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i love you trans women with big noses, i love you trans women with hooked noses, i love you trans women with wide/flat/broad noses, you are so unbelievably loved!!!!
your natural features are NOT "manly" or "masculine" or "ugly" or whatever the hell else society says!!!!
this goes double for Black, Indigenous, Arab, and South Asian trans women and other trans women of color btw <3
[do not derail. make your own post if you feel inspired]
If your trans activism stops at binary trans people, you're not a trans ally.
If your trans activism stops at trans women, you're not a trans ally.
If your trans activism stops at trans men, you're not a trans ally.
If your trans activism stops at gender conforming people, you're not a trans ally.
If your trans activism stops at perisex people, you're not a trans ally.
If your trans activism stops at monogender people, you're not a trans ally.
If your trans activism stops at people who label themselves at all, or at people who label themselves in the way that makes sense, and is not "contradictory", to you, you're not a trans ally.
If your trans activism stops at white people, you're not a trans ally.
If your trans activism stops at abled and neurotypical people, you're not a trans ally.
If your trans activism stops at thin people, you're not a trans ally.
If your trans activism stops at singlets, you're not a trans ally.
If your trans activism stops at people you find sexually attractive/are available to you, you're not a trans ally.
If your trans activism stops at people who express their gender based on your expectations/norms, who behave, present, talk or act the way you expect them to based on their gender, you're not a trans ally.
And gentle reminder that you need to put in active effort to be a trans ally even if you are trans yourself. There are a lot of people, similar and different to you, going through different and similar things, and you need to act as an ally to anyone that is not you.
Edited to add the last couple points!
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Adding a disclaimer since this post isnt worded in the clearest way. The way it's meant to be interpreted is: "If your trans activism stops at x, you're not a trans ally." Meaning that if your trans activism only goes as far as a certain identity (perisex, binary, white) and doesn't include identities outside of it (intersex, non binary, poc) then you cant consider yourself a trans ally because your allyship comes with the requirement of others being a certain identity and thus excludes part of the community.
And yes. Your trans activism shouldnt stop, period. However everyone disagrees on which identities are covered in that, that's why I made this post pointing out different identities perceived as "normal" vs the ones beyond them, which end up excluded or not considered, like the perspective of multigender people or plural people and systems.
Gotta say, I am getting increasingly frustrated at the lack space for trans folks who do not fit into the transmasuline v transfeminine dictotomy that's been created. Not every trans person is transfeminine or transmasculine and forcing all trans people to align their experiences with one or the other (to the point of forcibly assigning trans strangers to these categories) is extremely regressive!
This is Sam Nordquist. He was a transgender man who was lured to my hometown back in September by his Internet girlfriend. She and four other individuals then proceeded to torture and kill him, leaving his body in a field. I'm absolutely gutted. The misunderstanding for the trans community that leads to this sort of hatred is something that I just will never understand. I'm so sorry, Sam. You deserved so much more than this.
If you are able, please donate and share the GoFundMe set up by his sister. She and Sam's mom have made it to New York, but now they will have to go through the horrible process of arranging his funeral and transporting his body back home.
https://gofund.me/b11a9148
Happy trans day if visibility! This is a very special announcement to recognize the intersex trans people out there! Give a hug and also $100000 to your local intersex trans person today!!
