Boy: A Trans Poem

Boy: A Trans Poem

"You can't possibly call yourself a boy in that outfit, are you serious?"

"If you really want to be a boy or whatever, you should join the military, show everyone you're not part of the freak show."

"What are you, a fucking lesbian?"

"Boys don't wear makeup, you should wash it off."

"You like cooking? Ha-ha, fag."

"Why don't you have a girlfriend yet?"

"Come on, stop crying and stick your chin out."

"Be a man."

"You should beat up that guy, show him who's boss."

"Don't call yourself pretty. Say handsome instead. Pretty is a girl word."

If I'm neither, then what do I call myself?

"Dyke."

"Faggot."

"Wuss."

"Tranny."

"Trap."

"Pussy."

"Fop."

"Whore."

"If you want to look manly, you'd better start working out."

"The girls can grab shields. Boys - take it like a man."

"Can't you just say you're a girl? Things will be complicated otherwise."

"If you want them to like you, ditch the silver suit, you look gay."

"Why aren't you having sex yet? Don't you wanna be a stud?"

"Men are providers. Do you really think you can provide for a family one day?"

"Chest out, shoulders back. Slumping makes you look like a girl."

"Boys don't play with dolls, why haven't you thrown those away yet?"

"You will never be a boy, no matter what."

it possessed me I had to

Apparently a lot of people get dialogue punctuation wrong despite having an otherwise solid grasp of grammar, possibly because they’re used to writing essays rather than prose. I don’t wanna be the asshole who complains about writing errors and then doesn’t offer to help, so here are the basics summarized as simply as I could manage on my phone (“dialogue tag” just refers to phrases like “he said,” “she whispered,” “they asked”):

“For most dialogue, use a comma after the sentence and don’t capitalize the next word after the quotation mark,” she said.

“But what if you’re using a question mark rather than a period?” they asked.

“When using a dialogue tag, you never capitalize the word after the quotation mark unless it’s a proper noun!” she snapped.

“When breaking up a single sentence with a dialogue tag,” she said, “use commas.”

“This is a single sentence,” she said. “Now, this is a second stand-alone sentence, so there’s no comma after ‘she said.’”

“There’s no dialogue tag after this sentence, so end it with a period rather than a comma.” She frowned, suddenly concerned that the entire post was as unasked for as it was sanctimonious.

*aggressively cuddles all of you*

Reblog to join the transfem cuddle pile :3

Transmascs gays lesbians aros aces and aplatonics are also welcome as long as you’re not cishetallo :3

Oop also Intersex fellas may join

If you fall under the umbrella of “one of them queers” you may join

YOUNG MAN!

There's no need to feel down,

I MEAN YOUNG THEY!

I forgot your pronoun,

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