People on tumblr are like "I'm handing all my mutuals a bowl of soup we are kissing with tongue we are the bestest of besties I am killing and dying for you" but sometimes me and the mutuals are posting completely different shit existing on the same blogging platform but really we're just standing in the alley going "ayup" at each other like fucking king of the hill.
My ideal societal treatment of transitioning is that its like, finding a new, better job and/or moving cities
It's a big, positive life event, but it happens to people all the time. It's often celebrated casually. It just happens sometimes, though. Maybe people at your old job change their relationship with you, and maybe you fortify your relationship with people elsewhere. You can mention where you used to work casually without it being a huge deal. You can joke about people quitting their jobs and becoming a goat farmer without it being a huge deal.
Like. I should be able to quip "have you tried estrogen?" to cis guys and have it laughed off with the same intensity as my jokes about "just quit and become a baker". I should be able to talk about my experiences as a guy like I talk about my experiences in my hometown that was kinda shitty. I might bond with other trans people more based on that shared experience but should still be welcomed into the gender I am, again, like you would treat someone who just isn't from around here and might need to settle in.
Its a big event, but I don't want it to be an unusual event. I should be able to say that Jim from high school is Joanne now with the same punch as saying she moved to LA.
I'm so fucking tired of every time I mention some random fact of my existence, it becomes a sociopolitical soapbox, one way or the other. Is my experience relevant to a lot of sociopolitical issues? Of course. Am I engaging with them? Of course. But it shouldn't be this huge thing. It should just happen sometime and people should be okay with it.
garfield caused a controversy a decade ago by publishing this on veterans day
decided to make a harrow model so i can make her do a little dance whenever reading htn puts me in emotional distress
i have now also made a gideon to retroactively deal with the emotional distress of gtn
