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Do not fall in love with me. If you do, you’ll end up at all the Renaissance fairs. I’ll wear Medieval dresses and quote every line from Hamlet because I can and embarrass you until you start checking your watch every three minutes. You will end up in every hole-in-the-wall book store, choking on dust in the poetry section. I will get us stranded in the rain and in the middle of nowhere, and refuse to let you look at your maps until the sun goes down and we’ve wandered long enough under the stars. You will have to suffer my dreams, and my delusions. I’ll stand on chairs so I’m tall enough to slay dragons. I’ll hide away in my room a lot, researching the history of castles and how much it would cost us to wake up one morning and fly straightaway to Iceland. When I’m writing, you might not see me for days. My sleeping hours will never be consistent. You’ll figure out that I don’t believe it is possible to love things too much. When something interests me, I will talk your ear off about it until you start counting sheep in your head. I will run down my hallways in my socks and play movie soundtracks at maximum volume. I will lie awake for hours curled under your arm and I will make you stay up all night with me when the sky is clear and there are hot chocolate packets in the cupboards. I will laugh at almost everything because yes, the world is terrible, but it is also beautiful and incomprehensible and very, very funny. I will create things and I will destroy things. I will eat breakfast on the floor in my sweat pants and tie my hair up without brushing it. One day I’ll cut it all off. One day I’ll get a tattoo. I’ll make myself look ridiculous, sometimes. And I will say the wrong things, frequently. I’ll play devil’s advocate a lot and I’ll bother the universe with questions because there are things I just have to know. Some days I’ll seem to have my entire life figured out and then, just when you think I’m alright, I’ll spend an entire day eating ice cream and sobbing over nothing, and everything. Sometimes I’ll be selfish and sometimes I’ll be aloof and sometimes I’ll be restless, and sometimes I’ll pretend to be apathetic about the things that hurt me. Sometimes I’ll run from the things I’m most afraid of. And so sometimes I’ll plan thousands of adventures for us to go on and then forget about every single one the moment your hand catches mine. I’ll forget your birthday. I will. I’m sorry. I’ll forget your birthday and I’ll forget our anniversary every single year and I’ll forget the name of your mother’s sister who always sends us gifts but I will never forget the story you tell me about the first blonde-haired blue-eyed girl who broke your heart and I will never forget what makes you smile. Do not fall in love with me. If you do, I will be an aurora borealis that is only beautiful now and again if you trudge through hours of storm and snow to get to me. But if you get there, I promise you I promise you I promise you I promise you: it will be so worth it.

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Trans Student Equality Resources

Trans Housing Network

All Our Worlds (Queer Book Database)

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Questioning?

5 Common Insecurities The Don’t Mean Anything About Your Transgender Identity

8 Signs and Symptoms of Indirect Dysphoria (summary by Transgender Teen Survival Guide, article by Zinnia Jones)

Ask a Gender Therapist: Am I Transgender? (youtube video)

I think I might be transgender, now what do I do? (an article by AdvocatesForYouth.org)

Need help finding pronouns? / Here’s where to try them out

What Am I? (an article by Transgender Teen Survival Guide)

Coming Out

Coming Out (article by Trans Youth Family Allies)

Coming Out: The Plan (by Neutrois.me)

Coming Out Tips (by Transgender Teen Survival Guide)

Coming Out to Partners: Transgender and Nonbinary People (article by J. Lee Phelan)

Coming out stories:

On Coming Out as Genderqueer; or, My Life as a Bearded Lady (by Dustin L)

So Your Child is Non-binary: A Guide For Parents

Resources for Friends and Family

Understanding:

American Psychological Association: Answers to Your Questions About Transgender People, Gender Identity, And Gender Expression

So Your Child is Non-binary: A Guide For Parents

Everything You Need to Know About Nonbinary Identities (an article by Everyday Feminism)

in-depth interview with a nonbinary person about their identity (article from Zenger’s Newsmagazine)

Explaining Genderqueer to Those Who Are Not (an article by neutrois.me)

"forcing kids to stick to gender roles can actually be harmful to their health" (article by Tara Culp-Ressler)

Middle Sexes: Redefining He and She (an HBO documentary on gender variance available on Youtube)

Think Your Child Might be Transgender? (an article by GenderSpectrum.org)

What It Feels Like to be Transgender (article by Sophia Gubb)

8 Signs and Symptoms of Indirect Dysphoria (summary by Transgender Teen Survival Guide, article by Zinnia Jones)

Supporting:

A Support Guide for Parents, Families and Friends of Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming people (by PFLAG.org)

There’s No Such Thing as a “Sex Change” (video from TheGuardian.com about how to talk about transgender people)

find support groups for parents of transgender children and trans youth (USA)

Trans*Forming Family (a blog by the mother of a genderqueer child)

Transgender Parenting (articles from Egale Canada)

TransYouth Family Allies

Singular They

Merriam and Webster: Ask The Editor

Oxford English Dictionary

Wikipedia: Singular They

The Economist: Singular They

Legal

WPATH Standards of Care, version 7 (pdf) (The World Professional Organization for Transgender Health)

Transgender Law Center (USA)

Change your Name for Free - Civil Indigent Status (USA) (Tumblr post)

Transgender Surgeons in the U.S. (USA)

DMAB Resources

Presentation:

Women’s Clothing Terminology

Tucking How-to Guide

The Breast Form Store

Mastectomy Bras with Built In Flap for Breast Forms

How to Contour and Highlight Using Makeup | How to Apply Eyeliner with a Spoon | How to Apply Foundation | How to Apply Blush | How to Apply Eyeshadow

Eva Voice Training App

Transition:

Find a gender therapist

AMAB Hormone Guide (uses “MTF” wording)

AMAB Surgery Guide (uses “MTF” wording)

DMAB master post

DFAB Resources

Presentation:

The FTM’s Complete Illustrated Guide to Looking Like a Hot Dude

Underworks Binders | GC2B Binders

Mr. Limpy Soft Packers | The Real EZP (the only STP that actually works)

Transition:

Find a gender therapist

AFAB Hormone Guide (uses FTM wording)

AFAB Surgery Guide (uses FTM wording)

FTMSexTalk.tumblr.com (everything to do with sex as it relates to gender and transition - FTM-focussed but they also answer a lot of questions from AFAB non-binary people)

Hudson’s FTM Guide (tons of information about binding, HRT, and masculinization)

Janitor Queer (a blog by a genderqueer person on low-dose testosterone)

Neutrois Nonsense (for information about nonbinary-specific transition)

YouTubers:

OutOfThisBinary (collab channel)

welkin gender

Micah R

thecharliecharmander

queerascat

queerbb

benderqueer

Qubit Cuties (collab channel)

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And please know that you are not fighting this battle alone. You are worth more than your anxiety says. You matter and so does your opinion and your say. You are awesome

Star Wars: How the prequel trilogy mirrored and rhymed the original

Capitalist culture is service industry workers not being allowed to sit down for their entire shifts, no matter how dead the traffic flow gets.

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Let’s be clear.

I’ll respect your religion, until you use it to try to fuck up people lives.

I’ll respect your movement, until you use it to try to fuck up people lives.

I’ll respect your beliefs, until you use them to try to fuck up people lives.

I’ll respect you, until you try to fuck up people lives.