Things To Update After A Legal Name Change!

The fact that nobody is talking about Secret’s new commercials pisses me off

trying to prove a point to the boys at school

reblog this if you believe trans men are real men like this if you dont

Teachers: Wikipedia is very unreliable *Hands out 25 year old textbooks instead*

Makeup basics for all my girls out there. Learning to do your make up properly can be pivotal in how you feel about yourself, how confident you ultimately are in yourself as the woman you

This is for my girls out there… fundamental makeup basics are essential ladies…doing your make up well has a big impact on how you feel about yourself- from your confidence in public to making you feel sexy or more feminine. (Hint… Practice makes perfect girls)

So I'm just questioning my gender, but I'm sorta stuck. I'm amab and that doesn't bother me sometimes, but sometimes dysphoria is overwhelming. Like I want a female body but I don't mind being seen as male or female. I'd honestly prefer to be seen as both but still physically transition.

I get that. Trans people have a very intimate relationship with gender roles and can often see how the grass is greener on both sides of the fence. As much as dysphoria wanted me to be seen as a male, sometimes I wish people still treated me socially like a girl (because there are some benefits to that). On the other hand, i love being treated as a guy because it matches my personality and helps combat my dysphoria. It makes sense that, having seen one side, you’d want to be socially in the middle instead of on either extreme. 

It’s quite possible you’re a trans woman who just doesn’t want to bother with gender roles or social transition as much. I know for me, physically dysphoria was definitely stronger than social dysphoria, so I’d be fine with being seen somewhere in the middle as well. I don’t think it invalidates your gender at all. 

Planned Parenthood is fucking amazing, y’all. I haven’t been there yet…but just talking to their HRT line on the phone…

They used my respected name right off the bat. Called me Riley all the way through. Used he/him pronouns. Didn’t slip up once. Asked me and “What’s your legal name? I’m sorry I have to ask that.”

Then asked me “Now is it okay if I send things with Riley Roswell to your home?” not wanting to out me accidentally and then “Is it okay if I send stuff with planned parenthood labels on them or do you want me to be discreet about it?” knowing there are people who could get in trouble with family or partners or others for going there.

OH MY GOD I’M GOING TO CRY AND THEY DIDN’T JUDGE ME AT ALL

THEY WERE TOTALLY ACCEPTING AND ANSWERED ALL MY STUPID FUCKING BASIC QUESTIONS ABOUT HRT ABOUT WHAT THE APPT WAS GONNA BE LIKE

AND SHE WAS SO KIND AND SO UNDERSTANDING

AND SHE RESPECTED ME SO MUCH AND I WAS SO HAPPY

I CAN’T BELIEVE PEOPLE LIKE THAT EXIST IN OUR WORLD.

OH MY GOD.

AND I’M GOING TO BE GOING TO THIS WONDERFUL PLACE ON THE 29TH!!!!!!!!

I just really want a girlfriend

Like I wanna cuddle her and kiss her and just appreciate and love her. That’s all I’m asking for

How To Block Hateful Anons

AKA: THAT THING THEY DON’T WANT YOU TO KNOW YOU CAN DO…

July 29, 2019

If you’re new to Tumblr, or just haven’t sorted this out yet, YES, you can block those hateful anons. 

Let’s say this here was a hateful anon. (which it isn’t) All you have to do to block them, is to sign on from a laptop or PC, (you can’t do it from your app) and click the three little dots there on the bottom right of the message.

Hit “BLOCK”. You don’t get to know who they are, but you do block their IP address, so you don’t have to worry about hate coming from that same avenue again. 

(Please reblog this post, and practice restraint with those hateful anons. Do not respond and lend them your stage. Rather, sign on to a laptop or PC, block that hater, and delete that hate.)

JD

An Open Letter to Tumblr about the Adult Content Ban and How it is Hurting Your Users:

Recently, Tumblr was removed from the Apple app store due to an incident involving child pornography. This incident is incredibly unfortunate, but it doesn’t stand alone. Tumblr was also removed from the app store due to the large influx of porn bots and pornographic spam, users claiming to be proud to be pedophiles, blatant Nazism, racists who are not deleted for sending hate and harassing users, and more. I myself reported someone for harassing me, but because I had blocked the person and couldn’t access the messages where they harassed me, they were still able to send me anonymous asks. Your support staff, with back doors to the website (presumably), claimed they could not access the messages, and I was left SOL. Many features on this website do nothing to actually protect your users from harassment, racism, homophobia, transphobia, Nazis, pedophiles, predators, porn bots, and more. 

You claim in your statement to us that you “have been working on these problems for a long time”. This is blatantly untrue. Please do not lie to us and patronize us. We’ve been here. We’ve seen you do nothing over, and over, and over again. 

We complained to you for months and months about the rampant porn bots, and you did nothing except add a report button on mobile which only reported sensitive content or spam at best. You could have addressed this problem with an effective algorithm, but you did not. We complained to you about being harassed and sent hate speech for being LGBT+, and you did nothing. We complained to you about blogs being randomly deleted, and sometimes you’ve restored them, other times you have not. We complained to you that there were people proudly claiming to be “Minor Attracted Persons”, or pedophiles, and you did nothing. We complained to you about people proudly claiming to be white supremacists, and you did nothing. All of these things are “against the community guidelines”, and yet over and over, you have not found effective ways to handle these problems or suppress the feeling of welcome that these users claim to get here. You have had a long time to work on these problems, but you haven’t addressed them. To say you have is untrue. 

 Multiple other social networking websites, such as Wordpress, Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, and others have effectively dealt with rampant pornography, racism, pedophilia, and other problems without causing massive issues for their users who are not misusing the platform. They are continuing to find new, effective ways to deal with these issues without causing problems for their userbase as a whole.  There is no reason that you are unable to do this effectively other than that you wanted to do it quickly. You have once again chosen your stock holders over your users. And we have had enough. 

You have already started to ban “Adult” content with a new algorithm. Here are screenshots of just a fraction of the posts you have flagged as containing adult content:

Your new system of simply tackling everything at once is not working. At all. And each of these screenshots is proof of your utter incompetence. None of these posts contain pornographic acts, “female nipples”, or any community violation of any kind. 

We, the users, have been asking you for months to deal with these problems - particularly, the porn bots and bots that spam. In order to block a bot from a side blog, I have to do it manually, even though they are in my side blog’s feed. This is a huge issue for mobile - only users. They keep cropping up in droves, taking over our posts and tricking google into making it look like a legitimate blog linked to a pornographic website. We have complained to you for months and months now, and your solution to simply “ban all adult content” is ineffective. I agree that children should not be able to access pornography - but this is not how you tackle a porn bot problem. Your system is utterly useless, allows for racists, pedophiles, porn bots, and Nazis to remain untouched. It also harms sex workers and real people who may use this website for some forms of adult content responsibly. Moreover, as seen above, it harms plenty of users who have in no way violated your terms of service.

 If you keep this up, you threaten your website and company as a whole. Many of us are backing up our blogs and planning places to go to. 

You already have a content filter for “sensitive” content (content inappropriate for younger viewers). You could have improved this, instead of attacking your entire user base. It seems to be a very lazy “solution”, if you could call it one at all, and one that harms your entire userbase.

If you are going to keep this filter in place and make Tumblr, a website that has never been known for being family friendly and has never claimed to be, you are going to lose millions of your users. We are already planning our exodus. It isn’t hard to follow. Censor us, and we will go somewhere else. That is not a threat. It is a promise. 

Sincerely, 

The users of your website. 

@staff @support