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You don’t hear it a lot: but England is a terrifying place to live. And I know reading that single line will have some people snickering as if what I said isn’t true. Maybe we aren’t as bad as some places: that much is true. We don’t have gun crime, racism isn’t as much as heard of (though it definitely exists in a stupid amount). But that’s also because you lot don’t hear about it: you don’t hear it unless you’re in the country or from the country and keeping up with everything.

As a non-binary trans masc person, it’s terrifying to even step out of the house and I’m not even publicly out yet. The amount of trans and homophobia around England is insane and terrifying: it’s to the point where everyday I’m reading the news and another LGBTQ-related attack is somewhere on the front page. Another transgender person has been murdered in cold blood or another lesbian couple has been beaten up on the tube in London. As someone who has been constantly penalised and put down for trying to be who I am, as well as outted against my will, it’s scary to read these things everyday. It was heart breaking to watch GMB every morning and see Piers Morgan invalidating my gender through an argument with someone who was trying his best to defend me. It was cringe-worthy hearing the comments coming from my own “friend”‘s mouth when I tried to come out.

JKR was a perfect example of just the power of the hate in this country: her voice - and her supporters voices - were so loud that they got the government to backtrack on their plans to allow me to change my legal gender easier. Because it invalidated sexual assault survivors and their hardships. I was sexually assaulted when I was 8: and again when I was 11. Believe me when I tell you, letting a transgender woman use the fucking woman’s bathroom is NOT invalidating your assault. That sounds like a you problem, not theirs.

The government is actively enabling the persistent LGBTQ hate in this country. In the last four months there have been several online petitions which they have HAD to look at due to 100k+ signatures. Each time their only was response was “No, we support you, but no. Too much work.” If you refuse to recognise me as existing- to recognise that I am a law abiding person who deserves to be able to legally be me- then you are not supporting me.

The NHS has a wait time of anywhere from two years to ten years for gender clinic appointments: just to get put on hormone medication, you could be waiting up to 7 years for one appointment. Unless you go private that is. Not only is private extremely expensive, but the NHS practitioners have every right to DENY your referral / diagnosis because it wasn’t done by an NHS professional. So even if you do go private, there’s no guarantee. A lot of transgender people are resorting to illegally obtaining hormone drugs from dealers. We’re that desperate.

It’s gotten so bad that OTHER COUNTRIES are acknowledging that it’s unsafe to live here. Two years ago a British transgender women sook asylum in New Zealand based purely off of her gender identity and WAS SUCCESSFUL. Portugal also accepts asylum seekers based off of gender identity. That is how bad it is here. Transgender people are dying everyday. This is how bad it is.

There’s so much more I can rant about but it’s 7am and I haven’t slept. I’m tired. But I just spent three hours crying over this shirt and how not only me but hundreds of thousands of other Transgender people in England have it bad; and there’s no one here to help us.

boosting the fuck out of this tbh

fuckyoukatherineheigl:

laslloronas:

laslloronas:

Its butch appreciation day appreciate ur local butch <3

I wasnt kidding btw

diabeticlesbian:

From Susan Matasovska’s “What Lesbians Do…” series: “What Lesbians Do In Bed” as featured in “The Crazy Jig: Gay and Lesbian Writing from Scotland 2” 🌹🏳️‍🌈

mypunkpansexualtwin:

ckret2:

gayzawa:

being nonbinary and a fan of non-human creatures isn’t easy. like i’m constantly struggling with the fact that i’m both like “i wish there was more enby representation in humans” and “i’m the same gender as mewtwo and that fucking rips”

the tension between “representing NBs only as nonhuman characters is dehumanizing and othering” and “but monsters, aliens, and robots are so much cooler than humans”

disasterbipippin:

duskodair:

im queer as in gay, yes, but also queer as in really very peculiar

fannish-snailien:

atari-i:

@hux-aireaire cecil this has you vibes XD

kirksfattitties:

kirksfattitties:

i mean to me the appeal of amok time, as a queer man, is:

• the fact that we see spock struggle with and agonize over a very normal and natural experience
• and we see how much he despairs over having to tell someone
• how he puts dying in agony on the same level as having to go back to his home world and get married to a woman
• thinking he ruined his relationship with the first person he was honest with by having to fight him
• and then grabbing and holding and smiling when he finds out this man is alive

in a way that very clearly parallels my own and other queer mens experiences in overcoming internalized homophobia and coming to acceptance with who we are (obviously with some cool dramatic scifi bonuses)

not to mention that spocks pon farr was resolved without having to mate in the conventional sense, implying that the fight was enough, the mating was fulfilled in an unconventional way, and/or spocks emotions for kirk dying brought him out of pon farr

and then on the flip side seeing from kirks perspective:

• being a man who is very clearly confident in himself and who he is as a person struggling to help his closest friend
• trying to get this friend to trust you so you can help them but without pushing them so hard that they push you away
• being quite literally willing to die for this friend to be okay
• and both of them at the end finding comfort in each other and the knowledge that are are both alive and well and (even if not showing it) happy

in a way that very clearly parallels my relationship with other queer men who i see working out their own internalized homophobia and trying to help them, even if it means having to experience that homophobia again. and then the solidarity between queer men after we have worked through our issues and finding comfort and love in each other

clearly amok time wasn’t made to represent this exact struggle, but many queer men i know deeply relate to that and to spock in general, especially when masculinity revolves around being tough and unfeeling and when the concept of manhood revolves around attraction to women.

and also, of course, the tits