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Maddie | 20s | she/they | autistic | transhet | white | hii | 🔞adults only please

[jphcrk-deactivated20251128]

[taros]

[elfyourmother]

a cosplay photo so old it was taken on actual film (which explains the streaks from my scanner) and the con we were at doesn’t even exist anymore. it was around 13 years ago actually now that I think about it.

[sabimaki]

i have been looking for this picture for YEARS and it’s finally back on my dash….wow

[jackscarab]

This photograph predates 9/11.

[garbagedisp0sal]

[only-cat-memes]

[stardial]

there’s just something about the word cock that makes me think of penis

[bbyhog]

STOP!!!!

[bbyhog]

this is acgually a symptom of ADHD

[mentalhealth]

how much of ur online presence is performative and how much is it u being u

[soil-boy]

baby every me is me, we are the mask and the wearer

[carnelianfoxx]

Piracy is a “victimless crime”? Idk i was kinda hoping there would be a victim. I want the mouse dead

[assasinationbycarscoveredinhamrs]

[kayla-denker]

Hey, you, cis girl that's very (correctly) vocal about women being allowed to talk about their periods, do you include trans women in that?

I ask because every single time I've tried to talk about it to anyone that isn't a trans woman they get fucking angry. Which has caused me to have to just suffer in silence every single month. So I really relate to cis women when they talk about literally the exact same thing; being shamed by everyone around them their whole lives for talking about their periods, so they just suffer in silence every month as it negatively impacts their work and social lives. But I don't even feel like I can voice that I am literally dealing with the same exact thing because most of y'all react like you want to throw me in front of a bus for saying it, even those of you who act like your such big great transfem allies.

[kayla-denker]

I guess I'll take this opportunity to talk about trans women periods. The first thing any tme person thinks when they hear this is always "how can trans women have periods? They don't have uteruses!"

The answer is: the uterus isn't what causes your period, it is effected by your period. What causes your period and what causes trans women's periods is the same thing: the endocrine system.

HRT changes the sex of your endocrine system. Feminizing HRT makes it a female endocrine system, giving us a 28-day hormone cycle just like cis women. At the end of that cycle, the hypothalamus floods the body with prostaglandins. Those are what cause all but one of the period symptoms, because they make muscles inflame and contract. They are what make the uterus shed its lining, they are what cause intestinal cramps, they are what cause body aches, they are what cause headaches and migraines. The only period symptom not causes by the release of prostaglandins throughout the body is depression, and that is caused by your endocrine system simply not processing as much estrogen and from simply feeling like shit.

So, the only symptoms trans women don't get every 28 days is menstrual cramps, because yes we do not menstruate since we don't have uteruses. But migraines, depression, body aches, intestinal cramps, and the infamous "period shits" don't exactly add up to us having any better of a time. Except we have to pretend that we're fine and nothing is different because no one believes that we get periods, not even cis women.

"But you can't call it a period then because that refers to MENSTRUATION!" is another one I hear all the time. This is incorrect. You use the word "period" instead of just "menstruation" because it doesn't just refer to menstruation. It refers to a period at the end of the hormone cycle where we experience a host of symptoms. And not all cis women experience all of the symptoms that encompass the period. Not all cis women get migraines, or body aches, or have severe depression. If a cis woman gets a hysterectomy she doesn't menstruate either! In that instance she experiences an identical period to what trans women experience. Yet, I doubt you'd insist that cis women who've had hysterectomies don't have periods.

[kayla-denker]

Oh, another thing that I personally discovered after bottom surgery: vaginal odor changes for trans women during our periods too. I was not expecting that because I always thought it was just from menstruation. But nope, the ph levels of a trans woman's vagina are the same of as a cis woman's vagina, and it changes during our periods just the same.

[strawberry-crocodile]

i am going to be honest, if you walk onto a post discussing transfem issues or transfem positivity and add a comment about how much you're supporting tgirls by sucking their tits, you are not being ally you are being a chaser.

[strawberry-crocodile]

and to be clear you can love tgirl tits! i am in support of sucking trans girl tits! but when you bring it up in the context of transmisogyny and trans liberation you are at best distracting from the point and being a bit sexually forward, and at worse you are reducing us to sexual objects and pretending this is a positive thing.

sometimes i really feel like tme people on this site do not understand that the fetishization of trans women is a huge crushing force that we all have to deal with. Our bodies are seen as sex objects, our transition is seen as sexually motivated. I know cis men do a lot of dick wagging abt how they wouldn't fuck us but the fact is for a sizeable portion of them we are a shameful fetish that they have to hide, that they hate themselves for, and guess who they take that out on.

i don't. entirely know what conclusion i want you to draw here. but i guess be aware that being attracted to trans women is in no way inherently radical, that treating us as sexual objects before anything else puts you in the same category of Alex Jones.

Yes we ARE beautiful and hot and sexy! And a lot of us are horny and slutty and having a good time with it! And maybe you really do enjoy a little girlcock! But you need to be able to separate that from trans womanhood as a whole. You need to be able to put that down when we're not flirting.

[la0scuridad]

[maidslime]

I need mentally ill trans girls out there to know they're loved, I need physically disabled trans girls out there to know they're loved. I know every day can feel like you're a burden and terrible, but you're loved and wanted, you are not a burden and even if you were we want to carry that burden.

[rosieandthemoon]

Finger Lakes Trail {via}

[morggo]

I love and admire coyotes; their ability to survive, adaptation, and tenacity has been nothing less than inspirational. They've always been here, and will still be here.

PWYW hi-res download here: https://ko-fi.com/s/aebfb2915d

Tees (50% of earning are split between Trans Lifeline and National Queer and Trans Therapists of Color Network): https://mxmorgan.threadless.com/designs/future

[calamity-corner]

you can tell trans women are women because we're not allowed to be sexual but also everything we do has sexuality imposed upon it

[calamity-corner]

you can tell trans women are women because we're not allowed to be angry

[advosart]

No getting up now

[segamascott]