What do those questions have to do with one's gender identity, or evaluating one's eligibility for a puberty blocker trial?

Youth should obviously have safe places to bring these topics up, but what horrifying things to ask a young person who just wants to feel right in their skin!

This is true. And as my friend discovered in applying for it to be renewed, there’s a backlog and long wait—but as long as you’re confirmed as applying for the extension, there’s no risk of being kicked out while you’re waiting.

I'm Canadian and it's infuriating that our government is making it so hard for fleeing trans Americans to stay. I have a friend going through the process. She's got a partner here but it's such an expensive, lengthy, and stressful process because we still treat the US as "safe". 😒

Blind media neutrality always serves those with a hateful agenda. The idea that you can "both sides" fascism needs to go.

Shout out to everyone only now learning that "Albert Einstein was reclusive at the end of his career, shunning public engagements."

Really meant,

"For the last *20 years* of his career, Einstein opposed US racism by only speaking publicly at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs).

I just sort of wiggled it around for a few seconds and all of a sudden it was through. I was terrified I'd never find the hole.

It was the easiest piercing to heal, by far. And the least painful one. It makes me very happy.

EXACTLY. Same here. For as scary as things can be sometimes, my life is infinitely more comfortable and 'real' now. I always felt like an imposter who would be detected any second, when I was trying (badly) to fit into a box not made to hold me.

Hey! Hi!

You lifted up a lot of the voices I discovered in comics when I got back into the scene way back in 2013.

I'm not a creator, but can I just say how important it was for me in the years before I figured myself out, to discover all the amazing trans comic creators, musicians, YouTubers, etc. I didn't know why I related so much, but those people saved my life. Thanks for being a longtime ally, Gail! 💖

In comics, it was Grant Morrison's run on Doom Patrol. For much the same reason, really. So many stories dealt with external realities intruding on (or parasitizing) our reality. Makes more sense now that I know depersonalization and derealization are things I experienced.

I'm really sad that I lost track of so many comic creators in those bad years; I need to get caught up again. But I recently found your YA stuff like Girlmode and it hit so much differently. I need to revisit that older stuff soon.

But 2019 was a massive depression year for me, and after that I resolved to do the work--and when I finally realized my issue was gender, all the stuff I'd read by trans creators just because I found an appealing perspective helped me understand I was normal.

It wasn't even anything specific? This was back with Kim & Kim and so on; I just found the overall vibe of your work (and other queer creators) resonated with me in a way that I couldn't explain. I lost track of everything in 2019 when I had to leave Twitter for my mental health.

Been meaning to send a thank you for ages. I…guess this is it?

I started my journey at 49 back in 2021. Your writing helped me so much in the years leading up to that though. It took a lot to break through to that deeply buried part of me. 💖