#trans awareness week

hi! happy trans awareness week! i know it can be a long and difficult journey for many, but im proud of you. i accept you. im happy youre here, lets continue our journey. if no one else is here to congratulate you, i am! you are loveable and deserve respect, that shouldn’t be taken away because you are who you are.

A note on the blog content regarding sex, gender and sexuality

I usually keep my personal politics off this space, but after some activity in the last few weeks, I’m going to briefly speak up about it. I’m uncomfortable with people with anti-LGBTQ views twisting some of the feminist works on this blog towards justifying sowing discord. As a writer and academic it’s my view that that is taking the work outside of its original context, and it isn’t a view that I as a member of that community - that includes *all* the letters, on the spectrum of sex and gender experience and presentation, share.

Intersex people exist. People with variant chromosomes, statistical outliers to the generic paradigm, and people who wish to correct difficulties with hormone therapy, all exist. This does not run counter to texts that explore the experience of people without those conditions or complications, nor does it call them into question.

This blog does not support anti-intellectual misuse of work to further harmful agendas. That’s not the purpose of research, and in my mind, a waste of the short time each of us has on this earth.

Happy Trans Awareness Week! Today (11/13/20) through 11/20/20 is Trans Awareness Week!

Be trans with pride!
Whether you’re in the closet or out;
binary trans or nonbinary;
pre-transition or post-transition;
you want to transition or you don’t;
queer or straight;
YOU ARE VALID

I made my comics from trans awareness week into a zine. Let me know if you’d like to buy a copy.

21.11.20 TokyoTransMarch / #TransDayOfRemembrance