*More specifically, the pros and cons of being a transfeminine non-binary person who went through two puberties.
(tension builds)
(sudden whiplash) Hello there babes! Are you one of those cool kids considering— wondering if you’ll— wanting to be transgender?
Well this is the guide for you!
We’ll cover all the pros and cons, the goods and bads, the warts and wins of…
✅ No periods. 🤗
✅ Pee standing up. 🤗
✅ You’re more “interesting”. 🤗
❌ Tens of thousands of pounds spent on hormones and medical checks. 🫨
✅ You get asked to speak at more events because you’re good for diversity! 🤗
✅ No vagina exams. 🤗
❌ No vagina exams yet. 🫨
✅ Automatic contraception. 🤗
❌ Thousands of pounds spent on “gamete storage”. 🫨
✅ Regular trips into Soho. 🤗
❌ Every doctor refuses to do your blood tests except one clinic in Soho. 🫨
✅ Your friends tell you “you are so beautiful qween”. 🤗
❌ Crippling trauma from conversion therapy that weighs you down even after all these years. 🫨
✅ You’re tall and have a strong jawline. 🤗
✅ Heaps of trauma serves as plenty of inspiration for your fucked up art you little freak bitch. 🤗
❌ Stubble. 🫨
❌ Needles. 🫨
❌ Thousands of pounds spent on needles. 🫨
❌ Patches leave glue marks on your butt. 🫨
✅ Glue marks on your butt serves as a good target for needle placement. 🤗
❌ Your friends and family will leave you. 🫨
✅ You get to pick your own name. 🤗
❌ Everyone freaks out when you change your name. 🫨
❌ Strangers in the street call you tranny, faggot, freak, dyke, homo, pedo, kiddy fiddler and more. 🫨
❌ Going to the loo is a safety hazard. 🫨
✅ You get to pick the shorter queue at the loo. 🤗
❌ Government, media, and the entire nation debates your existence daily. 🫨
✅ It makes you a cooler youtuber. 🤗
❌ Hate brigades get sent your way by prominent figures with enormous followings. 🫨
✅ Hormones make you enjoy sad films more. 🤗
❌ You have to email your doctor hundreds of times. 🫨
❌ There’s a ten year wait for treatment. 🫨
❌ Doctors refuse to give you medicine after a ten year wait. 🫨
❌ You have to buy medication on the black market. 🫨
❌ You have to use bitcoin. 🫨
❌ Internalised self-hatred. 🫨
✅ You find out who your real friends are. 🤗
❌ Everyone starts treating you like a women and you discover that the feminists were right. 🫨
✅ You get to be yourself. 🤗
❌ Everyone ignores all the other things about you and fixate on the fact that you’re trans*. 🫨
❌ Everyone tells you how much of an ally they are. 🫨
✅ You stop being a miserable little shit. 🤗
❌ People regularly call for your death, including yourself. 🫨
✅ You develop a dark sense of humour. 🤗
✅ You finally find inner peace. 🤗
❌ Shoes don’t fit you. 🫨
❌ Paperwork gets lost because computer systems can’t cope with your records not matching up. 🫨
❌ Some careers become off-limits to you. 🫨
✅ You get silly ideas for blog posts. 🤗
❌ You develop a deep hatred and mistrust of the world. 🫨
❌ It’s very tricky to go swimming. 🫨
❌ You feel numb at times. 🫨
✅ You get a zoomed out perspective on little things that don’t matter. 🫨
✅ You see through the bullshit of many parts of life. 🫨
✅ Small problems don’t bother you. 🫨
✅ You’re forced to learn to let code die. 🫨
✅ You let code die. 🫨
✅ Let code die. 🫨
✅ Let code die. 🫨
✅ Let code die. 🫨
❌ At first I was afraid, I was petrified. 🫨
❌ Kept thinkin’ I could never live without you by my side. 🫨
❌ But then I spent so many nights thinkin’ how you did me wrong. 🫨
✅ And I grew strong and I learned how to get along. 🤗
✅ Oh yes I, I let code die. 🤗
✅ Oh, as long as I know how to love, I know I’ll stay alive. 🤗
✅ I’ve got all my life to live, and I’ve got all my code to give. 🤗
✅ And I’ll let, I let code die, hey hey! 🤗
*ahem*
Excuse me.
(tension subsides)
(sudden whiplash) So now you know the pros and cons of being trans*. So now you know whether to decide to be trans* or not.
I think—
On balance, it’s probably worth it.
“I will survive” adaptation by froos.
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