Anonymous asked:

Please stop using the term testosterone poisoning. I am a cis male, and to me this term is basically saying that I am poisoned, like there is something wrong with me. Using the term testosterone poisoning is just as bad as me insulting someone for being trans.

No, no it’s not. You are arguing semantics. Poisoning doesn’t mean it’s always poisonous. Water can poison you if you drink too much of it. And in my body, I’ll say it again, testosterone has poisoned parts of me. It might not have in you but it was supposed to be there with you. It wasn’t supposed to be there for me. So for me it was poisonous.

megastfusocialjustice2 asked:

if someone identifies as a woman there a woman thats there gender if someone is born with two xx chromosomes there sex is a woman if you identify as a man your gender is a man if you have an x and a y then your sex is a man. no matter how much you wanna pretend thats not true it doesn't make it false

Oh, I love teaching about this!

No, see, your body is constantly regrowing, and when trans women go on hormones, all of their secondary sexual characteristics start changing. Breasts begin to develop, muscles develop along feminine lines, etc. With surgery, your physical sex can change as well.

There are people born with xx chromosomes who are male. There are people who are born with xy chromosomes who are female. Genetics isn’t the clean cookie cutter that it’s made out to be on TV shows - it’s actually this fascinatingly complex codex for your body, and there are estimates that approximately 10% of the population is actually genetically a chimera (genetically mixed, also known as a mosaicism) because of a multitude of things a womb does naturally to produce a baby.

It’s important to remember that, biologically speaking, sex presents itself on a spectrum. Men even have more manly and less manly, more testosterone and less testosterone, women have more estrogen and less estrogen. Some women have to take the same hormones I take and they are xx females.

So remember, this idea you have of male and female bodies is really antiquated and needs to be examined. Bathrooms should be based on gender, not sex, because it’s about the groups you feel comfortable around, and that has nothing to do with the physical sex of the people you are around.

Anonymous asked:

I'm a cis person and a trans kid just came to my school about three months ago and I didn't know anything about being trans or anything of the sort and I came upon this blog while researching and I've actually learned a lot from this blog so it's actually really useful to cis people.

Anonymous asked:

How do I explain to my parents that I want different pronouns and a different name? I'm genderfluid but they still treat me as 100% female. I briefly mentioned thinnking about different pronouns and my mom seemed really upset. What can I do to get my point across without that happening again?

I have an answer for you, but you aren’t going to like it:

There’s no way to do this but to do it. It’s like taking a band-aid off. There is no easy way of removing a band aid. You just have to rip it off and do it quickly. And there’s no way to tell your mom in a way she’s guaranteed to understand, but I can help you shoot down some common arguments. The following are all quotes you could say to your parents. They could be modified easily to work in the other direction.

"God made you a girl."

God made me a person and the Doctors decided, based on my body, that I was a girl. But your body is sometimes an obstacle that you have to get over, that God puts in your path so you can get stronger. See any other medical condition on the planet.

"You haven’t brought this up before."

I’ve been forming this thought in my own mind for a while but it’s only been clear to me for X years/months. I fought it at first because I didn’t want it to be true but it’s killing me inside and it’s the truth.

"Why would you want to get rid of your beautiful body?"

I’m not getting rid of it. There are just a few adjustments I’d like to make to accurately portray my gender.

"But it isn’t natural!"

Gender is an invention we placed on ourselves. Traditional gender roles are commonly changed or challenged in a variety of different species. It’s not always the same kind of relationships, animals often express themselves in ways that differ from the rest of their biological sex. Not to mention that intersex people are a thing, and their very existence throws the whole concept of traditional gender’s supposed base in biology into question.

"You’ll never be accepted as a boy/you won’t be able to go as far as a trans boy as you will as a cis girl."

Well, too bad. I am a trans boy. And regardless, you’re forgetting about the amazing advances that trans people have gone through in recent years. Trans men are all over the place, and I honestly think once I transition it’ll be a lot easier for me to accomplish ANYTHING because I won’t have this massive weight on my shoulders.

I hope that helps!

megastfusocialjustice2 asked:

well its called dear cis people so if its not regular peoples problem they wont see it and this is useless

Well I’ll take your marketing advice under advisement but I disagree, and so do six thousand followers.

When you say “Dear Cis People”, the people whose ears prick up are:

  • People who know what Cis means, so people who have studied gender and sexuality (and as such aren’t stupid enough to think trans folks aren’t shit on regularly)  and
  • The occasional Cis person, who either learns from this page or, rarely, sends in an obnoxious message about how we aren’t marketing ourselves correctly because the ‘name is bad.’

Seriously, you have better things to be doing with your time then losing an argument with a trans woman over why her project is named the way it is. Trans folks are regularly the bottom of the totem pole, you could just as easily be spending your time trying to actually help trans folks.

megastfusocialjustice2 asked:

so what you said brings me to the point that we should make the world a safer place for transgender people so that outing yourself by using the bathroom according to your biological sex wouldn't be dangerous, i think we should help transgender people but were going in the wrong direction with it

You shouldn’t have to out yourself when you use the bathroom, regardless of how safe it is, because it’s disrespectful. It’s nobody’s business that you’re trans.