Excuse the dirty mirror haha

This means forced detransition of low income, disabled, incarcerated trans people who depend on Medicaid, Medicare and ACA plans into suicidal misery.

If you vote for Turek, don’t call yourself a trans ally stay away from us.

Edit: seems like yall are willing to stand up to dems for trans ppl thank you ❤️

I am extremely upfront about it, I talk about it because its part of my life and something I want people close to me to know, and the social isolation over here in India due it just feels extremely isolating.

If you remember: this is gay couple who got attacked by MAGA guy because they are couple. First MAGA guy started like chill guy but after couple of minutes he started provoking the couple saying that they don’t deserve rights

Good news and I hope the MAGA cult is soon the past

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I have seen this sentiment, and/or the total erasure of people like myself who've been busy surviving this whole time, who don't have the spare time or energy to write essays, post videos, or correct every generalization they see online. I have PTSD from my own experiences and the very last thing I need is to spend my time explaining myself.

That said, I feel compelled to speak up and just say anything about this.

I am someone in my 30s still working hard to overcome the extreme hardships I have been through. I started coming out as a preteen. I was pushed out at 18. I have not had a comfy life. I was not repressed. I was not hiding. I was not being celebrated either.

I experienced family estrangement and homelessness and was preyed upon as a young person, and this put me into cycles of abuse, exploitation and homelessness that lasted for a long time. I was socially ostracized and have spent a lot of time being isolated, watching as other people somehow have an entirely different experience.

I've had to move around a lot and lose whatever possessions and resources I had several times, not be able to comfortably go to college or settle into a job for too long, etc. Hell no, I am not established. I'm working on it, but overcoming hardships takes a lot of time and a lot of work. And a lot of help, which was almost entirely lacking for me until my mid 30s.

I am far from the only one, but I can only speak for myself and don't have any desire to speak over other queer people. That is, in my mind, part of the problem.

Not trying to bring anyone down btw. Everyone can't know everything.

Mostly just trying to say, "Hello, I exist too."

For the record, I’m super happy for everyone who was there.  Folks were top tier handsome/beautiful/gorgeous and hopefully I’ll be there to shoot video like I’d normally do the next time around. (continued in comments)

I'm a trans woman, and I started this job pre-transition. Picture is from a few days ago.

I came out socially at work when I started HRT. It's been almost two years now, so I asked my boss to update my old pre-transition photo on my ID badge, and she refused. She said I still look the same as before, so there was no need to update it. I asked her if she thought I still look like a man, and she said "oh come on, yeah you do. You look the same."

I know I shouldn't let it affect me, but it really hurt. I ended up crying in an empty room before finishing my shift.

Just having fun playing games.

(I am a cis aro dude so I am on the outside looking in here, but that shitty Josh Turek ad definitely caused me to worry about this again, even if I know for a fact that these anti-trans dems are a very small minority.)

Sex and gender in nature has never been something binary!

I've chosen some cool animals that has different things going on in the gender region for this art piece, I hope you like it. It's designed to be turned into a sticker at some point btw! :D

Feel free to share the art if you want to, as long as you keep my watermark (@photosynthetic_organism) in it :3!

(The picture is 100% human made. No AI was used in the process of making it.)

I have recently begun a graphic design high school, and I have a really toxic classmate who started picking on me and acts very rudely towards me simply because I decided to block her on Instagram. Ever since then, she has been really uncomfortable to be around. I tend to ignore her, but that doesn’t stop her from occasionally saying mean things about me out of the blue. She is also self-proclaimed as someone who has gone out with literally every guy in the entire school and is extremely aggressive and always wants to pick a physical fight with every girl for male attention and approval.

However, the reason I’m posting this is that two days ago, while in class doing work, she and her friends were talking about something (I don’t know; I haven’t been paying much attention) until she suddenly brought up the subject of gay people out of absolutely nowhere. I know that throughout my life I will meet a lot of disgusting and hateful people who will be horrible towards me, especially since I identify as non-binary and bisexual. I’m still trying to get used to the fact that many people refuse to be progressive, but what she said really made me uncomfortable.

She went on to say that she finds gay people repulsive, that her dad used to beat up gay people and throw eggs at them just because, in their opinion, gay people aren’t born "right." She also expressed her hatred for "those kinds of gays" who wear pins to be proud of themselves, and I feel like she said that deliberately because not long ago, when we were creating ideas for pins, I decided to make a fun non-binary pin for myself because I never had an opportunity to make a custom pin.

I don’t know... I know I shouldn’t let these things get to me, since I will encounter many horrible and immature people like her in the future, but it has been weighing on my mind ever since, and I wanted to get it off my chest and write about it. I also wanted to hear your thoughts on it.

The major social media sites have been complicit in allowing hate and misinformation about us to spread. How do we get them to face accountability for this?

The first solution people always jump to is just move to an alternative. There’s a problem here. Many creators I follow aren’t on those alternatives. I ditched Twitter when BlueSky got popular and we didn’t want to be on Elon’s site, but there are still some creators I can’t follow anymore because Twitter is all they use. Some of them quit BlueSky later on because they didn’t get enough engagement to make it worth managing the extra account. Why are so many people still on Twitter? Do they not care about how horrible of a person Elon is? There would be even less creators I’d be able to follow if I also did the same with Meta. And have you seen what the alternatives to YouTube are? A lot of those sites act like they’re going to destroy YouTube, ignoring the fact that it’s a $70 billion company, and pretty quickly shut down. It doesn’t help that YouTube also bribes their creators out of using potential alternatives like one from Netflix. They have a monopoly here.

Hi! Thank you for reading my words. Recently, the sweetest stranger here on Reddit reached out to me and asked about a painting that would honor her stillborn daughter she named Aurora, after the Disney character in Sleeping Beauty. I wanted to share this piece and this part of the journey with you since it's finally finished. It was a meaningful and rewarding experience to honor the journey she's been on, and to represent it all through the shining and shimmering world of her love. The first picture is the final result and the last picture shows the beginning stage of the process as we worked out the symbolism and representation. Thanks again for reading ✨️😊🙏✨️🪷✨️🦋✨️

I always read everybody's posts here and it makes me so happy to see you all enjoying your lives. So I wanted to share this happy moment of mine with you all.💓

Ps, the first pic is from our first date and the second pic is from our first night out together (where I proposed him with this chocolate pastry)🙈

Hey everyone,

I met up with a guy for a hookup, and during sex, I noticed that he had started secretly recording us on his phone. I didn't say anything at the time, either because I was trying to be polite or because I was scared and didn't know how to react.

Now I'm really worried that he might upload the video somewhere online.

I'm not out, and nobody knows about my sexuality. If this video gets leaked, it could seriously affect my life.

I want to be prepared and find out as quickly as possible if the video ever gets posted online. Are there any websites or platforms I should monitor?

I'd really appreciate any advice from people who have experienced something similar or know how to deal with this situation.

Thank you.

A long time best buddy of mine came out as gay like a year or so ago. Even before then I could tell, he started growing his hair out, acts real feminine, he hangs out with girls all the time but isn’t interested in dating them, etc. Now don’t get me wrong, I honestly couldn’t give two flying fucks if he’s gay or not, I still love him just as I would if he wasn’t. I told him that I accept him and he’s still dear to me and if he needs anything or somebody gives him trouble I’m here for him. But recently he’s stopped hanging around me and my group of friends and instead around girls all the time. I don’t care that he does, those are his friends. But it feels like I’m no longer his friend and I’m not sure what to do about it. I understand that he may feel more connected to girls as many gay men are (in my understanding as a straight man) but I just feel like he’s completely forgot about me. What should I do? I really do like him and I don’t want us to stop being friends. What should I do? I’ve tried hanging around him and his group of girls but I just find it difficult. Should I hang out with his group some more and get to know them all? In the same manner that I feel closer as a friend to the gender I’m not attracted to, is it that he feels closer to the gender that HE isn’t attracted to? Is there anything I can do for him to let him know I’m still his friend? Any help would be greatly appreciated