Chilly ❄️ Grinches 🤶🏻
Trans Tuesdays are off until mid-january (ya girl needs rest), so i’m gonna link all the ones from 2024 in a big thread in case you missed any!
(only a few a day, don’t worry)
here’s GENDERED CHILDHOODS, about how compulsory cisness is forced on us as kids, and how that can really mess you up
https://www.tillystranstuesdays.com/2024/08/19/gendered-childhoods/
Chilly ❄️ Grinches 🤶🏻
A TRANS RE-WEDDING is about how @susanlbridges and I redid our wedding so we could have one with the real me
it was the best day of my life, full of love and friends and Star Trek, and it was an entirely different reality than the first time around
what a difference a life makes
https://www.tillystranstuesdays.com/2024/08/22/a-trans-re-wedding/
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SEXUALITY IS NOT GENDER is about how the two get conflated in our society of compulsory cisgender heterosexuality
it's also how difficult it can be to figure out you're trans when you're also very very gay, and aren't sure if you're attracted to that lady or if you want to BE her (it's both?!)
https://www.tillystranstuesdays.com/2024/08/13/sexuality-is-not-gender/
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THE INTENTIONAL TRANS ALLEGORY OF BARBIE is an eight-part series about the inherent transness of the Barbie movie, and how deeply it speaks to the transfeminine experience
includes discussion of its many intentional Matrix references and, yes, the trans symbol that appears on screen!
Begins here!
https://www.tillystranstuesdays.com/2024/08/05/the-trans-allegory-of-barbie-part-1/
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THE 2022 US TRANS SURVEY REPORT (parts 1 and 2) are about the largest-ever survey of trans and nonbinary people in the US, conducted BY trans people.
The early insights from the survey were released in 2024, we talk about the data within, the good, the bad, and the surprising.
https://www.tillystranstuesdays.com/2024/08/12/the-2022-us-trans-survey-results-part-1/
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CIS SPOUSAL AND PARTNER SUPPORT is about how it's VITAL to support trans spouses and partners when we come out and transition
and how some people instead cruelly hold entire relationships (and even children) hostage, with the threat of us losing them if we transition
https://www.tillystranstuesdays.com/2024/08/22/cis-spousal-and-partner-support/
Chilly ❄️ Grinches 🤶🏻
IMPLICIT QUEERPHOBIA is about how society worms biases into all of us
and then people who want to call themselves "allies" perpetuate anti-queer/trans biases because our stories are "different"
as told through the lens of A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN
https://www.tillystranstuesdays.com/2024/08/22/implicit-queerphobia/
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TRANS MICROAGGRESSIONS is about all the little ways that even well-meaning cis folks can end up hurting us without realizing, and the cumulative damage that can cause
includes examples of some of the most common ones
https://www.tillystranstuesdays.com/2024/08/22/trans-microaggressions/
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GENDER DYSPHORIA is about the reason for the season (for the vast majority of trans people, though not all)
it's my attempt to describe what my dysphoria was like, and what a living, walking, waking nightmare it was, and how much it hurt
includes a poem I wrote about it that hits kinda hard
https://www.tillystranstuesdays.com/2024/08/06/gender-dysphoria/
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TRANSMEDICALISM (and WPATH version 1) is about people who think you can't be trans if you don't (or can't) medically transition... be on HRT, and get all the surgeries
and how it stems from the byzantine, hurtful bullshit cis doctors used to put us through just to "allow" us to transition
https://www.tillystranstuesdays.com/2024/08/22/transmedicalism-and-wpath-version-1/
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TRANS REP IN MEDIA 2023 part 2: TV part 1!
This essay has in-depth discussions on Blue Eye Samurai, Foundation, Heartstopper, Monster High, Never Have I Ever, and more!
https://www.tillystranstuesdays.com/2024/08/14/trans-rep-in-media-2023-part-2-tv-part-1/
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TRANS REP IN MEDIA 2023 part 3: TV part 2!
Wherein we talk Our Flag Means Death, Quantum Leap, Somebody Somewhere, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, Ted Lasso, Upload, Yellowjackets, and more!
https://www.tillystranstuesdays.com/2024/08/14/trans-rep-in-media-2023-part-3-movies-part-2/
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BODILY AUTONOMY (and my tattoo) is about how I could never understand why someone would want something on their body for life...
BECAUSE MY BODY NEVER FELT LIKE MINE
and how that amazingly changed after transition
https://www.tillystranstuesdays.com/2024/08/19/bodily-autonomy-and-my-tattoo/
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TRANS MOTIVATION is how, after a lifetime of not being ourselves, the desire to be who we really are can spur us to do things we never thought possible
https://www.tillystranstuesdays.com/2024/08/19/trans-motivation/
Chilly ❄️ Grinches 🤶🏻
THE ONLY TRANS PERSON YOU KNOW is about how we’re such a small part of the population, for many us we end up as the only trans person a whole lot of people know
and sometimes we can get treated like walking databases by cis folks looking for answers
https://www.tillystranstuesdays.com/2024/08/06/the-only-trans-person-you-know/
Chilly ❄️ Grinches 🤶🏻
TRANS REP IN MEDIA 2023 part 1: MOVIES covers all the good, bad, jokes, and yikes in trans rep in every movie and tv show i saw in 2023
includes in-depth discussion of Barbie, Elemental, Joyride, Monica, Nimona, and more!
https://www.tillystranstuesdays.com/2024/08/14/trans-rep-in-media-2023-part-1-movies/
Chilly ❄️ Grinches 🤶🏻
BOYMODE AND GIRLMODE is about how trans people often have to hide ourselves in a literal costume of the wrong gender
just to avoid being harassed, discriminated against, or worse at the hands of cis people
https://www.tillystranstuesdays.com/2024/08/05/boymode-and-girlmode/
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