alright fuck it. i'll send in my application for new hexbear username after work tonight. hopefully by tomorrow i'll be posting under a new, ridiculously trans femme username

I thought "Gender is a social construct." was an invalidating claim because my gender dysphoria felt too damn real for it to be influenced by society,

Was mulling over this quote from one of our cool and funny posters, because I thought this way when I was sixteen too. I guess I can't blame me, because understandably I was feeling insecure and "inferior" and all that shit, so it's kind of understandable that I took this as a sort of attack on the concept of gender. I was theory-free and a kid, Idk.

It still fucking sucks though, it fed essentialist thinking in me and probably led to some of the negative disposition I had toward, honestly most queers at that time. I was such an angry, morose little shit. My brain just wasn't ready for "gender is a social construct, and that is not inherently bad" y'know.

The broke gender dysphoria compared to the woke gender envy

I have bought some nail polish, in one o my favourite colours, but I recently chewed my nails down to the bed. So I need to wait a bit before I try it. Also someone here once wrote something about causing allergies if one is not careful, so I am also hesitant because of that. Is that a real threat, or just bogus?=

I want to ask a question to all of our beautiful, sizeable Unjust Depths readers, especially ones who are caught up:

Are there any known, confirmed T4T relationships anywhere in Unjust Depths? If no, why not? I find it kind of suspect that shoving like 10+ trans gays into a submarine does not result in the world's most absurd polycule forming immediately =)

Fwiw assumptions are a bad idea with UD, so it could be that Maryam just hasn't mentioned it yet, who knows. But I'm over 2000 pages in, so like...