last night, somebody told me that attending Primal Pride 3 years ago is what got them to admit their truth to themself and start transitioning. they told me that they just finished their top surgery. i don't think anybody needs their egg cracked. i think they need to know they will be protected while they do it themself. i think they need to see what a bird in flight looks like.
my favorite colors backwards
- xe/xer, per/per, it/its, they/them
hi! my only other social media is tumblr so my gf says i'll fit in fine here. i'm in my 20s and live in the united states, if you want more info than that then you can read my posts cuz i'm not putting it here (put in some fucking effort to dox me lmao) <3
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in reply to @spookybiscuits's post:
A huge component of why it took me so long to realize i was trans, and then to actually start transitioning, was that I was deeply afraid of the unknown ; of all the ramifications of transition, how it might hurt me or all the opportunities it could close for me.
What finally allowed to start considering that i could actually be a thing that applied to me, while i had alwayd previously discarded it as an idle fantasy, was getting to personally know other trans people, and getting to see their own perspective on it. And seeing how close theirs aligned with mine.
"i think they need to see what a bird in flight looks like."
...that's a real fuckin banger right there.
I made a dumb transfic back before it was cool, and nobody said anything about it, and that was fine, I figured it was a Just For Me thing.
TEN PLUS FUCKING YEARS LATER...
I get a comment out of the blue from a rando. They say they not only READ my little fic back in the halcyon days of [WEBSITE], but that it inspired them to transition, and they had now found it on Ao3, ten plus years later, and it helped them get through a shitty recent period of their life. They said that they were much happier now and wished me, a random online stranger well.
And I got to feel like some sort of accidental wizard, who made a stupid fanfic that I thought nobody looked at, but apparently it helped like, set in motion this whole chain of things that really, Rando had done all by themself! Trans butterfly effect!
Who would've thought my stupid fanfic about superheroes banging would've been the catalyst for someone like that?
isn't it the wildest feeling? like, we were just minding our own business but that enabled someone out there to take their first step.
It really was one of those moments that made me realize my actions have consequences that matter in the world, sometimes really good ones!