When I Finally Accepted The Fact Im Trans, I Was Scared I Couldnt Identify As A Lesbian Anymore. I Was

When I finally accepted the fact i’m trans, I was scared i couldn’t identify as a lesbian anymore. I was so happy to learn about lesboys and boydykes, it’s really helped me feel comfortable in my identity :)

another reason why lesboys rule <3

Sonictober 2024 Day 5! Theme: Artificial. A cold, metallic shell brought to life through the ambitions of science and maniacal one-upmanship. Yet even through a synthetic being like Metal Sonic, signs of true life can still bloom.

Art by @drawloverlala

Hey, cis women who say "I wish I was a man but definitely not a trans way, haha! I would never be a man :)"

I say this with all the gentleness in my heart: It is okay for you to be a man. If you want to be a man, you can just be one. You also don't have to stop being a woman to be a man. Multigender people exist. You can be a man and a woman at the same time. Or you can be just a man, or a non-binary man, or non-binary, or something entirely different. You can do and be whatever you want and whatever makes you happy.

Becoming a man is not a betrayal of womanhood and feminism. And everyone who makes you feel like it is an absolute asshole, and you should not ever listen to them. You do not have to push your own happiness aside for other peoples' comfort.

If you want to be a man, try it out! See where it gets you. Maybe it turns out that you really weren't trans, or not a trans man but something else entirely, and that's fine, too. Maybe it turns out you are a trans man. In any case, following those thoughts might get you to a happier and better place in the end. And if you turn out to be happier as a man than you were as a woman, that is wonderful.

Please don't feel forced to stay a cis woman for feminism - any feminism that mistreats or hates trans men and transmasculine people is bad feminism. Being a trans man or transmasc is not a moral failure.

Trans manhood and masculinity are wonderful, and you deserve happiness. And if you find that happiness in manhood/masculinity, you don't deserve to be shamed or harassed for it, and you should not be made to feel the need to put yourself down for it, either.

'mxn' but not in the cringe way radfems censor 'man', I'm just an agender man

No you don't get it, we're going to crash the plane and give everyone cooties by our sheer power. Or whatever

”Lesboys are invading lesbian spaces!” Oh the horror! It’s not like Lesbian Airlines P. S. S. Y. is running out of seats. Chill, Samantha.

same situation with PCOS. A lot of the people I've seen be against PCOS being an intersex variation are obsessed with the concept of 'real women', because to them being intersex would mean they're less than women. it's sad that so many people seem deal with this type of intersexism.

I believe that the choice to use the intersex label is and should always be a personal one, however I have noticed many people with Turner Syndrome not wanting to call themselves intersex because 'We are real women' and 'It's a female only condition - We don't have male parts'

Not only is this incredibly transphobic as we don't all identify as women but it also completely misunderstands what intersex actually means (any variation in sex characteristic considered which is not typical for males/females)

Being intersex has never made me less of a woman, I can be an intersex woman and I AM an intersex woman. They aren't exclusive terms?