which won’t happen if you don’t overdose, so don’t do that

b) they result from your cancer risks rising to match those of cis men, who are generally more prone to health problems (hence the average male lifespan being shorter than the average female one).

2. Regarding liver damage, I chatted with a trans guy about this and he knows severely alcoholic trans guys who are on T and who still have perfectly healthy livers. My doctor too says that in all the thousands of trans people he has treated, none of them have ever developed liver problems as a result of HRT. It’s just a theoretical risk that they have to warn people about so they won’t get sued just in case it happens.

(Source: ftmconfessions, via ftmconfessions)

3299) I am realising more and more that being a transman is going to mean sacrificing my ambitions for career success because most employers will not accept me

senor-bizarro:

O RLY?

If someone won’t hire you because you’re trans, you probably wouldn’t have really liked working for them in the first place. Such has been my experience, both with being trans and being disabled.

I think the OP meant in comparison with if they had been cis, whereby it wouldn’t likely have led to an unenjoyable working experience. Lots of decent people / good employers might be transphobic. Like for instance I think probably 95% of employers here wouldn’t hire a trans person, but I highly doubt that 95% of employers here suck and are bad people, because transphobia is usually the result of ignorance more than anything else.

(Source: ftmconfessions)