euryale-dreams:

naiadish:

I know I’m like the bazillionth person to say this but… this site has truly been instrumental in my transition process. And that’s largely because it was one of the first and only places where 1) I was able to find and follow real people in my generation / peer group who were trans, and 2) experience content normalizing trans bodies that wasn’t filtered through the lens of fetishistic porn. This is one of the main places where I actually learned what trans femme bodies actually look like for everyday people like me. This is one of the main places I learned that this body I live in now, this body I love, was even possible. 

And of all the things that sting with the “adult content” ban, that’s a particularly ironic one – that so much of the value I got from this site was a place that normalized our bodies outside of porn entirely, and with stuff that you would call porn, still making space for earnest and ethical expression controlled by people in our community. 

And so reading that statement from the CEO about making it a safe place for “our communities” is just particularly rough. Because y’all just torched the space for mine. 

On the plus side, it’s kind of affirming to be roped in to the “female-presenting nipple” ban. 

Gotta love the appropriation of trans woman-inclusive language to pinkwash their torching of our community, eh?