If you want to know what it’s like being trans just imagine yourself exactly as you are but everyone else sees you as someone else and if you correct them they may kill you.
this this this. honetly like we need to reframe the entire discussion around trans issues becuse the problem is not trans people, it eeryone else. young trans kids dont get bullied bc theyre trans they get bullied bc other people teach their shitty kids to hate trans people
Re-blogging at break-knuckle speed.
Also this brings up a really good point I have found. If you are trying to educate a cis person (particularly if they’re also straight) about what it means to be trans, they will often get baffled because they picture suddenly choosing to adopt another gender and it seems absurd to them.
My aunt was having a really difficult time grasping what it was like to be trans, because she could not envision any circumstance in which she would want to “become a man.” I told her to instead imagine that she was the same person she is now, but had been raised as a boy against her will and treated as one throughout her life. Then everything clicked for her and she has turned out to be a great ally ever since!
