u/threeyearshome

I'm definitely not non-binary, but I don't feel comfortable totally decked out in women's clothing and full makeup right now, specifically because I haven't had the FFS that I absolutely want. I think I'll get braver as time goes on, but I haven't even gotten laser for my face yet, so there's no way I pass.

All that being said... I look fucking good. People want to talk to me, I get hit on by both men and women, and I feel confident when I leave the house (in fact, confidence is my charm, I'm not like a model or something, by any means!) Yeah, there's transphobes everywhere, and that sucks, but it's not gonna change anytime soon. Any fear I am feeling goes away when someone smiles at me or talks to me like a human being.

I hope people here can find a way to stop letting the phobes win. They take up too much real estate in everyone's heads. I know things are bad, but there ARE wins, whether it's a state that rejects transphobic legislation or a bad guy who gets arrested, or even just putting on your make up and going, "fuck yeah, bitch, you are hot," on a minimally dysphoric day.

You can't treat every moment of your life as a loss or you'll lose your mind, and that's no good for anybody! 😘

I mean.... I will fuck you up.

Somebody do that, please. I'm stuck at work.

A lot of social conditioning had me so anti-girly about things for so long that I'm having some of the funniest revelatory moments, such as this morning when I realized how much I love shoes LOL

I know it's a stereotype, but the addiction is real! Something about this whole burden of having to present as male for so many years suddenly being lifted has me trouncing women's apparel like a kid in a candy store!

Seriously, who needs SSRIs when you have this??

Just remember that there's a beautiful girl locked up inside there, and the key to breaking her out is loving her more than you've ever loved anything in the whole world...

The megathread gets no engagement. It amounts to censorship. Go compare it to any thread here.

At a time when it's more important than ever to discuss what is happening in America especially, but also all over the world, the last thing we need is limiting the discussion to a megathread that nobody is reading. So why do this? If you need extra help moderating, I'm happy to volunteer.

The top, most important thing that should matter to everybody is the right to exist. Every political discussion that comes up is directly related to our right to exist.

Mods, I apologize if this breaks the rule, I'm trying to find out if I'm alone in this feeling, and I suspect I'm not. Trans people need to network, communicate, organize and at the very least find others suffering from the same oppressive legislation being proposed and enacted. Getting the word out is crucial. I believe we can do that responsibly.

This is the largest transgender subreddit, it has the highest reach. It's more important than ever to make sure everybody knows what's going on.

The arguments promoting the megathread amount to sticking our heads in the sand, and honestly it looks like transphobes larping here to troll. Its been happening in every trans space on the internet, and I think we need to start standing up for ourselves.

If someone doesn't want to discuss protecting trans rights in the largest transgender subreddit, then they don't belong here. There are other subreddits they can dive into.