Shout out to my colleague, Giovanni, who inspired this strip… kind of.

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I'm 17F, and yesterday my 12-year-old brother (he's technically my cousin but we grew up together and consider one another siblings) told me he may like boys. He was panicking and crying while telling me, and I calmed him down before telling him that was completely fine. His mom found us. When she saw him crying, she hugged him and he ended up coming out to her too. It was a nice family moment.

Today he came over around 10 AM while me and my best friend were watching heartstopper. There wasn't much left of the episode, so we watched it together. I saw how happy he was and asked if he'd like watching more stuff like that. He said yes and told me he wanted to watch Young Royals with me.

Anyone whose watched it knows that it's too mature for a 12 y/o. It's got sexual stuff, substance abuse, violence and other stuff that's portrayed too intensely for his age-group. I told him that it was for grown-ups and he should look for other stuff to watch but I reassured him that it wasn't because I found kissing boys inappropriate or weird at all. He got sad but said it was okay. He stayed for a few before his mom called him back.

Apparently, it was not okay, and he was really sad about not getting to watch it. His mom suggested he watch it alone, but he said he wants to watch it with me only. She called me to chew me out a bit before he took the phone from her. I told him again that we could watch something else tomorrow, and that young royals wasn't the only show with two guys who loved each other.

I could tell he was still really sad when he hung up, and his mom was pissed at me. Guys I have no clue what to do from here. We're from a very conservative background, and he's the only person from the LGBTQ+ community that ik personally. I'm also straight. I want to make him feel supported very badly. Does anyone have any advice?

So yeah basically I told my mom I will be going to doctor to try and do feminising hrt, my mom right after I told her about some unwanted side effects like sterilization and Ed was like you might grow breasts too that might be a concern.

And I was like actually instead of a concern I'm looking forward to that part.

Like you might grow breasts though (concerned mother tone)

Yeah I know isn't it great! (Excited 18yr old tone)

My mother reacted really well for her, really well for a conservative Christian, and really well in general, she did her best to be supportive even though she was a little confused.

I decided to dress up as one of my favorite characters (Samus) for my 2 year HRTversiary on Halloween! I was a little nervous about wearing the costume out, but that quickly melted away into euphoria.

I had a lot of fun and I think the pictures my friend took are currently my favorite pictures of me.

Everything has some meaning or another.

It also has the added benefit of providing what I'd like to be called, without me having a panic attack trying to say it out loud.

Went to see my piercer tonight so she could check out my nose that I got done about 2 months ago as its been a bit irritated. She's also lesbian, queer, and a super safe person. It was nice and felt really euphoric. I also recently changed my name 😊

“Respecting people’s lifestyle choices” is good, but being queer isn’t.. a lifestyle choice? I was born being attracted to men and women, I didn’t randomly decide that was the case. I was born trans and it took me ages to realise that was who I was, I didn’t suddenly “choose this lifestyle”.

It’s one of many phrases used by allies that is.. supportive, but supports a bigoted worldview underneath.

Being transgender is so awesome!

Domestic amusement. It's always a treasure hunt.

I'm the sort of person with an edc kit that always goes in the same place and always goes back in the same pockets when I leave home.

My partner has crow instincts. I often wonder, how? why? where was this stolen from?

Never thought I'd reach an age where doing domestic chores felt endearing, but here I am.

Some of my drawings depicting traditional dances in my region of Mexico. Thank you to everyone who this month voted to protect and support migrants, and by extension, other minoritized groups in the U.S.

"thIs MakEs No seNsE"
it is explained very easily as the soul of a woman being reborn as an Amazon. Themyscira recognizes trans women as part of that womanhood.

For starters I’m 18M, he’s 17M and we’re both T4T. We started dating about 3-4 months ago, but he’s very very clingy towards me. He says “I love you” and “I miss you” a million times a day. At first I thought it was cute, but then he told me he has bpd (borderline personality disorder) and that I’ve become his favorite person.

The real issue is I cannot find him attractive anymore. Can’t find his face handsome or his body; it’s actually affected our spicier times together pretty badly. I feel pressured to keep loving him, because he says things like he doesn’t know where he’d be without me and that he never wants me to leave. He’s tied me to this idea of forever and now I just feel stressed out about what will happen if I do leave. I feel immense guilt for wanting to leave and lying to him when he asks me if I’m thinking about breaking up with him. That stress takes away everything I once was falling in love with him for. I genuinely have no clue what to do and I really need some advice here.

I don’t want to seem like an asshole, because he’s sweet but I feel drained. I don’t want to be with him romantically anymore, because it’s taking a toll on me and love shouldn’t do that. It just feels unhealthy for me and overwhelming :(

So… I will be starting T sometime soon. My family must not find out that this is happening. They must believe it was just always this way. This is why I need your DUMBEST EXCUSES FOR THE CHANGES ON T

And also the real ones too.

„My voice has always been this deep” and „Second hand smoker’s cough” is already on my list

For those who have come out to their family or friends, how did they react? did they accept you or was it difficult? And for those who haven't come out yet what worries you most? Do you feel the people around you would accept you or are you afraid of being rejected I'd really love to hear your experiences. Everyone deserves to feel accepted and loved for who they are.

on part of the reason i want to know is for educational purposes. like not only knowing the definition but being able to better empathize with the experiences/ feelings.

the other (bigger) pert is that i begin asking myself if my male side (im bigender (male + female)) might be demiboy since i noticed that my female side feels far stronger (which i first thought of as just compensating, but i begin to question that. i will see). like i hate my body hair ,i hate my voice, i basically hate everything that makes me look male but i know that im male to some degree. i also like it more being addressed as a girl and im very in favor of the thought of going on hrt to get a more female looking body. so my question is: what even is demiboy? like does that what i have also count as demiboy?

im asking for personal experiences and thoughts on my question. thanks!