rememberwhenyoutried:

Long ago I would talk online about my perception of myself, a perception I now recognise as having come from a place of self-hatred fuelled by the transmisogyny inflicted on me and my internalisation of my own inferiority. The posts I made were similar to the posts I see today sometimes from trans women who believe we all have “male socialisation”, and while I am not going to say that those posts and mine had the same motivations I will say that I’m damn glad tumblr wasn’t around back then.

I can’t imagine how much damage it would have done to me to have hundreds of people sharing my self-hatred and thanking me for telling hard truths.