If you give me any positive reinforcement whatsoever i will go full doggo and hang on to that shit forever and my internal thought process will pretty much boil down to “!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
There’s nothing wrong with trans guys liking “guy stuff.”
There’s nothing wrong with trans guys feeling good about buying “unnecessarily gendered items to protect fragile masculinity.”
There’s nothing wrong with wanting to be masculine, assertive, confident, etc.
Expressing yourself as a man doesn’t mean you want to actively harm, harass, assault, or otherwise oppress women.
Being a trans man doesn’t mean that you’re ducking oppression to be an ~entitled male~ and active rape culture promoter, and it doesn’t mean that you were influenced by too many male protagonists in media that have led you to identify as male to feel “normalized.”
Don’t feel guilty for being a man. I say this because I wish someone had told me this when I was first struggling with my own identity, because the people I talked to about it told me I only felt a longing to be male as a result of toxic masculinity.
I had to explain to my partner that buying guys body wash was affirming for me because of the scent and how it made me feel because in public I’m still seen as “ma’am”
