Dr. Emmy Zje @Emmy_Zje 
Me for 25 years: 
Me: ...
Me, finally: hey y’all I’m trans 
Cis folks: HOW ARE YOU SO SURE? 
You know there are feminine men right? You’re not a pervert though!? Why you wanna be a woman?! You’re just gonna give up your male privilege?!?! Did you consider...
Me: 
Dr. Emmy Zje @Emmy_Zje Folks, if we’re telling you something like this, chances are we’ve not only thought of what you’re saying, WE’VE PROBABLY TRIED IT.
No one just decides they’re trans one day on a whim. And when the clarity DOES strike, RARELY has anything else in our lives ever been so clear.
Dr. Emmy Zje @Emmy_Zje I mean, are you sure you’re cis you know? Have you considered how fucking cool being trans is?
And look, I don’t wanna be a woman. I spent decades actively trying to NOT be a woman. It almost killed me...
...because I just AM a woman.
Give us some benefit of the doubt ffs.
Dr. Emmy Zje @Emmy_Zje ps- if you really *wanna* be a woman, you’re almost definitely already a woman per se ;)
Rowan Church @RowanChurch @emmy_zje When I came out to my then-wife she suggested I take testosterone to counteract the effects
Rabbit Cohen @BathysphereHat @emmy_zje Yup. I got people saying “Are you sure you’re not just a gender nonconforming cis woman?” Like MOTHERFUCKER I TRIED THAT FOR MY WHOLE LIFE UP TO THEN
Kara B. @tomorrowville @Emmy_Zje I love it when people assume I made this choice on a whim one day and not after 37 years of feeling completely wrong and just assuming life was supposed to suck
𝓙𝓸𝓬𝓮𝓵𝔂𝓷 
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@TwippingVanilla @emmy_zje My mom said it was ok if I am trans, just as long as I do absolutely nothing at all about it. 