prismnpen

prismnpen, 18 days ago to China

I was born and raised in a small, relatively unknown town in southern #China. Time seemed to pass very slowly there. Until high school, I had never even heard the word ‘gay.’
https://medium.com/prismnpen/my-early-gay-life-as-a-small-town-boy-in-china-a4c697d5200c?sk=fb537ec3074457a35861edc1502e799d

#LGBTQ #Memoir #Childhood #Queer #Gay

prismnpen, 20 days ago to LGBTQ

Thanks to the good folks at QueerAF, the UK has just celebrated its first ever Trans+ History Week, which runs from 6–12 May.
https://medium.com/prismnpen/3-historical-figures-trans-history-important-ac6c3ba7bcd2?sk=ae7facd0e5bb8409892db5d175562369

#LGBTQ #Transgender #QueerHistory #Feminism #History #Politics

prismnpen, 28 days ago to LGBTQ

I have spent a lifetime experiencing hugs. There are so many kinds and they can be so different.
https://medium.com/prismnpen/men-hug-each-other-in-many-ways-as-a-trans-woman-let-me-show-you-312b25c74137?sk=f64e839e278ace2628e2db828a62e5ec

#LGBTQ #Transgender #Love #Happiness #MentalHealth

prismnpen, 29 days ago to LGBTQ

For years, the scientific consensus on puberty blockers for children has been relatively straightforward. They cause no significant harm, and most of their effects are easily reversible.
https://medium.com/prismnpen/cass-review-weaponized-political-right-497080b8c6d2?sk=912874f0cec6d84ce9ca987eb3a0fbf1

#LGBTQ #Transgender #PubertyBlockers #Politics #Media

prismnpen, 1 month ago to LGBTQ

If men want to hurt women, they don’t need to “dress up” to do it; plenty of men attack women daily. Assault is always a crime.
Since I follow facts rather than feelings, I’m not afraid of trans or nonbinary people.
https://medium.com/prismnpen/anti-trans-policies-hurt-everybody-an-open-letter-to-politicians-e21f1379fcff?sk=7bf6b529a5df1e1aa1afd8ec188b0a5b

#LGBTQ #Transgender #Politics #Crime

prismnpen, 1 month ago to LGBTQ

With the release of the long-anticipated Ripley series on Netflix, starring Andrew Scott, copious outlets have done retrospective articles about all the previous Ripley films and which ones were better than others and why.
https://medium.com/prismnpen/in-defense-of-the-gay-mr-ripley-dbdc19f7d2af?sk=fa30e0f316d8e3a67c1b3aa1f1c18bcc

#LGBTQ #Gay #Movies #Film #TV #Culture

prismnpen, 1 month ago to LGBTQ

For our one-year anniversary, I take James to an Italian restaurant. I’m a little nervous, and I can tell James is too.
God, I hope he doesn’t expect anything. I want him to be surprised.
https://medium.com/prismnpen/my-boyfriends-horrible-secret-5bf0ab2d5445?sk=e9d867d63f9c5fdb7162d5408af9ac02

#LGBTQ #Fiction #QueerFiction #Romance #GayFiction

prismnpen, 1 month ago to queer

One of my favourite sub-genres of #queer and trans writing is a reflecting on things in our past that made it obvious we’re queer or trans before we came out.
https://medium.com/prismnpen/a-transfemme-reflects-on-unintentional-outing-fe295031ec95?sk=f139e6714aba4a5f1e9fec277600dbba

#LGBTQ #Transgender #Gender #Identity

prismnpen, 1 month ago to queer

I’m beyond lonely for a #queer community in real life. In fact, I’m straight-up suffering.
https://medium.com/prismnpen/invisible-bisexual-seeking-queer-community-8404e512524a?sk=55c84fccd35c63fef161347651dba4e0

#LGBTQ #Invisible #Bisexual #Bisexuality #Community #Visiblity

prismnpen, 1 month ago to LGBTQ

Using trans kids as a scapegoat is a contagion that is undercurrent of the “culture wars” plaguing the US.
https://medium.com/prismnpen/new-york-times-liberal-anti-trans-hysteria-1ee761e80dc3?sk=58b9b7e42d4bb5d3d85c2bc19dde4ebf

#LGBTQ #Transgender #LiberalMedia #Journalism #NewYorkTimes #NPR

prismnpen, 1 month ago to LGBTQ

What is alarming are the points in the review that suggest that, as #neurodivergent people, we don’t know our bodies, our feelings, and our emotions.

https://medium.com/prismnpen/autistic-people-are-being-weaponised-to-restrict-gender-affirming-care-ca1612350cbc?sk=14be98206e22d93a74438cd9a30a70dc

#LGBTQ #Autistic #CassReport

prismnpen, 1 month ago to Catholic

Despite its ubiquity, few people are probably aware of the role of the #Catholic Church, and in particular Popes Benedict XVI and Francis, in creating and promoting anti-‘gender ideology’ discourse.
https://medium.com/prismnpen/how-the-vatican-helped-create-the-anti-gender-ideology-movement-006b9604b900?sk=619ff100b8f90c6862101707efd878ff

#LGBTQ #GenderIdeology #Transgender #Catholicism #Politics #Feminism

prismnpen, 1 month ago to LGBTQ

Is there something inherently “unmanly” about being joyful?
I can’t help wondering why certain thoughts, feelings, and experiences are still so commonly gendered — across a variety of platforms.
https://medium.com/prismnpen/why-does-unsplash-have-so-few-pictures-of-happy-men-4eb41eeb6b3f?sk=240cc40571e4f5092d26eef6e2fcc9aa

#LGBTQ #StockPhotos #Gender #PointlesslyGendered

prismnpen, 2 months ago to LGBTQ

When you say phrases like, “but the English language…,” “but grammar…,” “but it has always been plural…,” you are striking out. Trans people are well aware that language has historically not included us. And now, it does. If Webster can evolve, so can you.
https://medium.com/prismnpen/10-things-i-wish-you-knew-when-you-f-ck-up-my-pronouns-d1ae9a98b39e

#LGBTQ #Transgender #Pronouns #Respect

prismnpen, 2 months ago to science

Let’s cut the crap — science has a neutrality problem. You’ve heard it before, this idea that science is somehow above politics and social influence. That’s a farce. #Science has never been a separate entity that floats above the political and social climate. It’s been embedded in it, sometimes suffocating under it.
https://medium.com/prismnpen/spotlighting-the-queer-unseen-17df0add05e0?sk=82f8cb946b40811cabb1f559c26d9c1a

#LGBTQ #Innovation #Research

prismnpen, 2 months ago to LGBTQ

This essay deals with how from a very early age people unknowingly and unthinkingly accept negative beliefs that affect everyday views and interactions with life, how we perceive and accept others, and how these views, developed over many years, can make change take place so slowly!
https://medium.com/prismnpen/what-same-sex-marriage-being-legalized-in-greece-can-teach-us-c65f58f71bff?sk=77b4d65b87c6a9fd52af1f4931a1756d

#LGBTQ #MarriageEquality #Greece #Change

prismnpen, 3 months ago to transgender

Nex and another #transgender teen, whose identity is being withheld for safety reasons, were attacked by three older students in an Owasso High School restroom on February 7.
Nex did not survive.
https://buff.ly/42NmBVw

#LGBTQ #Terrorism #Oklahoma #USPolitics #Schools

prismnpen, 3 months ago to LGBTQ

If you’re reading this, I bet we share certain values. Everyone wants to be free. Everyone wants to be in charge of their own body, to choose their relationships, to be part of society and sometimes just to be left alone.
https://medium.com/prismnpen/free-to-be-ourselves-trans-rights-4f5b5fbcbb0e?sk=e81d859f7f5a7b7f2ebeb764c2385238

#LGBTQ #Transgender #Freedom #Politics

prismnpen, 3 months ago to transgender

Somehow, it feels like decades ago that I celebrated the U.S. Supreme Court decision (Bostock v. Clayton County) that declared that Americans enjoy the civil right to be hired (and not to be fired) if we happen to identify as #transgender or #gay.
https://buff.ly/3I7pJC0

#LGBTQ #Employment #Education #USPolitics

prismnpen, 4 months ago to LGBTQ

Where rights such as equality and freedom might appeal, in the context of another person, I find they don't work with many #conservatives when it comes to me because there is a lack of an essential empathetic connection.
https://medium.com/prismnpen/as-a-trans-person-i-dont-think-conservatives-see-me-as-human-668a22b6143d?sk=efa9fc4176e04bb1edae7ef486d14c21

#LGBTQ #Transgender #Empathy #Humanity

prismnpen, 4 months ago to LGBTQ

The binary sense of gender is so ingrained in our psyche that coming to grips with the fallacy of that reality triggers a whole series of negative reactions: confusion, anger, rejection, and hate are just a sampling.
https://medium.com/prismnpen/transgender-baby-boomer-struggle-5e0ca4c09d7b?sk=0ce13a6de769c325d877b2186e21b7db

#LGBTQ #Transgender #BabyBoomers #Gender #Happiness

prismnpen, 4 months ago to LGBTQ

I am the cis woman that these bills claim to protect. However, I can confidently say that anti-trans laws do not make me feel safer. Instead, I feel less safe.
https://medium.com/prismnpen/trans-rights-are-my-rights-too-bee77c6bda1b

#LGBTQ #Transgender #USPolitics #HumanRights

prismnpen, 4 months ago to LGBTQ

As the excited kids pass around photos, one of them notices that Teacher has one on her desk too.
“Who’s that other lady with you?” asks a kid.
“Oh, that’s my wife. We were out camping and a friend snapped it. Don’t you just love the cloudy mountains in the background?”
Pin-drop moment? Hardly. Reportedly, the children barely blinked.
https://medium.com/prismnpen/parents-demand-right-to-straight-teacher-for-their-public-school-kids-00fc0be41d36?sk=968d1dccfff5dd5c95422c2059a74209

#LGBTQ #Schools #Teaching #Montana

prismnpen, 4 months ago to LGBTQ

#Military experts have been worrying for years that the U.S. military’s vaunted political neutrality is being eroded— that overt partisan politics are now common in the ranks and are even creeping into the professional officer corps, where expressing political opinions has traditionally been even more socially taboo than laws and regulations require.
https://medium.com/prismnpen/nikki-haley-the-u-s-military-is-not-at-risk-from-woke-or-trans-inclusion-b7f52e50126e?sk=aa8bb81d87c286c80e69471a6460df6a

#LGBTQ #USPolitics #Democracy

prismnpen, 5 months ago to LGBTQ

Haley stated, without qualification, that government should stay out of the personal lives of Americans. And that should mean all Americans, regardless of their faith, color, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or gender identity.
https://medium.com/prismnpen/did-a-leading-gop-presidential-candidate-speak-up-for-queer-rights-a5e81966bde5?sk=af6af11a15df81a88795fba5266bf213

#LGBTQ #USPolitics #NikkiHaley #Racism #GOP