to whoever needs to hear this: transvestite and transsexual are not slurs. "outdated" queer terms are not inherently slurs. these are literally historically the first 2 terms created and used to talk about the trans community, both coined the first doctor to perform successful trans sex reassignment surgeries, who spent the rest of his career pioneering and paving the way for the modern surgeries we perform today. his name was Magnus Hirschfeld, he was a jewish doctor who began a lifetime of fighting for queer rights due to being moved by the struggles his queer patients went through in terms of not being allowed to accept themselves during the Nazi regime at the time. these are perfectly fine terms that have grown to develop their own distinct meanings and communities over time. this man spent his life fighting for trans and jewish rights during Nazi occupation. any queer term can be used as a slur in the wrong hands. thank you
cisgender butch lesbian: i don't care about being misgendered
all the cisgender people in the comments: she understands how she looks. why can't everyone be like that about misgendering?
weird way of telling transgender people to stfu about being misgendered.
like they're just pointing at gnc cisgender people and say "see, this person doesn't mind being misgendered based on looks, those transgendereds are just too sensitive!"
when they know full well misgendering hits different when you're transgender.
especially because she also said "when they see my boobs, they know i'm a woman".
and for transgender people it's often "and when they see [gendered body part] they think they know i'm a man/woman".
those are very different experiences.
especially as a nonbinary person where no one ever genders you correctly.
i've seen more and more cisgender people recently telling transgender and nonbinary people that we're not allowed to get upset when people misgender us if we "look like men/women". i'm tired of it.
stop holding transgender people to cisgender standards down to how we feel about being misgendered.
like, especially for me as a nonbinary person every he and every she just reminds me that the world was never meant for me.
gender stereotypes need to be abolished so people don't get misgendered based on clothes or hair or bodies anymore.
and don't even get me started on "but you look cisgender/like your AGAB". cisgender, transgender, nonbinary, female, male etc. don't have a look. i am nonbinary therefore i look nonbinary.
any other mystreet mains out there? ive watched mcd, multiple times. i liked it. i dont understand it fully. i never deciphered the messy lore throughout it. i dont love it and i dont regularly think about it. im such a mystreet main .
reblog if you wear glasses. too many mutuals don't know they have glasses wearers in their midsts
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1. Multigender Lesbian people using "Les" for their "Fem side" and "Boy" for their "Masc side"
2. GNC Women who like to be called "boy" for gender nonconformity
3. Trans Women and Transfems reclaiming being called a "boy"
4. Transmasc Lesbians reclaiming being called a "boy"
5. Trans Men who don't feel misgendered by the term "Lesbian" and/or feels like their attraction to women is still queer
6. He/Him lesbians reclaiming being called a "boy"
Support all of them, or support none of them.
I’m just going to leave this here…
hey. hey you.
look at that character you’re headcanoning as a trans man.
are you headcanoning him that way because you think it’s interesting, or because he’s a twink and acts kind of feminine?
if you write about him, do you treat him the same way you do your other characters, or is he distinctly separated?
can he handle himself, or is he always the damsel in distress? do you have someone bigger and stronger than him always save him?
do you make him act more childish or confused? is he super innocent and needs someone wiser to guide him?
are you willing to explore what his transness means, or do you just think it makes him hotter?
did you make him trans because you wanted to write him as the bottom? is he trans because you wanted him pregnant without "technically" writing mpreg?
are you willing to headcanon big strong men as trans men? old men? not stereotypically attractive men? men of color? fat men? disabled men?
is his transness a part of him or do you just treat it is a prop?
on the other hand, is he more than just his transness, or is that all there is to him?
do you include other queer and trans people in your work? how do you treat them in your writing?
how do you treat actual trans men? trans men who dont pass? trans men who do? who dont feel comfortable being perceived as feminine? who present in a more feminine way? who identify as more than just a man? who arent just white twinkish silly feminine men? who are kids, meaning you can’t just sexualize them? who are more than just props to be used within a story to push the plot along?
are you willing to listen to trans men who speak out on their issues, or does that seperate them too far from the fantasy you’ve concocted about them?
how do you treat trans men?