personally i think you should be able to afford a place to live with a part-time job

People really need to realise that “media can affect real life” doesn’t mean “this character does bad things so people will read that and start doing bad things” and actually means “ideas in fiction especially stereotypes about minority groups can affect how the reader views those groups, an authors implicit prejudices can be passed on to readers”

This post is old as fuck but people are reblogging it again and I’m getting annoyed

1) Gender dysphoria is a mental illness, being trans is not. You do not need dysphoria to be trans.

2) Saying that being trans is a mental illness validates people saying that its a delusion or unnatural, and is literally the argument that people use for conversion therapy. I know y’all don’t support that, you’re just unintentionally validating those beliefs. Trust me, this is the argument that actual transphobes who think I belong in conversion therapy have used against me.

3) I’m very dysphoric, I just know that some other trans people aren’t.

I can’t believe that even trans people say that being trans is a mental illness, imagine if people said that being gay was a mental illne- oh wait…hm. Who is it who says that again? What group of people? With what beliefs? Hmmmm…

the fact that Carlos was a professor is so funny to me. this was a man in his mid-thirties with a Career tm and a Salary tm and then one day he abandoned that for a sabbatical and left to research night vale, then proceeded to stay in night vale for no reason other than that he’s gay and batshit unhinged. like he went from grading papers in an office, to wooing a slutty immortal radio host while dead animals rain from the sky around them. imagine you look up your old instructer on ratemyprofessors and you can’t find any trace of him because his linkedin points to a town that no maps recognize, where he moved to basically be a malewife and do sidequests. and night vale didn’t even make him weird, he’s just always been Like That and it gave him the opportunity to let all that weirdness out. it’s so sexy of him, you go funky science man

Gender dysphoria is an illness, I agree with that. But saying that being trans is inherently medical is problematic. It implies that there’s something wrong with just existing as trans and that it’s unhealthy. You would *hope* that if people wanted to find a “cure” to being trans, they would realize that transitioning is the way to treat dysphoria, but unfortunately, it’s very evident that many people think the cure is to try and convince them that they’re cis.

I’m not saying that dysphoria isn’t an illness, it definitely is /nm. But that’s a big part of the problem with saying that you have to have dysphoria to be trans, using brain scan arguments, and other medical arguments. If you medicalize the idea of being trans, people will try to find “cures” and do, like, eugenics shit. For the record, I’m not blaming truscum for people doing eugenics shit or any of that, I get that’s not y’all’s goal in any way. It’s more of an unfortunate side effect?

I can’t believe that even trans people say that being trans is a mental illness, imagine if people said that being gay was a mental illne- oh wait…hm. Who is it who says that again? What group of people? With what beliefs? Hmmmm…

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Damn all my old truscum/tucute discourse posts randomly got a bunch of notes.....Did something happen

Tumblr user kalkjot doesn’t know what a comparison is

I can’t believe that even trans people say that being trans is a mental illness, imagine if people said that being gay was a mental illne- oh wait…hm. Who is it who says that again? What group of people? With what beliefs? Hmmmm…

your banner is so pretty, did you draw it?

I didn't! I should find the credit and add it, or change it if I can't find it. I set it as my banner so many years ago and I guess back then I thought it was cool to use stuff without credit? Haven't thought about it since though, so thanks for pointing it out to me!

is there a label that ACTUALLY means 'attraction regardless of gender' and doesn't have transphobic origins?

yes it’s called “bisexual”

as funny as top/bottom/switch jokes can be, i wanna drill into queer kids heads that those terms are 1) not myers-briggs personality types 2) likely not something you know about yourself if you're a virgin 3) inherently sexual and therefore 4) not something adults should assign you, even as a joke

points to a sign that says “sometimes two people from the same marginalized community will want/need two very different things from their representation in fiction and they should both be allowed to find and make that representation to suit their own needs and neither should be criticized for not making the representation that the other wants”

ok you do discourse (?right) so in your opinion, can we call animals trans or cis? Like is it accurate to refer to animals as being gender euphoric/dysphoric

I have no idea what any of this means and am gonna assume this is a troll, especially because I’ve never done or said anything to imply that I’m a discourse blog lmao

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coming out as trans on tumblr: SKIDDLE SKIDADDIDALE MY NAME IS ABIGAIL

if you passionately defended "ugly" or "scary" animals as a kid you're gay now

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