For those of you not aware Mercury Stardust, Point of Pride, and friends are raising funds for Trans Healthcare.

Unfortunately, some TikTok peeps are being complete transphobic bastards and are reporting the lives and getting the accounts banned. The appeals are being rejected.

This hinders getting the word out on this fundraiser.

Make sure you donate if you can or at least share the link in your circles so people are aware and hopefully the message can reach a wider audience

hello and i love you to tboys who don't do any voice training and don't/can't work out a lot and get jacked and who are short as fuck and who have thick hips and who have "shitty" facial hair they don't shave and who won't/can't get top/bottom surgery and who won't/can't get on or stay on t and who just generally do not and will never have the Can You Believe He Used To Be A Girl??? kind of before/after photos. especially the crippled and the poor tboys.

Unpopular opinion but the reason being a teenager sucks is less to do with hormones and social cliques and more to do with the fact adults fucking hate teenagers. The fact that adults expect teenagers to be able to take on adult responsibilities yet don't deserve rights of an adult. They don't see teenagers as human beings and they aren't prepared to see kids with their own formed identities and humanity. Teenagers are so sexualized and seen as needing to take on more and more adult responsibilities. Yet when they want rights and humanity they are denied. The years your brain spends wanting nothing more than to form an identity are being taken away from you. Teenagers are essentially being kicked out of social spaces unless they have an extra 40 dollars lying around anytime they want to go out. Teenagers being kicked out of the mall just for existing or groomed into the school to prison pipeline. And now creating legislation to keep them off the Internet. Our society hates teenagers. And does everything we can to hurt them. The fact that anyone makes it out of their teenage years without trauma is a fucking miracle frankly.

I don't trust anyone who hasn't acknowledged their capacity for evil.

In light of @staff ‘s recent post, let me remind you of the absolute irony of this piece about censorship of trans identities and bodies getting hit with a mature label

Which I cannot seem to be able to appeal 🙃

it’s weird how the majority of people are totally chill talking about top surgery but the second you mention bottom growth they have to theatrically gag and tell you how gross and disgusting it is and they don’t want it/want to hear about it.

i wonder (terf rhetoric) what could possibly (radfem’s obsession with dicks) have caused people (bioessentialism) to consciously or subconsciously (people assigning moral value to genitals) have that reaction (it’s terf shit).

I don't even fully understand how one could think that "being trans" and "being a man" is separate for trans men somehow, and that the "man" one is completely neutral, if not rewarded. It's giving "I've spent too much time twisting facts to suit theories" vibes. It's what MAKES us transgender. I am not a transgender [blank], I am a transgender man. I'm going to spend my whole life as a transgender man, and experience the world as a transgender man. Please take an effort to listen to our voices.

Biromantics are so precious. I love my bi + ace siblings. Reblog to give a biromantic a bowl of hot clam chowder, like to give them little saltine crackers to crush up and sprinkle over their soup

i hate that terfs have such a chokehold over the vagina and menstruation especially in art. we need more trans people being pretentious about their pussies stat

"terfs like trans men!" "trans men don't have to worry about terfs!"

Oh I'm sorry wasn't there a big thing throughout 2020-2022 where everyone was all like "little girls are mutilating their bodies!", "what happened to our lesbians!?", "scared women are pretending to be men.", and so on? Wasn't there a literal book that talked about trans men, talking about them as if they were innocent girls who were lied to and thus were destroying themselves because of it, saying how we needed to 'save them from the hypnotization!"? Weren't there numerous bloggers/youtubers who made commentary videos in reaction to Elliot Page coming out, and proceeded to rant and rave how we are losing such beautiful women and lesbians to the "transgender agena"? What about the time where it was trending to fakeclaim trans people, whom most of the targets of this were trans men? How about when people called trans men 'dykes' because "well they're not actual men, they're just confused lesbians!"?

Do I need to add more, or do you guys understand?

the transmasc transitioning experience is really just being told again and again that you’re making yourself gross. which there is a big narrative surrounding all transitioning no matter which side that you’re going to end up “undesirable” i think there’s a lot of hate surrounding trans masculine transition that surrounds becoming a gross man.

really it’s enough of a mental challenge going from fem presentation where any body hair is immediately seen as disgusting to trying to become comfortable with yourself in masculine transition with your body hair. even facial hair which is something that is a big part of masculine transition and something a lot of trans masc people may look forward to can still bring shame and guilt especially around how people will perceive you with that very masculine presentation.

honestly in my personal experiences with medical transition, the amount of negative comments i’ve gotten on body hair and facial hair from close people in my life can be disheartening and really does push on that “gross man” mentality, i transitioned for those traits. i transitioned to be a big hairy guy with a nice beard. and people thinking that’s gross or whatever shouldn’t take the fun and euphoria out of transitioning. but it does sometimes and that sucks

remember that’s it’s okay to be big and hairy and masculine! it’s beautiful too!!!

So.

I have testosterone now.

The box is just sat on my desk. I can see it out of the corner of my eye as I type this.

This doesn't feel real. I've been waiting for so long I feel like I'm still waiting even when I'm not.

I've known I was some variety of not cis since I was thirteen. I accepted my need to transition when I was about fifteen or sixteen. I'm now twenty-four.

First dose is tomorrow morning.

Along the way I've lost friends and family members, and also found supporters in unlikely places. I've been on this ride for about a decade but it still feels like I'm only just getting started.

I'm now grappling with the fear of how people will react when the changes start to show. I'm sure every transmasc has heard horror stories of supporters suddenly changing their minds when you've been on T for a bit too long and start looking and sounding a bit too masculine for other people's tastes. I'll write about this at length in the near future, but that fear has been simmering for a couple of months now, and it grows incrementally each day.

Now that I have testosterone, that fear is stronger than ever.

I've also discovered a sense of mourning that I wasn't expecting. I look at cis women and I envy them. At first, that really surprised me, and scared me. Surely if I'm jealous of women, transitioning to male isn't the right path? Then I realised that I'm not envious because I want to be like them or look like them. I'm envious because they are so at home in the very thing I am trying to escape. I'm envious of their comfort in their own bodies, bodies that look like mine. I mourn the girlhood and womanhood that I never truly had (though I never had a boyhood either). I tried so hard to be one of them. When I accepted I was trans, I knew I would never be one of them no matter how hard I tried. Now that I'm starting my medical transition, that truth feels heavier than before.

From the tone of this you might think I'm not happy, but that's not the case. I've waited for so long. It feels like I've been holding my breath my whole life, and now at last I can breathe. It's more relief than joy, if I'm honest. I don't feel like celebrating. I feel like sleeping. I feel like I've just come home after a long journey, or just finished a final gruelling exam. I've won a major victory, and now I get to rest.

(Though I would be lying if I said I wasn't grinning like the cheshire cat when the pharmacist passed me my prescription, when I first felt the shape of the packaging in my hand, knowing that inside is the medicine that will save my life, that will make me me for the first time.)

Hey y’all— I hate doing this ESPECIALLY around the holidays but due to some unforeseen circumstances with rent and Christmas and trying to help my partner and friends eat, I’m actually a couple months past due on my truck payment. I’m a queer trans guy living alone trying to make rent and this payment by myself.

Now, I’ve paid what I can at the moment which is $648.95, but I’ve gotten a notice from the bank about possible repossession. I can’t be without my vehicle. I live in the middle of nowhere— there is no public transportation and it’s the middle of winter.

I really, really, really, really need help. Please. Any little bit helps.

My accounts are here:

P*yP*l: [email protected]

V*nmo: @johnnyedwardd89

@vaspider @nothorses @bunjywunjy @genderkoolaid @decolonize-the-left @xenasaur @renthony @genderoutlaws @justsomeantifas

It is deeply, deeply beneficial to TERFs if the only characteristic of TERF ideology you will recognize as wrong, harmful, or problematic is "they hate trans women".

TERF ideology is an expansive network of extremely toxic ideas, and the more of them we accept and normalize, the easier it becomes for them to fly under the radar and recruit new TERFs. The closer they get to turning the tide against all trans people, trans women included.

Case in point: In 2014-2015, I fell headlong into radical feminism. I did not know it was called radical feminism at the time, but I also didn't know what was wrong with radical feminism in the first place. I didn't see a problem with it.

I was a year deep into this shit when people I had been following, listening to, and looking up to finally said they didn't think trans women were women. It was only then that I unfollowed those people, specifically; but I continued to follow other TERFs-who-didn't-say-they-were-TERFs. I continued ingesting and spreading their ideas- for years after.

If TERFs "only target trans women" and "only want trans women gone", if that's the one and only problem with their ideology and if that's the only way we'll define them, we will inevitably miss a vast majority of the quiet beliefs that support their much louder hatred of trans women.

As another example: the trans community stood relatively united when TERFs and conservatives targeted our right to use the correct restroom, citing the "dangers" of trans women sharing space with cis women. But when they began targeting Lost Little Girls and Confused Lesbians and trotting detransitioners out to raise a panic about trans men, virtually the only people speaking up about it were other transmascs. Now we see a rash of anti-trans healthcare bills being passed in the US, and they're hurting every single one of us.

When you refuse to call a TERF a TERF just because they didn't specifically say they hate trans women, when you refuse to think critically about a TERF belief just because it's not directly related to trans women, you are actively helping TERFs spread their influence and build credibility.

I see twitter is continuing to pretend that there is no connection between transmasculine oppression and demonization of testosterone.

When you contribute to the harmful, deadly, idea that testosterone poisons or damages people, you are joining hands with the transphobes who are currently attacking trans healthcare. That’s a fact. If you don’t like being aligned with transphobes, don’t repeat their rhetoric and pretend it hurts us less because you are also trans. It doesn’t hurt less when it comes from the community you’re meant to be part of, it suppresses and isolates us.

your hormonally induced clitoromegaly will NEVER be a real penis. stop calling it that.

where are your testicles? where is your scrotum? where is your shaft? where are your glans? where is your frenulum? where is your spermatic cord? where is your prostate? exactly. you don't have any of these anatomical structures. because you don't have a penis.

and enlarged clitoris is not a penis. forearm tissue transplanted onto your pelvis is not a penis. stop lying.

well first of all, i’m not sure who told you that dicks and balls are the same thing, but i’m here to tell you that having balls is not a requirement for having a dick. you can in fact have one of them without the other.

second of all, i’m so sorry to break this to you but i’m afraid you just don’t know shit about how bodies work. surprise! clitorises, with or without t, also have a shaft and glans. you just don’t know how anatomy works!

and as for everything else, i would love to know you why you feel the need to know! maybe no one ever told you this but turning a stranger’s dick into a game of where’s waldo is weird as hell. i’d love to have a word with whoever raised you because i know they didn’t teach you to talk to strangers like that.

in conclusion, if someone else’s dick makes you that mad, you have some soul searching to do because the existence of my dick and what i call it should not matter to you. it has absolutely no affect on your life and i would highly suggest you try spending your time caring about literally anything else instead.