Transman Confessions 🏳️‍⚧️

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[Daniel Lismore @daniellismore]

Transphobia is just a loud public announcement that you have not thought about this for more than thirty seconds.
Someone living as themselves. That is the threat. A person waking up in the morning and existing in a way that feels honest to them. Explain how that affects your day. Take your time.
Would you accept it if someone came for you simply for being cis and straight? If the answer is no then you already understand the argument. You are just choosing not to apply it.
Get a life.

[Transman Confessions 🏳️‍⚧️ @transmanconfess]

@petrochilo looking good my man!

[Transman Confessions 🏳️‍⚧️ @transmanconfess]

@petrochilo i meant your little cousins 😅

[Umi Amai🖤🌿✨𝕯𝖆𝖚𝖌𝖍𝖙𝖊𝖗 𝖔𝖋 𝖓𝖆𝖟𝖌𝖚𝖑𝖘 @umiamai_]

Reminder:

[Daniel Lismore @daniellismore]

It’s okay to be gay.
It’s okay to be trans.

It is not something to tolerate. It is not something to explain away.

It is human. It is real. It has always been here.

LGBTQIA+ people are not a problem to solve or a debate to win. They are part of the fabric of this world. Artists, thinkers, survivors, people who have had to understand themselves in ways most never question.

It is more than okay.

It is strength.
It is truth.
It is people living honestly in a world that often tells them not to.

And there is nothing more powerful than that.

[matt bernstein @mattxiv]

zohran mamdani announces taylor brown (left) to lead the office of LGBTQ affairs, making her the first out trans woman to lead a new york city office

[Ghost Host @TheGhostHost]

Support trans people! 🏳️‍⚧️

[Transman Confessions 🏳️‍⚧️ @transmanconfess]

@petrochilo Things change. People change.

The only constant in life is change.

[Carl Poppa 🛸 @poppacalypse]

👾 New game: Build a tower of junk, see how high you can go?
→ https://t.co/f39pWC3Mmk

[cara 🌸 @mugicara]

as a non-binary person I can’t describe how emotional it makes me to see an idol showing their top surgery scars at an international fashion event … Cocona you’re truly an icon to us all <3

[Daniel Lismore @daniellismore]

One of the strangest things about the gender-critical movement is the level of science it relies on.

Not advanced biology. Not medicine. Not endocrinology or neuroscience. Basic school-level biology. The kind most people last encountered around the age of 13 or 14.

Chromosomes. XX. XY. A neat diagram. Lesson over.

That is where the learning stops.

Everything that comes after is ignored. Developmental biology. Prenatal hormone exposure. Brain differentiation. Receptor sensitivity. Intersex variation. Neuroanatomy. The reality that human sex development is a process, not a single moment.

Modern medicine does not treat sex as a light switch. It treats it as a cascade.

Here is the part that is almost never explained in public debate.

All human embryos start from the same template. In the early weeks of pregnancy, every fetus develops along a default pathway. That is why men have nipples. They form before sex differentiation begins. No mystery. No ideology. Just timing.

Genital development begins later, driven largely by hormones. If certain hormones are present, external genitalia masculinise. If they are not, they do not. This process happens in a specific window of pregnancy.

Brain development related to identity, body mapping, and self-perception happens on a different timeline. It is also shaped by prenatal hormones, but not at the same moment as genital development. These processes are separate. They can align. They can also diverge.

When they diverge, you get transgender people.

This is not speculation. This is documented across endocrinology, developmental biology, and neuroscience. It is observed across cultures and throughout recorded history. It is why gender identity has a neurological basis and why attempts to suppress it consistently fail.

The same biological reality that explains why men have nipples explains why trans people exist. Development does not happen all at once and it does not always line up neatly.

Gender-critical arguments depend on pretending none of this exists. They collapse complex human development into a primary school diagram and then insist that anything beyond it is fantasy.

That is why their explanations feel so confident and so shallow at the same time.

They are arguing from a stopping point, not a starting point. From what they were taught before the science moved on.

Medicine has moved on. Biology has moved on. The evidence is not new. What is new is how loudly people are insisting on staying behind.

When people finally see the timelines laid out side by side early fetal development, genital differentiation, later brain differentiation the reaction is almost always the same.

Oh. I didn’t know that.

And once you know it, the idea that trans people are “pretending” or “ideological” stops making sense. This is not belief. It is biology playing out over time.

You cannot argue human development back into a worksheet.

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

Forget the hate. Ignore the bigotry.

Trans women are women.

Trans men are men.

Trans and non-binary folk are human beings like you and I. Show some love and respect.

Trans rights are human rights!

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[Transman Confessions 🏳️‍⚧️ @transmanconfess]

@petrochilo 🙌🙌🙌💖💖

[Samuel Thomas 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️ @petrochilo]

To my delight and surprise, when I went to file my income taxes, despite the fact that my w2 was under my former name, I was able to file because I had my new social security card and my decree from the court that supports my new name
@transmanconfess

[Daniel Lismore @daniellismore]

Transgender no longer recognised as 'disorder' by WHO. Terfs views are outdated
�- published 29 May 2019�
https://t.co/KHUSLZHjU1

[Kirsti Miller @KirstiMiller30]

There is a reason why the Olympics banned sex based dna testing in 1999. It's because women fully developed & born as female were showing XY chromosomes. Some of those women had even given birth to healthy kiddos. Biology is far more complex than your 5th grade biology book.

[Transman Confessions 🏳️‍⚧️ @transmanconfess]

why do we feel like a proud parent 🥹🥹🥹

[Samuel Thomas 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️ @petrochilo]

As of December 16th I legally became Samuel 8 days ago I finally went to social security to get a new card ro reflect my new name @transmanconfess yay!
Now I wait for my new card so I can move forward with my other business

[Transman Confessions 🏳️‍⚧️ @transmanconfess]

@petrochilo Finally! We are so happy for you! Proud of you, Samuel!! 💖🥰