if people’s kids are going hungry and it turns out the money for it went to the gold ballroom and they’re refusing to pay up because they can’t, I think one very particular category of French antiques will be coming back in fashion right quick if you know what I mean

We collected 72 letters. 🏳️‍⚧️ I am very tired but also very proud.

I am hosting a two-day letter-writing campaign to fight the Indiana BMV about gender markers on IDs. Last night I got Presbyterian retirees and the cutest trans 20 year olds together over a table of stationary and homemade cookies. It was heartwarming af.

I'm throwing an open house so people can come and write letters to yell at the BMV about the transphobic and discriminatory bullshit they are proposing. I've got 15 people coming so far, but I'm hoping for more.

Being trans is so funny. A wacky combination of hilarious social discomfort and well-intentioned misunderstandings AND my elected officials openly premeditating the murder of myself and everyone like me.

Update: I got 414 trick or treaters this year! My favorite costumes of the night were all the versions of Wednesday Addams and an itty bitty tiny kid dressed as the Hungry Hungry Caterpillar. 🥹

I love Halloween. I love handing out candy, seeing kids in costumes...it's the best. The packs of roving teens are my favorite, but the tiny kids who are absolutely terrified to speak to me, a stranger, are also really cute.

Explaining to a particularly elderly nun what fan fiction is, and why I don't see any reason why she shouldn't write some if she wants to.

not just a short king. a short emperor a short pretender to the throne of alsace lorraine a short elector-palatine of the holy roman empire

i'm angry at myself for depriving myself of this for so long but i'm also angry at the world that told me over and over and over that i would become a pariah, or a danger to children, or in danger, and made me so, so afraid to reach out and take what i knew i wanted a decade ago

I can't tell you how devastating it feels to watch the US government put a flag on the USDA website blaming immigrants and trans people for people being denied food.

once again if you brought him back and told him what people were doing to his work J.R.R. Tolkien would buy a gun

I am deeply annoyed that my time must be spent arguing with the Indiana BMV about how it is just common sense and human decency to let people update the gender marker on their IDs...

Good news everyone, I got a hysterectomy two weeks ago and am feeling great.

I would love for a single democrat to reckon with the fact that conservatives are not in fact motivated by reasonable concerns. They are — just as they were with ‘concerns’ over blacks and gays and numerous other minorities over the last five decades — motivated by bigotry.

It is never a bad time to bring out my favourite illustration of Frankenstein's creature Very come hither.

A pie is kinda an orb. Our glorified resurrected bodies will be pie.

Remember when my abusive father decided to lend me the "Boundaries" book by Cloud and Townsend? Lol.

Sméagol after he's been under the power of the One Ring for too long:

I need to watch the new Wuthering Heights film and the new Frankenstein film, but I need to watch it with people who aren't going to find me absolutely insufferable when I talk about them afterwards

I have finally crossed the last item off of my post top surgery to-do list, which was using a jump rope.

I try not to have strong opinions about the imaginary personal feelings that a dead person would have if they were alive .. But I very strongly believe Wilde would have been a big fan of trans people and our whole deal.

This got tagged as adult content, lol

One of my favorite things about the Art Institute of Chicago is the strong showing of depictions of John the Baptist, and the varying degrees of sexiness thereof. Like, step aside, John the Beloved, we need to look at your man's hot cousin for a second..

Pietà Michelangelo, 1498-1499

Me, a performative male.

It's Rape Culture: For Christian Teenz! The Fun and Hip guide to never failing to ask the question "what was she wearing"? (I feel sick, man)

Ok, I know this sounds insane, but there was a page on Datable with a cartoon sketch of parts of the human body hanging on meat hooks ala a butcher shop The message being that if you didn't dress modestly you are just "a piece of meat" ...anyway, the therapy is going great, if anyone's wondering!

I got my flu and covid booster successfully, despite there being Confusion and Dismay in the pharmacy about my name change.

Where can I go from Godzilla's spirit? Or where can I flee from Godzilla's presence? If I ascend to heaven, Godzilla is there, If I make my bed in Sheol, Godzilla is there. (Psalms, 139)

It's my birthday! I'm 35 years old today, and if you're gift inclined, have you considered donating to my fundraiser?

erik the opera ghost killed AT MOST maybe two people and they were both being rude so let's all calm down a little

My favorite part of the day is when I sit in the kitchen with my morning coffee and listen to the soft sounds of mournful discontent coming from my dog, who is fed breakfast at the same exact time every day but believes that human awake=breakfast time, regardless of what the actual hour is.

Heyyyyyy

It took a full week for me to update my three most important ID documents after getting my name change order signed by a judge. Today is the first day I haven't had an appointment or spent hours driving to government offices.

Help my friend pay for top surgery!

Hey bsky friends, I need your help! I've made a GoFundMe for top surgery, which I ideally want to do early next year (funds allowing). Because I'm only able to work part-time due to disability and PhD, any little bit helps towards this goal. Please share far and wide! gofund.me/639f4a03

I want to explain a few things and then it might be clearer why UK trans people are upset. In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia. In 2005 I started medical transition. (1/13)

Really needing every single cis to understand that loudly asking a trans person questions about (or just generally bringing up) their transness in public isn’t only rude and invasive, it’s dangerous.

may james dobson's name be erased and his bones be eaten by local carnivores

May his grave become a gender neutral bathroom.

and a happy james dobson is dead day and congratulations to all who need it for outliving that fucker

Very sorry to hear that James Dobson died peacefully

I can't believe James Dobson died the same day as I got my big transgender legal name change. This is amazing. I didn't realize I could be so happy in so many different flavors of happy at the same time.

My name is legally changed!! It took a ton of time and money, and I still have a nightmare hellscape of paperwork to update literally everything with my old name, but.... still! It's a good day.

I need to know: If you have a significant other whose name is Destiny, do you ever say melodramatic things like "My Destiny is here" or "Destiny is calling me!"? Because...if not, they should date me instead, I'm more fun than you.

I have a surgery consultation scheduled for getting a hysterectomy. I am incredibly nervous! I know this is what I want, but wish I could fast forward to it being over. Feel free to wish me well and reassure me, especially if you've gotten one yourself.

Oh god I've accidentally ended up being an officially designated trans grown up, talking to kids about my new name, twice in one week. I'm happy to! Love being a queer role model, representation matters, etc. But I'm also the least cool trans person alive, possibly, so this is the vibe:

a woman in red and blue bespangled in stars treading on a serpent u better believe my grandma would have lit a candle under rosie