hazel

I have a crush on TotallynotJessica.

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    3 days ago

    I judge entire neighbourhoods on how amenable cats are. If a cat chilling on the footpath is pleased to meet me, then I’m calm. If a cat sitting 50 meters away from me responds to my friendly greeting chirp by backing under the nearest car with flat ears and a sunken tail, I assume the humans around it are garbage people and I need to get out. Cats are to the streets as frogs are to the rivers.








  • Arguing that you “don’t know the risks” is an infuriating trend I’ve noticed among chronically ignorant people. Of course you know the risks, both of treatment and the lack thereof. You’re the one that cares enough to do the research! I want to respectfully consider the possibility that this knee jerk reaction stems from their nurturing, protective instincts, but to be blunt, they’re doing a crap job, and it’s going to end up doing more damage than their imagined risks of HRT.

    You can continue sending them reading material, and hopefully they’ll make a more sincere attempt to understand it when they realise you’re drifting away from them, but doing this yourself in person doesn’t sound like it’s going to go anywhere. I know university isn’t far off, but I hope you can avoid these conflicts in other ways until then. They sound a lot more dogmatic than the fanatical trans circles they believe are programming you, and prolonged exposure to their rhetoric is a surefire way to instill self hatred. You don’t deserve this.