#non op

[royharperstits]

Roy in a bikini AGAIN lols

(Repost I added sum things 😙)

[unreal]

this post is intended to uplift pre or non-op trans & gnc folk, not to pass invalidating judgement on individuals who access gender affirming healthcare -- please do not derail.

[atmospheral]

watched over the garden wall for the first time this weekend w some friends and here's some misc thoughts:

i genuinely think the show would have been stronger if greg had for real died and wirt was the only one who survived despite his attempt to save him

nice music, the beast is out there and the old north wind reminds me of hadestown

it's a show that has good rewatch value

[lovertboy]

Where's the love for fat non op tboys. Show of hands. Can I get an amen. Etc. Thank you.

[sulkybender-retired04042026]

just a reminder/PSA about the term “pre-op”:

I’ve seen this used widely in a well-meaning but reflexive way on ao3 to describe characters who have not have top or bottom surgery. I know I’ve used it myself before, for lack of an alternative.

but “pre-op” assumes there needs to be an “op.”

if the character is actually planning to get surgery, that’s great! but if you’re talking about a trans man with breasts who lives his life that way happily, he’s not “pre” anything. he’s exactly where he wants to be and comfortable that way.

and you can have exactly zero surgeries and no hormone therapy and still be trans or non-binary.

I haven’t seen a good shorthand for this so I’m going to start using “non-op” in tags and chapter notes. thought I would mention it in case it helps other writers who have also felt at a loss for a term.

[x-chqrmolypi-x]

new spiderman movie a day after my birthday WERE SOO BACCCKKKKK

[tongueeatingparasite]

I'm fucking terrified that if I don't pass I'll still be a disgusting evil male just pretending to be good enough. I need to be good enough. But if I look in the mirror and see anything even a little bit male then I don't know what I'll do. I want to be good enough, I need to be good enough.

I don't know much about HRT, but if I still look disgusting and evil and male then what's the point? The nice woman I'm talking to says it might take up to 10 years to look perfect but I don't think I'll be alive by then.

I don't know much about surgical options to make me look human. I know hair removal exists but I need to be good enough and there aren't any real options for biological morality. I need to be perfect like every woman is and I need to be good enough for myself too.

I don't care about bottom surgery that much because the current options aren't real and I hate my maleness too much to look down there and I doubt anyone will ever see how much of a failure I am. And it's really complicated for me and I hate it I hate it but none of the options are good enough.

I don't care what other people think of me (I very much care what they think of me but about this it's just what I want for myself) because even if they all think I'm a person instead of a male, if I have ever existed as a male then I fundamentally lack all value and will never be worth anything. If I can't get my memories taken away then I don't think I'll ever be happy. If I can't lie to myself that I was always a woman and I don't notice anything evil in the mirror then what's the point??? I only want to be good enough.

[sprklgender]

Some trans people will never get surgery or hormones. Whether it's because they can't or don't want to. Some people's identities are too complicated to be fixed with medical transition and for some, their body doesn't impact their gender enough to change it. I think everyone needs that reminder. Because some of us aren't going to ever pass, and that isn't a moral failing. You have a right to your identity no matter how you express it on the outside. Everyone's body is already different. I just think some people need that reminder.