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Now, who would care to join me in a daring escape?
[id: Trent Crimm sits in cross-legged judgment in an office chair. He's wearing a rainbow suit, gay flag t-shirt, and PRIDE lanyard as he takes notes in a "The Gay Agenda" notebook.]

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TOP TEN DOCTOR WHO EPISODES AS VOTED BY OUR FOLLOWERS #3 → HEAVEN SENT (67 votes)

As you come into this world, something else is also born. You begin your life, and it begins a journey towards you. It moves slowly, but it never stops. Wherever you go, whatever path you take, it will follow - never faster, never slower, always coming. You will run; it will walk. You will rest; it will not. One day, you will linger in the same place too long; you will sit too still or sleep too deep. And when, too late, you rise to go, you will notice a second shadow next to yours. Your life will then be over. (insp)
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The worst thing you can do, as someone who has recently realised they are transfem, is to let terves and transphobes convince you cis women will never accept you.

I was told that when I came out everyone would reject me. That I would find myself isolated from the world, and from other women especially, who would react to me with horror and revulsion.

In reality, within the first months of coming out, in no particular order:

My sister's reaction on my coming out was, "Right, so I have a sister instead of a brother. Cool. I'm taking you clothes shopping tomorrow."

A friend, when she learned I am a woman, immediately invited me to her women-only, girls-night-out birthday party the following week.

Another friend, when a friend of hers expressed doubts about my gender, immediately shut them down and reaffirmed I am a woman.

I went camping with a group of friends, and we had two tents, one for the boys and one for the girls; I was unsure as to which I should enter, to which a girl friend responded by grabbing me and physically dragging me inside the women's tent.

In the women's bathroom at a movie theatre a random woman, whom I'd never seen before and haven't seen since, stopped me as I was going into a stall, to warn me there was no toilet paper in there, because she'd just used the last of it.

All of these, and more, some from friends, some from complete strangers. All within a few months, as a trans woman who hadn't started medical transition yet, and was very visible as being a trans woman.

I've had some people reject me, true, but the vast majority, including almost all cis women, accepted me as a sister with open arms.

Cis women are cool. It's terves who are bigots.

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Reupping this in case anyone else needs to see this today.

I recently went to a lesbian meetup of women I'd never met before, which I was anxious about because it provided no clarification on how they were defining "lesbian". It included two cis women in their sixties, one in her fifties, cis me, and a trans woman in her 30s who was visibly a bit anxious about her reception.

Nobody batted a fucking eye about it. We all accepted her. One woman in her 60s ranted about how stupid transphobia and bigotry were; another had a younger trans daughter herself and was both socializing and writing things down to take home and share with her.

(It was also, you know, one woman who'd identified as lesbian her whole adult life; one who'd been married to a man for decades but now identified as lesbian; and three of us who identified as bisexual. A bi woman was the event organizer. And that was also fine.)