I am assigned female.

I have assigned female privilege.

If you are assigned female, you have privilege too.

There are waaay more resources for us and we’re waaay less likely to be killed or face physical violence (especially for white afabs).

Our bodies are seen as freaky or novel or hot, but benign, and therefor less of a threat.

Assigned male bodies are seen as weapons of attack, even though they’re not, and therefor people are way more likely to be violent towards them.

I will never get as much shit for presenting masculine or androgynous as someone who was assigned male will get for presenting feminine or androgynous.

I don’t claim to understand completely.

I just hate this.

It breaks my fucking heart.

Yes I do love joining tumblr for the first time and finding all sorts of blogs to help me.

I am grateful for the fact that even though I get shit nearly every time I go out into the world, I highly doubt I’ll be killed because of who I am.

One of the people who I love so much, who has seen me at my worst, who is one of the most thoughtful and compassionate people I know, and who will always have a part of my soul is a genderqueer person and assigned male. It’s not fair that I have so many things to help with my journey and they don’t. It’s not fucking fair. IT’S NOT FUCKING FAIR.

Our community (non-cis community as a whole) has been thrown under the bus so many times. We don’t need to do that to each other. That shit literally kills our most vulnerable, and if our most vulnerable are dying then what the fuck are we doing? That’s not progress. It helps no one, not even the privileged in our community on a spiritual level (hope that makes sense…on a practical level yeah it helps us a lot, but being any type of oppressor is never good for the heart).

I can’t always be on-point or a perfect supporter. I know that’s not going to happen. But I will do my best to listen and learn and speak out for those who don’t have the privileges I have. It hurts too much and I love people too much to not do that. I’m sorry for anything I’ve done, even unknowingly, that has caused harm directly or indirectly towards anyone who is assigned male and I will spend my whole life trying to do better.

