So here’s a thing or two about my girlfriend:
She plays first person shooter games and is really really good at them. She plays electric guitar and shreds like a beast. She loves death metal music, and even produces her own. She wears Hot Topic T-shirts and jeans. She doesn’t like dresses, but might wear a button-down top every now and then. She loves having the side of her hair buzzed short. She has a half-sleeve tattoo on her bicep that is Lovecraft-inspired. She has stretched earlobes, up to a 00g right now. She LARPs (live-action role plays) and kicks ass. She loves watching horror movies even though they scare her sometimes. She’s into girls and wouldn’t turn one down in bed.
She’s transgender.
Now of course, there are the people who will take what I wrote and say, “Oh, well doesn’t sound like she’s really trans. Sound like she still likes a lot of guyish stuff so, like, is she sure…?”
But wait. If I had said all of these things about a cis girl, she sounds like a guy’s dream girl. How come after I said that she’s trans, suddenly people think there’s no way she could actually be a girl. If cis girls can like those things without their gender being questioned, so can trans girls.
Let trans girls be masculine.
Let trans girls be masculine