let every pansy bloom
Gender is in the mind, it doesnt matter if you have a penis or a vagina. It certainly does not mock other supposed 'real' transwomen' or women in general. And if you're content enough to keep your penis or your vagina, then being body-positive is obviously going to be one of the reasons you're accepting of yourself despite not fitting the anatomical norms.
Anonymous

You must be new here.

You are honestly probably one of and if not my absolute favorite blogger on tumblr, able to synchronize charm, wit, and eloquence in such a magnificent fashion. You're informative and entertaining and honestly you should be a writer one day. You are fucking brilliant. I hope you are able to find lasting happiness, you really deserve it.
Anonymous

This is such a sweet message; I genuinely don’t know what to say other than thank you, and that this really does mean a lot to me.

thetranssexualempireexists a ragi votre billet : I just saw a post from a self-described…

Dish, Im feeling fatalistic and wanna torture myself - URL?

If you go into the “transmare” tag you’ll find them. The pictures are incredibly gross though, just as a warning.

I just saw a post from a self-described “transmare” discussing their recent SRS, which was performed by arguably the most prominent of all surgeons who currently do the procedure. If anyone needs me, I’ll be on my bedroom floor.

What about if a transsexual didn't pursue surgery due to some other reason, like an extreme fear of surgery? Thus making it a choice.
Anonymous

That sort of thing isn’t really what I’m talking about when I talk about being “non-op by choice.”

Look, if posing naked were empowering, then the rich men who run the world would be lining up for it. We would be awash in naked dick shots of Warren Buffet and Bill Gates and Barack Obama; magazines would be filled with male politicians and financiers and moguls with their bits hanging out. Softly lit, perhaps; head coyly tilted, bunny tail on the ass. Power.
Walter Gove (1973) found that “for women the shift from being single to being married increases the likelihood of being murdered, while for men the shift decreases their chances.

Dee Graham, Edna Rawlings & Roberta Rigsby. Loving to Survive: sexual terror, men’s violence, and women’s lives. NYU Press. July 1 1994. (p. 7)

deviouslyratedm:

freshtittymilk:

jellobatch:

Dudes are fucking stupid.’they have absolutely no idea what they want. Give them natural and they’ll run.

Right? Show a woman with no makeup, they’ll think she’s going through chemo.

Friendly Reminder of the responses to No Shave November

But natural is great, right boys?

snowflakeespecial:

transcultist:

mildlyhipster1983:

transcultist:

mildlyhipster1983 a ragi votre billet : Hi, Im the person who asked about disphoria previously. So, what do you think of so-called transwomen who say theyre women but they love their penis and their bodies and wouldnt change it because body positiveness? I feel very unconfortable on…

Why pursue social transition if you only desire alteration of body parts?

Surely you don’t believe that pursuing medical transition without a complementary social transition is actually possible? Access to treatment very often hinges upon progress in the realm of social transition, and altering my body without assimilating socially would have guaranteed that my life would be miserable.

TC you obviously haven’t had SRS yet! I think everyone who has ran into a straight-up man at the clinic, getting a vaginoplasty, then heading back home to live as a man afterwards. There is still a small amount of gatekeeping around hormones (though you can always order online), but really none around surgery, especially if you go to Thailand.

Also, you would be miserable in altering your body without assimilating because you’re a social person. There are a lot of autogynephiles who act in borderline sociopathic ways. They couldn’t care less about assimilating! But that’s a totally different story.

I don’t know that it has much to do with me being a social person. Hormone therapy alone has feminized me to the point that I would almost certainly be perceived as a woman even if I cut off all my hair, bound my chest and wore exclusively men’s clothing. If I hadn’t changed my name or sex marker I would be forced to out myself on a near constant basis just to function; I’m sure you understand why that would be unpleasant at best and dangerous at worst.

mildlyhipster1983:

let every pansy bloom: mildlyhipster1983 a ragi votre billet : Hi, Im the person who asked…

transcultist:

mildlyhipster1983:

transcultist:

mildlyhipster1983 a ragi votre billet : Hi, Im the person who asked about disphoria previously. So, what do you think of so-called transwomen who say theyre women but they love their penis and their bodies and wouldnt change it because body positiveness? I feel very unconfortable on…

Why pursue social transition if you only desire alteration of body parts?

Surely you don’t believe that pursuing medical transition without a complementary social transition is actually possible? Access to treatment very often hinges upon progress in the realm of social transition, and altering my body without assimilating socially would have guaranteed that my life would be miserable.

Assimilating socially is not physical dysphoria.

I am aware of this. My point was that altering the sexed appearance of one’s body without transitioning socially is essentially made impossible by the social order.