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[tweet from Comrade Sisko @Pinko69420 with a photo of a sign posted on a street next to a nature print covered box. The sign says "A world without trans people has never existed and never will"]
Anonymous asked:
My three year old knows about trans and now wants surgery to become it!
spacelazarwolf answered:
listen i know tumblr is the Lie On The Internet For Attention website but this is just sad
It's obvious that anon is clueless and making shit up, but what gets me about things like this is that it's not hard to have a conversation with a child if they do feel this way. "At your age, there are no surgeries. But if you want, you can pick out clothes that feel nice, you can use pronouns that feel right, and you can even pick a different name for us to call you. When you're older, if you still feel like it's the right choice, we'll talk about it then."
I have a kid who lived as a girl for a while because he thought he was trans. It was for like a year. I spoke about the ignorant reaction from the education system at a government committee, but that was the only downside. Nothing bad happened. He wore dresses, grew his hair out, took the name I would have given him if he was born a girl, and then said "I think I'm a boy after all" and we changed it all back. He wasn't hurt by it. And if he really was trans, this would have made him feel confident and safe and loved.
Now, years later, his sister and he openly talk to me about everything. Just a few weeks ago they happily opened up to me about if they like girls or boys or both, and I didn't have that with my parents as a queer kid.
Transphobes are scared of made up problems. Just nothing.
this is so fucking funny like all the little girls in madeline wanted their appendixes removed after madeline had hers removed, and that book was written in 1939. "kids wanting surgery they don't understand" isn't a new problem, or even really a "problem" at all. every adult on the planet just responds "no you can't have surgery but if u want a neat scar we can maybe draw that on with makeup, and if you want to be trans we can get you different clothes for a bit"
yall will talk about regular common medical conversations but put the word ~trans~ in front of it and suddenly its a big scary idea.
my nails are so long I keep chipping them HELP
hey anon I have feelings for you
[ID: two anon asks. The first (and more recent) one says,
just realized you probably meant fingernails. please ignore my last ask. :facepalm:
and the second (and older) one says,
nails are generally less brittle than screws, but some of the cheaper ones - & grip rite is NOTORIOUS for this - are made of substandard materials & tend to bend or break easily. sometimes that's not an issue, like if you're building something small maybe you don't want to bother with the pricier nails, but if you're having this many problems already i'd say they're
/end ID]
good. you do not deserve to have bird imagery
Tumblr has the opportunity to do the funniest fucking thing with their next mobile icon update
[ID: three news articles about Twitter changing name and logo to X. / ID end]
The EU is doing a big survey for LGBTQ people who live in the EU about how it is for them right now. That's the kind of survey that's used for official reports and for laws so it's super important that it has as many people taking it as possible. You can take it in every EU language. (You can change the language in the top right corner) Share it with your friends!
https://www.lgbtiqsurvey.eu/lgbtiq
Done 👌🏻
Go and do it, people! This is so so so important!!
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yesterday I went to a little meeting at my local queer community center and I was admiring their bookshelves and mentioned that I work at the public library and someone said "well I bet they don't have any [LGBTQ+ books] at our library" and I was like um. yes we do. we have tons of them. half of our employees are queer leftists so they said "oh well I bet they don't in [nearby rural county]" and I was like uh once again yes they absolutely do. gay people live and work there as well
so here's a quick reminder that if you don't think your local library has enough queer centered materials you should actually check before assuming, and if you're not satisfied with their collection you should submit a request for more such books. I don't know what the political landscape of libraries looks like outside the us rn, but within the us no matter where you are, I promise you there are employees at your library fighting for inclusion and intellectual freedom and they can't win without vocal public support
