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i love how the themes connecting the chapters in this book (masculinity, transition, religion, family) gradually become less and less coherent until it's just Danny Lavery's Wild Ride Enjoy Cosmic Horror

next time i need an audition monologue i’m doing daniel lavery’s lord byron speech

AENEID QUOTE IN THE LAST YARD?????

“…in some ways it was correct to describe my transition as an involuntary forgetting—I lost the ability to be a woman, sometimes by near imperceptible degree, sometimes in a great rush… and I sometimes felt that it had been taken from me by some unknowable and external force.”

this book was literally written for me the next chapter title is “no one understands henry viii like i do” (although to be clear. fuck henry viii lives)

“This sentiment, by the way, is at least 25 percent of the reason why Bruno Mrs is also a lesbian; if you are not a lesbian at the beginning of writing a song as histrionic and self-pitying as ‘Grenade,’ you certainly are by the end of it.” daniel mallory ortberg is just like me fr

“I am also firmly of the belief that Captain James T. Kirk was, and is, at every age and in every incarnation, a beautiful lesbian” this book was written for me. this is how i interact with media

“God-consciousness, [like gender dysphoria], is rapid and strikes without warning.”

[on the fear that trans teens may do “something irreversible”] “‘Something irreversible’ is to polite people what ‘self-mutilation’ is to impolite people: a quick way to reorient the conversation around their own discomfort with bodies.”

“I was just susceptible enough to the rhetoric of transition to make my continued existence as a cis woman unbearable, but insufficiently trans to guarantee that actual transition would bring with it any relief, which meant that my only option was to suffer in silence.” oh. hi