6stronghands:

emanantfeminine:

roachpatrol:

grumpypedant:

I think a lot of people have trouble understanding transgender issues because they try to see themselves as trans, but come at it from the wrong direction. i.e. a cis woman tries to understand transness by going, “what if I felt like/wanted to be a man” when she should be approaching it as “what if I, a woman, was so easily mistaken for a man that I had to pretend to be one”,

And I think this is something to keep in mind and to explain away when trying to get these matters across to people who’re new to the idea.

i genuinely never thought of it that way but dang this makes a ton of sense now

Thank you

Reblogging because: this is the most helpful thing I’ve ever read (as a mom of a trans son, I’ve read sooo much, but this is the first thing to turn that lightbulb on in my brain, where I sat up and went “Ohhhhhh. Got it.”). It’s pithy, to the point, and gets it across like dammit. Brilliant. Super grateful for this post. I refer to it a lot, when explaining trans stuff to friends.