[local711]

i pray to gay god that my post-op vest will be off in time for my city’s pride festival. i need wear a cute tank top without it showing through. 0_0

[local711]

3 weeks post op today and 3 years on t! im very broke out because of having to wear my binder 24/7 for weeks, but other than that im doing pretty well. 8 more days until my next appointment and then i should be able to stop wearing it.

[lliveonthesunn]

i get why people don't believe in marriage as a social construct but legally it is the best and easiest way to say "this is who i trust to take care of me when i can't take care of myself" and i'm so glad gay people fought for that right bc when shit gets scary at least i know im in good hands

[darlingofdots]

This is how I convinced my conservative grandma that the gays do also need marriage, actually. My grandad died when I was 4 and I asked her to imagine not being allowed to see him or make decisions for him or be entitled to an inheritance and she got very quiet and conceded the point. Marriage doesn't intrinsically mean anything but as a legal framework it is really, really important

[tall]

[allsadnshit]

Moving out of my hometown

[partywithponies]

Strange racists and homophobes on the internet seem to have access to an alternate way cooler version of TV than me. "every white character on TV is in an interracial relationship" "every show has a gay couple in it" "main characters keep having to secretly be bisexual and nonbinary" "every show has gratuitous full frontal nudity" like damn promise?? What channel???

[wifegideonnav]

“bits to use in everyday conversations”

[tree-lined-street]

RIP Juniper Blessing 🏳️‍⚧️

tell your trans friends you love them

[renthony]

I was 12 when the first of my siblings was born, so I have very vivid memories of the way my mother was excluded from a lot of spaces because people find children annoying.

If you think "children should not be allowed in this space," you HAVE TO reckon with the fact that you are now excluding parents (and very often women specifically) who don't have access to childcare. You are isolating people who are poor, or rural, or single parents, or any number of other factors that might prevent someone from having on-demand childcare. You are cutting them off from being able to exist in public. You are denying parents and children the ability to fully participate in society.

My mom spent several years only leaving the house to buy groceries or take me to school, and even then, people would still come up to her to complain TO HER FACE about how she shouldn't bring a crying toddler to Walmart. Entitled strangers would literally try and demand that my mom leave and come back without the kids.

"Why can't your husband watch them?" Because he was at work, usually working extreme amounts of overtime so we didn't get evicted, because landlords don't like it when you stop paying rent.

"Why can't you send them to daycare?" Because that costs money.

"Why can't your teenager stay home with them and babysit?" Because I also deserved to be able to leave the house for something other than school, and taking me to the grocery store was how my mom taught me to manage a household budget, shop sales, and meal plan.

"Don't bring your kid in public if you can't CONTROL them and make them stop crying!" Kids cry when they're upset, and being dragged around a store is upsetting! Don't be an asshole! Children are human beings who are still learning how the world works, and they don't have a lot of agency. You'd cry, too.

"Spank them until they learn to stop crying!" That's just straight-up child abuse, Jesus Christ.

What the fuck was our family supposed to do? Never go to the grocery store? Starve because strangers couldn't handle a toddler existing in public?

[caesthoffe]

juniper blessing, a trans woman, was stabbed 40 times by a man in the laundry room of her off-campus apartment. she had stab wounds in her hands from trying to defend herself. she loved pokemon and meteorology and singing.

all of this happened in my city of seattle, a 'blue' and 'progressive' state. a 'safe haven' for trans people. her university, UW, was hosting a TPUSA event with a conservative detransitioner right after (TPUSA canceled the event themselves). how many more of us need to be killed? when will the bloodlust for trans people end? is the grifter money worth it?

[local711]

i started going for short walks yesterday, and im off most of the pain meds as well. in three days i will get my drains out and the bolsters off. recovery is going pretty well so far.

[local711]

top surgery went great and now i have 5 more days before my post-op appointment!

[local711]

my top surgery is at 8 am this morning. i have to be at the clinic at 6 am. i have waiting for this since i was in middle school and it’s finally here!! it still doesn’t feel quite real.

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[local711]

top surgery in 2 weeks! let’s fricking go!

[mbkieran]

things im excited to do after top surgery:

1. look at myself

2. go outside/out in public (with and without a shirt on)

3. take pictures of myself without deleting them afterwards

4. feel comfortable

5. look at my body fluids through the drain thingies they give you

6. see my scars

7. show my friends (and online viewers) my results

8. TIGHT SHIRTS!!!!!! REVEALING SHIRTS!!!! TIGHT AND REVEALING SHIRTS!!!!

9. sleep on my front without boobs in the way

10. put on a seatbelt

11. grow my pecs

12. hug my husband

13. say "this is so crazy" 10 billion times out of disbelief

14. hug my husband

15. my husband :) yayyyy

16. sorry got distracted. I love my husband

17. draw myself boobless without feeling guilty

18. feel better

19. aftercare

20. stay home with my husband because he specifically called off work for a week to take care of me while I heal

21. husband.......

22. feel like myself, for once

[local711]

2 weeks and a day can not come fast enough

[kabigon143]

The beautiful thing as you get older is that you realize so many “rules” are made up and you can just do whatever. Posters can go anywhere in the house not just my room. I can sit down while cooking a meal or taking a shower. I can make the same thing for breakfast lunch dinner for a week straight. I can roam around the house shirtless. I can wear a dress with jeans. The world is my oyster key word my and I can live as I please embracing little things such as this

[busket]

he's gonna die one day soon and it wont fix everything but it'll feel great and the whole world is gonna fucking party together