#trans lgbt

[fortunatefires]

i forgot to post my trans rights readathon list!

I'll post another of all the books I finish when the week is up

[certified-asshole]

*morphs out of Optimus Prime*

Sup bro, I’m trans-- and I came out of a transformer

[rycroscopic]

Is it possible to make friends on here?

[nonrequiredreading2018-blog]

So, PSA: Against Me!’s “Unconditional Love” has a B-side, “500 Years”, and as I’m going through a friend break-up that’s partly tied to my trans-ness, it’s really helped to listen to them together. So, PSA: Against Me!’s “Unconditional Love” has a B-side, “500 Years”, and as I’m going through a friend break-up that’s partly tied to my transness, it’s really helped to listen to them together. “Unconditional Love”, for me, is about contorting yourself to what someone else expects from you (“my sycophant love song”), even when it’s destructive to you (“You make me want to smoke cigarettes”). You’re aware this is messed-up: the line “even if your love was unconditional” acknowledges that the other person’s love is conditional. But you’re not sure you deserve more or are capable of better (“What makes you think you’re going to die any different?” and, of course, “It still wouldn’t be enough to save me”). It’s a song about the problems with expecting to find your salvation in another person. It’s also a song about the dangers of being someone you aren’t.  On the flip-side (yes literally), “500 Years” also laments giving up parts of yourself to satisfy someone else, but it’s about coming alive again, too. The song opens with the singer waking up and noting “my lungs were filled with sulphur.” She’s just come out of hell, and the Devil’s still after them: “his black eyes were watching on me.” (I love the phrasing of that: “watching on me.”) And the phrasing “I was a ghost for you…I was lost for you.” You can be a ghost to someone or lost to/from someone: like, the person perceives you as a ghost or doesn’t know where you are. But “for” implies that you became a ghost and you became lost as a favor for someone else. And now the singer’s just waking up, after five hundred years of doing that, after five hundred years of putting herself through hell for someone else.  And now, she’s got to rebuild herself. She’s got no memory left of who she was, and her corpse has been rotting this whole time. She ends with “Sometimes, it feels like I have always been here / Sometimes it feels like I will never leave.” Which is sad and scary: she’s buried herself so deep that coming back is going to be a struggle. Maybe it’s not even a matter of coming back or remaking yourself so much as coming out and making yourself for the first time, because you were never allowed to fully exist before. But it’s also hopeful: she only feels this way sometimes; she was a ghost for five hundred years, but the rest of the millennium is her own to live out.  

[lgbtqi-support-equality]

PSA

The term 'Intergender' is for use by Intersex people ONLY.

[inteligenciahomosexual]

conoce al primer hombre trans del ejercito militar de USA

[inteligenciahomosexual]

Transgender People Are at the Center of a Brutal Crackdown on LGBT Egyptians -- News |-- Cairo, Egypt, News, Travel, Travel: Egypt

Personas transgénero están en el centroLa represión Brutal sobre gente LGBT en Egipto

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