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Writer. Trans masc. Hopeful Butch. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️❤️🤎🤍💛🧡 He/him
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There's something so satisfying about a sharp razor cutting through 4 days of beard growth. One of these days, I'll cultivate more than the sideys, but the freshness of a smooth shave is a super-charged moment of confidence. Of course, I also enjoy being a bit of a scruffy slob beforehand, too.

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Just seen some GC lesbian separatists getting annoyed because they're facing discrimination and homophobia online and off. I'm curious as to what they thought would happen after their obsessive hatred of gender non-conformity led to them platforming the rhetoric of homophobes & misogynists.

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When I was a Christian, devout old ladies would remind me that knowing scripture wasn't proof of righteousness, because 'even the devil knows the bible'.

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I believe that humans progress by sharing our knowledge & supporting each other to thrive. In my nearly half century, I've learned that conservatism is cruel & detrimental to all human thriving. The only remedy for its poison is social ostracism until its adherents accept the human rights of all.

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Giving this a boost 🧡

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Sheila Jeffreys is one of the few consistent GCs. She hates butches, trans mascs & trans men as much as she hates trans women because she recognises that for many of us, our gender is absolutely connected to our sexuality. Most GCs like to pretend we're sexless, innocent blobs they can tokenise.

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One reason why I reject respectability politics is that I've spent my life trying to be a decent, kind human being and I know people who respect and like me on that basis. But they will always view me as lesser simply because of my orientation. I can never be respectable enough to change that.

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15 months on T, nearly 2 months in Canada living with my fiancée and loving her more deeply each day, maintaining relationships with my adult children and my sibling, trying to add good things to the world while still living with cPTSD - this weekend, I'm mostly enjoying the sun.

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My lady is very committed to running inclusive LGBTQ+ programming, but is always going to be at the mercy of admin types, and they will *only* know the positive impact and therefore be supportive if they get direct feedback from the library patrons, not only from her.

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Today, I reworked the opening monologue to a play I'm recording some videos for. My next writing task is beginning some intensive research proper for a historical fiction novel I'm planning based on a trans guy from the late 1800s. Never let it be said I'm not making the most of my downtime.

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I knew getting to Canada would be simply a shifting of limbo to another location. Being with my lady has made it so much more bearable, as I knew it would. But uncertainty still looms. Dwindling funds, healthcare anxiety, bureaucracy. But respite from burnout. Her love in person. Hope is tenacious.

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Just after this photo, Ivan fished a pocket knife out of their new jeans to show me. It was little bigger than a cricket, abalone iridescent in the handle, folding blade visibly sharp. "I had a feeling you might like it," they said. Recognition is both small & life-changingly huge.

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I knew most of this, but the starkness of reading it laid out like this is sobering.

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Given the colossal shrug given by UK terfs about the material consequences that their legal success has caused for trans folk after they wrung their hands that so many of us are 🏳️‍🌈, excuse me if I don't ever buy their 'genuine concerns' about the fertility & sexual function of L, G or B folk.

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It's important to be vigilant & there is always more to do, of course, but one thing I keep in mind was how much hope it gave me in a dark world, before I got here, to know that there were places like Canada that pushed back against the creep of conservatism & worse. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

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An English dude rocked up to a riding today to support his Canadian missus as she exercised her franchise.

submitted 59 days ago • 1 comment

Election day in Canada. Despite everything, and the flawed nature of the democratic system, it's still something that represents a wonderful part of human progress - the idea that we should all have a voice in how our society works. To my Canadian friends - always choose hope. Vote, then follow up.

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Subtlety isn't everything - Alan Rickman.

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I really don't think it's helpful for passing trans guys to make gotcha posts saying they're going to use women's facilities. There are many trans/gnc who still use the women's toilets because they have neither the plumbing nor profiency with an stp to use the men's, or they aren't binary trans. /1

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