The beauty industry has done unimaginable harm to women and especially trans women.

Manufacturing consent is propaganda designed to make you think the people living somewhere want a military intervention (that they consent to it), to free them from tyrrany or something of that sort. It was coined by Noam Chomsky (who wasn’t my favorite person, but the term is still good).

Same thing they did with the whole Iran hijab thing for like months, followed by going to war with them. Like yeah, women’s rights there might not be the best, but whatever they are, it doesn’t justify putting in a US backed dictator to somehow make that right. Same with Niger.

I, for one, actually prefer the presence of other people who are fucked up like me as long as they don’t lash out against me.

Don’t feel embarrassed when you come back, a lot of us have been through similar stuff.

Make sex pests afraid. If nobody else is gonna hold men accountable for harassing and raping us then we should put into their hearts the terror of being beaten half to death by a mob of angry women.

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AAAAAAAAHHH! Oh, god.

I do want that idolized feminine form, though.

Some of us really do look like that. I would be one if I wore a wig.

If it’s done to mock us then, no, it’s not good. I think something like that could only be done well by another trans person.

I am in the group of people who can’t pass, it’d require at least FFS, and I just don’t have the money and might never have enough.

It is a permanent sadness I have to bare, a bit like grief, but it’s also not like my life is over.

I’ve been told a couple of times that I have to keep going because some time in the future, things will be better, you’ll feel comfortable in your body, you’re just baby trans, etc. I think telling that to people kind of justifies the thinking that leads them to deciding that their lives aren’t worth living.

Like I had to accept that I actually am stuck with this, and it really sucks, like really sucks, but my life is still worth living even if dysphoria will be with me forever. I would never insinuate to anyone in a similar situation that things are hopeless. Maybe one day it will be better, but I’m not betting everything on it anymore. There’s more than just trans stuff and relationships in the world.

(Or idk, take what I say with a grain of salt. I am like terminally mentally ill and I needed to develop a nearly infinite tolerance for suffering.)

Freaky people should have our support too!

And, yeah, we should just have unisex bathrooms.

I don’t even register the thing in the mirror as me. I get an actual surprised reaction sometimes.

Same with how my arms and body feels around me, I’m just unconscious of all of it. It’s too terrible to register it as me.

Women don’t need to be pretty to deserve your respect.

You should only aim for what makes you feel good. I hope that one day we’ll get beyond grading other human beings based on things like physical beauty.

Yeah, the fetishized depictions of trans people, eugh.

I wouldn’t defend the law, it’s totally unnecessary. I get, though, that it’s probably to be expected because the vast majority of Nigeriens are Sunni Muslims and there’s just no way a country that religious will be queer accepting.

They’re gonna try to do what they did to Syria. They probably were already supporting the takfiris in West Africa.

Ouch, the hand dysphoria that I will never alleviate.

Maybe one day I will try it.

HARDCORE! INCREMENTAL CHANGE!!!

“Political power grows out of the barrel of a vote.”

— Mao Zedemocrat