Do Not Scroll Past This!!!

do not scroll past this!!!

There is currently an open consultation about the Gender Recognition Act in Scotland, it is currently only concerned with binary trans stuff but it is asking for public opinion and this is a good place for binary and non binary trans people alike to make our voices heard, this could change everything and make things infinitely easier for the trans community in Scotland

stonewall is currently talking about this and has a page where you can find information about this and a link to the public consultation: here

please reblog even if this doesn’t fit with the theme of your blog, as an nb person myself I really want to get the word out about this, this could be the beginning to nb people being legally recognised in Scotland the public consultation closes on the 17th of March so make sure to get the word out and give the Scottish government your opinions through this consultation before then!  

edit: I just found out this public consultation is not exclusive to those living in Scotland and have changed the title of this post accordingly

so I was on build a frog and,,, this babey,,, I’m gonna cry

Please take good care of them!

There’s the door. Don’t care if I lose followers, transphobes aren’t welcome here.

there’s something that i wanted to point out regarding this awesome tweet:

this is incredibly common among characters who are commonly headcanoned as autistic but not confirmed to be canonically on the spectrum. writers often use people in their lives as inspiration for characters, sometimes while knowing that the person is on the spectrum, and sometimes while just thinking that person is ~quirky/weird. in fact, sometimes a writer might interact with a person who “acts alien”/”is like a robot” and use them as a model for an alien/robot character. wrongplanet is one of the biggest autistic forums for a reason; we often feel alienated from society and identify with alien/robot/etc. characters…who may even be based on us. 

regardless of how it happens, the end result is pretty similar–a character with autistic traits whom autistic people can relate to and identify with. in this case, the writers confirmed their inspiration for entrapta. in other cases, the writers might dance around the subject or deny it because it wasn’t their intention, or, sadly, because they’re ableist. 

i’ve seen people vehemently denying that a character might be autistic, yet loving that character for their autistic traits…which would be funny if it wasn’t so horrifying; people are incredibly ignorant about autistic people, and would rather hate all of us than accept that they might even like one of us. so, basically, to those of you who hate the idea of entrapta being autistic, i gotta ask, why? if it changes nothing about her character, and you like her for who she is including her autistic traits that autistic people have identified over and over, then what’s the problem? 

autistic people have always been around (it’s theorized that changelings were based on autistic children, as one of many real-life examples), and autistic characters based on those autistic people have always been around, whether that was understood/acknowledged or not. autistic headcanons are awesome, and are not necessarily invalidated by word of god due to the degree of ignorance surrounding autism. also, autistic people are awesome.

anyway CANON AUTISTIC ENTRAPTA!!!

Society™: people with autism can't connect to other people....they're trapped in their own little world, they don't care about what other people are feeling.....

interactions between autistic people: *one of us starts happy flapping because we're so passionate about the conversation topic, the other one absorbs that excitement and starts happy flapping too, which causes the other person to keep flapping, until we're caught in a wonderful cycle of fueling each other's excitement and joy*