People who have misgendered anyone with trans history often take the defensive position that misgendering is not such a big deal. Often the argument is made that they, personally, would not take such offense if they had been misgendered. First, let me reiterate that gender is something people with no trans experience or history can take for granted. If you have never had to earn the right to be your gender from an unwelcoming physician, or fight for the right to exist as your gender while waiting for the bus or trying to use a public restroom, then you are probably a whole lot less invested in the way that people see you. Second, I have to disagree with the idea that trans people are the only people who are offended by misgendering. In my years in the service industry, I have seen firsthand countless reactions of people exploding in rage when offered an incorrect ma’am or sir. Gender is important to most people’s identity, regardless of trans history, and most find the egregious insult of misgendering pretty darn offensive.
Char C - Why Misgendering is Bad (via iragray)
LGBTQ* Films, Movies and Cinema
Trans* Films (the following films contain transgender/transsexual characters)
Rocky Horror Picture Show, The (1975)
Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, The (1994)
All About My Mother (Todo sobre mi madre) (1999)
Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001)
Breakfast on Pluto (2005)
Submission from saturngang:
I want to live in a world where pink isn’t just for girls and blue isn’t just for boys. I want to live a life where I feel 110% comfortable with myself. I want to share a life with my beautiful girlfriend who isn’t afraid to hold my hand, kiss me in a public area, or call me her’s. If she isn’t afraid, why should I be? I love who I am. Call me a he, a she, both, or neither, I am not going anywhere and no one can make me. No one can make you leave either, so don’t ever think life is not worth it. Sometimes we just have to look at the beauty of life, even in the shittest of views.
So smile, happy looks great on you. Go hug a whale too! c:
Not gonna happen.
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[A picture of a big mirror with brown trim “I could stare at myself for hours in the mirror. Because just recently I learned I pass as male.”]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lvhcdbTy7e1qcpj7wo1_1280.jpg)
[A picture of a big mirror with brown trim “I could stare at myself for hours in the mirror. Because just recently I learned I pass as male.”]
LGBTQ* Symbols, Slogans and Pride History
Green Carnation
Before the Pink Triangle, before the Flag, there was the GREEN CARNATION.
Author Oscar Wilde would often be seen wearing a green carnation in his jacket lapel. It quickly spread to be the flower of Gay men.
Playwright Noël Coward made further icon of the flower in his musical BITTERSWEET in 1929.
(from Bittersweet)
Pretty boys, witty boys,
You may sneer
At our disintegration.
Haughty boys, naughty boys,
Dear, dear, dear!
Swooning with affectation …
And as we are the reason
For the Nineties being gay,
We all wear a green carnation.
LGBTQ* Political Cartoons
Admendement XIV
Section One
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
(Source: queersecrets)
Art of Transliness: [tw: cissexism/trans* erasure] Seriously:
- Some trans* people are stealth.
- And that’s okay.
- Some trans* people are open about the fact that they’re trans*.
- And that’s okay.
- Some trans* people are closeted, or are only out to a handful of people whom they really trust.
- And that’s okay.
- Some trans* people will…
(Source: queersecrets)
