i’m a turtle

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Cake day: July 19th, 2023

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  • So I’m ace and sex-repulsed, right? I’ve got a body that at least advocates for that and gives me almost no secondary sex characteristics. And a friend of mine once noticed that I have, in her words, “energy like Kara from Detroit Become Human,” and so I play up that android/robot vibe in subtle ways with how I arrange my hair and dress myself.

    I just wish people would see the feminine in me, which has been cooking for eleven years. :(



  • My right hand doesn’t really have much in the way of motor control, so my hairstyles naturally tend to more simple stuff. Plus, the longer I attempt to look at my face in the mirror, the more of a migraine I get, as I can never quite resolve what I’m looking at. (The notch you see in my glasses over my right eye helps me to pin the approximate location of my head in reflections and such.)

    So I usually just wear a medium bun and go with a clean presentation, or I let my hair fall in the back. Once in a while I’ll just let my hair hang loose, but it’s long enough it gets in the way.

    I generally like just looking simple and presentable.



  • Tanis Nikana@lemmy.worldOPtoTransfem@lemmy.blahaj.zoneI'm a woman
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    12 days ago

    I’ve actually survived two strokes and walk with a cane. The right half of my body is generally a mess, but my rehab has done well for me. At least I can walk!

    Also, insofar about me from the neck down, I’m intensely sex-repulsed and have zero breast matter going on. I use slight padding to give gentle curves there, but nothing major. So showing chest generally can’t happen with me looking even more masculine.

    Honestly, I may as well keep playing the hand I’ve been dealt, because there’s not many other options for me.

    And really, I don’t have any cis people I talk to without a cash register within touching distance.



  • Tanis Nikana@lemmy.worldOPtoTransfem@lemmy.blahaj.zoneI'm a woman
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    I’m eleven years deep into HRT. I try my best to present binary female, but some sort of quantity prevents even my fellow trans people from giving me anything other than he/him without incessant prompting.

    I have a call center job and I know my voice passes just fine. It’s probably all in how I move my body (which isn’t well—who knew being a stroke victim also removed gender?)

    Anyway, I look like this on an average day: