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15 Jun, 9 tweets, 2 min read
Most trans people carry the memory of at least one other trans person we’ve lost. If that doesn’t make you angry enough to fight for us, I don’t know what would.
Thinking a lot about how many trans people have self-realized during the pandemic, and what the psychological effects will be of returning to the world as a stranger in a strange land.
Right now is a truly terrifying time to be trans. Check in on your trans friends.
Here’s a thread of ways cis people can tangibly help us.
Trans people feel free to post warm thoughts to those we’ve lost.
Please know you are loved. 💜
Also please be aware that there is a trans specific crisis hotline available in the US and Canada here:

translifeline.org
I’ll send love here to Eli. 💜
Another user sends love to Adelaide. 💜
Btw the Trans Lifeline specifically does NOT operate with police departments and has a policy of no active rescue, allowing trans people to call in actual safety.

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Alex is fighting for trans kids ⚧🏳️‍⚧️ Profile picture
16 Jun
I’m very thankful that the trans Twitter community has gotten to a place where we can discuss this, because this exact issue has had very tangible negative impact on my life.
As a transmasculine person who came out in adulthood and who has a history with very gendered abuse, THE major factor that stopped me from transitioning was terror that I would become the type of man who had abused me. I was afraid that there was no other option of masculinity.
While I was questioning, I found an online trans community to do research for myself. This community was majority transfeminine. That isn’t a problem inherently, however this community had an issue with vilifying masculinity and all masculine traits at large.
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16 Jun
I’m ngl, it honestly bothers me even more when cis people close to me misgender me with neutral pronouns. Like. You are literally proving to me that you are fully capable of changing the pronouns you use for me, and you decide to pick another incorrect set?
What does that say about your respect for my autonomy or self determination, that you choose to “meet in the middle” on matters that harm me deeply and only mildly inconvenience you?
Genuine question here: how do I correct my parents using they/them for me and my partner without causing an argument?
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16 Jun
Filling out psychiatric paperwork really makes you feel like a zoo animal, huh
yes hello I am a terrible little gremlin of a man with 100 disorders and no friends
“Should I answer this question honestly or will my honest answer be used to reduce my autonomy?” sure is a fun question to ask yourself for an hour straight while you revisit every negative circumstance you’ve ever experienced in your life
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15 Jun
The electrical grid failures in Texas are a direct result of ERCOT, Texas' electrical grid manager, operating on a uniquely hypercapitalist, isolationist model. Public goods being traded publicly will kill, always.
A brief 🧵 on the issue.
ERCOT is the ISO for Texas, or Independent System Operator. This is an organization that monitors electrical grids and sets electricity pricing based on its monitoring.
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14 Jun
For those unclear: trigger warnings should never ban content. They should never remove content. All they are meant to do is inform people of common triggers in the media to come, and these people can remove *themselves* if they choose.
Anyone suggesting that trigger warnings be interchangeable with a ban on or removal of content is not speaking for the traumatized community at large and is not a positive advocate for disability issues.
As a person with triggers, it is critical to understand that no one owes me a padded version of the world. It allows me to function much better if I am given the opportunity to remove myself from situations that may be triggering to me. That is all a trigger warning should be.
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14 Jun
Sometimes it’s very disheartening as a transmasculine person to find that many trans spaces also practice transmasculine erasure.
And that attempting to discuss transmasculine erasure in trans spaces is often met with the argument, “we erase transmasculine people because transmasculine people don’t matter”, which is the exact problem. It’s circular.
The less you hear transmasculine perspectives, the less likely you are to value transmasculine perspectives.
The less welcoming your trans space is to transmasculine people, the fewer transmasculine people you will see there.
Transmasculine erasure is a circular problem.
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