You know your trans when: You read this as “I couldn’t wait til I got home to pass all the time in my room alone”
I do feel like that sometimes though. I want to be alone because I pass to myself.
Source: we-ate-society
5 things nobody told me about transitioning.
![transparrotfish:
[Image description: Background is 8 piece pie style color split with black and blue alternating. Foreground is a photo of a parrotfish. Top text reads “’My girlfriend is a lesbian’”. Bottom text reads “No one gets it.”. End description.]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2r0r6BKhh1qkevm9o1_400.jpg)
[Image description: Background is 8 piece pie style color split with black and blue alternating. Foreground is a photo of a parrotfish. Top text reads “’My girlfriend is a lesbian’”. Bottom text reads “No one gets it.”. End description.]
Transitive Properties: The Fish Metaphor
Sorry for the wait! I’ve been hard at work over on my other Tumblr writing and drawing another comic called White Noise, which I hope y’all will check out when it starts up in August. :D
Also—holy shit, three hundred followers! Thanks everyone!
Bonus:
Take a moment to check out Transitiveproperties’ blog. He’s got a great style!
![[A comic panel. A young man in a grey hoodie is ordering a cup of black coffee from a blonde girl at the counter. It is captioned 'I've been looking for a good metaphor for what getting misgendered feels like for me.']](http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lp2qlc7TFo1qd3tso.png)
![['I've concluded that it feels kind of like this:' the barista smacks the young man across the face with what looks like a large bluefin tuna, while saying with a smile, 'it'll be right out, MA'AM']](http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lp2qoeurG31qd3tso.png)
![[The young man is holding his coffee in one hand and the side of his face in the other, looking perturbed but saying 'thanks'. 'Why a fish? Well, it hurts like hell.']](http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lp2qqdAgj01qd3tso.png)
![['And it's frustrating.' The young man is standing at a counter with sugar a pitcher of cream on it, thinking, 'why would you even do that']](http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lp2qs5EqMh1qd3tso.png)
![['And it's absurd.' The young man is tipping the cream pitcher over his cup of coffee, asking himself 'what about me told her that was necessary anyway']](http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lp2qtpHDaE1qd3tso.png)
![['And sometimes the stink of it sticks to you all day long.' The young man is walking, looking frustrated, with the cup of coffee to his lips. He is mumbling 'why do people keep hitting me with these motherfucking FISH.']](http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lp2qvdpHbP1qd3tso.png)
![[The same young man is dressed as Harry Potter, wand in hand. He is being hit from behind by another large fish, while someone is yelling, 'hey, that Harry Potter is a girl!']](http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lp2r1d88dc1qd3tso.png)
![[The young man is glaring over his shoulder, surrounded in a bright green aura. Above his head the words 'BASILISK STARE' are written in the same green.]](http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lp2r7nbW2T1qd3tso.png)
Source: transitiveproperties
Rooster Tails is an excellent comic about the daily lives of two transmen living together. There’s also plenty of body- and sex-positive art, if you’re interested in that.
Day of Silence
Yes, today, 4/20, is National Day of Silence to promote awareness about LGBT issues to the broader communities in which we live. I have chosen not to participate in this day for a few reasons.
1. I don’t believe that we should be silent any longer. To me, silence resembles the closet. I believe that if we want to educate people about our issues, being silent isn’t the way to go about it.
2. We’ve been silent for far too long. Now is the time to raise our voices and take action for our own human rights. The right to education, jobs and housing. Important things that give our lives the quality they deserve.
This isn’t to say that I don’t support the message that DOS brings, I just believe that Day of Silence should be changed to a day of speaking out, a day of education, a day where we don’t put ourselves in the background, but instead command people’s attention to get what we want.
Preach it!
In a Bind.
R. Nick Gorton is an openly transgender physician. He completed residency and chief residency in Emergency Medicine at Kings County Hospital, Brooklyn, NY. Dr. Gorton has a twice-weekly clinic focusing on transgender patients at the Lyon-Martin Clinic in San Francisco.
He lectures on transgender health care at medical schools and conferences. He has worked as a medical consultant regarding transgender health care for Lambda Legal, the Transgender Law Center, the Northwest Justice Project, the New York Legal Aid Society, and the Sylvia Rivera Law Project.
He is an active member of the American Medical Association GLBT Affairs Committee and the California LGBT Health and Humans Services Network.
The Unofficial, Unendorsed, Uncensored Zine about Faith and Sexuality
By students and alumni of Abilene Christian University
Boi With an I, a poem
Boi with an i
A new kind of guy
Masculine, feminine
Either way, we’re all men
Not hated, not tolerated
Not discriminated, but celebrated
Trans, cis, and in between
We know what we want, and know what we mean
Straight, bi, gay, poly, pan
We’re here, we’re queer, and we don’t give a damn
Boi with an i
We’re not around to try
And pass your test
To prove we’ve got more testosterone than the rest
With shapeless shirts and socks down our pants
Bandages and sports bras that make it hard to dance
Love and friendship directed towards each other
But society brings evil unto our brothers
So we form our own little family
And take up a shield against our enemies
Boi with an i
Describes me, myself, and I
My gender a many-layered web of male
I owe you no explanation and no tale
It doesn’t matter how I present myself
If I’ve got skirts and heels upon my shelf
I know who I’ve been, and I know who I am
A feminine, masculine, androgynous man.
Source: nearlyneville
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