Life In Perspective

Sep. 13, 2012 at 3:11am with 71 notes

Reblogged from spenacethemenace

boazpriestly:

I AM SICK OF THIS FUCKING TREND OF PEOPLE CALLING OTHERS OUT AND TELLING THEM THEY AREN’T TRANS BECAUSE THEY ACT A CERTAIN WAY OR DRESS A CERTAIN WAY.

IT IS NOT YOUR GOD GIVEN RIGHT TO TELL THEM HOW THEY CAN OR CAN’T ACT!

YOU DO NOT KNOW WHAT IS GOING ON IN SOMEONE’S HEAD EVEN IF THEY DO POST PICTURES OF THEMSELVES WEARING DRESSES AND CLAIMING TO LOVE THEIR BODIES COMPLETELY. THEY COULD BE PUTTING ON FRONT BY PRESENTING AS THEIR ASSIGNED GENDER TO TRY AND PRETEND THAT THEY AREN’T HURTING INSIDE. THEY COULD BE TRYING TO MAKE PEACE WITH THEIR GIVEN BODIES BECAUSE THEY CANNOT MEDICALLY TRANSITION, AND THEY CAN PASS AS FEMALE (OR MALE IF THEY ARE MTF) AND FOR THEIR SITUATION IT’S BETTER TO BE WHO THEY WERE THAN TO FIGHT TO BE SOMEONE NEW AND LOSE ALMOST EVERYTHING BECAUSE OF IT.

YOU DO NOT KNOW THEIR LIVES OFF OF TUMBLR.YOU DO NOT KNOW WHAT THEY ARE GOING THROUGH.

THEY, MORE OFTEN THAN NOT, ARE PROBABLY COMING HERE TO FIGURE THEMSELVES OUT AND LOOK INTO THE OPTIONS THEY MIGHT HAVE TO ACTUALLY TRANSITION. THEY ARE COMING HERE TO GET AWAY FROM THE SHIT THEY GET FROM PEOPLE THEY SEE ON A DAILY BASIS AND SEEK COMFORT IN PEOPLE LIKE THEM.

BUT INSTEAD OF THAT THEY ARE MET WITH EVEN MORE HATE BECAUSE PEOPLE THINK THEY KNOW EVERYTHING THERE IS TO KNOW ABOUT BEING TRANS AND THAT THERE IS ONLY ONE WAY TO TRANSITION.

NO, FUCK YOU. THESE PEOPLE DO NOT DESERVE TO BE SHIT ON BY YOU OR ANYONE ELSE BECAUSE THEY ARE QUESTIONING WHO THEY ARE!

IT IS OKAY AND NORMAL TO QUESTION ONE’S IDENTITY. IT IS OKAY TO EXPLORE ONE’S GENDER UNTIL ONE FIGURES OUT WHO THEY REALLY ARE. YOU DO NOT GET TO TAKE THAT AWAY FROM THEM AND TELL THEM THAT THEY ARE WRONG.

YES, THERE ARE A FEW BAD APPLES IN THE BUNCH WHO HAVE MADE IT HARDER FOR TRANS PEOPLE TO GET THE HELP THEY DESERVE, BUT YOU KNOW WHAT? THIS IS NOT A GODDAMN ELITIST CLUB! YOU DO NOT GET TO PICK AND CHOOSE WHO IS OR ISN’T TRANS. YOU ARE NOT A MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL, SO STOP ACTING LIKE YOUR WORD IS FUCKING LAW.

This sentence is the only one I take issue with. I just have to say this: despite the pathologization of trans* people, medical professionals do not get to decide who is trans* and who is not.

LET THESE PEOPLE EXPLORE THEMSELVES ON THEIR OWN TIME AND IN THEIR OWN WAY WITHOUT YOU HOUNDING THEM AND BEING YET ANOTHER REASON FOR THEM TO WANT TO KILL THEMSELVES.

NO ONE LIKES A FUCKING BULLY.

STOP IT!

^That. All of it.