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Gwen the Trans Balrog

@YouShallNotPass@chaosfem.tw

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Hi, I'm Gwendolyn, Gwen for short. I'm a cute girl trapped in a giant's ugly body, hence my screen name. I'm trying this out because I really want to talk to other trans folks. In the real world I'm locked in the closet with the light turned out waiting for everyone to go away, but online maybe I can be a little more out. It would be nice.

Av courtesy of nellseto’s maker“ https://picrew.me/en/image_maker/1349935 and is semi-accurate. It shows a red-haired woman wearing a black t-shirt, flannel shirt, glasses, and gold hoop earings, holding a coffee cup that says "Cat mom," in front of the trans and lesbian flags, saying "Meow" because why not lean into it? My banner is a pic of a balrog whose flames are in trans colors. I made it myself but I'm pretty sure the balrog is from the movies.

I'm also a #lesbian at the moment so that's fun.

This is a big step for me. Thanks for listening.

732 Followers

379 Following

26 Posts

Joined May 13, 2023

Pronouns:

She/Her

Novella:

https://gwen-trans-balrog.neocities.org/

Gwen the Trans Balrog @YouShallNotPass@chaosfem.tw

· 4mo ago

Oh honey, no one is telling children they're trans. Trust me. Everyone is telling children that they're cis, repeatedly, hard, insistently, like a chorus of total negation. If a kid manages to figure out that they're trans in spite of every fucking thing in the world telling them they aren't trans, it wasn't because someone told them they were trans. The most they likely ever heard, and it's not all that likely, is that it's okay to be trans.

But you know that already. You don't want anyone to stop telling children they're trans, because no one does that. What you want is for it not to be okay to be trans.

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· 3mo ago

Stupid lewd joke

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· 5mo ago

"How am I supposed to explain to my children..."

Fuck you. How are we supposed to explain to trans children that you want them dead?

Gwen the Trans Balrog @YouShallNotPass@chaosfem.tw

· 3mo ago

Lewd shitpost

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· 2mo ago

Am I being insulting when I use a standard ❤️ instead of a 💜? Is there a heart code I don't know about?

Gwen the Trans Balrog @YouShallNotPass@chaosfem.tw

· 4mo ago

DON'T OPEN
GENDER INSIDE

Gwen the Trans Balrog @YouShallNotPass@chaosfem.tw

· 4mo ago

If you, like me, find your eyebrows dysphoric, but can't afford or manage to deal with them, buy yourself a pair of scissors with a guard on them designed to trim your eyebrows. Five minutes, foolproof, done.

Gwen the Trans Balrog @YouShallNotPass@chaosfem.tw

· 4mo ago

Replying to

@properlypurple@tech.lgbt Yeah, mine was trans people on daytime talk shows who were all made out to be freaks. Society doesn't like us. I'm sorry you had to go through that 😞❤️

Gwen the Trans Balrog @YouShallNotPass@chaosfem.tw

· 5mo ago

Open offer to mansplainers: I know nothing. Please come and explain something to me and leave the other gals alone.

Gwen the Trans Balrog @YouShallNotPass@chaosfem.tw

· 4mo ago

Replying to

@PedestrianError@towns.gay Let's be honest, a lot of people who are pushing this want it not to be okay to be anything but a cishet white man. Yes, maybe cishet white women have to exist for them, but they still want those women to be not okay.

Gwen the Trans Balrog @YouShallNotPass@chaosfem.tw

· 4mo ago

I still feel like I'm a threat to women.

Gwen the Trans Balrog @YouShallNotPass@chaosfem.tw

· 4mo ago

Replying to

@grace@social.lol @naga@toot.cat There are usually so many signs once you know what you look for. Try not to beat yourself up about it though. No one told you what you look for.

Gwen the Trans Balrog @YouShallNotPass@chaosfem.tw

· 4mo ago

Replying to

@grace@social.lol Yes. Very much this. But I hope you're able to show yourself a little love now ❤️

Gwen the Trans Balrog @YouShallNotPass@chaosfem.tw

· 5mo ago

Mh-, dyspho

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· 5mo ago

Replying to

@TonyaMarie@chaosfem.tw I think it's a holdover from other platforms where text was punished by the algorithm or where, as with Twitter, there wasn't sufficient length to post all the text. Plus it lets people use whatever font they want and colors and so forth. It makes things less accessible and breaks search so it isn't worth doing in my humble, but I think the above is the major reason why people continue to do it. Plus, unfortunately, it seems to do well, even on fedi.

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· 4mo ago

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@moriel@chaosfem.tw Me too. That and Ace Ventura. Ugh.

Gwen the Trans Balrog @YouShallNotPass@chaosfem.tw

· 5mo ago

Mh-

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· 5mo ago

Dancer by day, welder by night.

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· 5mo ago

Replying to

@glassblowerscat@wandering.shop I'm sorry you had to go through it but glad you're on a better path ❤️

Gwen the Trans Balrog @YouShallNotPass@chaosfem.tw

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@breadinside@lgbtqia.space Practical advice: Underwear. I'm utterly masc to the world because they can't see my underwear. It's a tiny baby step. My advice is to buy extremely cheap until you feel like it's something you actually want to invest in. Then wear it under your normal underwear, just to see how it feels. Unless you're in a situation where people are regularly seeing you naked, it's pretty low risk. You may find that it doesn't matter to your gender expression what undies you have on, which is totally valid. Don't worry if so. But it's worth a try maybe.

Gwen the Trans Balrog @YouShallNotPass@chaosfem.tw

· 5mo ago

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@TonyaMarie@chaosfem.tw On Instagram, at least when I was using it, there was no way to post just text, so people would post images of text to get around that limitation. But based on what I've heard about visibility, posts which include large amounts of text (as a caption to a photo, for instance) are less likely to be seen by people than posts which are just an image with little or no text attached. In other words, if you want to share text on Instagram, the most likely way to get views is to make an image containing that text and share it, rather than attaching that text to an image of something else. It makes a certain brutal sense, given that Instagram was always intended as a way to share images. I'm probably doing a bad job explaining it. Sorry.

Gwen the Trans Balrog @YouShallNotPass@chaosfem.tw

· 5mo ago

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@TonyaMarie@chaosfem.tw Oh, on Instagram it's totally because the algorithm punishes text. That's the why. I agree with you completely on the result though.

Gwen the Trans Balrog @YouShallNotPass@chaosfem.tw

· 2mo ago

There's something about bigots claiming we were "born a man/woman" but also that gay people are choosing to be gay that is deeply weird, but I lack the cognition this early in the morning to go into it.

Gwen the Trans Balrog @YouShallNotPass@chaosfem.tw

· 4mo ago

Replying to

@Saorsa@neondystopia.world How are they going to solicit advice when they don't know they need it? We don't expect children to come to their parents and ask to be taught math. And in this case, it's more like they're being taught that math is bad and wrong by everyone, then expecting them to have the wherewithal to ask people about it who may be the very ones teaching them that math is bad and wrong. Gender doesn't begin at puberty. Full stop. No backsies. Waiting until puberty to teach children about gender is akin to waiting until puberty to teach them about morality or sexuality. By that point, it's usually too late. And again, the age-gating. It's not good. I'm pretty sure this is the end of any useful interaction I can have with you. You seem dead-set on repeating the same incorrect points over and over again and you don't address any of the concerns one might have with them. I fear for your kids and I fear for you.

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· 4mo ago

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@Saorsa@neondystopia.world You're a libertarian. How cute. Yes, that's insulting, but you're a libertarian so you must be used to it. Avaunt ye and begone from my sight.