Queer & Quiet

Hey, I'm a queer introvert 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ and my pronouns are he/him or nin/nim. Here on my blog I share my thoughts, ideas, poetry, memes, quotes, and stuff. 🖤

[queerandquiet]

Remember this, whoever you are, however you are, you are equally valid, equally justified, and equally beautiful.

Juno Dawson in 'The Gender Games: The Problems With Men and Women, From Someone Who Has Been Both,' 2017

[queerandquiet]

The days that I feel most beautiful are the days that I am most afraid. They tell us to “be ourselves,” but if you listen closely, there’s more to that sentence: “. . . until you make them uncomfortable.”

Alok Vaid-Menon, in their book “Beyond the Gender Binary”

[matteosden]

I created a little meme that describes perfectly how I feel about starting HRT. Can anyone relate?

[queerandquiet]

That’s precisely what I feel like   😭😭😭 Why is it such a difficult decision? Maybe not for trans men, but for nonbinary transmascs like me. But I guess, I urgently need a gender therapist who helps me to figure things out what I really need.

[matteosden]

Made another meme …

[queerandquiet]

Yessss, definitely. I wish I could be more faithful to estrogen, but my heart is yearning for testosterone. On the other hand, there’s also a fear of all the changes. I mean, it would be neat to have a beard or a deeper voice ... but what if I’m not happy when the changes are made? I’m torn between becoming more manly or staying the way I am in my butch-ish body. Probably it’s my fear of the irreversibility ...

After all, I’m not a trans man, but a transmasculine enby ... I think.