Sarah Walsh @bigdamnherossir.bsky.social

Yeah any time you hear a TERF spin some bullshit about "why can't girls just be tomboys like in The Old Days??" please know that they never left us tomboys alone either. I'm not trans, but i was absolutely a tomboy, and caught shit for it until I learned to tell people to get fucked

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Mockingbird, MPH, CHES @amockingbird.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 17, 2024 at 17:21 UTC

I’m cishet and was a girly girl, Barbie pink bedroom, used the leftover paint for the treehouse my dad built me. Love makeup and dressing up, and can use power tools. Always been outspoken and never stopped raising my hand in class. Having opinions negated all my outward femininity for so many.

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Erica Henderson @ericafails.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 17, 2024 at 17:36 UTC

Also- I know that for me and a bunch of other women, our young tomboy years were a reaction against finding out the restrictions that came with enforced femininity.

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Chris 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 (she/her) @shitposting.tubaterry.me [ View ] Jun 17, 2024 at 16:37 UTC

Yeah they just want it easier to categorize which abuse they should use on you

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Amy Hoy @amyhoy.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 17, 2024 at 16:41 UTC

extremely true

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Brooke Binkowski @brooklynmarie.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 17, 2024 at 16:25 UTC

Those same women ran me out of the scene as a young and highly insecure bi gal because I was too femme to like other femmes. I said something shitty about binaries and that was that. And for at least fifteen years after that I felt great shame about my own femininity thanks to the patriarchy and

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