Look, If You Wanna Use The Word Queer To Describe Yourself That's Fine. Do Whatever You Want Mate. I

Look, if you wanna use the word queer to describe yourself that's fine. Do whatever you want mate. I just don't like queer theory because it alienates me as a transsexual guy from cis het guys just because I'm trans. Being born like this doesn't make me part of any community or movement. I'm just someone with a male brain who was born with the wrong parts, I'm still just some guy.

And there is no "us". Funny how a lot of the ridicule and hate I've got from people was from queer people. Way more cis het guys have taken me seriously and made me feel welcomed than queer people. I know I sound privileged (though that's questionable considering there's a huge sum of cash I gotta pay just to have the correct body) but but I really don't get the us vs them mentality that you've got.

I'm not trying to invalidate you. If you feel correct as having a community and the word queer, good for you. But don't politicise being trans or that being trans inherently makes someone part of some sort of movement.

I can’t tell you how frustrating it is to have been in the queer movement for 20+ years, to have studied queer theory, to have contributed to you potentially enjoying the rights you have today because I was part of a groundswell of lobbying and direct action in the 1990s….

…to have a 15 year old who’s spent maybe 8 months being political and has never inquired about queer history anonymously message me, “EXCUSE ME QU**R IS A SLUR LMAO OMG EMBARRASSSING AN aCTUAL ADULT WHO THINKS IT’S OKAY TO USE QU**R!~!!!!”

Dude, we are a slur. Queer folks are a slur to conservative straight people. Everything we are will be used as a slur by everyone who hates us. Gay is a slur. Lesbian is a slur. People will try to use all of our words against us. Don’t fucking let them get into your head to the point at which you’re telling actual queer people not to use the words we’ve used to unite ourselves and empower ourselves for decades. 

Tfw I am 5′1″ and a guy lol. 

it could be worse. you could be 5′1″. 

ok I saw that anon you got that said you should accept being queer and not hate your body and all that crap, and I just wanted to send you a message bc thats a really incredibly shitty thing to say! I’m also a binary ftm transsexual and you absolutely do not have to call yourself queer and you aren’t “””sucking up to cis people“”” or whatever! Some of us just want to be MEN and that is absolutely fine, regardless of how people like that anon think trans people should be. Im happy to see you standing up for yourself and your identity, and I hope they didn’t make you feel bad about it!

It wouldn’t make sense to accept being queer since I’m not queer. I’m trans and I accept that, but trans in my case doesn’t equal queer. I don’t think the anon meant any harm but telling a transsexual that he’s “sucking up to cis people” cos his identity isn’t woke enough is cringe. No hate to the anon though. I don’t do things for the comfort of people around me when it comes to my transition. The reason I don’t use the term queer is because my whole life I’ve felt a sense of community with cis guys, specially cishet guys, and since I was able to come out early I feel like my experience as a teenage guy isn’t that different from theirs. Sure I am trans, but I don’t feel like I’m “other” when compared to cishet guys. I’m not denying that I’m trans (well I am stealth but my medical business is my own and I get to chose who I share it with), rather that it’s an aspect that doesn’t define me nearly as much as some people think it should. Also, not all trans people wanna stand out against cishet society and that’s fine. We as trans people don’t exist for the sole purpose of being flip offs to cis people. I just want my dick and a gf and to live my life man. That’s not to say I wont stand up against transphobia or let myself get bullied by cis people, but that I don’t see myself as part of the queer movement.

Reblogging my animation cos it took me a while to make and I’m kinda proud ngl

My animation for the Heavy is Dead reanimated project lmao. Took me about 2 weeks to animate.

Ask away. I’ll try to draw these as comics.

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