Trying To Prove A Point To My Transphobic Parents

Trying to prove a point to my transphobic parents

Reblog if trans men are REAL, VALID AND HANDSOME MEN, NO MATTER HOW THEY CHOOSE TO PASS

Reblog if trans women are REAL, VALID, AND BEAUTIFUL WOMEN, NO MATTER HOW THEY CHOOSE TO PASS

And finally, because it's a part of my argument for this point, and also because they are,

Reblog if nonbinary and genderqueer people in general, are REAL, VALID, AND GORGEOUS PEOPLE, NO MATTER HOW THEY PASS

thinking about post nsbu liv using the nickname king. at first it’s just with wendell, dang, usha, and usha confuses her granddaughter talking about king (“grandma, are you talking about the king? like the british one?” “no, no, kingskin” “king what?”) and dang directs people to the register (“king over there can check yall out”) and wendell sends good morning texts (“good morning king!”) and then one day wendell is talking to someone and it slips out—“my boyfriend, king”—and he hasn’t even called liv his girlfriend before, but when he looks over her—his—eyes are big and he whispers, “say that again.”

and she’s still liv. she’s still a girl, she still enjoys her long hair and nail polish and a cute dress when the weather’s right, but sometimes—sometimes he’s king, and he’s not quite a man yet but he’s getting there. and more often it’s both. he’s liv, and she’s king, and he likes to wear cute hair clips that match the pattern of the tie she’s wearing and nail polish the same shade as his suit, and he’s wendell’s girlfriend and boyfriend and friend.

not everyone gets it, but the ones who matter do. paula tells her that’s she’s a lovely young man and dang and her get high and talk about bottom surgery and russell makes him an extra name tag to wear at the video store depending on how she feels that day and helps him with a workout routine.

its her life, after all. you can change your mind whenever you want. you choose who to be.

For research purposes-

There is absolute NO shame in any of these answers, btw.

I do intend to do further polls elaborating on some of these answers cause I know it can be nuanced

Ahhhhhh!! New dropout stuff arrived today!!

I got a medium instead of XS so I could sleep in it because I FOR SURE cannot wear it out of the house 🤣

AND MY AYDA STATUE ARRIVED! 😍😍😍

She is GORGEOUS and now I need to finish sorting my books and get my bookshelf put back together so she has somewhere to live. Also, IDK why I assumed all those pics were of a long, thin box that it comes in, but the box is MASSIVE. My brain is so silly sometimes 🤦🏻‍♀️

cw: gender dysphoria

been thinking abt the "these generations take too many selfies! its bad! too self absorbed" thing and while yeah, i suppose i agree on *some* parts (like i dont think we should be taking 50 photos of ourselves every single day) for me when i first started taking selfies, that was really a turning point and an important part of my transition.

throughout 2021-(early/middle)2023 i quite literally had about 2 or 3 photos of myself on my phone. i realised (recentlyish) that that was because of my really overwhelming dysphoria, and that i just did not recognise the person in the photo as "me"; i couldn't bare to look at myself. every time i looked in a mirror too, it was just emptiness at a face that wasn't mine, which looking back on that is really, really scary that i just failed to recognise myself as me. back then, while i did ID as nonbinary (to just myself and friends) i presented as female and was very feminine, also why i feel like i had two seperate "egg cracking" events for myself (i found out i was bigender (male/nb) in around september/november 2023)

when i realised i was actually bigender and not just nb, and i began to socially transition (i switched out most of my "fem" clothes to "masc" clothes, and got a haircut. previously, i had very long hair that i almost never cut.) this was just HUGE for me. that haircut was probably the most important part of my transition so far, because a short while after the haircut, i realised that i actually quite liked how i looked. it felt like i was actually looking at myself completely, and not just a random body my brain had woken up in. the ability to look in the mirror with my real name and real gender and actually like how i looked was just so empowering, and i'm so much happier and better off with it.

then, i started actually being able to take selfies without cringing at my face; my friends could now see me when i was away from them, and i could happily look back on memories from past adventures and fully feel like i was there.

of course, as i mentioned before i'm not a person who takes many, many selfies in a day, but selfies to me are just so nice to take and to look back at once time has passed. they remind me that i am in fact alive, and how much happier i am and can be in the future.

that haircut really did change my life.

In a similar vein to my last post. Do you think Theobald Gumbar would look at Figeroth Faeth and recognize shades of a sharp-tongued, rebellious, strong-willed, stubborn teenage girl with so much love to give? Do you think he'd see a familiar hot-headed streak and not have to question why it makes him want to cry?

Do you think Ruby would see someone so similar and so different from what she's lost and be so heartbrokenly bitter over everything while Figeroth Faeth doesn't understand why there's so much wistful sadness in every interaction?