As someone whos met you irl in Maine — it really sucks how you hide the ugliness in your soul. Judging all lives of transgender people by evidence of those who are touted extremes in inaccurate and harmful. It’s frightening knowing you exist around me.

odykerain:

so i doubt the validity of you having actually met me considering how vague this is but lmao okay

i don’t judge the lives of transgender people. i have actively spoken in favor of the rights of trans people at multiple rallies within maine, i have helped to raise funds for EqualityME and actually been one of those people to actively help and protest with them in order to keep LGBT mainers safe from discrimination. i have spoken for planned parenthood to let people know that they are a safe and nonjudgemental health facility for trans people since most don’t know that portland’s clinic actually specializes in trans healthcare or that alison is one of the most amazing doctors who doesn’t judge people’s decisions and will make sure that if you are going to take hormones, you are doing so with as healthy a body as possible. 

what i judge is the trans activist movement and the medical communities approach to transition. i judge the rampant intersexism that is used by trans activists to try and justify the existence of transitioning trans people. i judge trans women who reduce women to misogynistic stereotypes and believe that lesbians are transphobic for not wanting to date trans women. i judge the community that tells people biological sex is a social construct when that is medically dangerous to do. i judge people who appropriate other cultures to validate their trans identity. i judge the movement that puts pressure within the LGBT community on gender non-conforming people to identify as trans and alter their bodies accordingly without exploring why dysphoria might be present, if it’s present at all. and i do this as someone who was actively harmed by these trains of thought, unlike trans people who have literally never been harmed by my critical opinions in the slightest. 

i am extremely vocal about these opinions when the topic is brought up and will discuss it at great length, listening to opposing opinions without judgement, like adults do. so i’m not hiding anything. i’ve never been dishonest with anyone about my beliefs. you obviously didn’t meet me very long or in any sort of space that would have facilitated this discussion. i apologize for not spouting my ideas on gender 24/7 so that you knew to not want to be around me, but i try to keep my daily life and interactions with others more varied than that, since i’m not a one-dimensional individual.

sorry that my critical outlook frightens you. but like if you find my existence scary, as a poor art student in fucking maine of all states, i feel really bad for how terrified you must be of the rest of the world.