#beloudandproud

[letstalkbeautyuk]

🏳️‍🌈 We have a wonderful selection of LGBTQIA pride badges, as well as Ally badges

[c-you-on-the-otherside]

10/11/17

It’s National Coming Out Day and I’m so tempted to say fuck it, call my parents, and tell them about everything I’m feeling. But I’m so unsure... I’m sure but like I’m not. I keep thinking about what if I change my mind.. What if I decide I’m not transgender...or that I fall in the middle of the spectrum? So I can’t say anything just yet. I’ve only had two therapy appointments and still have a lot of work to do, but talking about it feels so good. Telling my friends who matter, has just felt right. There’s all these steps I still need to take but there are some days where I just want to jump off the edge into the unknown and just tell the world... I feel like I have to contain that though, at least for now. Save it up for the day tat I’m certain. And who knows, maybe I never will be “certain”... All I know is that slowly, and surely, I’m getting to the space I know I’m meant to get to. And if this National Coming Out Day isn’t the day for me to come out to the world, then I’ll let it be the day I come out to myself, and accept myself as anything but a woman.. Whatever that makes me.

[bornwithawarriorheart]

Lexa never stopped fighting for justice so we will never stop fighting for Lexa 🌈 #beloudandproud - - - - - Tag's: #the100cw #the100 #elizataylor #marieavgeropoulos #lindseymorgan #bobmorley #chelseareist #rhiannonfish #richardharmon #clarkegriffin #octaviablake  #ravenreyes #lexakomtrikru #commanderlexa #fearthewalkingdead #ftwd #clexafandom #lgbt #lgbtrights #loveislove #lexaisourhero #clexa #alyciadebnamcarey #aliciaclarke #clexavideo #clexavideoedit #clexaedit #LEXADESERVEDBETTER #RIPLEXA https://www.instagram.com/p/B0BqSyAoOpD/?igshid=15pmzylqhlefl

[pnutbutter72]

Singing songs of resistance, of freedom, of love, and resilience! Me and my Resister Sisters 🔥 Posted @withrepost • @wnyresistrevivalchorus Our resister sister, Ruth took some amazing photos at the Dyke+ March Saturday! #dykemarchbuffalo #beloudandproud #buffalopride #wewontgoback #loveislove #pridemonth2019 (at Elmwood Village) https://www.instagram.com/p/ByVIfiKHUej/?igshid=vbo9ta5j4lvt

[atasteoftim-blog]

A Failure of Society

Society dictates what games kids should play, and I never truly conformed. I always played with action figures and dolls, but I loved running and soccer too. I was somewhere between boys and girls on this gendered spectrum of games, playing games both enjoyed.

Society reinforces gender differences in that parent expectations are highly gendered. My parents were always telling me to be more like my brother; stop playing with “action figures” (which they called boy dolls), and wrestle with my brothers. My sister was allowed to do whatever she wanted, and I was always a little jealous that my sister could play with dolls.

Through my parents’ expectations, and many other decisions, my father attempted to teach me to be masculine, but I continued to have feminine mannerisms and tendencies, and I am gay male—although I have not confided this fact to him. My father, according to heteronormative standards, failed. 

I am so happy he did.