joshnewberry:

you know, i dont think that most cis people realize that being a trans boy isn’t “I’m a girl who wants to be a boy”

it’s “I’m a boy who everyone insists is actually a girl”

and the same goes for trans girls too, although I’m not one so I worry about talking over them. but like with trans boys, it’s not “I’m a boy who wants to be a girl,” it’s “I’m a girl who everyone insists is a boy”

it’s not that trans people “want” to be genders that they aren’t, it’s that they ARE a certain gender but most people won’t accept them as such. what we want is to be seen and accepted as the gender that we really are