maybemarietumbls:

Feminists should be pointing at successful trans women as examples, instead of trying to exclude trans women from womanhood.

Why? If trans women didn’t get the bullshit that vulvasaurs get when they were growing up, they’re the only women who possibly aren’t fucked over by all the patriarchal bullshit.

When I was growing up a trans girl, I was praised for being good at math and science, and pushed to exceed in them.



When I was growing up a trans girl, I wasn’t sexually harassed in high school by teenage boys or creepy men.

When I was growing up a trans girl, I wasn’t expected to grow up and get married, I wasn’t expected to raise kids.

I got to grow up in a time where women I looked up to were astronauts, and politicians, and scientists, and powerful business women, and doctors, and rock stars, and writers.

I got to grow up unburdened by the bullshit that gets thrown at every girl in the world saying that she’s not good enough, not smart enough, not pretty enough and needs to find a man to take care of her.

Trans women are proof that unburdened women can be everything.