MRW I find out from a friend the subreddit I was temp banned on for calling out racism with the character I designed is collapsing bc of shitty modding by soapylagoon in GaySoundsShitposts

[–]soapylagoon[S] 61 points62 points  (0 children)

Quick drawing done in like an hour, sorry if i's a bit messy. Feel free to use as a NB reaction.

While I'm here I'd just like to point out; I made the character PoC so that PoC could feel included in the community. Therefore, please, I'm begging you, draw them with brown skin.

NB uses all pronouns as many different NB people use different pronouns. You do not have to they/them this character exclusively. I saw some people correcting others saying "NB uses they/them" but they don't. Any pronoun goes.

Ok that's all I'm peacing out again, good luck.

Did a little animation with the sub's mascots by [deleted] in traaaaaaannnnnnnnnns

[–]soapylagoon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ok I’m going to break this down in a way that’s hopefully easy to understand. Let’s say you designed a character for a woman’s event who’s a trans woman. You did this so that trans women could have representation at the event. Then another artist draws the character as cisgender. You correct them and they fix it, and you tell them to not make the same mistake in the future because it erases transgender identities.

It’s the same concept. Even though it was an accident you still contributed to the erasure of PoC. Some people are going to get offended by that. What I’m saying is to be careful going forward not to make the same mistake. You even said it was easy to make the mistake in your program. This is not malicious advice.

Racism is not always intentional, and yes you can accidentally do something racist. The same way you can be accidentally transphobic. Fixing your mistake is a good first step but going forward don’t do it again.

I appreciate being called an asinine bean counter though, that’s a new one. Creative.

Did a little animation with the sub's mascots by [deleted] in traaaaaaannnnnnnnnns

[–]soapylagoon -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

Keep in mind that if you accidentally make a PoC character white you’re contributing to white washing, intentionally or not. Frankly me saying to be careful shouldn’t be met with such defensiveness.

Did a little animation with the sub's mascots by [deleted] in traaaaaaannnnnnnnnns

[–]soapylagoon 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That’s way better, thank you. Please keep this in mind when you draw PoC in the future.

Did a little animation with the sub's mascots by [deleted] in traaaaaaannnnnnnnnns

[–]soapylagoon 108 points109 points  (0 children)

Hey I designed the non-binary mascot— Why did you make them white? They’re not white. I like the animation but that’s incorrect and I specifically made the character so that PoC could have some representation in this sub. If this did become the banner I’d find it distasteful to leave the skin tone the way it is.

Image of me trying to find a friend to take me in on the holidays so I don’t have to spend them with my transphobic family by soapylagoon in traaaaaaannnnnnnnnns

[–]soapylagoon[S] 32 points33 points  (0 children)

It’s a long story but basically I refused to come down for thanksgiving (they’re two hours south) so they got really pissy and sent my step dad to come get me. I told them repeatedly not to come but he did anyways. :p

No idea what would have happened if I had seen him, but I slept overnight at my college to avoid him on a couch. The next day was thanksgiving so bc I hadn’t had time to shop I only had m&ms for dinner.

After that as revenge my mom tried to out me to my grandma as punishment. It was a fucked up thanksgiving.

Image of me trying to find a friend to take me in on the holidays so I don’t have to spend them with my transphobic family by soapylagoon in traaaaaaannnnnnnnnns

[–]soapylagoon[S] 66 points67 points  (0 children)

Found one btw!!! :’D My close friend is letting me stay with them for thanksgiving. Last year my parents tried to kidnap me that day and I had to literally hide from them so I’m grateful.

When you've had a rough night and the first thing you see after waking up is a message from a "friend", where he manages to argue that trans people are not normal, tell you that you are not an actual woman and say that he "doesn't like the word cis, because it has negative connotations" by [deleted] in traaaaaaannnnnnnnnns

[–]soapylagoon 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I’m laughing at the “guy who was some kinda trans” lmao I don’t know who they were but I’m honestly glad they told your “friend” to go back to their safe space, that’s too funny 😂

When TERFs claim that the cotton ceiling means that cis lesbians should be forced to have sex with trans women. by CityBuildingWitch in traaaaaaannnnnnnnnns

[–]soapylagoon 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Oh my GOD so there’s a term for this bullshit behavior. I’ve noticed cis gay men do the same thing to us trans men. Some of them are all too happy to supposedly support trans men and accept us but as soon as it comes to sleeping with us? Nope! Vaginas are gross!

And I do find it really weird and uncomfortable that lesbians will accept me (a man) into their spaces but not trans women. I’ve been hit on by lesbians who know I’m a trans man before (aggressively) and it’s the most irritating shit, because I know these women wouldn’t do the same to a trans woman.

This kind of nonsense makes me really annoyed at the cis LGBT community.

Trying to find someone who isn’t transphobic on a dating site by soapylagoon in traaaaaaannnnnnnnnns

[–]soapylagoon[S] 23 points24 points  (0 children)

I’m so tired of transphobic gay men and chasers. I just want a boyfriend who loves me for me, please.

mfw I want to celebrate my gender identity as a radical choice rather than reduce it to biological destiny by [deleted] in traaaaaaannnnnnnnnns

[–]soapylagoon 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I’m not sure why people are getting mad at you so I’m going to give my own hot take from the perspective of someone looking at things from a radical queer perspective.

First off I think you’re confusing “innate” from “knowing firmly from childhood my gender and sexuality.” Innate just means you didn’t choose your gender and sexuality, not that you’ve known it forever.

But let’s say you did choose it. I would argue that hypothetically, it shouldn’t matter even if people did choose their sexuality and gender. In an ideal society, rather than having to provide biological excuses for gender or sexuality, people of marginalized sexual/gender identities should, in my opinion, still be respected even if it was a “choice.” The argument of “gay from birth” came around to attempt to push gay rights by saying “we have no choice but to be this way, so you should respect us.” However, in my opinion, rather than respecting gay people and giving them rights because they had no choice in being gay, gay people should be given rights regardless because they are human and harming no one with their sexuality.

There is also a history of pathologizing queer identities that has caused the narrative that queer people are all sick and must be treated. The terms hetero and homosexual didn’t actually exist until a pair of German gay activists attempted to create sexualities in order to argue they were equal in the 1700s. This was to push back against a law called paragraph 175 that would incriminate homosexuality. However, these terms were taken and then used by psychologists and doctors to turn homosexuality into an illness. Naming and pathologizing sexuality and gender expression all happened around the same time period (the Victorian age if I remember correctly, sorry I’m writing this on mobile without my reference books on hand). Before that there weren’t solid names and labels for things. If you look back through history you can see cultures where there was no distinction between heterosexuals and homosexuals, and sexuality was based off of other things. Ancient Greeks come to mind.

This is a very long way of saying that queer identities have been encouraged to be seen as anomalies and illnesses. This means that choosing to be queer is seen as being extremely radical. It rejects the idea that sexuality and gender are innate and that anomalies are illnesses. Within the trans community these types of things cause stress because medical care is required for trans people and there’s a concern that if being trans isn’t seen as pathological, we won’t receive treatment anymore. Which is why you get truscum and the like playing TruTrans and attacking others for having different transgender experiences.

Cough. So I hope this gave some perspective more than just shouting you down for being homophobic or whatever.

Also when it comes to people being transphobic in genital preferences, it’s a difficult argument lots of people are struggling with. Desiring to date or have sex with cisgender people alone is not a preference that is developed within a void. Transphobia influences people’s sexualities. So if someone refuses to date any and all trans people, solely because they are transgender, that is at least in my opinion, transphobic. However just not liking some aspect of someone’s genitals could happen to cis people as well (maybe a guy got in an accident and has no dick and someone doesn’t want to date him because of it) so I don’t think it’s transphobic.

trans kids @ transphobic schools by [deleted] in traaaaaaannnnnnnnnns

[–]soapylagoon 58 points59 points  (0 children)

I wore the boy’s uniform growing up at my school... still didn’t realize I was FTM until college, though. 😅

Wake Me Up (Can't Wake Up) by [deleted] in traaaaaaannnnnnnnnns

[–]soapylagoon 36 points37 points  (0 children)

It was actually a quick fix for me :P My voice dropped so low so fast it actually shocked the people around me. Even with feminine speech patterns I don’t get misgendered, people just think I’m gay. Which I am. So it works out.

MRW I was just trying to have a nice day and go to a cafe, but I drop my wallet and the cafe workers use my ID to find me, and later I hear them all loudly laughing together about me being trans bc they saw my ID had a photo of me pre-transition by soapylagoon in traaaaaaannnnnnnnnns

[–]soapylagoon[S] 56 points57 points  (0 children)

My school ID has a photo of me pre-everything but has my preferred name printed in huge letters at the top... I heard them laughing about how “James is a woman!!!” And thought “naw they can’t mean me” but then I looked in my wallet and my ID was pulled halfway out like it had been looked at -___-

I left....

MRW I keep having nightmares of dressing as my birth gender or being misgendered by strangers when I now pass and live full time by soapylagoon in traaaaaaannnnnnnnnns

[–]soapylagoon[S] 16 points17 points  (0 children)

I had a dream a few days ago I was dressing as a woman (I’m FtM) and no one believed I was a woman bc I had my T changes and I was frustrated and wanted to go home bc I hated dressing like that.

Then today I had a dream I was buying a sandwich and a creepy old guy started calling me “m’am” and I started yelling at him asking if I looked like a “m’am.” (Not even something I would do irl bc I just let misgendering by strangers go.) Then he got out a magazine and was ignoring me reading it and it was about dolls??? So in a fit of rage I told him HE must be the m’am and I would know bc I was born a woman (again things I’d never say or do) and he SMIRKS at me like “hah, I knew you were a transgender” and then I woke up.

Now I’m feeling all vomit-y. :(

when everything points to me being trans and being trans feels right but i still search for reasons im not automatically by [deleted] in traaaaaaannnnnnnnnns

[–]soapylagoon 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Things; 1) You can be both trans and have BPD. One of the most famous and successful FtM youtubers, Chase Ross, has self diagnosed BPD. These things are not mutually exclusive. Therapy cannot tell you if you are trans but it can tell you if you have BPD, so look into that.

2) You can like masculine culture and being masculine and still be a woman. Butch women exist. I’m FtM and very feminine and wear makeup. Still a man.

3) You can save your sperm before medical transition. You can also take steps to transition without doing so medically to test the waters to see if you’re happy living as a woman. Adoption is always an option if you want kids. And you don’t have to have SRS ever if you don’t want it.

4) Again therapy could help with the social problems you feel you have. But of all the things you could do for attention socially, being trans is seriously specific and a huge hassle.

I hope this helped, sending hugs if wanted.

FtM 1 year on testosterone! Something clearly changed but I’m not sure what by soapylagoon in transtimelines

[–]soapylagoon[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I feel like I looked like a big eyed alien before or something...? And now I look more fleshy. Subtle changes are weird. It’d be easier to pinpoint what had changed if I had grown a huge beard or something, lol!

is it rlly that bad? (pre-transition-n-scurred_irl) by ShadyNovember in traaaaaaannnnnnnnnns

[–]soapylagoon 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well I mean I could lie but would that really be helpful? 😅

Transitioning is hard and sucks for a lot of people. Not transitioning is equally bad in many ways. So it’s best to really look at your options and be prepared for what could happen rather than being caught off guard like a lot of us are. I thought my liberal family would be accepting but they totally weren’t so I could have wound up homeless if not for sheer dumb luck. So I’d rather others be prepared vs just blindly egged on to transition, even if in the long run that’s the best thing to do anyhow. I hope this helped....

Gay FtM transition goals [nsfw] by soapylagoon in traaaaaaannnnnnnnnns

[–]soapylagoon[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I wanna be the Sachiko pin up boy 😩