BdUnicorn

Read here if display is not working. Hello everyone, my name is Brittany, and I am a non-binary trans femme. So, recently I thought of my past and what could have been. I helped my parents clean their basement and inside the aged boxes were relics of the past: my childhood, yet I felt terribly disconnected, this was one of many times I’ve reflected upon my past and youth. I intend this to be an introduction and overview of facets of the transgender experience using my own to serve as examples, but even others, from a twitter thread. Imagine what would have been for the adult identity you have and your childhood matching. No women with boyhoods and no men with girlhoods, and nonbinary people not having either. Imagine the world of difference it would make for one to transition as a child, even before puberty, and not have permanent masculinization or feminization in the wrong way. I also wish I could have been an enby girl as a child. It’s one thing for an AMAB perso...

Hello everyone. You have probably heard of the phrase "gender non-conforming" and have wondered what does that word mean. Gender non-conforming refers to a person whose gender expression does not match the typical cultural norms for their gender identity. The most well-known examples are androgyny, feminine men, and masculine women. These are powerful things to be, especially if you're trans. Yes, trans men can be feminine and still are men, and trans women can be butch or masc and still are women. I am feminine and a non-binary transfeminine person, a demigirl, lady-androgyne. You know your enby-girl, she has a lot of labels for herself. Labels are like that. We have a lot and are a largely individual style that tries to align oneself to social conventions. In terms of expression, I conform, to my identity, but then again my identity is not conforming to the binary. Perhaps it is a little gnc. Ultimately, using the label of gender non-conforming serves to call at...

Holidays are here, and that means visiting extended family. One of my relatives, an aunt, has four children, two of them are grown up, and two are new from her new partner. As I drove back home with my sister, she said something to me She reported to me that our aunt was strongly enforcing gender stereotypes on her infant son and daughter. Gender stereotypes definitely affect children, especially when parents interact with them. What do to do? There are a few ways Status quo? Often makes life hell for trans people, especially trans youth if there is no culture of awareness or acceptance, and even if they are cisgender, gender non-conformity is often discouraged or worst case punished, at best tolerated, but expected to be "just a phase" and inauthentic for their assigned gender. Integrate the possibility that the child might be transgender when you assign gender at their birth. This would leave transitioning for trans people as we know it, but hopefully, it'd ...

Exactly what it says on the tin. A brief message. I have two drafts: One of which is personal and the other is a research project on transfeminine specific health; inspired by other trans people talking about healthcare specific to them. If anyone has any resources, please guide my research! I have not been as regular as I would have liked. My blog has no regular schedule. I try to plug my patreon so I can get pledges and therefore more motivation to keep up, but I think this is still the beginning, with patrons they do have the ability to make suggestions and requests, and I'd have the obligation to consider them. (I always put them in the bottom of each post, as if someone cares) For the time being, I am writing on the aforementioned projects; I will continue to build my portfolio and hope they get a large following someday. I want to be a writer of some sort instead of doing my day job. Doing a lot of customer-facing jobs as a trans person means you are getting paid to be ...

Content Warning: The Discourse, homophobia, transphobia, and transmisogyny. Have you ever noticed discourse around transgender people and gay or queer people sound so similar? I remember when same-sex marriage was the hot button issue of the civil rights debate™ and that people said that SSM would erode away established social traditions and customs, confuse children, destroy society as we know, and allow *silly thing* like marrying your lawnmower to be possible. Yet none of that happened, so what was all the fuss about? It was homophobia, which is a belief that gay, queer, non-heterosexual people, relationships, and sexuality were wrong and inferior to heterosexual or straight relationships. People shouted "marriage is between a man and a woman" just like how people shout "there are only two genders, male and female!" Like, you may have thought those things to be true, but they're not. You can learn, people can and should change. Definitions are not tradi...

Work has a profound impact on one's life, it is what people do for most of their lives, some form of it at least. I work a part time job and a temporary job, the latter has a career path with promises of a permanent position, though it is with the U.S. Government, and not one of many private businesses that seem to run it haha. The problem is that people still think working 40 hours is enough, some people work overtime, or not enough time, and therefore won’t get employee benefits. Mental health needs to be one of them, especially when most people feel alienated, this is one of the core analyses in Marxist theories, the alienation of labor. People feel estranged from their work because it is often not personally meaningfully, they are working under hierarchical institution whose goals often not align with the workers’ goals, since profit motives do not translate into prosperity for all, but mere meager wages. This goes neatly into surplus value. Workers, whomever they may be, it ...

Everyone's been talking about pronouns. We are talking about, I am writing about, and you are reading. October 16th is international pronoun day, which is today at time of publishing. My pronouns are, in no particular, order she/her, they/them, or it. Lets talk about them She/her is one of the the "conventional" third person pronouns, along with he/him (N.B. I do not use this; it is the forbidden pronoun here). This pronoun in reference to people, is usually known as the feminine pronouns, typically women use them, but you don't have to if you are and nor do you have to be a binary woman to use she/her. I'm nonbinary and use that.  Then there is they/them, the singular they. You probably have already used them without even knowing it.   It pronouns, however, are a reclamation for me. The “it” feels genderless and liberating despite its origins to misgender trans people. Pronouns are a part of language, they are not inherent to any g...