I was thinking on making it my Facebook pfp but yeah, that’s not gonna end well if someone irl finds my profile.

Smiling is completely overrated anyway

I woke up this morning feeling very dysphoric after getting misgendered over the past few days. It is especially rough when you put effort in to try and pass (hours on hair, makeup, nails, outfits, etc.) and just get continually misgendered by folks close to you. Despite feeling like garbage this morning I got out and went on a hike which helped me reflect and reminded me of how far I've come over the past year. It also gave me the motivation to come home and practice makeup and find some joy in that as a small but affirming step. Being Trans is really hard some days, but at least I'm finally discovering my authentic self and sharing that with the world and that's worth the hard days. ❤️

If not it's okay I just don't want to cause any trouble.

Corsets are my new favourite thing!

"He came. They saw. She conquered"

I think it's the most beautiful thing when we can celebrate and embrace our individual journeys as a community ❤️

I’m lucky that my parents have both been incredibly supportive of my transition, but I had a really cool talk with my dad (a 64 year old cis het guy) over Thanksgiving about gender affirming surgeries.

He works for the VA hospital system (Veterans Affairs, the health system for veterans in the USA). Apparently for the last two years he’s been on a committee working through the logistics of providing gender confirmation surgeries in-house at their hospitals. They do everything else like hormones, mental health resources, and giving people the right referrals to get surgeries done elsewhere, but they don’t offer them at VA hospitals.

So we had a long talk about it. My dad knows so much, more than I do actually, about gender affirming surgeries. We talked about vulvoplasty, vaginoplasties of various depths, orchiectomies, phalloplasty, metoidioplasty, and top surgeries. They’re also working to adopt terminology for them that avoid terms like “feminizing” in favor of more neutral language that doesn’t necessarily assign a masculine or feminine trait to different characteristics.

Idk it was just really cool to realize how much he knew. Also my mom helped trans people access hormones in the 80s during her psychology internship. Grateful for both of my parents, especially for showing me that being in your 60s, cis, and het does not mean you can’t be a strong supporter of trans people 💖💖💖