patrexes:

patrexes:

happy valentines day the born this way narrative is simplistic and simply does not encompass the full range of the lived experiences of members of the queer community, from self-discovery to shifting identities to those formed by and/or in response to trauma. people are complicated. i love you

happy valentines day theres no wrong way to be queer, your experiences and feelings are your own and whether you feel like you were born queer or chose it or anything else you are no lesser for it. i love you

galpalison:

when a terf calls me a heterosexual male i’m like, where’s the consistency? bc by their definition i’d be bisexual not straight. and if gender dysphoria is either a a priori mental illness or a maladaptive effect of our homophobic culture (which are two of the most common explanations that aren’t all-out frothing-at-the-mouth Transsexual Empire conspiracy theory) shouldn’t they be treating me with some degree of sympathy instead of absolute pitiless abjection? especially when i was like 16 or 17? i mean it’s not like their ideology is just founded in reflexive disgust and reification of heteropatriarchal sexual divisions or some nonsense like that, it’s clearly informed by careful, rational, radical feminist analysis of the material relationships within our society. so i’m just confused as to why they’d make such a silly mistake? it’s weird