Oh also.

Beware: I’m about to just be whining about how bitterly unfair my life has been. 

(/get the reference and win my heart)

But really.

 Fuck this school so much.

Things people in my HUMAN SERVICES CLASS should not be:
-classist
-judgmental of people who have been in jail because of, you know, a fucked up prison industrial complex and war on drugs and war on the poor with no sympathy that i USED to believe just came along with being a PERSON.
-judgmental of people who don’t have jobs/good jobs/enough jobs to survive.. FuCk YeAh CaPitALiSm! meritocracy is totally real you guys. totally.
-addict shamers
-slut shamers
-unbiased. i’m sorry, you can’t be in/teach a human services class without recognizing systems of oppression and where they came from. you cannot talk about poverty while refusing to discuss any political/economic beliefs for fear of offending some republican capitalist in the class and their precious personal beliefs.
-people who actively decide not to use “he” pronouns for me even though two of our group members have corrected them.

Things I am sick of:
-debilitating anxiety
-professors who are completely oblivious to the fact that some of their assignments put trans students in a really stressful position
-NOT EVER BEING READ AS MALE.
-privilege. denying. brats. 
-having to go into a ten minute long trans 101 explanation every time I meet/interact with/have to come out to someone and explicitly say “when you talk about me, you say “he” and not “she”. Really, I wouldn’t mind constantly having to tell people I’m trans (in order to get them to use the right pronouns) if they would just get it. I’m so sick of knowing that the conversation is going to go as follows:

-“blah blah, she”
-“uh, actually, it’s “he”. i’m trans.”
-what i have no idea what that means i’m going to stare are you as if you are a sideshow act and maintain a blank expression while you have an anxiety attack while simultaneously having to explain this thing to me that i have lived for 23 years having no idea about what is this

On the bright side:
-My weekend is going to be better than yours. 

I’m sorry. I know every trans person deals with this and I actively hate myself for needing to whine about it so much but I’m TIRED.

  1. xthread said: love you.
  2. sviscous said: You’re a man. fuck them.
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Tuesday, 28th February