27, US expat in Toronto, transmasc, chronically ill/immunocompromized, neurodivergent, arospec, nonmonogamous. i guess i'm a furry now? that's a recent development though. i'm not a programmer but i am a computer nerd and a linux user (apparently that's a thing people like to list here).
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art page: calico-art
can't wait for people to increasingly narrow what they say what counts as normative womanhood to try to keep trans women out, with the side effect of also disqualifying more and more cis women from their weird ideal
hey sorry we measured your adams apple with calipers and you don't count as a girl any more. it was just 1 mm over the threshold too. so sad
don't let the terfs get you twisted, there have always been cis queers who have had our backs
Sometimes I feel ridiculous for still having anxiety about homophobia at this point in my life, but then I remember that I didn't get to learn what homosexuality was until 13 years old when I realized I'm queer, then from 14-16 years old I was living in a town where you could lose your job or get run out of town for being queer, then at 18 I left the US, and then a year later the US made gay marriage legal across the board, after I had already left - so basically I had pretty shitty gay formative years. Like, I'm an adult approaching my 30's but also I've only been living knowing I'm queer for 13ish years, and I spent the first 6 feeling like a second class citizen and a couple of those years living in actual fear.
On top if the legal rights in the diagram, there have been massive cultural shifts, and to complicate that further, depending where in the US you were living at each point in time your experience varied hugely. And I wouldn't even know where to begin explaining this all to "keep it behind closed doors" straights. Sometimes it's simpler to just shove it in their faces and let them deal with it.
