Relistening To Nightvale Only To Realize I Am In Fact Waiting For The Bus, And It Is In Fact Raining.

Relistening to Nightvale only to realize I am in fact waiting for the bus, and it is in fact raining.

Misophonia is weird cause it’s like, “Hey, you across the room, can you chew on your Cheetos quieter? The sound feels like violently jabbing a pencil into my ear and I kinda wanna jump through the second story window beside me.” But it’s not like I can just ask the dude in the cinema sitting next to me to not eat his popcorn because I can feel it in my toenails.

This post is what I mean when I say that people on tumblr will misinterpret trans men’s posts to demonize us

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The post op is referring to is one of a trans man talking about how trans masculinity specifically is demonized and how people dehumanize trans men. How trans men are treated differently than cis men. How people see trans masculinity as something horrible, evil, and threatening in a way they don’t with cis masculinity.

This happens both with cis women and cis men. I’ve had cis men treat me as a threat, as a monster, because I was a trans man. My masculinity and manhood is seen as something wrong - different - because I’m trans.

To see a post of a trans man begging to be seen as human, begging to not be seen as a monster for being himself and responding with “this is what we mean when we say trans men refuse to give up womanhood.” And saying that being dehumanized and demonized is just something we signed up for? That’s messed up. This trans man doesn’t want anything to do with womanhood - he’s asking to be treated as a person. You assuming any trans man asking to be treated as a person by cis people is just refusing to ‘separate themselves from womanhood’ is so fucked up.

To assume that he was forcing himself into women’s spaces, and that’s why he is being dehumanized and demonized (it’s not this happens in all queer spaces) - so therefore the transphobia he faces is his fault is fucked up.

This isn’t people ‘treating him like a Man’ - because many trans men can tell you we are dehumanized and demonized for our manhood and masculinity in ways cis men aren’t. This is transphobes seeing a trans person and treating them as a threat because they are trans in a way they can’t ignore.

Some of y’all on this website have no sympathy for trans men and assume that all transphobia we face is our fault.

Happy bat appreciation day everyone! 🦇

I wanted to post for the special occasion a little guy inspired by my first homebrew race! (I had to be sure to post by the end of the day, so I apologize the drawing is a little simple)

I wanted to make a race that allowed me to spill all the useless facts I know about bats, so they’re inspired my actual bat facts and behaviors. So thank you @hellezoic for helping me build it!

If you want access to the race that we’ve worked to build, all I ask is that you donate $5 or more to bat conservation international to help save our nighttime pollinators and send me proof of the donation. Bats are a crucial part of our ecosystem and even our agriculture, and they are dying out more and more rapidly every year, so please make an effort to donate and raise awareness.

So sick of this, oh my god—

Let trans women play! I guarantee you’ll survive!

Ignoring the evidence that there isn’t even much of an advantage if at all and that there are actually a number of disadvantages for trans women, I hate to break it to you; sports have never been fair.

There’s always been a taller guy in basketball, a smaller woman in gymnastics, hell, Michael Phelps has a million advantages on his competition. People have never once cared! These things are celebrated for cis people!

If you cared so much about equality in sports, make sure all the basketball players all the same height. If you cared so much about women’s sports, increase pay and improve treatment of athletes. If you cared about women at all, pay them equally and get your legislation off their bodies.

You don’t care. You just want to be transphobic.

Relevant Resources Below

Them

Trans Women May Actually Face Several Disadvantages in Athletic Competition, Study Finds

A new study funded in part by the International Olympic Committee cautions against blanket bans on trans athletes.

American Civil Liberties Union

Four Myths About Trans Athletes, Debunked | ACLU

Upholding trans athletes' rights requires rooting out the inaccurate beliefs underlying harmful policies sweeping through state legislatures