between womb and tomb

>25. genderfluid. ♿. mexam.

[mmonstra]

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about me

rarely here. i think about creating more than i actually create. ask me for my discord. i try not to performatively reblog, and don't often reblog any news or calls to action. i don't have all the answers.

DNFW racists, radfems of any variety, especially not SWERFs or TERFs.

mtg sideblog: @nogatestowatch

misc fandom posting: @monstravsfandom

reading sideblog: @monstrareads

[hyperlexichypatia]

IDK I think if cis men are being told that being fat will lower their testosterone and make them Insufficiently Masculine, and cis women are being told that being fat will raise their testosterone and make them Excessively Masculine, and fat trans people are being denied the right to medically transition if they're fat, and thin trans people are warned against HRT because it will make them fat (and this is said about both testosterone and estrogen HRT), and androgynous-presenting people are told that only thin people count as androgynous...

Then maybe...

Maybe...

Maybe the weight loss industry is just using Gender to enforce fatphobia.

[mmonstra]

The way I've always loved fantasy/magic school settings so much even as a notorious school hater

[mmonstra]

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The most masculine I have ever felt was when I was very fucking pregnant, which was very fucking lucky for me because the alternate was being stuck in a pregnant body for the 4 months I was aware of my pregnancy.

Can y'all imagine what a horror show it would be to realize that you're transmasculine while existing in a "forcibly feminized by an unplanned pregnancy" body lmao it would've been a literal nightmare, but luckily I persevered.

I probably wouldn't go through this willingly a second time though bc I don't want diabetes again 😭 I would have to get very physically fit and also find a better place to live or smth before willingly going through that again and I don't think I have the time to go through it all and another high risk pregnancy

[mmonstra]

tfw you're not sure if the depiction dark masc × pale fem is because of implicit colorist Bias or just coincidental and also it would be rude to accuse someone of being colorist based on one (1) piece of original work.

[transandrogyny--turtlebug]

I still think pregnancy and childbirth should be degendered. we stopped talking about that and I need us to pick it back up pls

[love-ardour-anarchism]

casting a spell to turn a million sad and miserable girls into the happy, fat and hairy men, transmascs and dykes they were always meant to be

[hearthouses]

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[red-veril]

Let's fucking GOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!

[misscrazyfangirl321]

Being an adult will have you unironically craving a vegetable

[kayla-denker]

Hey, you, cis girl that's very (correctly) vocal about women being allowed to talk about their periods, do you include trans women in that?

I ask because every single time I've tried to talk about it to anyone that isn't a trans woman they get fucking angry. Which has caused me to have to just suffer in silence every single month. So I really relate to cis women when they talk about literally the exact same thing; being shamed by everyone around them their whole lives for talking about their periods, so they just suffer in silence every month as it negatively impacts their work and social lives. But I don't even feel like I can voice that I am literally dealing with the same exact thing because most of y'all react like you want to throw me in front of a bus for saying it, even those of you who act like your such big great transfem allies.

[kayla-denker]

I guess I'll take this opportunity to talk about trans women periods. The first thing any tme person thinks when they hear this is always "how can trans women have periods? They don't have uteruses!"

The answer is: the uterus isn't what causes your period, it is effected by your period. What causes your period and what causes trans women's periods is the same thing: the endocrine system.

HRT changes the sex of your endocrine system. Feminizing HRT makes it a female endocrine system, giving us a 28-day hormone cycle just like cis women. At the end of that cycle, the hypothalamus floods the body with prostaglandins. Those are what cause all but one of the period symptoms, because they make muscles inflame and contract. They are what make the uterus shed its lining, they are what cause intestinal cramps, they are what cause body aches, they are what cause headaches and migraines. The only period symptom not causes by the release of prostaglandins throughout the body is depression, and that is caused by your endocrine system simply not processing as much estrogen and from simply feeling like shit.

So, the only symptoms trans women don't get every 28 days is menstrual cramps, because yes we do not menstruate since we don't have uteruses. But migraines, depression, body aches, intestinal cramps, and the infamous "period shits" don't exactly add up to us having any better of a time. Except we have to pretend that we're fine and nothing is different because no one believes that we get periods, not even cis women.

"But you can't call it a period then because that refers to MENSTRUATION!" is another one I hear all the time. This is incorrect. You use the word "period" instead of just "menstruation" because it doesn't just refer to menstruation. It refers to a period at the end of the hormone cycle where we experience a host of symptoms. And not all cis women experience all of the symptoms that encompass the period. Not all cis women get migraines, or body aches, or have severe depression. If a cis woman gets a hysterectomy she doesn't menstruate either! In that instance she experiences an identical period to what trans women experience. Yet, I doubt you'd insist that cis women who've had hysterectomies don't have periods.

[kayla-denker]

Oh, another thing that I personally discovered after bottom surgery: vaginal odor changes for trans women during our periods too. I was not expecting that because I always thought it was just from menstruation. But nope, the ph levels of a trans woman's vagina are the same of as a cis woman's vagina, and it changes during our periods just the same.

[mmonstra]

I get SO frustrated with the forced gendering of things. This is for boys, this is for girls. Women do this, men do that, etc etc etc.

Tiresome bullshit.

[pixeljade]

more than anything i want a world where a trans girl realizing she is a trans girl faces zero fear from that realization and subsequent coming out. Where she can say "Oh sweet, I can just be a girl? Sign me up!", no worrying if shes girl enough, no worrying if society will accept her, no worrying if she'll be an attractive girl as she transitions, no worrying at all in any way shape or form.

[ein-kleiner]

imagine if we said lesbians are privileged because society rewards attraction to women. That's true, isn't it? It's catered to and expected, while attraction to men is looked down upon. Attraction to men can make you be seen as a threat (for men) while attraction to women gets attempts to convert you at worst.

That'd be ridiculous, right?

[psychic-waffles]

We're at the "JK Rowling is personally funding litigation to try and destroy AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL" stage of rabid UK terf brain.

Screenshot via Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net on bluesky

Tldr Amnesty International, global human rights organisation, published a report called 'A growing threat: the anti-rights movement in the UK'. In it is detailed, amongst others, a whole bunch of transphobic groups and organisations, including Beira's Place, JK Rowling's trans exclusionary sexual violence support service. JK Rowling threw a shit fit and got Amnesty to take the report down by threatening libel. This was obviously not enough, because you can't appease a fascist, so now she's going to bankroll a bunch of lawsuits anyway through the JK Rowling Women's Fund.*

You can read an archived version of the report here, please save it and share it.

*Not so friendly reminder there is no way to engage in the wizard books without enabling this shit.

[ladyofthebookcase]

hello allo person in a fandom. let’s play a game. in front of you are two characters. your challenge is to okay and you’ve already started shipping them. well the crusher machine is going to activate now goodbye.

[mmonstra]

No Pic bc I need to put a diaper on him, but I think it's really funny to see him contort himself in ways that I remember doing

[mmonstra]

We were goofing off with the boy and his screams of delight remind me of my childhood somehow

Sometimes I think about how it's kind of obvious that he doesn't quite see me as a separate being from himself — like we're still attached somehow. But he'll realize eventually that we're two separate people.

Maybe those super enmeshed boundaryless mothers are like this too, like they forget the child is its own being. Unfortunately, while children probably develop out of it, can an adult really grow out of it? Scawy

I am excited to see him as his own person though, and growing and changing.

[mmonstra]

. Only a little bit of saved writing tonight

He later remade that k and it really did look a lot better. Then he had me write out the baby shark lyrics while he sang but there's multiple versions of that song and he wants to mix up the lyrics a little bit.