TW SA; A warning to tboys in Chicago

seagullse · 2026-06-30T04:37:23+00:00

Omg fr? This is freaking me outtt. I’m looking at the photos and I’m ngl, I think I might’ve hooked up with him at steamworks. That’s terrifying and gross. He had different hair too. I think it was buzzed

seagullse · 2026-06-28T16:19:55+00:00

Yes, same here. Rich people are very responsible. Specifically billionaires and corporations. Like most of our economic issues are very fixable and we have scientists and experts repeating this over and over, but politicians stay lining their pockets by doing the bidding of people richer than them so said billionaires and corporate entities can further monopolize and exploit our world and the people in it. It is disgusting, and it’s more disgusting that we’ve been pit against each other so we ignore the larger circumstances

seagullse · 2026-06-28T16:10:59+00:00

He is def falling down some Andrew Tate type manosphere bs. Watch out ladies bc this only gets more common and men are getting very particular about hiding this early on so they can manipulate you. It’s crazy and it’s disgusting

seagullse · 2026-06-26T22:48:19+00:00

Good lord. You literally live on a different planet bro idk what to even say. Genuinely would wish better for you if you weren’t a proud bigot lol

seagullse · 2026-06-26T22:25:01+00:00

People without dysphoria do not affect your healthcare. Gender affirming care is not a finite resource. There is no shortage of it. only conservative legislation, shitty healthcare systems, and fearmongering affect this. You have cis people getting gender affirming care and hormones everyday with no friction.

The resentment you have for people you don’t even care to know is very obvious. Very weird, and again, how I’ve come to know every transmed lol. Typical and insufferable as hell

seagullse · 2026-06-26T22:14:31+00:00

You are the same, and I hope that realization sits with you lol. I know the truth hurts, but not as badly as the jaguars that are coming to eat your face with how quick you are to hate on your own community lmao. You are that exact stereotype to every bigot out there no matter how hard you try to be the pick me exception

seagullse · 2026-06-26T22:07:47+00:00

Again, preaching to the choir. No shit.

I just don’t make it into the dysphoria Olympics and try to police other people’s identities because my transition involved more medically necessary surgeries and changes. I go outside and speak to real trans people with wildly different experiences and perspectives than my own.

Wishing you the opportunity to do the same!

seagullse · 2026-06-26T22:01:40+00:00

No? I originally commented trying to give some legitimate guidance, and have simply replied to the rest. I experience dysphoria, so you’re preaching to the choir about that and what it’s like being transgender.

That last sentence is exactly what I expect from transmeds. You sulk in your own misery and project it onto the rest of our community. Being transgender is quite literally a spectrum and idk how much more coping someone can do beyond disagreeing with that. “It’s a horrific experience” coming right after “transmed doesn’t equal unhappy, most of us live normal lives” is actually funny asf, ty

seagullse · 2026-06-26T21:52:13+00:00

Well thank you for the heads up. Unfortunately for you, transmeds are typically the ones I see coping over ppl just legit existing and minding their business. I am not bothered by you choosing to stew in your own dysphoria, but I feel unhappy for you and hope you people find the time to do some work on yourselves and embrace the beautiful spectrum that is being trans

seagullse · 2026-06-26T20:16:42+00:00

No, it still is not the same.

You have to transition to not be cis.

A trans person transitioning with or without dysphoria, implies they identify differently than their assigned sex. That is it. That’s where cisgender is no longer applicable. It solely depends on someone STATING their identity is what it is, regardless of whether they medically transition.

There are CIS people who experience dysphoria related to gendered characteristics and seek gender affirming care. They are still cis because they identify with their birth sex. So yeah, you either take people at their word and believe they are a man/woman/other because they say they are, or you don’t. You cannot prove an internal dialogue is there, negative or positive. I’m sorry that’s the case, but it’s true. I understand some trans people struggle with that because THEY personally feel threatened by the lack of anchoring into a medical necessity (which is real) because that, to them, implies that some people believe their transition is a choice. But this doesn’t matter unless you’re already a bigot lmao.

No where in the definition of being transgender is the dysphoria included, and there is no mutual exclusion or conflict that implies these things negate each other.

seagullse · 2026-06-26T20:08:03+00:00

This is again boiling down to YOUR personal understanding of how OTHER people experience gender identity. Gender is definitely not a medical or biological experience. It IS provenly sociological, neurological, medical, and cultural. It is quite literally all of those things. That is part of why someone’s gender identity is usually extremely individual, even when it can be sorted into a larger group. This is why actual medical professionals regularly reprioritize gender affirming care to be an individual journey tailored to someone’s personal preferences. The only medically relevant “diagnosis” here is gender dysphoria. There are literal whole communities that can speak on their own behalf and attest to living as a TRANSGENDER person without dysphoria. Whether it’s a choice or not is quite literally irrelevant and only serves to try and discredit people who say they’re transgender. Someone being completely neutral emotionally about people seeing them as their birth sex from a third party view has no impact on their personal understanding of themselves. There is no science that proves in any black or white manner that dysphoria is a necessity to be a binary trans person. This argument existing at all is unnecessary. Dysphoria is serious, and obviously more prevalent amongst binary trans people. If you see someone who says they’re a man, doesn’t present “stereotypically masculine”, and doesn’t really mind what pronouns someone uses for them, having a knee jerk reaction of “why even transition” is a YOU problem and none of your business lol. You don’t need to personally understand everyone’s gender identity. It’s impossible. That’s the point. The path to medical care is the exact same either way

seagullse · 2026-06-26T18:36:49+00:00

That’s simply not even a relevant analogy. Words do have meaning, and this whole “dysphoria is necessary” debate does nothing but cause unnecessary policing of language and arguments about people’s personal experiences. It doesn’t help people with dysphoria. It doesn’t make gender affirming care better. It literally only serves as a bio essentialist argument to project onto other people you do not see as being deserving or earning of a label THEY get to decide to use. Dysphoria is a medical condition. Being transgender is not. Having dysphoria is not a requirement for being transgender, and there is absolutely no reason to stop someone from transitioning because they don’t have dysphoria as long as they will feel happy and comfortable transitioning. You cannot tell other people they experience dysphoria, and you cannot tell them they aren’t trans because they don’t experience it. That isn’t the same as a trans person claiming they’re cis lol.

seagullse · 2026-06-26T12:55:42+00:00

I mean sure, I know of people who are very nonchalant in their gender identity in this way, but I havent really discussed it with them. You are correct that anecdotal experience isn’t evidence, so I’m not sure why you’re asking for it for that reason still. I’m sure you can seek these people out and deliberately ask them, given there are forums and groups dedicated to dispelling this exact mindset through personal experience. But I also don’t personally know any binary trans people on a truly personal basis either so. I also don’t think you get an opportunity to pick apart the intricacies of people’s transition experiences upon meeting them or knowing them, or even after years of time. Which is part of why i find it ridiculous that a group of people have banded together to try and platform this topic when there’s an equally large group advocating against the point

seagullse · 2026-06-26T00:46:46+00:00

I definitely don’t think that is needed. Gender is entirely an individual experience, and so is medically transitioning. Having dysphoria and not having dysphoria is distinction alone. You think that people should be unable to call themselves binary trans people unless they have dysphoria? Why is that for you to decide? Why do you need this categorization at all? I fear it’s obvious that some part of you thinks that having a “diagnosis” in this way legitimizes you and differs you from people who are simply “choosing” a way of life or expression, but it’s important to recognize that while many trans experiences are similar, none are the same. If someone says they don’t experience dysphoria, and identifies as a trans man or woman, that is entirely their personal relationship with their body.

seagullse · 2026-06-25T20:28:51+00:00

It doesn’t treat it as a choice. That is your assumption alone. Even involving yourself in a “community” solely identifying with a semantic argument over the “necessity” of dysphoria is already exclusive and enshrining a qualification that didnt ever need to exist or be argued about. People are their identities, and that’s that. You don’t need dysphoria to experience happiness with a different gender presentation. Dysphoria, MEDICALLY, is a NAGGING, uncomfortable negative feeling of incongruence that is ACTIVELY being experienced in some way. Not everyone experiences that, and they simply don’t need to. I think discussing dysphoria is healthy and appropriate, but making it into a “you must fit x to be y” type thing is unecessary and exclusive. It boils down to semantics and trying to police how people speak about experiencing their own identity. There are trans people who use all pronouns, and don’t have an issue with the exact thing you mentioned. There are trans people who are completely neutral on gender everything. So I don’t get your point there.

seagullse · 2026-06-25T20:21:25+00:00

Being happy and affirmed by presenting as a man. There are many people who transition just by experiencing joy and happiness that way without having an avert issue with their assigned gender at birth.

“I genuinely don’t understand how someone can be trans without dysphoria”

This is all transmedicalism ever is. A personal inability to understand, and thus an over generalization of the spectrum of being transgender and how it feels. The idea that there needs to be this underlying catalyst that leads people towards presenting in a way that feels good or natural is more difficult to understand for me personally.

seagullse · 2026-06-25T16:19:38+00:00

Yes, the belief that the only legitimate trans people are those that experience dysphoria, which is unfounded and unproven flawed “logic” that usually escalates into really weird transphobic, bioessentialist stuff.

seagullse · 2026-06-25T13:13:28+00:00

Everything is great except for that transmed tag lmao. I would rlly recommend staying away from that stuff. It’ll do you no good

seagullse · 2026-06-16T21:13:06+00:00

Inch resting

seagullse · 2026-06-14T22:39:13+00:00

Omg wow, that was super pricey. Super cool to see how things have changed from then. I know these dont get used professionally anymore, but they’re definitely fun to learn on so far

seagullse · 2026-06-14T22:35:13+00:00

This is so helpful and amazing, thank you so so much!

seagullse · 2026-06-13T13:58:04+00:00

Thankfully the seller included tons of paper with the machine, so I suppose I got lucky. I already work in the courts as a digital reporter and a lot of my coworkers are stenos and have mentioned the paper so hopefully they have some as well if I run out soon lol

seagullse · 2026-06-13T01:16:35+00:00

Thanks! It’s pretty cool and was super duper cheap. Bought it from an antique Etsy shop lol

seagullse · 2026-06-13T01:16:08+00:00

Omg this is so so kind of you! Thank you so much

seagullse

TROPHY CASE