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itgetsbetterproject · 5 months

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An affirmation and tribute on Trans Day of Remembrance

Today is Trans Day of Remembrance, a day where we honor and remember the trans people whose lives were taken due to anti-trans violence.

I invite us to remember our "transcestors," trans ancestors who fought for us to have our rights.

Our community members will forever inspire us.

May we honor them with our lives, our joy, our creativity.

May we continue their efforts and their legacy.

May the way we take up space and be ourselves be an offering for their altars.

May we remember that we are, because they were.

We have always existed and always will, despite the violence targeted towards our community.

-Beautiful ofrenda and message by Eliza on our TikTok

#it gets better #ofrenda #tdor #trans day of remembrance #transcestors #lgbtq history #lgbtqia #transgender #trans #trans community

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sea-critter · 5 months

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all i know is leslie would have still been masking up and i’m proud of that.

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tattooed-alchemist · 5 months

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There will be ritual later today, but for now, the Transgender Day Of Remembrance candle has been lit. I got a beeswax Yahrzeit, so this will burn for 24 hours. The altar will slowly be added to and dressed throughout the day, a process that allows me to make a series of different offerings, something I think works well when dealing with mixed ancestors.

#TDOR #transgender day of remembrance #troe23 #troe #altar #ritual #offerings #transcestors #ancestors

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ourhistorytoo · 1 year

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Transscript memories of what it was like to be transgender as children in the 1950s and 1960s: Astrid Olsen: I was encouraged into outdoor sports I was yanked from school a lot to go to sporting event you like the Giants. I saw Willie Mays play he really was that good and they did everything they could to make a man out of me. And I was encouraged in this but it just didn't work.

Nola Vandella I guess by second or third grade it was a conscious secret y'know something kind of confusing and the night before I was supposed to get my Cub Scout uniform I had a dream that, I'll never forget we went to the store where you get Scout uniforms and they sold me a brownie uniform and nobody said anything and then I woke up and Wow by then it was like every single night and day and I couldn't talk to my parents about.

#transgender history #transgendertuesdays #queer history #lgtbq documentary #transgender rights #transcestors

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thegenderdoula · 1 year

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Messages from Your Trancestors

Almost every day for the past two weeks, I’ve been waking up with messages. At first I thought that this was anxiety, because all the messages I’ve been waking up with were about trans people - supporting trans people, loving trans people, surviving this current crisis, etc. I figured it was because this is what I do for a living. I figured that this was waking me up early because this is the water I swim in all day, every day.

But the more I sat with it, the more I realized that the emotional core of these early mornings is not anxiety, and the messages are not ones of fear. What was coming through was trancestral knowledge, messages from trancestors who have faced all that we are facing now, who have wisdom, strength, and support for us. So I started taking notes, listening to the messages, and sharing them with you.

This morning I woke up with just….a deluge of these messages. Insistent with love, urgent with care. There’s more than I can fit on a cute Instagram slide show, so while I do intend to release these messages through that medium, I want to write them in their entirety here. For you, dear reader. Consider bookmarking this page. Consider printing this off, or writing it down somewhere. Consider returning to it again and again.

Also, these messages are for you. When I say “trans” I mean that in the broadest sense. This is not about a label or fitting into a category. It’s not about being “out” or visible or taking social steps or medical ones. Its for you if it resonates with you. Its for you if you’ve questioned your gender, if you’ve explored your gender, if you’ve transitioned, if you’re out, if you’re stealth, if you are mother to hundreds of trans kids or if you’ve never met another trans person in your life. These messages are for you.

Transcestor Message 1

You have thousands and thousands of trancestors and they are all available to you. You have trancestors who were adored, revered, considered to be sacred by their communities. These ancestors hold divinity medicine. You have trancestors who have been through incredible hardship. These ancestors hold survival medicine. You have trancestors who were never able to change their bodies in the way they wanted, who were never able to fully express their truth. These ancestors hold persistence medicine. You have trancestors who hold the sweet medicine of community, and others who hold the deep introspection of isolation. They are all here for you, they can hold you through this time. They can offer you strength, support, and love, as well as their unique and vital medicines. Reach out to them, because they are already with you.

Transcestor Message 2

Your trancestors want you to know that you are not alone. You are not the first to feel the way you feel, you won’t be the last. Your transcestors want you to know that there are no setbacks that we can not come back from, as a group, and that no attempt at eradicating us will succeed. We have always been, we will always be. We can be born at any time, in any place, to any family. No one can change that.

Transcestor Message 3

Your trancestors invite you to sit with weeds, like dandelion, and know that we, too, will always spring up through the cracks, regardless of how others perceive us. We, too, hold deep medicine in our bodies, if one takes the time to look. We, too, can survive nearly anything, because we have the advantage of deep roots, persistence, and unpredictability.

Transcestor Message 4

Your transcestors want you to know that when we work together, we are stronger. They want you to know that they know it’s scary, and they want you to know that they are still here and so are you. Community is as terrifying as it is beautiful, because it holds deep potential for pain as well as profound joy. This is a truth of human relationship. Turn toward one another with love. Allow yourself and your trans siblings to be human. Soak in compassion. Make space for messiness. Support accountability. There are so many people trying to eradicate us right now. Let us not make their job easy. Let us learn to link our arms together and fight as a group. Let us refuse to devour our own. Let us recognize our oneness, and commit to it.

Transcestor Message 5

Your trancestors want you to know that the hate you’ve internalized for yourselves and one another is understandable, because it is the air you’ve breathed for all the years you’ve been alive. And also, it’s gotta go. You must tend to the parts of you that hold all that hatred, all that oppression, you must pull them into the light of your love and see them for what they are - the misguided protectors of a little one who was forced to conform to a transphobic world, to a world that couldn’t hold the fullness of their brilliance. You don’t have to live in that paradigm anymore. Those protectors can become the fierce advocates of that little one, and of your present self. So you must open yourself to the idea that your transness and all the things that this world have told you were too much, too big, too frightening….that these are your magic. That these parts of you must be loved, too. That when you learn to love them, and to love your community, you are unstoppable.

Transcestor Message 6

Your transcestors want to remind you that you do not have to fix everything for everyone today, and that you are not alone. Many transcestors have burned bright for a short time while they took on the whole world at once, where they were unsupported and left to fight alone. Their sacrifices changed the world, but it doesn’t have to be that way. Alone we will struggle deeply. The fights will be more than any one of us can handle. But together we are unstoppable.

Transcestor Message 7

Your transcestors want you to feel the truth of liberation in your bones. It is available to you now. Learn to feel it, to sense it, and then learn to feel it in community

Transcestor Message 8

For every few names and faces of transcestors that we know, there are thousands upon thousands that we don’t. You have the support of millennia.

#trans #transgender #trancestor #transcestors

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ofpd · 11 months

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>be me

>it's shavuos

>go to tikkun late & in the middle of a session

>get the schedule

>see that an old teacher of mine whom i love is currently leading a session on gender diversity in judaism

>walk in 30mins late

>people are being as annoying as you'd expect from this kind of thing but it's a fun familiar kind of being annoying that you haven't seen irl in a minute so it isn't bad

>someone brings up resh lakish and rav yochanan almost immediately

>people are talking about yochanan's "beauty for women"

>say something about how it's interesting to examine beauty standards as they relate to gender and what that implies about (yochanan's) beauty being considered to be "for women"

>ppl are like wow that's so interesting and insightful

>mfw they don't know that all i ever think about is enjolras so ofc this is what i'd say

#tbc annoying as in like. using the word 'transcestor' for example. and using it to refer to rav yochanan. like not actual bad stuff lol #i do have some perspective despite being from here #txt

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389 · 1 year

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Terrell Villiers, Transcestors 2023

#art #Terrell Villiers #transformers #transcesters #2023 #u

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viktheviking1 · 5 months

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November 20th is transgender day of rememberance

A day to remember transgender people who have died due to transphobic violence, suicide, or other often preventable, tragedies.

Personally, I also like to take this day to remember the people who have come before me who were died, unable to express themselves for who they are, oppressed, and erased from history.

"For the transcestors from whom I specifically came. I don't know your names, but my spirit says you existed." -Tre'vell Anderson, We See Each Other, dedication page

Please reblog to spread trans love and acceptance

*the names and people depicted in the image are not the names or depictions of any real people

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prettyboyprettyeyes · 2 months

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thank you transcestors for paving the way for me to be a weird fairy faggot boy i love you i’m sorry you weren’t loved enough in your time

#appreciation for those who came before me and a will to make things better for those who may come after #thoughts #journal entry #mlm #gay #lgbtq #transgender #trans #nonbinary #non bianry #transmasc #trans joy

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elierlick · 11 months

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When my parents began to accept me as a trans girl, they asked what I would tell the rest of my small town. They weren’t ready for a new generation of out trans youth. It was only the 2000s and they still operated from the idea that transgender status had to be kept a secret. I never gave secrecy serious consideration, though. It wasn’t an option in my small town and certainly not my style.

At one point, society considered trans people that refused to erase our own existence so subversive that we were not considered trans at all. That is, our culture broadly delegitimized trans people who did not want to fade into the background of cisgender society. Instead, these openly trans people were “faking it” or “attention-seeking.” This internal policing defeated the possibility of collective action, in the face of trans people facing the harshest forms of violence.

Some regions are now safer for us than ever. However, we cannot let this placid acceptance make us complicit in the same systems that drove our transcestors into secrecy. Our work cannot end at mere visibility. It is up to us, in this post-stealth era, to channel our historical rage back into transformative action to uproot this society that nourishes only the most powerful. Being trans was never solely about gender but abolishing all the systems that constrict us.

#personal #lgbtq #transgender #education #politics

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prideplus · 10 months

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Did I submit this already? I think it was cancelling out bc I tried to send u too large of a file. Yikes! Anyway, celebrating Pride over here by remembering the power of our transcestors!

I’m Cat Rocketshipn (they/m) and I make art about queerness, interconnection, and death. Contact me at [email protected]

Thanks for this @catrocketship <3 Sorry it’s late, we gotta check our mail more regularly!

#submissions #gorgeous #lgbtqia+ artists #lgbtqia+ art #pride is power

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transtheology · 7 months

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over the last several months, i have begun dedicating my weekly T shots to Loki, Odin, Dionysus, and Apollon. i turn it into a whole ritual and light candles and sometimes i offer water to the transcestors. it brings me joy.

That's wonderful! HRT is such a great opportunity to combine transness with spirituality (and honestly it can also make it easier to work up the will to give yourself a shot). Giving an offering to the transcestors is also super sweet :)

#m.#ask box

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kunthug · 1 year

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transcestors, terrell villiers. ⋆ ˚｡⋆🎐⋆ ˚｡⋆

#terrell villiers

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strawberry-crocodile · 11 months

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I'm srry some assholes troubled you w/ a callout post seems rlly twisted and overblown. Our transcestors were literally castigated by society for our existence being seen as a kind of kink, trans women in particular. it's honestly very thoughtful, compassionate and pragmatic to decide the shit ppl get up to isn't rlly our business unless it's like crushing thecskulls of puppies or something. It's honestly rlly disappointing ppl have come at you this way ε٩(๑><)۶з I hope whatevers giving them a heart like shriveled peppercorn lets up, it's rlly fucked behavior

ty for the love n good vibes <3

#blogodile

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ourhistorytoo · 1 year

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Nola VanDella

"When I was in kindergarten nine I started noticing I was regularly in my dreams a girl and in real life it was, it didn't quite match"

Full documentary on youtube

#transcestors #lgtbqhistory #lgtbqdocumentaries #transgendertuesdays #trans history #queery history

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lepus-juparian · 1 year

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I expended all the big fancy words about feeling euphoria in another conversation so I'll just post here that being a genderqueer post-op transsexual is amazing and Im in love with myself and the world around me all over again. I haven't felt alive like this since I was a child. Thank HaShem, the Netjeru, the Akhu, the Transcestors, who have sustained and kept me and allowed me to reach this moment.

#bottom surgery #genderqueer #transsexual #transfemmasc #salmacian

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