This Elliot Page quote has stuck with me all day - “He didn’t know, he says, ‘how to explain to people that even though [I was] an actor, just putting on a T-shirt cut for a woman would make me so unwell.’”
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Across the country there are so many bills attacking trans kids and the parents testifying against these bills all watched the transformation from depressed and withdrawn to happily thriving.
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Elliot’s use of the word “unwell” is interesting because I always felt the same thing in dresses, scoop necks, flowy blouses - I felt ill, or like a caged monkey in a top hat and shirt (and actually such an outfit isn’t not trans masc culture). Just a deep sense of wrongness.
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A lot of people want to know why trans people are trans and it just like... doesn’t matter.
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The moment I knew I could never not be trans was during thanksgiving break from college, when every she/her made me nauseous + upset with a side of tunnel vision. The dissonance between the euphoria I was feeling at college and the life I was living with my parents was awful.
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It just like absolutely doesn’t matter why we feel unwell as our AGAB or whatever - all that matters is how much more at peace we are when we can express ourselves in ways that feel authentic.
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Anyway I feel insufferable when I write these threads but it should also be noted that in that family photo where I’m wearing a blouse (even that word feels so gross) the photographer turned me to the side so all you can see is the suit and you can’t even see the shirt ;)
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Also trans masc people can be femmey!!!! I wear black nail polish sometimes!!!! But like dresses etc are not my truth
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