He Wears His Helmet With Pride

"my child is fine" your child wanted to kill herself at 11 years old

[Some] Items you find in 8:11

Pins you to a wall with a dagger against your throat (romantically)

Blep

Fig

Verba Mystica

I'm going to be blunt for a moment when I say: I don't give a fuck why I'm trans. I don't care if it's because my brain isn't aligned with my assigned sex, or if my genetic coding went haywire in utero, or if my identity is the product of my environment. It could be a million things all at once or it could be none. It's not that simple to pinpoint why we're complex.

All I care about is that I'm trans now - that I deserve to be respected that way. I don't need justification to prove that I am a real, living person with real feelings. Besides, no amount of proving the validity of transness will prove to transphobes that they ought to respect us. Their beliefs stem from a disgust response, not from a logically-based response.

I don't want an explanation for my transness - I want freedom to be me. Explaining why I am the way I am doesn't really help me because I'll still be trans. What helps is respecting, loving, and uplifting trans people: to treat us as human.

“feeling like a person again” collection