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The arm was designed and built just for Isabella by Team Unlimbited volunteer Stephen Davies. On average, prosthetics cost more than $10,000. However, an e-Nable limb ranges from $50 to $150 in price, which means more people can get prosthetic devices!

Dagna is the cutest nerd and I love her sooo much ♥♥♥

wanna know what’s funny about transgender jokes? Chicks with dicks, dudes with boobs? No. That’s not the funny part. The funniest part is The fact we get up in the morning and get too scared to look in the mirror in case we get overwhelmed with dysphoria, OBSESSED with looking like the gender we are inside but irritated because we feel like we can’t, to the point where we hide from our own reflection. The fact that we barely want to leave our house sometimes because we don’t want to answer the daily pestering questions. “Are you a boy or a girl?” The fact that needing to use to the bathroom in a public place is like waking a sleeping dog. The fact that we have to be ashamed of our own natural bodies and wonder why a God would ever do this to us. The fact that your options are: coming out and swearing that you were born with the same sex as your gender, or locking it away and not telling a soul. The fact that we have to hide from the world, one way or another, because people aren’t ready for the “diversity” we bring. The fact that my friend thought ‘transgender’ meant I was born with no genitals. The fact that I am notorious in my town, and I can’t walk out the door without being asked why I want to be a boy if I’m really a girl? Why I don’t just identify as lesbian and move on. The fact that shower time equals to “put a towel over the mirror just so you don’t have to look at yourself” time. The fact that sometimes, I feel okay. Sometimes I accept that my body is my body. That I was born like this. 
Sometimes I can respect myself, because I know that one day, I’ll become who I need to be. 
There’ll be no more questions. 
No more insults. 
No more misunderstanding. 
No more mis-pronoun-ing. 
No more suicidal thoughts. 
No more self loathing. 
No more of people looking at me like I’m some sort of freak. 
No more complicated relationships with people who can’t help putting someone’s body before their everything else. 
No more cutting. 
No more worries. 
But as the day progresses, I remember that people already do look at me differently. I remember that, if I ever fall in love, I’ll have to find someone who doesn’t care that I don’t have the “parts” to be a man- someone who can understand that I AM TWICE THE MAN as the guy who just told me that I’ll never be one, so why don’t I just give up?
I remember that I’ll never have kids of my own. 
I remember that having a sexual relationship will be near impossible for years to come. 
I remember that I’m too weak and feminine to fight. 
I remember that I am still my birth-name to every register I’m in.
I remember that I look twelve years old and I will still look twelve years old when I am 19.
I remember that I am PATHETIC without my masculinity. 
I remember that people will never understand how worthless I feel- how much i’d rather be anyone else. wanna know what’s funny about transgender jokes? Nothing.

"Trans Jokes"- Cody Woods (via immakinggingerbreadcookies)

The whole “you have to earn a living” rhetoric is really toxic. Have we considered that maybe, in 2015, basic needs like housing, food, and medicine don’t really need to be “earned” but should, in any reasonably industrialized country, be guaranteed?

My talk with Andrea, a 7 year old transgender sweetheart

Today I got to skype with Andrea, this precious 7 year old trans girl. She’s my friends cousin and she never got to speak with another trans woman before. When we started the first thing she says is “you have pretty hair” and we started talking about being a girl. 

The first thing I asked her is  i said “have u ever spoken to another trans girl?” she didnt know what trans meant she was like “ummmmm….i don’t know” in her adorable high pitched voice so i said “me and you are trans girls sweetheart bc we were boys at first’ (i dumbed it down cuz shes 7) and then she said “well being a trans girl is cool!” and I told her “yeah it is!”

I asked her about her family and she told me her parents love her so much ^_^ she said her mom bought her dresses and her sister is gonna teach her make up and she was so happy I could tell how wonderful her family was.

She told me about how other kids she knew bullied her about her gender and I started to tear up and I told her “you don’t have to listen to those people. You’re such a beautiful girl and you’re gonna grow up to be so pretty and so happy I promise” and she made me pinky swear so I did bc she’s perfect and cute.

When the call came to an end she told me she to be like me when she grows up and i started fucking sobbing and  she asked why i was crying and i told her “I’M SO PROUD OF YOU” and she said she was proud of me too.

This is what every young trans girl deserves. Trans girls deserve to be trans girls no matter how old they are. Andrea is being given so much love and that’s exactly what little trans girls deserve.

Protect trans girl children. Protect them with everything in your power. Do all you can to make sure these angels grow up to be happy and loved.  They’re so vulnerable to this horrible transmisogynist hellhole - protect them please. They all deserve to be happy and beautiful women.

On a mission by Mark Bridger

Short-eared Owl

Some advice for when you’re writing and find yourself stuck in the middle of a scene:

kill someone

ask this question: “What could go wrong?” and write exactly how it goes wrong

switch the POV from your current character to another - a minor character, the antagonist, anyone

stop writing whatever scene you’re struggling with and skip to the next one you want to write

write the ending

write a sex scene

use a scene prompt

use sentence starters

read someone else’s writing

Never delete. Never read what you’ve already written. Pass Go, collect your $200, and keep going.

Video Game Alphabet (apologies for ‘v’)