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Pro-tip to young trans guys:

If a stranger misgenders you, please please please do not ever utter the phrase, โ€œIโ€™m a man.โ€ It sounds very unnatural and immediately sounds overly defensive.

My advice? Just look at the person like theyโ€™re an idiot and, in the deepest voice possible, say, โ€œUh. Alright, then.โ€

Just act as though they made a huge and obvious mistake, and donโ€™t get flustered. If youโ€™re comfortable with it, handle the situation with humor and say something like, โ€œMan, I know Iโ€™ve got a babyface, but I didnโ€™t think it was that bad.โ€

People are saying that you should be unapologetic but the keyword here is โ€œstrangerโ€. You could be in danger if the person is transphobic, and you have no way of knowing their stance if you donโ€™t know the person. So writing it off casually ensures the most low risk way of making your gender known.

Posting this again because of the new information added on.

Whats up with Hei Hei in some of the Moana promo art and posters? Like

And likeย 

And even????ย 

Heโ€™s so angry and ready to Throw Downย 

But then in actuality heโ€™s justย 

Disney explain

I went to the โ€œBehind the Scenesโ€ panel for Moana at CTN expo this year and the explanation is as follows:

In development, HeiHei used to be a character meant to be Moanaโ€™s watchdog. He stands to the side making sure she stays out of trouble (and away from the sea) and judges her (sort of like Flint the hummingbird from Pocahontas) but the directors were worried that it made him too unlikeable. John Lasseter gave the crew about 48 hours to think of a way to figure out how to save his character or else heโ€™d be cut from the film. So instead HeiHeiโ€™s IQ was lowered waaaay down, making him more lovable and funny. During a story pitch in which Moana had to retrieve the Heart of Te Fiti from the Kakamora, she originally only retrieved the stone. The artists reboarded it exactly the same except HeiHei swallowed it and the Kakamora was lugging around a chicken instead and it instantly made everything more hilarious. To which Lasseter exclaimed at that moment:ย โ€œTHE CHICKEN LIVES!โ€ an inside joke that was kept at the end of the film when the ocean spat HeiHei onto the shore and Maui remarksย โ€œthe chicken lives!โ€ ย 

best thing about this movie was the perfectly marketed/polished commercial animal side kick just waiting to be the new olaf and then its in the movie for like 3 mins tops and instead a chicken that eats rocks gets to be the disney animal companionโ„ข

IT GETS BETTER.

Once they rewrote the character they were in a panic. Who could voice such a role?

None other than Alan Tudyk, known as โ€œWalt Disney Studiosโ€™ lucky charmโ€ due to his roles as Duke in Frozen, King Candy in Wreck-It Ralph and KTSO in Rogue One,ย who made the front freaking pageย of the Wall Street Journal due to his performance.

Tudyk says:ย โ€œThe character youโ€™re playing, even though heโ€™s a rooster and is really stupid, you approach it in the same way you would approach Hamlet, which is exactly how I approached it. But they give you the circumstances. โ€œYouโ€™re on the boat. You didnโ€™t expect to be here. You just climbed in a boat to maybe sleep. You donโ€™t even know why you climbed in the boat. Youโ€™re really that dumb. Every three minutes is a new world to you, so you see that youโ€™re trapped on this boat, and you freak out. Go.โ€ย 

Note: Tudyk went to Julliard.

Also: Alan Tudyk is the only non-Pasifika/Maori person in the voice cast. He plays the chicken.

That was seriously one of the best twists in Disney history IMO. Going into it youโ€™re expecting the pig to be the sidekick, you hear the banging on the boat and immediately think โ€œoh obviously itโ€™s the pigโ€ but then the fucking chicken pops out! The dumb as dirt chicken! What. A. Fucking. Twist!

๐ŸŽ‰ Itโ€™s transphobic to say that trans women canโ€™t be lesbians!! ๐ŸŽ‰

๐Ÿ–ค ๐Ÿ–คItโ€™s lesbophobic to say they can be!! ๐Ÿ–ค๐Ÿ–ค

๐ŸŒธ๐ŸŒธ๐ŸŒธno itโ€™s not!!๐ŸŒธ๐ŸŒธ๐ŸŒธ ๐ŸŒบ๐ŸŒบ๐ŸŒบtrans women are women!!๐ŸŒบ๐ŸŒบ๐ŸŒบ ๐ŸŒผ๐ŸŒผ๐ŸŒผwomen can be lesbians!!๐ŸŒผ๐ŸŒผ๐ŸŒผ ๐Ÿ’๐Ÿ’๐Ÿ’I should know, I am a lesbian!!๐Ÿ’๐Ÿ’๐Ÿ’ ๐ŸŒน๐ŸŒน๐ŸŒนstop reducing people to their genitalia!!๐ŸŒน๐ŸŒน๐ŸŒน

reblog this post to administer a swift but devastating kick to raddishcowgirlโ€™s teeth

*reblog to show trans lesbians you care

trans lesbians are valid beautiful women and I love them.ย 

That was so embarrassing Iโ€™m never speaking again

I dont even know what youโ€™re talking about but im reblogging

A waitress said โ€œenjoy your mealโ€ and I replied โ€œlove you tooโ€