Emme Reynolds

If I think of you when I see hobbitses, know that you are a very loved person in my life.

Did you know that trans women can be moms? That trans parents with children can be called mom by both those around them and by their children? This does not seem like a difficult concept to grasp, and yet, for a large group of adult humans, it is wildly difficult to conceptualize.

Tip for trans ladies learning to do their makeup: do it because it is fun to learn and not because you need to be the best at it. I've been doing this for three or four years and would still say I kinda suck at it, but at least enjoy doing it because it helps me be me.

Cheat days are for rich people submitting taxes not for how much food you get to eat. Eat eight slices of chocolate cake today because it's sunny and it tastes delicious.

Just a reminder that cats hate Harry Potter and always have and you too are allowed to start hating Harry Potter at any point.

If you listen to Brain Stew without listening to Jaded, I don't need your smelliness in my life.

I'm going to chime in and say that parents who have gotten to support and love their trans child and have seen them loved by friends and medical professionals have most definitely experienced joy in parenthood. Parenthood is a wild and hard ride, but that is a joy I would never trade.

Long and fluffy black and white cat stretched out laying on a yellow blanket.

This is Figgy Pudding, our long and fuzzy boy. Is he a good boy, no, not at all. But is he endlessly loveable? Yes, very much.

Analyzing the gender biases you have I have them, you have them, she has them, let's all work on addressing them

What do you use to determine how you are going to address someone? Do you look at their clothes, their hair, their build? Likely, you don’t even know exactly what it is you’re looking for when determining the gender of someone you don’t know.

Me looking at the camera with a black dress, a necklace, and shorter hair

First day in almost a year that I'm not wearing my hair in a way that directly covers any brow lift scars from facial feminization surgery. Just owning the hell out of transition and these eyes and hair I want vs hair I think I need.

Five cats laying together in the sun.

Cats everywhere.

Driving through rural Ontario to a gender care appointment and thinking about all the rural queer folks who see so many of their neighbors so happily place their conservative signs out during an election. "We just don't give a shit" these signs scream.

I'm exhausted from needing to shave my face, put on makeup, wear a dress every minute of the day in order for most people to see me for who I am. I don't think people understand just how exhausting it is to be a trans person who just wants to hear "thank you ma'am" while wearing jeans and a t-shirt.

Trans person who doesn't "pass" or make women "worried you're going to steal their husbands," deserve safe and ready access to washrooms that match our gender. ALL trans people deserve this.

The mental health consequences of making trans kids play sports outside of their gender are so much more of an issue than a cis-woman finishing 6th instead of 7th at a swim meet. There's no proof trans people in sports hurt women, there's much proof that alienating trans people kills trans people.

I'm wearing a black dress with white polkadots. I'm looking at the camera with a wry smile.

I have got to the point in transition where I have cut my hair very short and it doesn't bother me at all in terms of how I look to others. It sounds small but it feels huge.

How do you not fall in love with the person at a hair salon that washes your hair?

Self care tip of the day: eat cheese curds.

Imagine being so sad of a person that it ruins your life because trans women are so hot.

Took my estrogen, progesterone, and cyproterone this morning. And I'll take more tonight, and tomorrow morning and every med time going forward. Every time I take them I'll be reminded I'm a beautiful trans woman deserving of these treatments.

Self care tip of the day: eat raw cookie dough.

None of this is impactful to hateful people. We aren't taking their chicken fingers, we're living the most basic life we can. We simply exist.

To argue that you exist is so crushing. Thank you to everyone who continually understands or strives to understand that trans people just want to be alive.

I see the expression "I don't know how to convince you to care about other humans," and wonder what in the world to do. We wake up, go to school and work, eat chicken fingers, watch bad television, and take a hormone medication that helps us live happier lives.

I'm a trans parent to a trans child and I gotta say, right now, things are not great. To ask people to simply see you as a human being deserving of the kind of care that saves and extends our lives and to be met with "freaks, castration, unnatural," is wild, sad, infuriating.

Young me sitting on a brown floral couch. I'm in a sweater and acid washed jeans and smiling.

Protect trans kids. Right now.
Love trans kids. Right now.
Share information with trans kids. Right now.
Give medical support to trans kids. Right now.
Save trans kids. Right now.

Hey folks, I think the constant attacks on trans people is beginning to get to me.

While they're at it, ban everyone from joining the military, disband the military, have zero defense spending, fund social services, stop pretending school lunches for kids ruin countries, stop selling weapons to other countries who kill innocent people, be happy with your new healthcare.

Hi everyone, it's just really nice to still be alive and I am wishing you all a really wonderful day.

Is there a specific loneliness that starts hitting when you're 45? This version of loneliness feels different. Is it midlife crisis time? I don't have the savings to do that.

I, a trans woman, just painted the nails of my trans child, and that was healing.