alanaisalive:

alanaisalive:

(this thread)

Had a bit of a rant this morning. Gender is a construct and biology is a joke. Trans lives matter.

Okay so I’ve had some confused illiterates in the replies saying, “If you’re male presenting why are you trying to use the women’s bathroom?”

I’M NOT FUCKING MALE PRESENTING. I AM ME-PRESENTING. I already told you I identify as female. T-shirts and jeans are not gendered clothing. My receding hairline is not a choice I made. It is a thing that happened to my assigned-female-at-birth body. Same with my low voice and my facial hair (I shave my face and I’ve had laser treatments, but I have translucent pale skin and nearly-black hair, so there is no way to cover it completely).

My point is that I DID NOT CHOOSE to be percieved as male. I buy my clothes in the women’s section. I don’t like being called “sir.” Ask me my pronouns and I’ll tell you that I prefer she/her. (Tbh I usually do wear dresses when I go out just to stop being misgendered, but that doesn’t stop transphobic people from assuming that I am trans and abusing me accordingly.)

I am too disabled to have the energy for all the makeup and hairstyling and bullshit involved with being “percieved” female. I’m too autistic to give a fuck and my personal style is on the butch side. (And yes, I’ve done all the soul searching and trying to decide if I’m really a trans male, and I’m definitely not. Non-binary, maybe. But mostly female.)

This is the thing: being percieved as female is a big fucking hassle of a performance that not every female has the time or inclination for, and that doesn’t make us less female.

Masculinity is just a failure to do this whole makeup and hair and shaving song and dance. Male is seen as the “default” gender because a human being left in it’s own natural state in our society gets shoved into the “masculine” box. Being gender neutral is seen as masculine.

My point at the end of the day is that all people should be able to have their gender respected, whether it was chosen or assigned. If someone tells you that they are female or that they are male, the questioning stops there. You don’t get to tell me I’m presenting as too male to be female. You don’t get to tell anyone that.

the-damnedest-creature:

vesicapiscisfatuous:

ellieintheskywithroxy:

i-want-my-iwtv:

viedzma:

sharpestrose:

It’s too late to kinkshame Lestat probably

i’m kinkshaming him anyway

Anne Rice is going to sue everyone on this post

By Ouija board?

…The witch is dead everyone, time to get kinkshamin’,,,,,,,