7yearsintibet:

my goal is to write a post about butches and how wonderful they are without sounding performative. i don’t want my butch appreciation posts even to vaguely resemble the meaningless, mindless, over-compensating, performative posts tras make about trans women. i don’t want them to sound anything like “trans women are all goddesses uwu i love queens.” i want each and every butch reading my posts to know that i support her, that i admire her courage to exist as she is in a world that punishes women when we don’t confine ourselves in impractical, uncomfortable clothing and disguise our faces with cosmetic products and remove any and all hair that grows anywhere other than our heads because god forbid we look like adult human females, mammals, right? i want each and every butch reading my posts to know that i sing her praises. men in skirts will be praised far more for being “subversive” than she will ever be, but her courage surpasses that of any man in a skirt. let’s hear it for butches. the women who dare to exist as female human beings in a world that stops at nothing to threaten female human beings.