Emme Reynolds
@emmereynolds.bsky.social
I'm having conversations around identity as vulnerably as I can. I'm grateful to everyone who takes part in these discussions with me along the way ❤️
Super controversial opinion: you don't have to defend transphobic people even if they are your friends, actors you have liked before, or really physically attractive people.
December 2, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Super controversial opinion: you don't have to defend transphobic people even if they are your friends, actors you have liked before, or really physically attractive people.
I don't care what an average family that needs food stamps looks like. If it's a mom with kids who is just trying to get food for her kids to get through school for the week or anyone else who lives any other way, people who need food deserve food.
October 29, 2025 at 5:09 PM
I don't care what an average family that needs food stamps looks like. If it's a mom with kids who is just trying to get food for her kids to get through school for the week or anyone else who lives any other way, people who need food deserve food.
If I think of you when I see hobbitses, know that you are a very loved person in my life.
May 12, 2025 at 4:58 PM
If I think of you when I see hobbitses, know that you are a very loved person in my life.
Did you know that trans women can be moms? That trans parents with children can be called mom by both those around them and by their children? This does not seem like a difficult concept to grasp, and yet, for a large group of adult humans, it is wildly difficult to conceptualize.
May 5, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Did you know that trans women can be moms? That trans parents with children can be called mom by both those around them and by their children? This does not seem like a difficult concept to grasp, and yet, for a large group of adult humans, it is wildly difficult to conceptualize.
Tip for trans ladies learning to do their makeup: do it because it is fun to learn and not because you need to be the best at it. I've been doing this for three or four years and would still say I kinda suck at it, but at least enjoy doing it because it helps me be me.
April 30, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Tip for trans ladies learning to do their makeup: do it because it is fun to learn and not because you need to be the best at it. I've been doing this for three or four years and would still say I kinda suck at it, but at least enjoy doing it because it helps me be me.
Cheat days are for rich people submitting taxes not for how much food you get to eat. Eat eight slices of chocolate cake today because it's sunny and it tastes delicious.
April 27, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Cheat days are for rich people submitting taxes not for how much food you get to eat. Eat eight slices of chocolate cake today because it's sunny and it tastes delicious.
Just a reminder that cats hate Harry Potter and always have and you too are allowed to start hating Harry Potter at any point.
April 17, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Just a reminder that cats hate Harry Potter and always have and you too are allowed to start hating Harry Potter at any point.
If you listen to Brain Stew without listening to Jaded, I don't need your smelliness in my life.
April 8, 2025 at 1:32 PM
If you listen to Brain Stew without listening to Jaded, I don't need your smelliness in my life.
I'm going to chime in and say that parents who have gotten to support and love their trans child and have seen them loved by friends and medical professionals have most definitely experienced joy in parenthood. Parenthood is a wild and hard ride, but that is a joy I would never trade.
April 1, 2025 at 6:05 PM
I'm going to chime in and say that parents who have gotten to support and love their trans child and have seen them loved by friends and medical professionals have most definitely experienced joy in parenthood. Parenthood is a wild and hard ride, but that is a joy I would never trade.
This is Figgy Pudding, our long and fuzzy boy. Is he a good boy, no, not at all. But is he endlessly loveable? Yes, very much.
March 26, 2025 at 4:54 PM
This is Figgy Pudding, our long and fuzzy boy. Is he a good boy, no, not at all. But is he endlessly loveable? Yes, very much.
What do you use to determine how you are going to address someone? Do you look at their clothes, their hair, their build? Likely, you don’t even know exactly what it is you’re looking for when determining the gender of someone you don’t know.
Analyzing the gender biases you have
I have them, you have them, she has them, let's all work on addressing them
emmereynolds.substack.com
March 6, 2025 at 4:36 PM
What do you use to determine how you are going to address someone? Do you look at their clothes, their hair, their build? Likely, you don’t even know exactly what it is you’re looking for when determining the gender of someone you don’t know.
First day in almost a year that I'm not wearing my hair in a way that directly covers any brow lift scars from facial feminization surgery. Just owning the hell out of transition and these eyes and hair I want vs hair I think I need.
March 5, 2025 at 4:44 PM
First day in almost a year that I'm not wearing my hair in a way that directly covers any brow lift scars from facial feminization surgery. Just owning the hell out of transition and these eyes and hair I want vs hair I think I need.
Driving through rural Ontario to a gender care appointment and thinking about all the rural queer folks who see so many of their neighbors so happily place their conservative signs out during an election. "We just don't give a shit" these signs scream.
February 12, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Driving through rural Ontario to a gender care appointment and thinking about all the rural queer folks who see so many of their neighbors so happily place their conservative signs out during an election. "We just don't give a shit" these signs scream.
I'm exhausted from needing to shave my face, put on makeup, wear a dress every minute of the day in order for most people to see me for who I am. I don't think people understand just how exhausting it is to be a trans person who just wants to hear "thank you ma'am" while wearing jeans and a t-shirt.
February 11, 2025 at 4:41 PM
I'm exhausted from needing to shave my face, put on makeup, wear a dress every minute of the day in order for most people to see me for who I am. I don't think people understand just how exhausting it is to be a trans person who just wants to hear "thank you ma'am" while wearing jeans and a t-shirt.
Trans person who doesn't "pass" or make women "worried you're going to steal their husbands," deserve safe and ready access to washrooms that match our gender. ALL trans people deserve this.
February 6, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Trans person who doesn't "pass" or make women "worried you're going to steal their husbands," deserve safe and ready access to washrooms that match our gender. ALL trans people deserve this.
The mental health consequences of making trans kids play sports outside of their gender are so much more of an issue than a cis-woman finishing 6th instead of 7th at a swim meet. There's no proof trans people in sports hurt women, there's much proof that alienating trans people kills trans people.
February 6, 2025 at 4:22 PM
The mental health consequences of making trans kids play sports outside of their gender are so much more of an issue than a cis-woman finishing 6th instead of 7th at a swim meet. There's no proof trans people in sports hurt women, there's much proof that alienating trans people kills trans people.
I have got to the point in transition where I have cut my hair very short and it doesn't bother me at all in terms of how I look to others. It sounds small but it feels huge.
February 5, 2025 at 1:24 PM
I have got to the point in transition where I have cut my hair very short and it doesn't bother me at all in terms of how I look to others. It sounds small but it feels huge.
How do you not fall in love with the person at a hair salon that washes your hair?
February 4, 2025 at 7:02 PM
How do you not fall in love with the person at a hair salon that washes your hair?
Self care tip of the day: eat cheese curds.
February 4, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Self care tip of the day: eat cheese curds.
Imagine being so sad of a person that it ruins your life because trans women are so hot.
February 4, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Imagine being so sad of a person that it ruins your life because trans women are so hot.
Took my estrogen, progesterone, and cyproterone this morning. And I'll take more tonight, and tomorrow morning and every med time going forward. Every time I take them I'll be reminded I'm a beautiful trans woman deserving of these treatments.
February 3, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Took my estrogen, progesterone, and cyproterone this morning. And I'll take more tonight, and tomorrow morning and every med time going forward. Every time I take them I'll be reminded I'm a beautiful trans woman deserving of these treatments.
Self care tip of the day: eat raw cookie dough.
February 3, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Self care tip of the day: eat raw cookie dough.
I'm a trans parent to a trans child and I gotta say, right now, things are not great. To ask people to simply see you as a human being deserving of the kind of care that saves and extends our lives and to be met with "freaks, castration, unnatural," is wild, sad, infuriating.
January 30, 2025 at 7:18 PM
I'm a trans parent to a trans child and I gotta say, right now, things are not great. To ask people to simply see you as a human being deserving of the kind of care that saves and extends our lives and to be met with "freaks, castration, unnatural," is wild, sad, infuriating.
Protect trans kids. Right now.
Love trans kids. Right now.
Share information with trans kids. Right now.
Give medical support to trans kids. Right now.
Save trans kids. Right now.
Love trans kids. Right now.
Share information with trans kids. Right now.
Give medical support to trans kids. Right now.
Save trans kids. Right now.
January 29, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Protect trans kids. Right now.
Love trans kids. Right now.
Share information with trans kids. Right now.
Give medical support to trans kids. Right now.
Save trans kids. Right now.
Love trans kids. Right now.
Share information with trans kids. Right now.
Give medical support to trans kids. Right now.
Save trans kids. Right now.