The most freeing moment of my life was when I finally had the thought that no one was stopping me from transitioning but me.
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Replying to @e_urq
I literally stopped dead on the street with the thought "I could just say I was trans and transition. No one could stop me or say I wasn't."
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Replying to @e_urq
It was many months after that that I decided to go forward, but giving myself permission to just be trans if I was trans was a breakthrough.
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Replying to @e_urq
I think it's one that some people don't or can't have. For me, I'm immensely glad my fear of being laughed at wasn't so strong, in the end.
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Replying to @e_urq
Perhaps it's implied, but the greatest fear was of being an imperfect or unconvincing man. An effeminate man, a very short man.
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Replying to @e_urq
Coincidentally(?), these sorts of things are harped on by TERFs. But they can't hurt me now. I'm short & sometimes effeminate. AND IT'S OKAY
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Which Radical Feminists go on about height or effeminate appearence in trans men?
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Replying to @Finn_Mackay
There's one website in particular that posts pictures mocking small things like that- hip size, feminine appearance.
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But when I get into discussions with them it always comes up, that I'm simulating masculinity poorly and everyone is laughing at me.
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Replying to @e_urq @Finn_Mackay
Always a no-win situation, ofc. If I'm patient my soft inner womanness is showing, if I lose patience I'm aping hyper-masculinity poorly.
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It's dehumanising. & project of Feminism as I see it is to free everyone & allow to be human without gender conditions & conditioning.
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