Transient Musings
Just another non-binary individual trying to find their way in an all too otherwise binary world.
This is a personal journey into the realm of gender identity and exploration of self. Mostly it contains musings. Sometimes there will be pictures and, hopefully with increasing frequency later on, progress updates.
Changed blogs (refollow request)
Hi guys.
I moved my gender musings onto my personal blog, because I’m tired of feeling like I have to hide everything from everyone (including work when I live in San Francisco and my gender expression and identity are arguably protected by law).
If you follow me there, I’ll follow back. I also discuss issues related to Asperger’s, the process of becoming a writer (which I am now, but am still trying to officially break into the fiction market), figure skating, and loads more.
Cheers,
Nicayal :]
I’m also going to start following people on here over there, so if you’re wondering where you got a new follower, hi in advance.
Another follow spree is ensuing, so if you’re wondering who cherutenu is, it’s just me consolidating accounts.
Changed blogs (refollow request)
Hi guys.
I moved my gender musings onto my personal blog, because I’m tired of feeling like I have to hide everything from everyone (including work when I live in San Francisco and my gender expression and identity are arguably protected by law).
If you follow me there, I’ll follow back. I also discuss issues related to Asperger’s, the process of becoming a writer (which I am now, but am still trying to officially break into the fiction market), figure skating, and loads more.
Cheers,
Nicayal :]
I’m also going to start following people on here over there, so if you’re wondering where you got a new follower, hi in advance.
(Source: transimuse)
Changed blogs (refollow request)
Hi guys.
I moved my gender musings onto my personal blog, because I’m tired of feeling like I have to hide everything from everyone (including work when I live in San Francisco and my gender expression and identity are arguably protected by law).
If you follow me there, I’ll follow back. I also discuss issues related to Asperger’s, the process of becoming a writer (which I am now, but am still trying to officially break into the fiction market), figure skating, and loads more.
Cheers,
Nic :]
Follow my personal blog for more gender identity goodness?
Hi guys.
I think I have a few too many blogs, I’m afraid. Initially I’d wanted to keep gender identity issues separate from my personal blog, but the more they blend together, the more it makes sense for me to just write directly from there. Plus, I update more.
If anyone’s interested in keeping up with me, I’d love to do the same for you. You can follow me here:
I’ll happily return the favour.
Looking forward to getting back in touch and catching up with some of you. :]
I’ll be reblogging this a couple of times (different times of the day to catch people, hopefully). Please follow me on my main blog. I’ll follow back if you’re from here. I just couldn’t keep up with the several I currently run.
Still talking trans issues, just on my public blog with other things I like. :]
Just reposting this. I am immeasurably more active about politics and trans* issues on my main blog (link above).
If you want to keep (or get back) in touch, please do follow over there. I’ll return the favour.
Follow my personal blog for more gender identity goodness?
Hi guys.
I think I have a few too many blogs, I’m afraid. Initially I’d wanted to keep gender identity issues separate from my personal blog, but the more they blend together, the more it makes sense for me to just write directly from there. Plus, I update more.
If anyone’s interested in keeping up with me, I’d love to do the same for you. You can follow me here:
I’ll happily return the favour.
Looking forward to getting back in touch and catching up with some of you. :]
I’ll be reblogging this a couple of times (different times of the day to catch people, hopefully). Please follow me on my main blog. I’ll follow back if you’re from here. I just couldn’t keep up with the several I currently run.
Still talking trans issues, just on my public blog with other things I like. :]
Follow my personal blog for more gender identity goodness?
Hi guys.
I think I have a few too many blogs, I’m afraid. Initially I’d wanted to keep gender identity issues separate from my personal blog, but the more they blend together, the more it makes sense for me to just write directly from there. Plus, I update more.
If anyone’s interested in keeping up with me, I’d love to do the same for you. You can follow me here:
I’ll happily return the favour.
Looking forward to getting back in touch and catching up with some of you. :]
Sweden still forces sterilization on its transitioning transgender citizens
((Normally I wouldn’t post something like this on here, but AllOut is asking for signatures from everyone internationally to stand up and protest this discriminatory law.
Essentially, if you’re transgender in Sweden and you want to change the sex assignation on your legal documentation, you’re required to undergo forced sterilization.
What’s the big deal if you’re transitioning from female to male anyway, you might ask? Apart from the fact that it’s a gross violation of personal autonomy, some transmen do decide to have biological children after transitioning. That should be their prerogative, not the government’s.
Sweden is generally very progressive as a country. This law is outdated, barbaric, discriminatory and needs to be taken off the books. Please sign or reblog. I’d appreciate it.))
Signal boost.
What do you think of Fan Mail?
So, I tend to be the Tumblr guru at my job. As a result, I’m the one who usually writes posts about Tumblr’s new features.
I did it again with Fan Mail. Click the link above. I know you want to leave comments in my blog post about your thoughts on this new feature. If you have a moment (and an opinion), I’d appreciate the comments. If I’m going to continue writing posts about Tumblr, it’d be nice if I could actually justify it by showing that people have commented. :P
Signal boost (I’m lame. Please humour me.).
“And then suddenly, for no apparent reason, everything started to fall apart.”
That about sums it up, actually.
(via lilbitofserenity)
This is the cowardly thing to do
I’m having a really difficult time dealing with being misgendered lately, so much so that I’d rather just stop fighting this internal battle where every time I’m addressed as “she” or “miss” or “ma’am,” I mentally correct the person.
It’s wearing on me. So are the butch lesbian jokes.
They’re meant in the lightest sense possible, not malicious in the least.
But never, not once in my entire life, have I identified as a lesbian, let alone as butch.
And I know this is entirely superficial of me, but I’d rather be seen as a pretty woman than a butch lesbian, even if it means giving up the opportunity to one day be a handsome man.
I can’t deal with anything right now. Maybe that’s why I went and bought $150 worth of women’s athletic attire and shaved under my arms this weekend.
I have the utmost respect for people who are strong enough to endure for years on end. But I’m not. I’ve never been the strong one. And I’m afraid all these mental wars I’m waging with people who don’t even know what’s going on is going to end with me losing the one little bit of my sense of self that I actually still have left.
Don’t ask me what this means, because I don’t know. I don’t know if I want to go back to my female name. I don’t know anything right now.
All I know is people can sometimes be ignorant, and I’m no longer in a state of mind to give them a free pass, just because they’ve never bothered to learn about anyone else’s experiences before.
That probably sounds terrible too.
