Hey there, welcome to Queer Trans Happiness, a blog and centre for queer and trans positivity and joy, for whenever you need it. This blog is run by The Riders and Racers, a white queer collectively transmasc/masc presenting nonbinary system. Our collective pronouns are he/they, and we are 20.
This blog began as a series in a discord server we are staff in, and we decided to port it over to Tumblr in the summer of 2024, both to help people through the current political climate, and to spread hope when it is sorely needed.
We also have a resource carrd full of good news websites, and articles, books, music, film and video, social media pages and other resources focusing on trans joy made by gender diverse people, which you can find here: https://trans-joy.carrd.co/.
Submissions are happily accepted, for moments of joy in your life you want to put here, actions to take to make the world better, or resources for our carrd.
Our DNI is hateful accounts, exclusionists, gatekeepers, fakeclaimers, chasers etc. We will block people who make us uncomfy.
With that out of the way, see you around, and have a good time here.
it makes me so sad seeing people in my life who tell me they think they might be trans but theyāre too scared to confront that reality because the transgender experience just seems to be filled with terror and misery. trans people please never stop talking about the joys of being transgender. please never stop talking about your excitement and joy and happiness. maybe you think that the trans experience is all doom and gloom, too. I promise itās not. focus on the joy and you will feel better I promise.
girls i know accusations of racism can occasionally be falsely leveraged against trans women in order to discredit them and this Is Bad but this does notttt actually mean that you can just ignore the racism in the community like it doesn't exist. because racism exists in all communities and lately it is Nightmarish to be a nonwhite doll. i have experienced really glaring racism in several transfem spaces and there's been this really kind of awful attitude or like idea enforced that i shouldn't talk about it because speaking up could socially murder another tgirl. and that's really bad. that's really really bad. like it's really bad that i'm hesitant to even post this because of the scrutiny we're under. and yes the fact that it is so dangerous to speak up is because of the massive amounts of surveillance & transmisogyny we're facing but that just CAN'T mean racism gets a pass, okay? BIPOC girls are not expendable and you can't keep throwing us under the bus.
but i know calls to action without any kind of instruction aren't very helpful so here are some tips that i think you can easily do yourself with your own circles:
1) Staring off simple: Look around. Are there any BIPOC girls in your friend group, or are all of you white? Why? Do you often joke about everyone in your friend group being white? Why is that funny?
What to do: Examine why there are no people of color in your group. Examine why people of color may not be comfortable enough to hang out with you & your friends. Correct these, where possible. Do some reading on anti-racism. Talk to more people.
2) Examine how you talk about people of color & racism. Are you downplaying racism in your community? Are you treating women of color as dramatic or unreasonable for bringing it up? Do you find yourself only defending white dolls, always defending them from claims of racism, but never defending BIPOC dolls? Why?
What to do: Think about why you care more about accusations of racism than protecting the women of color in your community. Make sure you're making your space safe for BIPOC girls. Speak openly and loudly about anti-racism. Hold your sisters accountable- they should be apologizing when they say or do something wrong.
3) This one might sound silly, but as we often meet each other over fandom and roleplay- how are nonwhite characters treated in your circle? Are they always aggressive, angry, or antagonistic? Do you find yourself putting nonwhite characters in more roles like cops, dictators, sex pests, etc?
Additionally: If your circle shares sexual content, is there a lot of art where there's a pale/blonde character on the bottom, and a darker character on top? Are you and your friends always drawing darker characters as more dominant, more sexually aggressive, or promiscuous, while the white/pale characters are more innocent, submissive, modest, or clueless?
What to do: Examine how the way your group approaches fandom & art with nonwhite characters in it may make people of color uncomfortable. Examine why your art may make people of color feel unsafe or awkward hanging out with you. It's not wrong to have the occasional character of color be more antagonistic or dominant, but it's a problem when this is a pattern. If it's happening All The Time, question why!
4) Be honest with yourself: Did this post make you feel defensive? Does it make you feel defensive when people say something you did was racist? Why?
If a person of color tells you your actions were racist, they trust you to improve. I don't tell people they're being racist if i think they're going to hurt me for bringing it up. I know many like me. Don't prove us wrong- take these criticisms into account and work on it. You aren't cursed to be some kind of terrible bigot forever because you messed up- panicking without action is useless. Just be sure you examine the behavior in question and work to prevent this kind of thing from happening again. Okay?
I believe all these things are easy enough to check with yourself & your friends. Please work on making yourself & your group safe for girls who aren't white.
hey. you have to love your trans brothers of color okay. and your trans sisters of color. and your nonbinary siblings of color. you have to okay. its simply non-optional
Long time Pokemon music creator GlitchxCity and her Pokemon streamer partner AjentVee were gifted two bride Pikachu plushes from the Pokemon Company themselves to celebrate their engagement! ā¤ļøā”ļøš³ļøāš
I know times are stressful right now, but please do not give in... please take care of yourself to whatever degree you are able. Check in on others when you have the energy. Do what little actions you can to make things better, big and small. I believe in you. Things will get better. Just look to history... it's not great, but we have seen improvements, things have improved they've gotten worse, and then they got better than they were before. It will get better. We can make it so it gets better.
Over 90% of parents of visibly intersex children opt for cosmetic surgery on their infants.
The ones that don't experience medical violence then, likely experience it as a teenager.
I didn't.
I am very rare in that I did not experience medical violence.
Why? Because I learned what intersexuality was as a young age, and I actively fought against what doctors wanted to do to me. All the way down to legal research on what medical care minors can be forced into. I remember walking into that doctor's appointment with the state law written down that proved that if I did not consent they could not do surgery.
That is why intersex activism is important. It saved me and it will save more.
I thought Iād give a go talking about the different components of my identity.
(Reading time: ~5 minutes. Part of this is developed on from my A God, A Time Lord, A Man essay!)
On a species level, I am an aspect of a god of human origin, and I consider myself otherhuman and an alterhuman. I am the god of determination, hope and humanity in the sense of the human spirit, along with heroes, Kamen Riders, cyclebreaking, positive change, and poetry (art, as an expression of what it means to be a human, is a part of my domain!). As a deity, I am communities helping each other through dark times, mutual aid, telling chosen family you love them, making art and writing about your lived experiences that end up helping others, small moments of joy in a dark world that make your day better, becoming yourself and the defiant joy that comes from it, and joy is resistance and hopepunk. (On that note, we run a queer hopepunk blog when weāre free called @queertranshappiness!)
Then, thereās the fictive identities that make up who I am as a person, which I call expressions. My main one is being the Ace of Heart / KR Geats Oneness from Kamen Rider Geats: 4 Aces and The Black Fox. Iām the aspect of Aceās determination and his wish to protect other peopleās wishes and fight for their happiness, the last one standing at the end of the world against the godslayers Mela and Melo. I stopped them, with the power of my resolve, my friendās souls and wishes for their happiness, and the hope of humanity, allowing me to use a special buckle and card, along with my own Core ID, the part of my driver (belt) holding my desires and memories, my identity and soul: the Geats Oneness Core ID, to become Geats Oneness.
Then, thereās my expression as the Eighth Doctor from the DWM comics timeline. Iām a passionate, intense and determined half human half Time Lord, whoās fought against intergalactic mercenaries, and fought my former best friend (a very long time agoā¦) for godhood over the omniverse after discovering I was being manipulated to have my guilt used against me, for example being blamed for a church forcing people onto the ācorrect pathā made by the Master, as he was exploiting a man I made the mistake of making immortal. Iāve fought to save my best friendās identity, which lead to my will and determination to save her coming out in anger, and eventually used that same divine rage, with the power of passion, wonder and joy, to regain my godhood briefly and save humanity from having their emotions used against them to make them submit to cyberconversion, or losing their humanity and independent existence. I feel slightly more distant to this expression compared go being a kamen rider, and I only feel connected to it fully during specific shifts. But itās still me, through and through, just in a more mortal, slightly more brash way.
And then, thereās another expression Iām currently questioning: Hikaru Todoroki, or R1, from Tomica Hero Rescue Force. Heās a hot headed rookie member of the Rescue Force, who no matter what, will never give up a chance to save people, having a childhood wish to make the world happy through rescue. His rescue soul burns, and he will save everyone he can from Neo Terror, regardless of the pain he has to go through, so much so that he painfully fails to transform into R1 Max, his upgrade form, 7 times before the formās issues are finally solved and he successfully chakusous. Heās a very good driver, and he probably has some form of hyper empathy, as he builds a strong relationship with his personal car, Core Striker [Max], who calls him ānew faceā, and then R1 as a sign of respect to his experience. I still donāt quite know what the relationship of this expression is, as I donāt think I am, directly, Hikaru. However, he still feels like me, and if I was a human in the mortal way, I would be him, if a little different. Thatās enough to be an expression of mine.
I coined the word expression myself, as a more affirming way of describing my multiple identities. Itās how my personal godhood comes out, in different forms and ways. Itās the same determination, hope in darkness, heroism, humanity, creating joy in spite of everything and saving people, just in different places and worlds. Itās inspired by the Perspectives from Slay The Princess, and works in a similar way. I donāt have conscious control over them, but I shift between them based on my mood, which sources Iām interacting with for either me or my headmates, or music. Iām usually Ace, and always will be to some extent. I can get into a Doctor shift of sorts when weāre tired, when processing anger, often specific smaller scale types, and when listening to Sting or The Winking Owl. So far, I havenāt had a shift for Hikaru, but I have a feeling that if it turns out I fully am him, cars and other bands might get me into more of that mood.
Being a god is complicated, especially one with multiple forms. But Iām still the same man at the end of it, no matter what I look like. When Iām not Rider Kicking godslayers, destroying fleets of Cybermen or rescuing people from a super disaster, Iām playing drums, writing poetry, and probably going down a YouTube rabbit hole about some new malware campaign that a report has just been released on. Iām still finding, as the host in this brain, what makes me an individual person here, and not just the person who fronts most to do work and eat, or just as the body as the one most used to it. Itās complicated, but Iāll get there. Writing about these things is a good first step, always.
Hi yāallā¤ļø Made another post & it got no traction so iām making another one. Iām brie, iām a black trans woman who is currently between jobs, Iām asking for assistance so I can get groceries & refill my metrocard because I have a bunch of fucking interviews this week. Just asking you see this please boost this. Literally anything helps.
(O7/03/26) Survival is harrowing in Sudan's human rights crisis for everyone, but especially women and queer kinfolk. I have been friends with the camp leader, Abdul, since June of 2025. I am happy to know of his survival but understand and mourn that his people are starving, not living.
At the time of posting, it has been over 24 hours since anyone has eaten. They are at zero funds.
With evidence below, Abdu has informed me that their expenses are nearly 100 USD a day due to scarcity. So, the number he gave was 600 dollars a week. The lowest goal, then, approximately 2400 for one month of food.
Reasonably, I will set their goal at 2800 for the month of July. The nature of these posts, is that as funds are expended, goals are harder to track. But I implore you to donate and share his gfm with some of this info, far and wide if you cannot donate. Please do not ignore when 5 dollars, 10 dollars, 50 dollars can add up to save vulnerable human lives. Black lives still matter. Trans people are real human beings who deserve safety.
Hi I'm Judas (internet name NervesNebula) and I'm an American fundraising for my friend ā¦ Nerves Nebula needs your support for Help LGBTQ Re
This number is so deeply achievable if we all stick together and fight for something greater than our sum. For people just like us who deserve to survive. Do not give up the fight. Theirs and ours are inextricably linked. It is one and the same. Help our friends survive.
I urge people to donate to Dem Bois, a non profit organization that provides trans masculine and trans men of color grants for transition related surgeries as well as care packages.
During the height of covid when I was unemployed and homeless, Dem Bois provided me with a care package that, more than anything, gave me hope to keep living and a reminder that my community exists and is one of perseverance and survival.
Published in coloration with Transfighters/Traction Project,Ā A Self-Defense Study Guide for Trans Women and Gender Non-Conforming / Nonbinar
Transfem self defense zine above
Theyāve been at the forefront of multiple movements for equality. But Black trans women remain one of the most marginalized, at-risk communi
Build the shittiest thing possible. Build out of trash because all i have is trash. Trash materials, trash bodies, trash brain syndrome. Bui
Good articles on transmisogyny and transmisogynoir for a more comprehensive and intersectional look at things. You can follow the author of the final one of these three (Position of Guilt: Black Hot Allostatic Load) on tumblr at @/storyweavingspider, who also offered the following interpretation & breakdown of a 2015 survey on the queer community in DC broken down by race and gender that is a quite stark statistical look at the effects of transmisogyny and transmisogynoir.
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PDF download link for an essay on transmisogynoir.
Transfeminine Science is a site for information on hormone therapy for transfeminine people.
The futile attempt at answering every possible question for someone looking to trans their sex.
Actually good resources on transfem healthcare and HRT. The former more scientific and robust and the latter a bit less dense and in laywomans terms.
Part 1: actually defining the problem
The thing about "terf ideology and rhetoric" is that it is actually an extremely widespread problem
A very detailed breakdown of terf rhetoric in queer spaces
āThe Gender Binaryā is a misnomer; gender has always been a hierarchy.
A good essay on the orientalism and transmisogyny in "decolonial" academia surrounding the hijra. Though her more contemporary writing has taken an unfortunately liberal and centrist turn Talia's words here remain true as ever.
Iām reading the book ābefore we were transā and I am FASCINATED by how much trans history we miss by sticking to defining historical figures by modern definitions of gender. I didnāt even realize that āthatās just someone cross dressing for [money/power/rights/opportunities]ā is the equivalent of āthey were just friends who never married and lived together the rest of their lives:)ā. Sure, itās technically possible, but itās disingenuous to assume that the default will always be cishet unless explicitly stated and that itāll fit whatās considered queer nowadays, not to mention how different cultures handle gender.
Anyway, the book brought up that historically there were two kings who, despite being AFAB, ruled and lived as men and were accepted as such. From what I understand, this isnāt common knowledge for trans history because both kingdoms were African, and while the people accepted the rulers as men, most of our records are from colonial powers who assumed they were both women who faked being men to gain more power.
Highly recommend reading this book, because Iām barely halfway through and Iāve already learned about these two kings, well respected āmen near indistinguishable from womenā who had political power in England, and a nonbinary celebrity whose fame and adoration was partially based off intentionally breaking gender norms very visibly.
However you feel about trans day of visibility today, and however you choose to honour it - We see you and celebrate you for all you are today. Your visibility does not need to be for cis people's education, and you do not need cis validation to start living as yourself and creating a good life.
There are people out there who need to see a trans life like yours well lived. They need your story, your voice, and your wisdom to know they can be themselves and live a good life too. Your visibility does not have to be for cis people - it can be for the kids and questioning people out there who's lives will be changed for the better by your example.
No matter what the transphobes may say - your trans life is always worth living, and the world and future is better for you are in it. Do something kind for yourself today, we love you.
