Just a man living his best life. Parent of two beautiful angels. Christian. Currently funding a children's book called Bob the Ghost! Pinned post for details!
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@CaelanConrad
They don't even believe their friend... Who has a degree in biology. They really just won't believe anything put in front of them unless it matches what they already think, will they?
@falastinerkive
This hurts so badly... My own son just turned 8. That little boy should still be here, playing with toys, laughing in the sun, talking about his friends and family. That was no terrorist. Children are innocent beyond all doubt. I will hug my son twice in his memory.
@legaltweetz
@jk_rowling
@elonmusk
I've noticed the rhetoric changes so frequently. This time it's not even chromosomes. It's heightened testosterone. By that marker, anyone with PCOS is a man. Any female-born person with a hormone imbalance is suddenly a man. It's ridiculous, and I can't stand it.
@legaltweetz
@jk_rowling
People have already forgotten she wrote Harry Potter. At this point, a great many people I've talked to only know her name for these actions and views... And that's probably why she does it.
"You were such a pretty girl", "what a waste of a pretty face", things I've heard and keep hearing. I was never a girl, I was never meant to be a girl. The "pretty" was a mask. If I could just be a little prettier, I thought I could be a woman. But I'm not, and that should be ok.
@nescartridges
I'm a Christian, in college on a path to ministry and I still celebrate Halloween. My kids will not be going without these beloved childhood memories.
@Ivyman_FF
@Real_Marquise
@fuckyouiquit
Passionate venting doesn't have to meet standards, it is only a way to express that frustration when there's nobody else you can talk to. If we lived in a world where nearly every emotional outburst sounded like a poem, then perhaps you might have a point, but we don't.
I'm not going anywhere. I won't. I'm sorry I had a momentary breakdown. But I have too many people in my life that love me to let it get me down for long. Thank you all so much for the outpouring of support and kindness. You're all wonderful. I appreciate you.
@legaltweetz
They have so much hate. They wish ill and then assume we do the same because they think it's normal. The normalization of the hatred and violence is strange. I pray they one day realize what they're doing and stop violently protesting our existence. Sending positive vibes.
@clhubes
My six year old wanted to make scrambled eggs, did everything except the actual cooking and it was, I kid you not, the best plate of eggs I've ever eaten. Same thing with my son's seasoning mix. "I made it by how good it smelled" was his explanation.
@AbortionChat
They're always so dramatic when they think it'll win them an argument. Abortion is health care for pregnant people. Abortion saves lives, abortion should be a human right. It's not hard.
@legaltweetz
They won't. It's all they have. They can't think of anything actually wrong with us, so they're just going to reuse every lie from the first cycle.
@legaltweetz
I can't imagine letting my beliefs become so pervasive that I'd divorce my wife over them. My wife is a staunch Atheist and I go to church three times a week and that STILL hasn't been a big enough difference in beliefs to go to that level... GC seems an illness to me. 😕
@legaltweetz
The term even sounds ridiculous... Almost fell for their bullshit. Started questioning everything about myself for a while. Glad to say I got over it still myself. They won't win. Truth eventually overtakes, as many who've become ex-terfs have shown.
This Pride, I would like to give a warm thank you to the very first person to truly defend my identity. Without
@RevDaniel
I might not even still be on here and advocating for equality, and I would never have had the confidence to turn back to my faith. Thank you.
@ThomasWillett9
They'll still say this isn't transphobic because they worship her at this point. They know it's transphobic. They see that she's transphobic. But that's why they adore her.
So someone has been posting pictures of my chest to my posts, and using my dead name publicly. If you see it, please just quietly report, I don't want a bunch of arguments under these, that will only make them more visible, and I want less visibility on these, not more.
Psst... It's my birthday. And for my birthday, I'd like you all to have a nice day! Do something kind for yourself today. It'd be the best birthday present I could ask for.
I have come to realize I'm made of things people love to hate. I'm overweight. I'm trans. I'm bisexual. I'm poly. But that weird mix is what makes me a regular guy. We're all made up of a collage of weird. And if you wanna make fun of me for it, fine but you're weird too. 🤷
I've dragged myself out of poverty, gotten over alcoholism, lost 60 lbs, married the woman of my dreams, raised two kids, gotten a home, and get to live my dream selling paintings. TAKE THAT PTSD, I FUCKING WON. I am a SURVIVOR.
@Anne_on_gd
@garylfrancione
"We're so oppressed because we can't disrespect others!" Yeah. No. Considering the women burned were falsely accused of witchcraft, and actually killed by jealousy, greed, lust, hate, and paranoia... You're the one throwing the torch at the stake.
Reasons trans guys are awesome dads!
1: I can teach my son how to shave AND understand my daughter when she gets periods.
2: endless dad jokes surrounding the word "transparent".
3: all dads are awesome! Just because I'm a different kind of dad doesn't mean I'm not. 🤍🩷🩵
@legaltweetz
@jk_rowling
Furry bears... I can see this was a wine-fueled impulse tweet. Or at least I hope it was, otherwise this is just embarrassing. Her emotional stability is slowly unraveling and we're watching it in real-time. I almost feel bad for her, she just can't help herself.
@legaltweetz
They just can't stand that you break every trope and stereotype they pass around about us. They have to face the fact that we're not actually different from them and it burns them up.
@stephenwhittle
I've been hearing that a lot lately! They throw all of these medical misinformations at us in hopes we'll change, unaware that we're already fully educated on actual statistics, outcomes, and medical information pertaining to ourselves. Weird they think we wouldn't.
I'm sorry, I just found out there are a bunch of people that don't wash their airfryers. They just put it away with all the grease and crumbs. How do you not wash your airfryer???
Well, Pride begins tomorrow. This is my first Pride on T. This is my first Pride where I am fully free to be who I am. I spent the first two of my transition being told not to be visible. To just pretend to be someone else. My family, though they love me, has been less than
My posts have been sporadic. I've been quiet. Hate has been so loud lately that I can't find my voice among the screams yelling over me, shouting me down, telling be who I am and who I have to be from the eyes of people too blind to see me. DMs telling me what I deserve.
A man
8 years ago today, a beautiful little boy was born. His eyes were the brightest blue. His hair was soft and fluffy. At that time in my life, I knew nothing but pain and fear. But the moment they handed me that sweet little angel, I knew everything was going to be okay.
Happy
@mushycrouton
If the straights could just act normal, there wouldn't be a problem. But they've just got to shove it in everyone's faces. I even saw a straight couple kissing at a restaurant, it was deplorable!
@legaltweetz
We just do what comes naturally to us. I'm starting to wonder if it's because they're pretending themselves. Pretending to be happy with their one-track lives, pretending to be successful... I mean, how many have provably lied about their credentials? We've seen too many.
Okay. I'm pissed. I now have a label on my account, my reach has already been dropping drastically, and now my profile says I'm not following anyone even though clearly I am. Ever since a couple of my posts got mildly popular.
@LordAslanThe2nd
Honestly I think the funniest times are when despite all odds, I get two people arguing about my birth gender, but both of them are trying really hard to be transphobic.
It's often strange when I look at what I used to look like versus what I look like now. I always feel like there's minimal change until I look back, and see a whole different person. She was always an entirely different person from me. I don't hate her. She just never existed.
I wanted to update everyone. My close friend has passed away. I didn't get to see her before she went. This was unexpected. She was in good health. But she was in a car crash, and the other vehicle hit her door. Her husband got out of it with minor injuries but has already been
I did my T injection by myself for the first time since starting HRT! Holy geeze, my heart is pounding. Normally I have my wife do it, but I FRICKIN DID IT!!
@legaltweetz
Trying to stop them from being trans causes so much long-term harm. They don't deserve that harm. If a trans youth sees this, you're valid. It will be okay. We've got you.
#protecttranskids
@legaltweetz
I'm not sure about anyone else, but the bathroom is the LAST place anyone I know is trying to have a conversation or make a friend. It's always get in, use the toilet, wash hands, leave.
I am transgender. I am not an ideology. I am not a mistake. I am not an abomination. I am a human, made of lived experiences and a unique, divine form of creation. A man that knows the pain of women. Unique in all my creation, I am existent despite the odds. Nobody can stop me.
@legaltweetz
I keep trying to explain it to them but when they say it back it's miles off from what I said. When two halves line up, you don't have to be aware that they're different. When one half is entirely different it's painfully obvious. I don't think they'll get it.
I wish breakups were clean. Something you could just end without feeling anything about it, something that just disappeared without leftover thoughts and feelings. I feel lied to. I feel used. I feel undervalued and ignored. I wasted months of feelings on nothing.
@AssignedMale
I remember that feeling. It led me down a horrible, self destructive path. I felt like nothing was actually worth living for. Since finally transitioning, I'm happier and healthier than ever.
@legaltweetz
I used to work with an elderly woman. She caught on to my gender identity after a bit, and asked me very quietly "are you trans?". I was nervous but I said yes and she grinned. "That's okay, I'm gay. So tell me about your wife." Turned out she'd been at Stonewall.
@legaltweetz
I also feel like the radicalization of children is just appalling. How is someone going to fearmonger and politicize a child so much that this happens??
I'm endlessly excited to announce I have surgery scheduled for the end of the year. The particular date isn't set quite yet, but sometime in November, I finally have top surgery planned. It's this far out for a few personal reasons, but I'm really excited!
@CaelanConrad
What just happened? I feel like I just spent an eternity trying to decipher a middle-school book report and a boomer's rant about millennials at the same time?
Nobody is "transing" kids. There simply are trans kids. I was one, even if nobody knew. Even if I wasn't allowed to do anything about it. They're not given hormones or surgery until they're old enough. Surgery after 18 in nearly all cases.
#protecttranskids
#LeaveTheKidsAlone
I don't deserve my daughter 😭 She knows things have been stressful. I just walked into the kitchen to a "salty pepper and cheese sandwich", a bowl of grapes and blueberries, a cup of Sunny D, and her sitting, waiting to eat with me. It was the best lunch I've ever had.
Someone said something recently and it got me thinking. The same people that deny I'm a man are the same people that would be throwing lesbophobic slurs if I hadn't transitioned, or saying Iook like a man. It's really all about control and degradation to them.
I got accused of being racist because I'd choose the bear. I'm confused. When I think of the man vs bear scenario, no particular kind of man comes to mind. Just the feeling of fear and which kind of fear I'd rather deal with.
@legaltweetz
It's why my old name will never be public if I can help it. Calling me a girl? Doesn't matter to me, happens all the time. Using my old name? Fucking low.
The final day of school has come and gone. I received the kids' papers and I couldn't be prouder. My son got all top marks and my daughter, though kindergarten isn't graded, received the outstanding reader award. 🥹 They did so well, and I am the proudest father I could be.
@legaltweetz
I can't understand how these people can just sit on money, knowing the state of the world, and do nothing but manipulate the world to their will while not lifting a single finger to help anyone. No charitable donations unless it benefits them. Tax the rich!!
Born a girl, I'll die a man, their rhetoric can't change that. Love-bombing won't change that. Insults won't change that. "But your bones" doesn't matter because when I pass, I leave the shell behind. "But your chromosomes" doesn't effect me. My heart isn't changed by these.
I cried today. Tears of joy. For the first time, I got to take my kids to the beach. A real, beautiful beach like you see in the magazines. We had a picnic dinner. I made hotdogs for them. I feel like I finally gave them something they truly deserve.
Embracing androgyny today. Might as well. I feel really cool tho. Feeling in between the feminine and the masculine, on the cusp of existence but just outside. My mental health is up, depression down, and I'm seeing the sunshine today.
@mushycrouton
I am deeply exhausted with the GC and TERF community. I hear constantly from them about "stop shoving it in our faces!!" But no matter what topic, it could be recipes, movies, etc, they're always the ones bringing it up. They literally have to go to my bio to get pronouns.
Born a girl, I'll die a man, their rhetoric won't change me. They're loud lately. With insults, threats, wishes of harm and death. Not just here either. They're angry that we haven't stopped speaking. We won't stop speaking. Silence is compliance. 🏳️⚧️
#transrightsarehumanrights
@boatnaviegator
Honestly, this is such a good point. As a fat trans man myself, the body dysmorphia I face absolutely effects my dysphoria in ways that I feel may not be true of trans men that aren't in my position.
@RemakingManhood
What I feel in being forced to remember that pain. Giving birth to him did not heal me. I was unable to bond with him at first, and he was used against me as a tool of control. Forcing people to give birth to the children of rapists fixes nothing. Heals nothing.
I'm not gonna lie folks, the world is crumbling around me and I'm falling apart. I am about to lose everything I worked hard to manage over a lack of shifts. My wife is being put on disability after pushing herself too hard trying to fill gaps. I'm tired.
I have been informed that someone close to me is in the hospital and will not make it. I'm not at leisure to name them or my relation to them at this time, but I ask for prayers during this time. They mean more to me than I could express. I have perhaps days left with them.
Please be aware. I'm having a spiral. I'm feeling self-destructive and may not act entirely like myself. Everyone here is safe. But I'm not doing well. I'm sorry.