A fellow trans* blog on tumblr, reaching out to help trans* individuals.

note: no recent posts since November 26th, but worth reading.

http://hagamivida.tumblr.com/post/16754006177/lgbtqiafitnesstumblrs

Basically, I am looking for:

I desperately need to see more LGBTQIA related posts on my dash. I desperately need to find some that are losing weight/getting in shape/maintaining a healthy lifestyle. I am sick of seeing posts with pictures of stick thin girls and guys. I want to see healthy, bad ass girls with girls and bad ass guys with guys. I want to see andrgynous or trans girls and guys being healthy. If you are any of the above or even sort of any of the above, re-blog this. I follow everyone (except pro ana and pro mia).

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I identify as neutrois and have watched the internet results for this shoot up from three results to thousands in the past few years. I am hoping that in the process of finding and supporting ALL of you in our lovely alphabet soup group, I can find those who identify the way I do, and we can work toward being healthy together.

And really, if you are LGBTQIA and want some followers, I’ll follow you. If you happen to be a fitness blog, too, I will be ecstatic to follow you.

I got fat and stopped binding. I forgot what joy it brought me. yeah. ending this now.

I was raised in a way that taught me that giving yourself a label is a negative thing. I was taught that you should “just be who you are”, and that any label you may give yourself is an act of obnoxious flaunting.

However, become older now, I completely disagree with that. My mom always told me not to go by any label, that it was obnoxious. That’s why I hold back with my gender and sexuality labels; because I was raised like that.

I think it’s okay to label yourself. What if labeling yourself is part of being who you are? It’s okay to label yourself. It’s okay to not label yourself.

It’s okay to do what you want to do to become who you are.

Above is the trans* flag.

What many don’t understand is that sexual orientation, gender, and sex are far from the same things.

sexual orientation is what sex or gender you prefer to be in sexual relations with. This determines if you are gay, lesbian, bisexual or pansexual(preferring all genders/sexes).

gender or gender identity is if you consider yourself male, female, or genderqueer.

sex is the organs, body parts, or physical/biological traits you are born with.

Just to get this straight(heehee):

a transman who likes only other men are considered gay. A transman who likes only women are considered straight.

a transwoman who likes only other women are considered lesbian. A transwoman who likes only men are considered straight.

Being trans* is an issue of gender, not sexual orientation.