What’s Giving Us Trans Joy This Week?

We pondered some great mysteries:

i don’t get fountain pens. doesn’t the sharp metal part feel scratchy? do you have to dip them in ink all the time? don’t you get ink everywhere? my brain wasn’t meant to understand

— faggot! at the costco (@girlcockholmes) August 13, 2021

We embodied all of royalty:

big city greens fic pic.twitter.com/acC6eI7Ukj

— Julia Kaye 👑 (@upandoutcomic) August 12, 2021

We wrote a horror masterpiece:

I’m not saying I wrote a modern horror masterpiece which you can now pre-order, but then again I don’t HAVE to say it.https://t.co/GN0Y9yS5JB pic.twitter.com/tM5FHh7ktp

— Gretchen Felker-Martin (@scumbelievable) August 12, 2021

We got educated:

BACK TO SCHOOL!
Saturday night!
I’m doing TRAN DANS: EDUCATION to raise funds @GenderSpectrum, an org educating educators & families to make educational experience more safe for trans students!
Please go to my ALLMYLINKS in bio to RSVP

(Should’ve gotten a schoolgirl outfit. 🍎) pic.twitter.com/sWl8Pos2Vl

— Xandra Xero (ᵃᵏᵃ ᴰᴶ Xᵉʳᵒ) (@XandraXero) August 13, 2021

We spoke out against hate:

My speech outside Downing Street, about class war in the UK, media complicity, and systemic transphobia. Please give it a watch and a share, because our “progressive” news outlets haven’t mentioned the protest even happened https://t.co/lDX4HrZP4W pic.twitter.com/5IXkzLk22L

— Sophie 🌈🐙🧙‍♀️ Rolling With Rainbows on Spotify! (@theymerSophie) August 8, 2021

We learned that queerness is forever:

TIL that the world’s oldest tortoise is in a committed same sex relationship. pic.twitter.com/1BWIk54R2b

— Dr Jamie Bernthal-Hooker (@jcbernthal) August 11, 2021

We were tired:

Same sis. Same. https://t.co/STQkA2bvqX

— Angelica Love Ross (@angelicaross) August 13, 2021

We *identified*

“As a beautiful woman of back pain experience”

— Alexi (@Progchamps) August 13, 2021

We believed in our dreams:

sorry but i need to gas up my best friend (@ djdumpling on IG) who photographed his actual HERO for the nyt after years of manifesting! like, he has a lorde tattoo, y’all. believe in your dreams !!!!! pic.twitter.com/XP86TS1MPB

— Fran Tirado (@fransquishco) August 13, 2021