“sadly I am not really trans” is a concept that held me back from transitioning for years, I was convinced that being trans was so rare that I must have wanted to be trans for ulterior reasons. These mental gymnastics prevented me from taking that leap for years. (1/5)
Three years on HRT today! I’ve come a long way but there’s still a lot to do before I consider my transition complete - like more hair removal and surgeries
@RisingSign42
Transphobes fail to understand how both sex and gender are constructed in our society. Although I'm not saying that a trans woman who get consistently misgendered isn't a woman
Hi, I’m going to introduce myself to those who don’t know me!
I’m Joanna (she/her) and I’m a trans woman in the UK doing a master’s degree in space science! I’m engaged to my gorgeous financeé
@sammy_pi_
💜
I honestly think the "it's never too late" thing shouldn't be necessary (f*ck 4chan) but you know me, I never pass up an opportunity to post a timeline 🤷♀️
I may have been on HRT for over 3 years now, but I still consider myself early in transition. Why? Because I still feel nervous when I walk into the women’s bathroom. Also I still don’t have any kind of diagnosis of gender dysphoria/incongruence
These mental gymnastics started to creep in a few months after my egg had cracked and I truly realised how much happier I would be as a girl (this was in 2012). It’s as if my mind just didn’t think I could have nice things, or was trying to protect me from false hope (2/5)
One of the things that convinced me I couldn’t really be trans was that I didn’t follow any conventional narrative that well. I *didn't* always know, in fact I couldn’t remember any strong feelings of dysphoria before 10/11. I didn’t know how common that was at the time (3/5)
I was unsure that I could convince a gatekeeping NHS psych that I was trans. I got as far as getting my GP to refer me to a psych who could have referred me to a GIC, but when I saw him I didn’t push for it because I said I needed to “explore further” (I KNEW damnit!) (4/5)
I see everyone is doing transition timelines for pride month so here’s mine. I didn’t take many selfies pre-transition and most were to use for FaceApp which is why you always see the same couple of before photos lol
You know that tesseract scene in Interstellar? Sometimes I feel like I’m watching my past self telling her “just ask for a referral you idiot! You’re 23, you could spend most of your 20s as a girl!” But she can’t hear me. And then I wouldn’t have met
@Sammy_Pi_
, so yeah (5/5)
Two years ago today, my life transformed when I met Samantha Smith, and she is the best fiancée a girl could ask for. I love you so much babe 💜🥰💜🥰💜🥰💜🥰💜🥰
Love it when a transphobe calls me “a bloke in dress” when I don’t even wear them 95% of the time. It’s such a lazy cliché, I guess “bloke in women’s skinny jeans who can’t even fit men’s jeans because they’re too small round the hips” doesn’t have quite the same ring to it 🙄
I have heard it’s lesbian visibility week and somehow I haven’t seen a single lesbian. I think they are still invisible, and you can’t prove me wrong because pictures of pretty lesbians just don’t exist at all and certainly not in the replies and QRTs to this tweet.
I've figured it out. I'm making my account public again but I've muted notifications from people I don't follow. That way any dickwad who tries to bother me with a QT again will be screaming into the void
@JaneLuciferian
It's weird to think that I used to be an avid reader of The Times in my teenage years, regarding it as an esteemed "paper of record". While my politics have definitely moved drastically to the left since then, it does seem that their transphobia has reduced it to tabloid status