And Believe Me, I Am Still Alive
Hello boys and bois , it's been A WHILE. This year has been pretty rough, but I'm still alive and kicking, and I'm still learning, exploring, and discovering more things about myself. Now, I'm not going to bore you with a bunch of downers, but I do want to get off my chest one important struggle item: It's transphobes. Transphobes (and general 'phobes) have really been out in force this year, with book bans and bathroom bills, and increasingly toxic and violent rhetoric, and it's been really getting to me. It gets to me because I'm happily detransitioning, by choice, on my own terms, and this all but makes me their poster child. They like to point at people like me when they argue that transition not only doesn't help, but is also actively harmful. They use people like me to hurt and remove rights and protections from others. And this sucks, because it makes it really hard to feel comfortable sharing my experien...