Between Secrets of Dorley and When You Fell From Heaven, I feel like @badambulist.bsky.social has captured a dynamic that kept me alive from age 3 to 22 as a trans egg... randomly getting adopted by cis women who befriend and treat you as one of the girls. I'm glad this is a trope and not just me.

Never Newsom

Anyway, I guess what I'm trying to say is this: Even if I don't talk about it very much, discovering that I'm a lesbian is one of the best things that ever happened to me. I love it more than words can say. Even if I feel self-conscious about claiming that space for myself.

The transition didn't make my life easier but it did my life worth fighting for

Just got to help a trans girl change her display name for her email & Teams. 💖

"i'm afraid to start HRT because it might be taken away" they've already taken it away from you by making you afraid they will make the appointment

TERFs: “Trans women are performing a stereotype of femininity, and aren’t actually women!” My cis daughter: *Puts on a dress, immediately does ‘dress goes spinny’ without prompting*

I *know* it’s such a Basic Bitch answer, but mine is the Timberwolf/Mad Cat. My entry point was Mechwarrior 2 for PC, and that cover art just Did Something to 12 year-old Ellie.

If you’d told me five years ago that I’d be in my bathroom with a q-tip and a botttle of rubbing alcohol, trying to get nail polish out of my favorite skirt, I would not have believed you.

Sometimes the men in my life remind me that I really never was a boy, and it's both gratifying and a little frustrating.

"ugh trans women get all the attention" the attention trans women get:

Certain Leftists, to me, seem like Republicans in that they really WANT the fascist boot to come down, as long as it comes down on the Liberals first. And I gotta say, fuck you if you're like this.

So is ‘the largest personal revelations since my egg cracked’ the usual outcome from reading Dorley for the first time or is that just me?

I don’t know what’s more surprising to me: My sudden motivation to break out of the transition-related stagnation I’ve definitely been experiencing for a while, or the fact that this motivation has come from reading a book that’s a (surprisingly non-smutty!) deconstruction of the force-femme genre?

“The final boss of transition is killing the gender cop in your head.”

Finally reading Dorley, and there are parts of this that absolutely feel like they’re talking to me specifically. Christine’s discomfort at not being as good at being a girl as she feels like she should be at this point is *immensely* relatable.

anyone saying that Bluesky is dying just wants everyone to go back to twitter where their follower number is big and makes them feel important

I have lost count of the number of times people have accused me of supporting genocide because I advocated voting. The people who like to accuse folks of supporting genocide are now screamingly furious that some people say this place has kind of a shitty attitude. Hit dogs hollering, I guess. 🤷‍♀️

This is Harriet. She was the Best Hunter, and my beloved friend. I couldn’t have asked for a better cat. RIP, Kitten. I love you.

The very trans & trans-adjacent experience of getting a notification from Venmo and thinking “Who is that?” before realizing it’s someone’s deadname. 😄

Pleaaaaaase

"We mustn't dwell... no, not today. We CAN'T. Not on Rex Manning Day!"

“ignore the bullies and they’ll stop” some of the most wrong advice ever given

I keep going forward because I can't go back.

FUCK. I was hoping my CRBA would get processed before the fucking inauguration, and it absolutely didn’t.

“her pre-transition costume performed an exaggerated simulacrum of cishet hyper masculinity” Don’t mind me, just charting the course of my LARP PCs from “big manly soldier man” to “basically Furiosa, but she’s trans and psychic.”

I am *entirely* too much of a lesbian to be getting this many videos trying to tell me that umm, achually, *men* have it so much worse and women should really do more emotional labor about it.

Today’s Mood: The strange and excellent gender euphoria of having to move my head to look around my boobs to see where I’m injecting my estradiol.

I’ve never been this called out by a paperclip before.

I was in New York twice this year and I really miss their famous pizza.

Here's my one and only trans discourse take, and it's an intensely subjective take deliberately designed to center my own perspective and get the goat of assholes, so if you're angry about this, check a mirror: Trans women are FANTASTIC. We are AMAZING. Estrogen is MAGIC.

Anyone who thinks cats are emotionally distant animals has never had a cat try to cheer them up with snuggles when they're crying and it shows

FB keeps feeding videos of “male apologists”: a stitch of a woman complaining about something a guy/s has done, & then the woman stitching will hop in & make excuses, strongly implying that the OP should just do more emotional labor about it. Pretty gross, ngl. Anyway, being a lesbian is awesome.

People fretting about the "GOP is weird" attack line like it's uncivil or doesn't go far enough or whatever has got their dick in a twist are the most tedious bores out there. Folks, it's an easy lay-up attack that is WINNING. It doesn't have to be rhetorically perfect, and your angst helps nobody.

“One of the fun things about being openly trans is that sometimes you have less experienced trans people asking questions, and you get to inform them of fun facts like ‘You are about to realize that you’ve been hilariously wrong about what a comfortable room temperature is.’”

i don't want to name any tgirls in particular, but if you are a recently-out trans woman and you're still finding your place in the world, i need you to understand that trying to be One Of The Good Ones to cis people who hate you will not end well for you. you are worth more than that. love yourself

No the fuck we aren't

if you don't have at least 3-months backup hrt stocked- you probably should 👒

people will put “trans rights are human rights” in their bio and then say without a hint of irony that they won’t even vote to keep Trump out of office “ally” is a verb, and if your ACTION isn’t supporting and defending us you don’t get to call yourself one

You beat the shit out of Nazis for the same reason you put a head on a pike As a warning to others

Sometimes I’m just cute af.

There's a tendency for the freshly hatched to try to make their existence as trans people more comfortable for cis people in their life and while this is very much normal and understandable, I want every newly out trans person to know it never really helps the way you're hoping it will.

“Is this outfit a little extra?” “Yes, but it’s Pride. You’re legally obligated to be extra for Pride. We’re queer, and extra is our birthright.”