Recently a transphobe made a comment here that trans people are mentally ill. And I’m kind of like, are you new here? Did you know you’re literally trying to heckle someone who is already Bipolar 1? Do you know that I don’t care?

To be honest, I don’t think being trans is anything mentally ill about me. BUT ALSO the mentally ill parts of me are also worthy of love and care. You’re literally being ableist. Good work asshole. But anyway, I’m not actually invested in trying to link being trans and being mentally ill, and I can see why some people try to make a big deal over it because they think mental illness invalidates people.

But you know what? When I am depressed, I am sad. And none of your arguing that it is a mental illness stops me from feeling sad. Medication helps. Likewise, when I am manic, I am happy and/or aggressive. And none of saying it’s a mental illness changes the fact that I’m walking down an alley at 3am singing an obscure song I found on Limewire in 2004. What I mean is, my feelings are legit because I am feeling them. It doesn’t matter how I got there, it just matters that I’m in that mood and sometimes it’s an emergency.

And there’s perfectly reasonable treatments for trans feelings that cis people have been using for years, like hormones. And that trans people have been using for years. And I don’t care about your opinions on my body or what I do with it. Because this body isn’t for you, sorry to say. I know, so heartbreaking.

But really, if you are one of these people clutching your pearls over trans people existing, you REALLY need to get out in the world and not hiding in your shitty church basement.