Women are too emotional because of their cycles" --testosterone Men

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#thinkingcap2

Don't be silly. The coup is ongoing

#thinkingcap

Hey I'm Alicia, an artist who really hasn't been feeling social media lately (especially IG and FB) so I thought I'd try Mastodon out and see if I like the simplicity of it more. I think I picked the perfect server, since I'm much more likely to be in my sunny garden than anywhere else.  🌞

My interests include
#art #fiberart #wool #dyeing #watercolor #flowarts #music #gardening #cats #dogs #reptiles #languagelearning #writing #reading and #mandala making.

I have a family business called Fibre2Fabric where we dye all sorts of fibre, yarn, and fabric and I want to get into #upcycling clothes some more!

Hope I get to meet some cool people the algorithm would drown out on other apps.

#introduction

Last night as I was putting the kid to bed, he hit me with a question: "have you always been my dad?"

"Of course, I'm still the same person."

"Except now you're a girl?"

"I've always been a girl, I just didn't always know it. Don't think of it like I was a guy who became a girl. Think of it like I was a girl who wore a guy outside her like a shell. I was always me inside, even though everyone else saw him until I broke out of the shell."

"What happened to him when you broke the shell?"

omg kid it's 9pm can you just go to sleep?
"He never really existed. When I broke out of the shell, he was gone. Disappeared in a puff of smoke."

"Okay, good night."

If you "can't explain it to your kids," that's because you don't understand it, not because they can't understand it.

If you have a hard time wrapping your head around "this whole transgender thing," that's a learned behavior.

It can be unlearned. Try to be as emotionally intelligent as my nine year old kid, it'll do you a world of good.

#pride #queer #trans

You have a trans kid?

I know you’re doing your best to love & support them.
Please know I see you & stand with you.

You don’t have a trans kid?

Talk to parents who are raising a trans kid & get educated.

Don’t judge & dismiss & trash parents who are doing everything they can.

Do some actual research, learn what families who have trans kids are going through.

No parent will ever do something that harms their child FFS.

Trans kids have a high rate of suicidal ideation.

#protecttranskids 🏳️‍⚧️