the　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　postes: just a perennial reminder that cis people typically dont spend much time at all thinking about their gender and even less time agonizing over it

just a perennial reminder that cis people typically dont spend much time at all thinking about their gender and even less time agonizing over it

this was the singular most affirming thing I'd ever seen! People don't know this!

they really dont! like our experiences are completely foreign to each other and i think if 1) we talked about this more & 2) cis people thought about their gender for once in their life, it would be better

us talking about our experiences more is why i wrote a transmasc psychological thriller to begin with. i just didn't see my nonbinary-ass adult transmasc experiences being put out into the ether. yes. cis people [and us] would be way better off if they questioned their gender at least once.

cis folks can have dysphoria too. remember how jarring a bad haircut can be for some of them?

YES EXACTLY!!! hair plugs, breast implants, rhinoplasty, etc— all gender-affirming care, even for cis people

100%. It's very strange for anyone to not feel some discomfort about something physically off about themselves. Dissociative kind of unusual.

truth

yes like with all this scrutiny I'm like "ARE there as many cis people out there as we thought??" (my personal answer is gender isn't actually real but we as a society are extremely not ready for that)

gender is as fake as money, we made it up, and i really think there are way fewer truly cis people than most think. like a scale for gender à la the kinsey scale would be interesting, and i think most people would be a 1 or 2 on it

the concept of 5 genders is one that really resonates with me and exists independently in quite a few cultures!

yes!!!!!!!!!!

Gender is like language: it only exists insofar as we mutually agree that it means anything

✅ I have read and agreed to the gender ToS ✅ I have read and agreed to the language ToS

this is true, although language has a necessary role in communication- gender roles don't help us

gender roles have an unnecessary role in communication; provides scripts for gendered interactions

One of the reasons I don’t get all the fearmongering about “making” people question their gender identity is that I did question it, really thought about it, and very quickly arrived at “yeah, no, even taking away societal standards I feel like a dude”

yes! and as soon as I started really thinking about it I quickly realized I was doing backflips to be "girl" so something was up! and that's scary but okay.

maybe they SHOULD

they incredibly should

no thoughts, head empty

an empty head is a pretty head 😇✨

That blew my mind when I found out about it.

yeag mine too

See? Definitely not cis at all!

This really puts an edge on some of the TERF fuckery in a way I’ve never been able to specify before

this may be controversial but i think there are at least a few tervs who are way less cis than they think. a kind of “well i found a way to force myself to fit into the box they shoved me in, why cant you!!!” thing

Two. Hundred. Percent.

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