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Nicole DeWitt @catastro-v.bsky.social · 5h

the idea that trans rights have swung elections to republicans is a fiction made up by media and political elites (both conservative and liberal) who are personally transphobic and want transphobia to be politically popular so they no longer have to hide how disgusting they think trans people are

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Emoria 🏳️‍⚧️ @emoria.bsky.social · 18m

Same. And I’m so happy that I am.

Two pictures of a white trans woman, but the left one is before estrogen and she looks fucking miserable. The girl on the right looks happy and pretty and alive.

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Emoria 🏳️‍⚧️ @emoria.bsky.social · 1h

You can do this.

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Emoria 🏳️‍⚧️ @emoria.bsky.social · 17h

International Lesbian Day, what better time to describe the very strange path I took to realize I am a lesbian.

As a kid, I knew I was “wrong”. Growing up in a small, religious town in Wisconsin in the 90s, I could tell I wasn’t like the boys around me but I wasn’t sure why.

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Emoria 🏳️‍⚧️ @emoria.bsky.social · 17h

So I do. And suddenly, the dysphoria of trying to fit into the wrong boxes clears. I’m a woman. And you know what? Men are fine, even hot sometimes. But women? Holy shit they’re incredible. So I’m a lesbian!

Turns out young me was right about being gay. Just got her own gender wrong.

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Emoria 🏳️‍⚧️ @emoria.bsky.social · 17h

But I’m STILL not saying I’m a woman.

You know what finally gets me to say it? Having wonderful trans women in my life. Ones I feel a kinship and attraction to.

Why am I still putting up these walls? Still trying to say I’m exclusively nonbinary? I’m a woman dammit! Say it!

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Emoria 🏳️‍⚧️ @emoria.bsky.social · 17h

EXCLUSIVELY women’s clothing. Huh. Let’s ignore that.

Time to start estrogen. To be MORE nonbinary, not because I’m a woman, obviously. Let’s balance those hormones.

When my estrogen levels come back high and my testosterone comes back basically zero, I tell my doctor I like it that way.

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Emoria 🏳️‍⚧️ @emoria.bsky.social · 17h

That relationship ended years later. It was far more fulfilling than any of my relationships with men, but it still always felt wrong.

Years later, I finally convinced myself that not only was I QUEER, I am non-binary. So. They/them pronouns. Makeup. Women’s clothing.

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Emoria 🏳️‍⚧️ @emoria.bsky.social · 17h

Was I actually attracted to any of this? I mean, sorta. I didn’t mind it. Occasionally I had sex I would qualify as “fine”.

But yeah. It wasn’t quite right.

I fell in love with a woman in my mid 20s, after years of being a “gay man”

Whoops, I guess I must be a bisexual man!

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Emoria 🏳️‍⚧️ @emoria.bsky.social · 17h

I may have wanted to be a girl, but transexuals were just the weird angry people on daytime talk shows and the folks comedies use as a punching bag. Surely that wasn’t me?

So I embraced being a gay man. I dated exclusively men. I started looking exclusively at man-on-man porn

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Emoria 🏳️‍⚧️ @emoria.bsky.social · 17h

With my limited vocabulary and fear of talking to anyone about these feelings, I came to the conclusion I must be gay.

Of course, this meant I thought that meant I was a gay Man. Because what else could be?

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Emoria 🏳️‍⚧️ @emoria.bsky.social · 17h

International Lesbian Day, what better time to describe the very strange path I took to realize I am a lesbian.

As a kid, I knew I was “wrong”. Growing up in a small, religious town in Wisconsin in the 90s, I could tell I wasn’t like the boys around me but I wasn’t sure why.

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Emoria 🏳️‍⚧️ @emoria.bsky.social · 19h

I did it. It took five minutes. You can do it too.

Zoë “Baddie Proctor” Quinn @unburntwitch.com · 1d

Californians, let’s call (916) 445-2841 to tell Newsom’s office to sign the following pro LGBTQ+ rights bills before the deadline:

AB 82/SB 497
AB 1084/SB 59
SB 418
AB 554
AB 728
AB 678
SB 590
SB 450

mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @madycast.com · 1d

He hasn't signed the other bills yet, but he still has days to do so
This headline is misleading for not mentioning that.

The gender education veto is bad, but far from the most important trans rights bill on his desk.

There's still time to contact Newsom for the rest!

www.gov.ca.gov/contact/

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Emoria 🏳️‍⚧️ @emoria.bsky.social · 19h

I did it. It took five minutes. You can do it too.

Zoë “Baddie Proctor” Quinn @unburntwitch.com · 1d

Californians, let’s call (916) 445-2841 to tell Newsom’s office to sign the following pro LGBTQ+ rights bills before the deadline:

AB 82/SB 497
AB 1084/SB 59
SB 418
AB 554
AB 728
AB 678
SB 590
SB 450

mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @madycast.com · 1d

He hasn't signed the other bills yet, but he still has days to do so
This headline is misleading for not mentioning that.

The gender education veto is bad, but far from the most important trans rights bill on his desk.

There's still time to contact Newsom for the rest!

www.gov.ca.gov/contact/

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Emoria 🏳️‍⚧️ @emoria.bsky.social · 23h

Wait a minute… you’re not a very wide adult, you’re two lesbians in a trenchcoat!

Also you’re both over 18

Wait are you just trying to only buy one ticket or…

Oh they’re just making out again. Okay, carry on ladies

Autumn Wolff | Lesbian Romance Author @autumnwolff.bsky.social · 23h

A cloak big and flowing enough to hide two girlfriends kissing inside.

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Autumn Wolff | Lesbian Romance Author @autumnwolff.bsky.social · 23h

A cloak big and flowing enough to hide two girlfriends kissing inside.

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Emoria 🏳️‍⚧️ @emoria.bsky.social · 23h

I will have an Alyson Greaves line tattooed on me in less than a week and I’m so excited.

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Emoria 🏳️‍⚧️ @emoria.bsky.social · 23h

Happy International Lesbian Day to ALL LESBIANS ONLY

And anybody else who’s chill, y’all’s can hang too

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Emoria 🏳️‍⚧️ @emoria.bsky.social · 23h

Good morning Bluesky, remember to take your medication, drink some water, and destroy the patriarchy today

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Emoria 🏳️‍⚧️ @emoria.bsky.social · 1d

The music in Baby Steps is CONVINCING my cat there are a bunch of birds nearby and I am having difficulty explaining to her that it’s just the TV

Emoria 🏳️‍⚧️ @emoria.bsky.social · 1d

Then I say it again as I follow the pattern. At least for me, it’s way easier to focus on what is safe than focusing on what I need to avoid, and saying it out loud locks it in.

Hope that trick might help you out! I died a BUNCH to him before I started doing this, now I’m usually pretty safe.

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Emoria 🏳️‍⚧️ @emoria.bsky.social · 1d

Okay, what works for me is when each flash happens, I ignore where IS getting hit, and instead focus on where ISNT getting hit. If there are multiple safe lanes, I pick one. Then with each flash, I say out loud a safe zone.

So, if middle, top, bottom are safe, I say out loud “middle, top, bottom”

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Emoria 🏳️‍⚧️ @emoria.bsky.social · 1d

I came up with a tactic for it, if you’re interested? It really helped my ADHD brain at least

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Zoë “Baddie Proctor” Quinn @unburntwitch.com · 1d

Californians, let’s call (916) 445-2841 to tell Newsom’s office to sign the following pro LGBTQ+ rights bills before the deadline:

AB 82/SB 497
AB 1084/SB 59
SB 418
AB 554
AB 728
AB 678
SB 590
SB 450

mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @madycast.com · 1d

He hasn't signed the other bills yet, but he still has days to do so
This headline is misleading for not mentioning that.

The gender education veto is bad, but far from the most important trans rights bill on his desk.

There's still time to contact Newsom for the rest!

www.gov.ca.gov/contact/

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Emoria 🏳️‍⚧️ @emoria.bsky.social · 1d

Umm. Is there something you can be besides those two things? That’s all I’m aware of.

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