dystopian-boobpocalypse:

writhe:

also I’m convinced every trans person has at least one very niche hobby. I talked to a trans woman today who did custom Lego builds (she made sure to tell me about the scarcity of certain colors). I met a trans guy the other day who did metal smithing and liked to make incredibly delicate rings. the list really does go on

There’s a couple of reasons behind this:

• A lot of us are autistic. I don’t know if the correlation is a causation but, in my experience anyway, it seems like the Venn diagram of being trans and being autistic has a lot of overlap (before anyone comes after me: I am both trans and autistic so keep that in mind) and a part of that for a lot of us is cultivating special interests.
• A lot of us lead largely solitary lives. The inability to safely navigate the world leads many of us to one degree or another of isolation, which means a lot of us cultivate hobbies that can be carried out mostly or completely solitarily (just look at the trans girl gamer community, or the sheer number of trans people in the #fishblr tag)
• Alternatively, a lot of us sink deep into a hobby with a large community surrounding it in an attempt to find a place we fit in. People who wouldn’t respect our genders out on the street but respect our place in these communities.
• Many of us have hobbies that are perceived as “immature”(such as the aforementioned Lego building) due to the fact that a LOT of us lost out on our childhoods.
• Top secret gummint mind-control rays that distract us with fun hobbies so that we won’t realise our true power as eldritch deities and take over the world.