""You cannot piss in a cup or pull a sword from a stone or anything else in order to tell if you're trans or not. You are if you want to be. You're not if you don't."

This is what I say. No one listens.

"Look. I define transgendered literally; it's a way of crossing. Crossing into a different gender. Not the opposite, there are so many, just a different one. Or crossing out of the gender that theoretically goes, in that there heterosexual matrix we keep talking about, with your biological sex.

"Being a transsexual is a different animal. That's a matter of medical things or the intention of medical things, changing your sex you know? The sex parts: genitals, reproductive organs, hormones, secondary sexual characteristics. Or living full-time as a person of a certain culturally aligned sex and gender, whether you do medical things or not, because some people can't and it isn't fair to punish that. So them, too. But transgendered is wide open. And butch is a nonnormative gender yes? We can agree on that, anyway? So if you want to claim transgendered, great as far as I'm concerned."

People sign at me. They roll their eyes, They shake their heads. They want me to make ruling, they want me to tell them if they can call themselves transgendered, or alternative if they can still call themselves butch. As though I somehow have the power to confer or deny whatever label they want, or as though I can be relied upon to make an impartial decision int he case of an argument, whether it is internal or among individuals."

"Border Wars” Butch is a Noun essays by S. Bear Bergman (2006)

I saw someone selling the at-cost edition of SBB for like $50 on Amazon so just to remind everyone it's actually at-cost at lulu

I'm reading 'Transcendent: the years' best transgender speculative fiction', ed. K.M. Szpara, Lethe Press, I think this is 2016? Idk if they still do it but there were other 'years' best', I got this randomly second hand. Anyway I'm reading it slowly cus all the stories are so good and makes me cry on trains. I always seek out stuff by trans people, it's such a hugely different vibe??? Like. We get it. Just read 'When Monsters Dance' by A. Merc Rustad and having like a decade's worth of emotions.

While I understand that shitpost-y footnotes about titty pills are bound to have more notes than telling people about my book, it’s still a bit sad when the former gets 150k notes and the latter gets like 900. ����

god the mad scientist trope is so trans. the lone figure- partaking in the act of creation, the innovation of body and flesh, seen as monstrous and unnatural by wider society. rejecting societal rules and embracing radical science- the creation becoming the creator. transforming what once was to something so other, and it is magnificent. it is so horrible, it is so beautiful, it is me.

Would you want to have a taste of what I've got? Reblog and DM🥵🥵🍆🍆💦💦😋😋

I just wanted want you be your favorite 😍

I think I need to be disciplined 🤭😉👅🍆🍑💦

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The Persistent Desire

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The Faggots & Their Friends Between Revolutions

Burn It Down!

The Woman I Was Not Born To Be

If you could suspend your disbelief enough to buy that a teenage university student was able to discover the secret to creating life, and with this knowledge made an 8 foot tall creature out of human parts in the attic of his dorm room, I think you could reasonably believe that the said university student would also be able to give himself top surgery

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Hyde and the creature are super fucked up lesbians that defy gender and I shouldn't have to explain any more than that <3

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